Chirping noise coming from iPad 2

What is going on here? My last two posts were labeled as "Helpful Answers." They weren't "Helpful Answers." They were supplying data for others to use to create a Helpful Answer for me. Crazier still, I was cited as the person noting them as "Helpful Answers." What! I like myself...but not that much. This is crazy. I have enough problems with cricketts in my iPad. Please ignore my mysterious and totally unintended self-aggrandizement.

Thanks Whataboutme,

As this process moved along the option of a reset did cross my mind. But, and maybe I am mistaken about this, my understanding of a reset is that whereas I will be able to retain all my apps, songs, pics, etc. by making sure I do a backup sync first, I will lose all my settings within my apps, my e-mail accounts, settings in general that are not default settings, etc. That sends a shiver down my spine as I am in charge of a pilot iPad project at my school. My iPad is loaded with information that I believe would be lost in a reset. Information that would take an incredibly long time to reinstall...assuming I remember it all! If I am wrong about this, please let me know and explain how I can retain all my non-default settings, e-mail accounts, etc. Of course, if push comes to shove and no one can identify the offending character in this play a reset may be my only course of action. I would probably wait to download iOS 5 before doing that...hoping that somehow this major iOS change might remove the problem. If it doesn't, your reset idea looks to be the only option. Thanks for the suggestion.

Mr. Luigi

Dear Demo,

Thank you on the information regarding restoring!

Dear Chris CA,

Thanks a ton for enlighting me about the option to reset rather than restore. I did not know of the reset functionality. I do every once in a while shut down my iPad by holding those two buttons. But, when the slider appears I slide the baby to shut the iPad off. I didn't know continued pressing would send you into a reset mode. I just tried that and have 26 minutes to go before the next scheduled Double Chirp. It will be VERY INTERESTING to see if a reset fixes this.

I have never interacted with a Level 9 Grand Master on this Forum before. 🙂 That represents a lot of help for a lot of people. I hope you know that we Level 1 Bottom Feeders really appreciate having access to folks with that level of expertise and generosity with their time.

Thanks again, Mr. Luigi

Dear Caspar,

At this point, all options are open. I did go to Angry Birds on my iPad but could not find any setting that appeared to be able to cause a Double Chirp. If the reset idea doesn't work, I could always delete Angry Birds (Cricketts?) and see what happens.

I have nothing to lose.

Hi Chris,

Alas, the reset appears to not have worked. I'll wait one more hour and check again as perhaps one of my students was trying to mess my life up at 1:00 PM by imitating a crickett. But, right now, it looks gloomy.

Mr. Luigi

Hi Chris,

Yes, I have tried that. In fact, when I tried your reset idea, I first cleared out the multitasking bar. I had also just cleared out the multitasking bar earlier with no reset. Sadly, neither worked.

But, again, thanks for the idea. Sooner or later something is going to work.

I wish the chirping occured every minute. That way, I could remove one app at a time and in relatively short order hopefully find the offending app (if indeed it is an app!).

OK, here is my plan. The prospect of systematically removing apps in the hope of identifying the offending app (if indeed it is an app) is a somewhat daunting task as I have hundreds of apps. Doing a restore has the liability of potentially just reinstalling the offending setting (if indeed it is a setting) unless I leave out that type of material from the restore. That also implies more work than I am excited about.

So, with iOS 5 just around the corner and considering the magnitude of this iOS upgrade I am going to just wait for iOS 5 to be released. Do the download. And then pray that somehow, someway this new operating system also brings relief from my mysterious crickett noise.

If that doesn't work.

I'm selling my iPad 2 for Yankee tickets and this mystery will forever remain that...a mystery. Jack the Ripper...Part II.

Will let all of you know how it goes after iOS 5 comes out.

P.S. I can't believe the iPhone 4S will not have a bigger screen. I am distraught, dazed, and confused. Sorry...I digress.