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Chirping noise coming from iPad 2

Just recently I have noticed that my iPad 2 is emitting a fairly loud chirping noise. Sounds like a bird or crickett. The sound is emitted in two discreet bursts. You can easily hear it across a fair sized room. It is unlike the high chirping noise I have read about, and heard, on the iphone which is a more prolonged single high pitched noise. I know the noise occurs when the iPad is not plugged in to its AC adaptor but is sufficiently charged. It may also occur when plugged in. Not sure. The noise is very internmittent and is not predictable. For example... it does not happen everytime I use a certain app or enter my password.

MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod, Airport Extreme, Apple TV

Posted on Sep 27, 2011 12:51 PM

86 replies

Mr. Luigi Author

Level 1

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Oct 6, 2011 11:48 AM in response to avtin

Shush now! You'll blow my cover. 😎

Speaking of Covers...how many of those points do you have to earn before qualifying for a custom avatar? My Saturn avatar is just not doing it for me. I think I have earned 5 points. How close am I? 😁

Demo

Level 10

166,507 points

Oct 6, 2011 11:56 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

I think other than my initial participation in this post, my reason for following along is that you have provided me with so much entertainment with your own dialogue - much of it directed to yourself!

I'm sorry that I have nothing constructive to add to help you solve your chirping issue, but - I believe that you need to be at least Level 3 - with 500 points before you can use a custom avatar.

Keep plugging away and you will eventually achieve that level. :)

Oct 7, 2011 9:20 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

I, too, experience the double chirp on the hour, every hour from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. I, too, have tried all the remedies on this thread. However, my device is a 3rd gen iPod Touch with the latest (4.3.5) iOS. Maybe we could get together and figure out which apps we have in common.

Greg

Mr. Luigi Author

Level 1

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Oct 7, 2011 5:10 PM in response to GSwarthout

Hi Greg,

Praise the Lord! So, I am not crazy...at least with regard to the chirping noise. 😁

As I have mentioned earlier, I have more apps than I've had hot dinners in my life as I am an "app tester" at my school. However, it might expedite the search process if I shared the apps I have downloaded most recently. I don't mind listing those apps here as I am a pretty vanilla type guy and the apps are far from controversial. Hm...I wonder if I should be concerned for security reasons. Can't see why, but maybe I should ask this thread's Grand Masters...many of whom have earned over 2.76 x 10^5 points for their helpful expertise. These guys are my Peeps and I trust their opinions.

Dear Grand Masters, Is there any reason relating to security that should concern me regarding listing apps I have downloaded? Thank You

Let's wait for a response from one of the experts. That will also give me time to compile that list of recently downloaded apps.

I'll tell you one thing. If we find the offending app, its developer is in a ton of trouble. Sorta reminds me of that line from the movie, "Taken" starring Liam Neeson.

"If it's money you want for fixing your defective crap app, I can tell you I have none. But, what I do have is a special set of skills. Skills I have developed over a lifetime. Skills that make me a nightmare for developers like you. If you fix the app now, I will not look for you. That will be the end of it. But if you do not fix the app, I WILL look for you. I WILL find you. And when I do, I WILL kill you."

Metaphorically speaking, of course. 😉

Demo

Level 10

166,507 points

Oct 7, 2011 5:21 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

I love that movie and Liam Neeson was so good in that role ....

I am no grand master but I will toss in my two cents on this ....I can think of no security issue reason why you can't list the apps that have you downloaded. You guys can play - "I'll show you mine if you show me yours". Seriously though, just use common sense (and I'm sure that you will) if you think any security issue could be compromised, just don't list that app. However, I just can't think of any scenario where listing your apps would be a security concern.

Unless you have some sort of naughty apps (if they even exist at all) or apps that you would be ashamed to make public, that you don't want your significant others, or bosses, or kids, or whatever, to know that you have - go ahead and share. I know I will breathless with anticipation until I can see the list of apps for myself.

