Dear Aunt TUAW: Why won't my apps stay deleted?

i have an iPad question: is there a way to keep it from going to sleep? most of the time, i'm happy with it as-is, but when i'm cooking and reading a recipe on it, i hate turning around to do something, then turning back to find that it's fallen asleep. is there an easy way to turn off the sleep function for situations like this?

Anyone know how to run full screen video on a second monitor connected to a late 2009 MBP and retain the ability to do other things on the primary display? When full screen video is playing on the second monitor, such as Hulu, the menu bar and dock disappear from the primary display. Then when I click on the primary display, the video on the second monitor goes back into a windowed mode. Any ideas?

I don't have this problem but if I did, the first thing I'd be doing is opening the Console application on my Mac (in the Utilities folder) and drilling down:
FILES > ~/Library/Logs > CrashReporter > MobileDevice > {Name of Your iPhone/iPad}
and start looking at the crash reports, of which you'll find many, many entries, even for your spankin' new iPad. Obviously, I don't know what you'll find for your problem, but that's where I'd start first if it was my problem.

I used to have this problem all the time. Would also run into trouble with app updates. The apps needing updates and the numbers in the badge were always wrong.

In my case, I found that my app library was too big. I had more than 3,000 apps in my library (mostly free downloads) because I was app crazy. Still in rehab over it.

Once I made the hard task of deleting unused apps, and got the number below 3,000, I didn't have that problem anymore.

How big is your app library?

Thanks for that, not really any use. Think we all know it's a bug, a very annoying one!

Anyone else managed to find a solution?

I keep my contacts organized in address book by various groups. This is nice if I am in front of my computer. But when I meet someone new and I add them to my iPhone, it puts them in whatever "group was viewed last" and I can't figure out how to move them to the proper group on the iPhone. Is there an easy way to do this?

I'm having the same problem as Jim (reply #2) I too got all 13 Lonely Planet guides when they was free, but don't need them all on there all the time.

No matter how many times I try the obvious (Jim Lin - reply #14) the apps will sync back of their own accord the next sync!

I thought it was just me having this problem as I couldn't find a solution for this. Finally someone else got the same headache I'm having.

Have considered going to a genius bar to show someone at apple.

This is what I do to keep my app data:

1. Sync my iPhone to iTunes so that it backs up the app data.

2. Go to Applications, uncheck the app I want to get rid of, and sync again.

You're not really deleting the app, just unsyncing it from your iPhone.

Good to know.

Another solution would be to delete the apps from the device as well. If the app isn't on the iPhone when you sync it, it won't be transferred back to iTunes.

But about the "Do you want to transfer your purchased content?" message box, I'm always dissapointed that it isn't more verbose. The "Unable to transfer files because they can't be found" message tells me which files can't be found, so I know what I need to look for to rectify that. But with the purchased content message, I never know what content it's referring to so I click Yes, only to see what's being transferred back is, as mentioned in this post, things I've deleted in iTunes (or for music, possibly I've edited the album or artist name in some way so it thinks it's different content) that I do not want transferred back. But I don't want to click no and risk losing an album I may have accidentally deleted or something.