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Oct 10, 2014 5:43 PM in response to SBihrby Philly_Phan,SBihr wrote:
I have the same problem. The iOS 8.0 upgrade is awful. My iPad is slower and I am unable to update/ upload spreadsheets in Quickoffice. Now I have to have two programs to do the work normally done with one. Google Sheets & Docs is not an improvement over Quickoffice. Apple needs to allow a restore to iOS 7.
What did they tell you when you took the iPad to the Apple Store?
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Oct 10, 2014 6:15 PM in response to SBihrby Star Traveler,From the introduction of the iPhone to the present time, Apple has never has a downgrade of the iOS. it would introduce a "nightmare situation" to even introduce such a scenario. But, there's actually no need to because we've already seen evidence that the iPads are able to operate just fine with iOS 8.0.2, from many users here on this forum. The following is from a user who had an initial problem and has now solved it without Apple doing a single thing to change iOS 8.0.2!
iPad 2 has major problems with iOS 8 [solved]
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Oct 10, 2014 6:22 PM in response to pacoKASby JerryPele,Believe it or not I actually read through all of this! I won't go into how stellar Star Traveler is at copy and paste, but I wanted to post something uplifting for others who happen to hit this thread. There are many recommendations in this thread, which I've tried on my iPad2, with little results until I actually did the Restore option in iTunes. That actually worked! It's not quite as good as before the update, but very much better than anything else, so much that I am actually turning off the Reduce Motion feature. Perhaps the other items I did contributed, I don't know. But I recommend the iTunes Restore as a starting place. Be sure to do the backup option first!
Signed,
-No longer using a brick.
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Oct 10, 2014 6:28 PM in response to JerryPeleby Star Traveler,I'm really getting to like this "reset to factory default" ... :-) ...
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Oct 10, 2014 6:44 PM in response to MJLavelleby Star Traveler,MJLavelle wrote:
Apple is notorious for allowing older hardware to update to the newest IOS version that renders it unusable, and then freezing the updates.
Apple might be notorious for that - IF - that's what they did and that was actually the case. However it's not the case as the iPad 2 works just fine with iOS 8.0.2. The following is a user that had an initial problem and then fixed it ... without Apple doing a single thing to "fix" iOS 8.0.2 ... :-) ...
iPad 2 has major problems with iOS 8 [solved]
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Oct 10, 2014 7:23 PM in response to Philly_Phanby JohnMHoyt,Philly_Phan wrote:
SBihr wrote:
I have the same problem. The iOS 8.0 upgrade is awful. My iPad is slower and I am unable to update/ upload spreadsheets in Quickoffice. Now I have to have two programs to do the work normally done with one. Google Sheets & Docs is not an improvement over Quickoffice. Apple needs to allow a restore to iOS 7.
What did they tell you when you took the iPad to the Apple Store?
SSpent another two hours working on our personal iPads today. Every single workarouns mentioned here has been tried.
we are on vacation but have still managed multiple trips to verizon stores and the Apple Store. Over an hour today and still crashes on ipad 2 and iPad mini.
i Disagree with star traveller that fixes are possible for everyone. Maybe some People, but apparently not a single one of our devices.
yes, we have managed to improve the performance by 200 percent, but even after deleting everything, permanently losing photos in the process and disabling every processor hogging function from motion to background updates to notifications, to typing predictions, we are still at 25% of the iOS 7 performance.
im out of ideas,,, I have faithfully tried everything for my devices and those of my family, business, friends and clients.
maybe star traveller can personally help me?
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Oct 10, 2014 7:35 PM in response to JohnMHoytby Star Traveler,JohnMHoyt wrote:
i Disagree with star traveller that fixes are possible for everyone. Maybe some People, but apparently not a single one of our devices.
Well, the logic is simple and solid. You have the same iPad as another user here. You use the same iOS as that other user. He gets it to work ... therefore that means it will work with yours.
That's as solid and true as it ever gets ... unless ... you think your iPad has grown a "personality" and is now a unique device, unlike any other ... :-) ...
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Oct 10, 2014 7:39 PM in response to Star Travelerby JohnMHoyt,Star Traveler wrote:
JohnMHoyt wrote:
i Disagree with star traveller that fixes are possible for everyone. Maybe some People, but apparently not a single one of our devices.
Well, the logic is simple and solid. You have the same iPad as another user here. You use the same iOS as that other user. He gets it to work ... therefore that means it will work with yours.
That's as solid and true as it ever gets ... unless ... you think your iPad has grown a "personality" and is now a unique device, unlike any other ... :-) ...
I Think the level of functionality or maybe what you define "working" as could be the difference. The genius was stumped and agreed that these iPads are misbehaving. We are not talking about one here. I have several. We have been working with a fleet of them.
BUt, give me more ideas of how to make mine work perfectly like the people you say have managed it. I'm obvious too stupid.
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Oct 10, 2014 7:42 PM in response to JohnMHoytby Star Traveler,Try this ...
iPad 2 has major problems with iOS 8 [solved]
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Oct 10, 2014 7:50 PM in response to Star Travelerby stevejallen,I dialed up Apple's chat line support yesterday out of total frustration. I told them I was not prepared to pay for one time support, nor did I have a support contract. They agreed to help.