Mr. Luigi Author

Level 1

49 points

Oct 7, 2011 5:43 PM in response to Demo

As Yoda would say, "Boring, I am." "Naughty Apps, I do not have." I will compile a list of the most recent downloads. I haven't even used a good number of them yet. Still, there is evil somewhere in those apps. Beware.

Demo, I loved "Taken" also and Neeson was totally awesome in that role. And you ARE a Grand Master. Don't even try to trick me.

Easily fooled, I am not.

Demo

Level 10

166,507 points

Oct 7, 2011 5:49 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

I thought it prudent to mention the "naughty" issue just in case... All kidding aside - I will really be interested to see how this ultimately all plays out. This is one strange issue.

Chris CA

Level 10

82,440 points

Oct 7, 2011 8:34 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

At this point, i suggest you plug it in and create a new backup, then Restore it.

Play with it a while add a few apps and see if it returns.

You can always Restore from backup.

Mr. Luigi Author

Level 1

49 points

Oct 8, 2011 9:02 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

This is a bit off topic, but I need some advice at the starter of this thread. A lot of the comments by others, while not giving the actual answer, have been VERY helpful in zeroing in on a possible solution. But, for the life of me I don't see where I can award a "helpful" recognition to those comments. All I see is an icon for "Correct Answer" next to each post. I am on my MacBook Pro right now...so this is not because I am on my iPad 2. Does anyone know what I am not doing to get the "Helpful" icon next to each post to give due recognition?

Thanks.

Oct 8, 2011 9:06 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

You can only give 2 helpful answers and 1 correct answer

Chris CA

Level 10

82,440 points

Oct 8, 2011 10:04 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

and you already kindly awarded yourself the two "Helpful Answers".

😉

Mr. Luigi Author

Level 1

49 points

Oct 8, 2011 4:06 PM in response to Chris CA

Well, you know what they say...

Before you can learn to love others you have to learn to love yourself. 😁

Seriously, I screwed up on that one. As I mentioned earlier, I obviously clicked on "helpful" without realizing it. It was stupid, careless, and a waste-you can't give yourself points for being "helpful"-I'm still stuck in the basement with 5 measley points despite inappropriately awarding myself those "helpful" commendations. Those comments I clicked on were certainly not "helpful." They actually were questions I was posing. And, by doing so, I took away the option of bestowing credit to others where credit was due. I believe there have been more than 2 helpful comments in this thread. I think Apple needs to loosen the noose on allowing the starter of a thread to award helpful credit to OTHERS.

Oct 8, 2011 4:13 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

if you want to start over and reward points or future helpful replys you can always start a new thread on this topic.

Mr. Luigi Author

Level 1

49 points

Oct 8, 2011 4:46 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

Below is a link to a list of my Apps. It is missing "apps" I created from web pages added to my Home Screen. If we draw a blank with these then I will search out those.

A couple points:

1) I share an Apple Account with my daughter and we sync her apps to the iPad 2 so she can use the device. So, some of these apps are totally unfamiliar to me. I quickly scanned them to see if there were any suspicious looking settings. I couldn't find any.

2) I decided to include ALL my apps. It was just going to be too time consuming to select out the most recent downloads. I have a lot of Astronomy, Physics, Science, and Graphing/Calculator Apps. As soon as I download them I place them in folders I created for these topics. It would have been really painful to look through all the download dates and find the most recent ones.

OK, here's the link to the list of apps.

http://db.tt/pydYCawO

Demo

Level 10

166,507 points

Oct 8, 2011 4:38 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

Mr. Luigi ... I'm sure we all appreciate your wanting to award points for the help, but quit beating yourself up over it.

Now we have another issue. The apps that you posted are showing up as blue squares with a question mark inside of the squares on the iPad and on my Mac so there is a problem with how you save the pictures or the screenshot or whatever it is that you posted in your reply. so we still have no idea what apps you have on the iPad.

😟

Chirping noise coming from iPad 2