Q: iPad Safari crashing regularly

Philly_Phan wrote:

Quantity of views means absolutely nothing, zero, nada, bupkus.  I've probably viewed this thread several hundred times and I've had no problems whatever.

You've had no problem viewing the thread? I should hope not. Several hundred times you've been here? Surely you exaggerate.

Sorting the forum by number of views indicates only the number of views. Nothing can be inferred from this; that statistic implies less than nothing, so true.

Attempting to locate a useful explanation or helpful suggestions for this kooky little iPad1 problem by searching many of the Mac-specific or iPad-specific geek sites returns the same results: nothing zero bubkis. But the search engines often filter for volume fo traffic so, of course, this discussion rises to the top even if there is nothing here to find. And there is not. Which, after more than 18 months, is weirdly sad. As far as Apple seems to be concerned, it's just not important to anyone except we sufferers.

Just thought i would add my name to the list.  I am ruuning ios 5.0.1 on an ipad1 and Safari crashes regularly.  I have been using it for 45 minutes and it has crashed 3 times.  This is quite the norm now since the late ios 4 updates and these new ios5 versions.  However now i am getting a little sick of it as its bringing back memories of Microsoft software.

I will go through this post to see if i can find any solutions before, resetting my ipad.  Will keep you informed...

My iPad1 has days were it doesn't crash...and days when it crashes repeatedly.  I've read where some of you are having apps and even your mail crash, in addition to Safari crashing...and I thought I had gotten lucky, because that HADN'T been something I had to deal with...but I've since had my mail crash twice and a couple of apps will shut down as soon as they're opened.  Nothing on the scale as my problems with Safari, but the fact that things seem to be getting worse is not making me happy.  Since I've already taken it back to the Apple store (in Oct) and they wiped it blank before re-installing 5.0, and I've emptied my cache and gotten rid of my cookies, among a few other tips I've tried, and nothing has tried has fixed things...the bottom line is that I know this isn't going away until Apple puts in a fix in one of their updates.

My iPad crashes constantly.  I have tried turning everything off and rebooting and restoring, etc.  Nothing works.  It is so frustrating.  I am about ready to give up on mine.  I can't get anything done on it, so what's the point of having it?  If I had wanted junk, I would have bought junk!  iOS 5 compatible with iPad one?!  My butt!

This is simple

Since I bought my iTouch, perfect, perfect, perfect

Since iOS 5 update.....crash, crash, crash.

iOS 5.1 no help either.

Would love to go back to per iOS 5 touch

I would agree, I bought my iPad 1 at launch, so well over a year ago. I used Safari on a daily basis without problems (maybe the occasional crash, once/twice a week at most). After the iOS 5 update (and no other apps added) I was getting 4 or 5 crashes in an hour.

I have had my iPad 2 for about a month now, and virtually the same, the record was about 10 crashes in under an hour recently.

As I said, first Apple need to acknowledge the problem, and then fix it ASAP.

Same here, I have an iPad1, never crashed until IOS 5.0.1.  Now with Safari, and other apps, regularly crashes, often several times an hour, screen goes black, need to activate the Home button, open Safari, usually return to the page at the time of the crash.  This happens offen when reading newspaper sites such as SFGate, WSJ, and others.  Also with some store apps.  Apple, you have a problem with iOS 5, and possibly with Safari.  Please resolve, thank you.

Same problem here. No problems at all till the IOS 5.0.1 upgrade and now my original iPad is useless.

So many people were reporting this as a problem I thought Apple would have released a fix by now but there doesn't even seem to be acknowledgement of a problem. I was going to get a iPhone in the new year but this is really putting me off switching from my current handset.

It only began after I installed os5.0, but there is no pattern that I can discern

Please try the suggestions in this thread and on google. me too threads aren't useful. Unfortunately, Apple does not monitor or post in these forums.

You need to do a DFU Restore and setup as *new* ipad. Do not restore from backup.

Before the restore:

1. Right click on ipad and say transfer purchases.

2. Right click on ipad and say sync.

After the the DFU restore (link to come):

Setup as new ipad:

Getting the apps from icloud is fine.

