iTunes 8, Error 5002

After the upgrade to iTunes 8 I could not download iphone app updates. iTunes alerted me that an update was ready but it could not download it, it couldn’t even tell me what up needed the update. I read this page: http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/09/10/itunes-8-workaround-for-5002-unknown-error-when-trying-to-update-apps/ but wierder still my iphone wasn’t reporting an out of date app.

I figured if I deleted the app which needed the update and grabbed it again from the ITMS it would work. Of course I didn’t know which app to start with. So I deleted one app which for som reason never showed the correct icon. The update message didn’t go, so it wasn’t that app. I re-grabbed the app and for no good reason attempted to download the update again. It worked!

So without being able to verify this. If you have this error, and you have an app without the correct icon. Delete the app and get it again from ITMS, and if your like me – the problem goes away.