iPhone tips
I was having real problems with my iPhone in the past couple of days. Using Cover Flow would cause a software crash (it would just abruptly switch back to the home page). Also, just playing the iPod would make it crash. It seems to be OK now. This is what I did to fix it:
(1) When using your own images (images you have not gotten from iTunes) for album art in iTunes, you must add the image to all tracks on the album. (My mistake was only adding the art to the first track). Select all the tracks, right click and choose Get Info.
(2) Powering off and on the iPhone ultimately fixed the problem. Ah, powering off and on, the technician’s friend. This Apple support doc is somewhat buried on their site. I did this:
Turn iPhone off and turn it on again. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button on top of iPhone for a few seconds until a red slider appears, and then slide the slider. Then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
It seems to be working fine now.