Syncing music and photos also fine. although you may want to test safari or other crashing apps before a sync and after a sync to make sure one of your files isn't causing the ipad to crash.

http://www.ifans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=279343

This is apparently a way of "forcing" a restore, whereas clicking the restore button in itunes doesn't always restore.

Setup as new ipad.

If problem does not resolve, it may be hardware and need servicing. I would encourage people to try this and post their results.

Ditto.

Why change up if they cannot respond

To what seems to be a major flaw in the update

With no acknowledgment of the issue

Was thinking of of this in percentages

Before iOS 5, no crashes....0%

After......2000%.

That to me is a serious issue, and not just a tick

Won't be going to iPhone after this

Why buy more problems

Please try the suggestions in this thread and on google. me too threads aren't useful. Unfortunately, Apple does not monitor or post in these forums.

Sam Katz said: 

You need to do a DFU Restore and setup as *new* ipad. Do not restore from backup.

>>>>>Snip

Setup as new ipad.

If problem does not resolve, it may be hardware and need servicing. I would encourage people to try this and post their results.

>>>>>>>>>!>END OF QUOTE

Just for the record, I (and probably many other users here) aren't newbies, or need to google how to restore or DFU.

Most of us, (I know I have) have tried to restore, set up as a new iPad, jump around on one leg, NOTHING helps. If you saw my earlier post, I have had an iPad since release day, it worked fine with only the very occasional crash. After upgrading the SAME HARDWARE to iOS 5 it started to crash, so, same hardware pre iOS 5 = good, same hardware post iOS 5 = BAD. Please explain how "If problem does not resolve, it may be hardware" makes any sense?

BRAND NEW iPad 2 set up as new iPad on iOS 5.0.1 crashes, virtually every Safari session. No other apps installed, brand new fresh iOS 5.0.1, Safari crashes.

It really is simple, there is a bug in iOS 5, Apple need to fix it.

My upgrade to IOS 5.0 hung up. Apple tech support had me do a hardware reset and then re-update to IOS 5.0, which completed normally. I then restored my last backup. Then the problems started with Safari crashing, but not very often. Over time, the frequency of crashing keeps increasing. The upgrade to IOS 5.0.1 didn't make any difference.

I look at one of the investing web sites a lot, and it's getting hard to read more than 1 or 2 stories without Safari crashing. I've even loaded Opera Mini, but I have problems getting it to follow links to the stories I want to read.

I have gone through and killed all the running apps to free up memory, except Safari and Mail, and this didn't help.

I have a cellular wireless internet plan with a 5 GB allowance, and the iPad 1 is not the only computer. So there will be a substantial data overage cost to re-download everything from iTunes/iCloud (assuming setting up as a new iPad works). There needs to be a fix that won't cost me extra money to try.

After Safari "crashed", I double-clicked the Home button to open the Fast App Switcher Dock. There was Safari! So it had not crashed -- It just closed it's window. This is a trivial distinction when using Safari, but an important one for anyone trying to troubleshoot the problem. I terminated Safari and restarted it. It crashed about 8 web pages later, so restarting Safari was no help. (iPad 1; increasingly frequent Safari crashes after IOS 5.0 and 5.0.1.)

Sheepish15 wrote:

 

After Safari "crashed", I double-clicked the Home button to open the Fast App Switcher Dock. There was Safari! So it had not crashed -- It just closed it's window. This is a trivial distinction when using Safari, but an important one for anyone trying to troubleshoot the problem. I terminated Safari and restarted it. It crashed about 8 web pages later, so restarting Safari was no help. (iPad 1; increasingly frequent Safari crashes after IOS 5.0 and 5.0.1.)

Your logic is faulty.  First, it's not a "Fast App Switcher Dock."  It's a "multitasking bar" that contains recently used apps, without regard to whether or not they are still active.  You do not know if you terminated Safari or if it had already terminated and you merely removed the icon from the bar.  Refer to page 23 of the iPad User Guide.

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