Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Fix waiting / hung installs on iOS / iPhone / iPad

Several times, our old iPads get stuck updating their apps.  The application get into a state where they are waiting to be updated, but no progress is being made.  There seems to be no way to 'kick-start' them either.  Reboots don't help.

I've only figured out two 'fixes':

- Delete the offending app and re-install.  Of course this means you lose all of your state (not a good thing).

- Use a free application called i-FunBox.  This gives you direct access to the iPad file system (caveat emptor - you risk breaking things).  Plug in the iPad and run i-FunBox.  In the left most tab (iFunbox Classic), browse to iPad > Raw File System > Downloads... delete all the contents.  Finally, reboot the iPad.

That should do it...

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