EXC_BAD_ACCESS during a segue? - objective-c

I have a problem where I'm getting a bad access code for my app running iOS 6. I'm currently segueing to another navigationBar based view, and getting the bad access code inside the class I'm segueing to (during the segue!). The trace goes back to the first thing I release inside of Dealloc (which is just a standard UILabel).
Is this a possible problem with iOS 6? I thought dealloc was deprecated starting in iOS 6? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

You cannot use release with ARC. You probably don't even need to override dealloc.

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Managing View outlets in ios 5.0 and ios 6.0

I am working on an iPad application which is converted to ARC. Application is for os >= ios 5.0. So my doubt is that, how do I manage viewOutlets? I use -(void)didReceivememoryWarning to set ViewOutlets to nil. But in ios 5.0 and 5.1 application shows lots of memory leaks. As -(void)viewDidUnload is deprecated in ios 6.0 , I am not using the same in the application. Is the correct way to manage outlets? Please give me a quick reply.
ARC (automatic reference counting) features is available in iOS 5 and ahead (iOS 6 and so on..) version.
When you are using ARC unable in your project, you dont need to `manually release any object` that you have allocated for your stuff.
ARC will automatic handle this one.so it will beneficial for `Memory Management`.
Hope ,You understand what i m trying to say.
for more clarification , please refer below link:
To ARC or not to ARC? What are the pros and cons?
ARC, worth it or not?
Good Luck !!!
There is NO DIFFERENCE in how you code for iOS 5 vs. iOS 6.
If you are having problems, it's because you don't understand what viewDidUnload does and when it's called.
viewDidUnload is called when the view of the controller is unloaded. In iOS 6, views are never unloaded. In iOS 5 and before, views were almost never unloaded either. So in both cases, pretty much viewDidUnload is never called.
If your program is leaking stuff, it's because you are not releasing things. You always need to release instance variables in dealloc. I suspect that this is your problem.
When the controller's view is unloaded (which only happens in iOS 5 and before, but this is irrelevant), viewDidUnload allows you to optionally discard some resources to save memory, as long as they are resources that will be re-created when the view is loaded again. This usually includes properties and instance variables that are outlets (since when the view is loaded, it will load the Xib again and re-connect the outlets to new objects), as well as any variables that are set in viewDidLoad.
If you coded your program correctly, I can go in there and remove viewDidUnload, and it would not have any effect on the correctness of the program. (Since viewDidUnload is almost never called anyway.)
You should almost never have to use didReceiveMemoryWarning either.

Application crashes while logging out in iPAD

My question is specific to iPAD, and I also aware of the basic memory management of iOS, but I am having a different problem.
As I have build an application where I have several UIViewControllers and UIViews,
I have a loginController thats gets called when I launch the App.
My MainView is a single screen with all the ViewController loaded and placed at their respective places and the app runs fine and smoothly.
Problem:
Problem comes when I logout, most of the time my App crashes by saying EXC_BAD on the
[super dealloc] line of my mainView controller.
As for now on I have added a custom function cleanUP in all my viewControllers that gets called when user logout from the app.
Is this the right approach ?
As I know that we can clean up in our didload etc. function and the dealloc gets called too.
but here i have an iPAD when my all viewControllers are just open in front of me, They will be closed or not visible when I logout from the App.
So how to approach on my crash issue and How to manage memory here in my iPAD?
The best way I know to resolve bad-access problems is to use Instruments with the Zombie tool. As you probably know, when you get a bad access issue, is because you try to access to an object that is deallocated.
Try go to Product -> Profile and choose Zombie. Hit record and reproduce your crash. then inspect the pointer to the object that produced that crash and look for the retain count.

why is viewdidunload function not called when i click back button on navigation based app

Hi I want to release my fetchedResultsController.
I was wondering why is viewdidunload not called when i push back button on navigation based application.or i should release it somewhere else?
thanks for help
-viewDidUnload is only guaranteed to be called when the view is purged from memory, and the UIKit framework might be hanging on to it in order to present the view quickly if the user goes back there. To deterministically release your fetched result controller when the view disappears, use -viewWillDisappear: or -viewDidDisappear:.
If you think that you're having leaks because viewDidLoad isn't called, than check your controller.view removeFromSuperView calls and ensure that you're using removeFromParentViewController. Instead of just removing the view from superview remove your viewController from its parentController.
I'm seeing something strange happening in my case: dealloc is called but viewDidUnload don't.
But I think I can live with that for memory management purposes because all my strong properties will be deallocated at that time (I'm using ARC).
In your case I think you should check also for dealloc being called and release your fetchedResultsController there.
you can call it yourself from -dealloc.

What are some reasons that application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method could get skipped?

My iPad app was working fine until I opened up IB and started editing the interface. Now, my application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions isn't getting called. I understand it's an optional function and it gets skipped if it doesn't exist, but in my case it does. What are some reasons that application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method could get skipped?
I should note that I'm building with the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK.
Thanks in advance for your help!
UPDATE: I fixed it, please see my answer below
Are you sure that class has been set as the application delegate of the app?
(source: xanga.com)
And also make sure the "File's Owner"'s delegate has been linked to "App Delegate".
(source: xanga.com)
Well it turns out, for an unknown reason, I had a "view" view object as a child of my RootViewController in IB that didn't serve any purpose except to hold my a TableView view object and a DatePicker view object. I thought it was harmless, but when I removed it in IB and programmatically added the TableView object and and DatePicker object, suddenly this problem went away. If anyone has any ideas why this is, I'd would love to understand it.
Thanks, everyone!

Am I using NSTimer correctly in iPhone View-based app?

I'm working on a simple proof-of-concept for an iPhone app (and important bit of info, I'm pretty new to Mac OSX development all around). I created a view based app with a timer. I declared my NSTimer in the interface of my app's controller, used #property and #synthesize, and I initialize it in the controller's viewDidLoad method with scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval method. My selector is a method with the signature -(void)someMethod:(NSTimer *)timer which is declared in the interface and defined in the implementation file of the controller as well. I can step past the line where I assign the timer and see that it points to a valid object, but my program goes no further than the end of the viewDidLoad method and never reaches the breakpoint at the first line of my method that is called by the timer. Also, I see GDB: Program received bad signal: "EXC_BAD_ACCESS" in the status bar of xcode at this point (viewDidLoad end is reached). I didn't do anything in IB but add a view and a picker just so I'd see if the UI actually loads...it never does.
So, am I doing something wrong with the NSTimer, or are my troubles elsewhere? How can I use the debugging tools in xcode to get more information?
EXC_BAD_ACCESS usually indicates a memory management error, without seeing the code probably from somewhere else in your app. It's a very common error for beginners, but an important subject to fully understand, so I'd suggest looking through some of the questions on memory management here and find a few guides or tutorials to look through. It's actually pretty easy to learn.
Also, it shouldn't hurt but unless you need to access the timer in between fire events, you don't actually need to store it as an instance variable. Once you create and start a timer it's added to and retained by the application's run loop.
Have you got NSZombieEnabled?
Might be useful if this is failing on an over released object.