iPhone users reporting reboots due to high App count

I had the endless loop error and spent a day restoring my iPhone which seemed to do little. What finally worked was the following...instead of restoring set up the phone as new...re-sync without any apps...turn off the phone...log out of iTunes...turn the phone back on and reopen iTunes and log back in...from the Store menu in iTunes select "Authorize Computer"...(it's likely it will say this computer is already authorized but it seems like unless you do this Apple won't recognize you as the owner of the apps and they will continue to crash)...re-sync with all the apps...this worked for me on all but 2 apps (both of which i downloaded when having the loop issue) and all I did for those was redownload them which generated a "you have already purchased this app" message, but inadvertently fixes the error....

mind you I tried the above numerous times but until i "authorized my computer" it didn't work...

don't know if this will help everyone but it fixed the problem for me...

Funny this post is here... I'm in the process of rebooting my iphone right now. Too many apps is definitely the reason.

I have 60 apps, so far only one causes a restart. I believe its because I always keep about a gig free on my 8 Gig 1st gen. Or could it be that I did lots of hacking with every new system release until the App Store came along (there was a mysterious 260 mg of unkown data that I never could erase). I only download apps to my Mac, then to the iPhone. Good Luck everyone--

Today was the first day in what feels like forever that I was able to update my apps and turn my iphone off and then on again without all my apps failing. Maybe the miracle fairy has been at work in the app store!

I had this same problem. I deleted over 400MB of applications and now everything is OK. I got rid of the American Heritage Dictionary (300MB) and aSleep (100MB). The problem isn't necessarily "how many", it's "how much".

I feel sorry for people who have this problem and haven't jailbroken their phone. I have been able to get my phone working again using ssh when it has happened to me (which is about 5 times).

Besides this, Apple really needs to work on the synching times. It should only take a few seconds to copy each app to the phone but on my phone it takes 5-10 minutes each. what I suspect may be happening is that the software map is being rebuilt after each app makes it's way onto the phone. I can't think of any reason it would take so friggen long to put apps onto the phone and why the time seems to increase with the number of apps already on the phone. The backup process is also excruciatingly long. Fix it Apple!

So what is the MAX LIMIT of apps I can install on the iPhone before the phone crashed and go to endless reboot? I hope Apple will fix this, and prevent user from installing say 200 apps if there is OS limitation.

Boy, I moved from Windows Mobile to iPhone and we now have this??

It's good to find somewhere where people can talk about these issues. I seem to be in the minority elsewhere and just get abuse if I say I've got a problem.
I've got 6 pages of apps on my phone at the moment and it's been fine for nearly a week now because I've not downloaded any updates, turned my iphone off or even been near iTunes with my iphone. As I've downloaded updates to itunes I'm annoyed I can't actually use them. FWIW, I have heard from someone who has this problem with only one 3rd party app installed!

To me, the iPhone Apps are supposed to make life more convenient. I don't remember the contact saying there is a maximum number or size limit to Apps installed on the iPhone. There are a lot of kool apps that I want to use when I want to, not just when I have time to go home & sync them to my iPhone. If I want to use the app, it's usually not when I'm at home.... This, I believe, is the whole idea & purpose of the iphone.

This is a huge problem. I have had several of these crashes over the last few weeks-one was so bad the geniuses replaced the whole phone. And it's now happened twice on the replacement iPhone. The only fix I've found is to go into recovery mode and do a restore. What a pain! I hope Apple will fix this soon!