They sent me a debug app which ran on my iPad2 and went straight back to Apple in seconds. They told me that there was one game - Boom Beach - that was eating up all of my memory and was not yet iOS8 compliant. They also confirmed that there were a number of other popular apps with same issue.
I was told to de-install Boom Beach, back up my iPad, do a clean install (factory default settings), and then re-install the back up.
It worked! It also solved a long outstanding cellular network intermittent problem, as well.
The iPad is as good as pre-iOS8.
I even noted a dramatic difference just by trashing Boom Beach app and before doing the clean install.
I have using my iPad2 all day without any issues.
I strongly suggest other users with issues try this approach. It make sense that some apps may not be compatible with iOS8 and cause system to be very slow, freeze, crash etc. Despite being extremely angry and frustrated at one point I really don't think this is Apple's fault. With over 1.25m apps and 70 billion downloads, it is inevitable that some of those apps will not be fully compliant with the latest iOS and will need to be updated.
Hope this helps folks!
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Oct 10, 2014 7:51 PM in response to Star Travelerby JohnMHoyt,I Have tried this on a handful of iPads myself, my techs have done it on far more
Star Traveler wrote:
Try this ...
iPad 2 has major problems with iOS 8 [solved]
WHile following this and other suggestions to a tee has helped a little, we are nowhere near fully functional. The devices are not bricks, but it is still very frustrating to just type a message like this as the text lags behind. And even more frustrating that copy and paste is not working, and that the browser just crashes in the middle of typing.
please, if you have any more suggestions, other than just telling me over and over that others have gotten it working perfectly, I sure want to hear them.
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Oct 10, 2014 7:56 PM in response to stevejallenby JohnMHoyt,stevejallen wrote:
I dialed up Apple's chat line support yesterday out of total frustration. I told them I was not prepared to pay for one time support, nor did I have a support contract. They agreed to help.
They sent me a debug app which ran on my iPad2 and went straight back to Apple in seconds. They told me that there was one game - Boom Beach - that was eating up all of my memory and was not yet iOS8 compliant. They also confirmed that there were a number of other popular apps with same issue.
I was told to de-install Boom Beach, back up my iPad, do a clean install (factory default settings), and then re-install the back up.
It worked! It also solved a long outstanding cellular network intermittent problem, as well.
The iPad is as good as pre-iOS8.
I even noted a dramatic difference just by trashing Boom Beach app and before doing the clean install.
I have using my iPad2 all day without any issues.
I strongly suggest other users with issues try this approach. It make sense that some apps may not be compatible with iOS8 and cause system to be very slow, freeze, crash etc. Despite being extremely angry and frustrated at one point I really don't think this is Apple's fault. With over 1.25m apps and 70 billion downloads, it is inevitable that some of those apps will not be fully compliant with the latest iOS and will need to be updated.
Hope this helps folks!
excellent info. So much better than the totally unhelpful repeating guy... Unfortunately, in my case, I have zero apps installed, total fresh wipe of the systems and I still have crashes, jerkiness, no copy and paste, etc. I keep trying everything suggested. Hope your suggestion helps with other people's issues.
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Oct 10, 2014 7:57 PM in response to pacoKASby Alibac,I have the same issue.
Glitchy!! I scroll on the notes and it freezes. It mixes up my titles when I change from one note to the other. For the price of these devices, I should not have to return to factory settings and reload my information, because of the interference of the update. My time is valuable. I purchased my iPad in December of 2012. My iPad is where I write stories, and it worked fine before the new update. I should not have to buy a new iPad, because the Apple update is too advanced for an older model iPad. I don't want to have to reset everything or revert back to the last version, but that looks like my only option. Next time, I want a warning that the update with cause issues with an older model iPad. I want my general settings to stop showing me that annoying number one reminding me to update. I also want to go back to the moment before I foolishly updated.
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Oct 10, 2014 7:58 PM in response to JohnMHoytby Star Traveler,Did you see the post just before yours? ... "stevejallen"
ALSO ... did you do that as I was saying, including not loading back the personal data? And then ... if you see a problem from the "factory fresh" iPad, with no other data on it ... then take it down to see if the hardware is problematic. And if that is eliminated, then showing Apple what is happening to a "Factory Fresh iPad"?
Here's what I said there ...
Try to restore your iPad to "factory fresh condition". Apple is currently selling iPad 2s on their online store website, and those are "factory fresh iPad 2s" and thus are fully operational with iOS 8.0.2. You probably need to get your iPad 2 back to the factory installed condition, to see how it's operating.
Be sure to do your backups first, before fiddling with it. Here's how to get your iPad 2 - just like the ones that Apple is selling TODAY on their online store website.
Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings
Don't restore your personal data just yet. You can do that later. First try it out in the factory fresh condition and see how everything operates. If there are still major problems and things won't work properly, you may have a hardware problem that needs to be fixed. You'll have to schedule something with the Genius Bar.
http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
Try that and let me know how it goes ... :-) ...
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Oct 10, 2014 8:00 PM in response to Alibacby Star Traveler,You don't have to buy a new iPad because of running iOS 8.0.2 ...
iPad 2 has major problems with iOS 8 [solved]