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iPad Air, iOS 8 and random reboots with blue screen

I Updated my iPad Air 16gb wifi model with iOS 8 yesterday and since then I am facing random reboots with blue screens. Is this a known issue or am I in trouble ?

Posted on Sep 18, 2014 11:33 AM

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Sep 20, 2014 12:34 PM in response to Techno_funky

I have iPad mini ratina.. BSOD happens once in a couple of hours after iOS 8... caution: don't try to restore with DFU mode... nothing works... i figured that it is something related to iCloud sync... If I switch off iCloud from iPad and use it, problem seems to be over... no BSOD... but than whats use of using iPad without iCloud.!!!


btw anyone noticed that all the complains are coming from iPad air or iPad mini retina (both running A7 64-bit chip)


is it related to A7? Yes.. Last year same BSOD issue surfaced with iPhone 5s & iOS 7... (again A7 chip) Iphone 5S screen keeps turing solid blue


after some research, I figured that its indeed 64 bit chip issue...

Apple might know about it as "64bits-backboardd-iCloud"

something called "backboardd" is causing kernel panic and hence this BSOD..


BSOD is 64 bit architecture issue and long known problem for windows machines... somehow i m surprised that apple is unable to fix this even after having issue last year with iOS 7 update... how can you pass on same bug in new iOS?


We all need to wait for a quick iOS 8.0.1 update in a couple of weeks.. till than learn to live with it because apple knows it and will fix this under "improvements and bug fixes"...

Sep 20, 2014 3:44 PM in response to Techno_funky

Well the ipad air to me has been a flop, safari never did work correctly and ive been using mercury to get away from the refreshing tabs and no crashes. I actually waited a couple days to do a google search on ios8 fixes for ipad air and guess what - i found this thread. Ill stay on the ios7 thanks. Its been almost a year and im considering taking this in and getting a new one to sell. Ios6 was solid, i have two ipads still on it and zero issues.

iPad Air, iOS 8 and random reboots with blue screen

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