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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

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Dec 8, 2011 1:54 PM in response to heatherfrombroadbeach

HeatherFromBroadBeach,

Your forum name is totally cool as is your choice of a cat for profile pic. Cats are totally cool. I am happy you solved your dilema so rapidly. You clearly have more savvy with the iPad than you gave yourself credit. Also, any developer who designs their app to chirp at 4:30 AM to summon the customer to rate their app is accumulating a heap of bad karma. When you deleted the app that was only the beginning of bad times for such a person.

Since you chose a cat out of all the possibilities for a profile pic I am going to make the bold assumption you are a cat person. If so, you may find this entertaining.

http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

Again, good job returning your iPad to its original glory,

Best, Mr. Luigi

Jan 12, 2012 12:10 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

This annoying noise has just started to affect my IPad2. I found that it was a faulty charging cable which had ruptured at the joint where the plug gloes into the socket on the side if the IPad. If I wiggled the wire around the cable caused charging to stop and the chirp was emitted. I changed the cable and all was well

Nov 2, 2012 1:46 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

This may help others with unidentified chirping sounds. In my case, it was a failing AC power supply cycling on and off. The iPad 2 would chirp loudly each time that it sensed the power supply connected (or re-connecting electronically), then a few seconds later the light on the power supply would go dim (or out) for a second, then when power came back up, the iPad would chirp again as though I had just plugged it in. Incidentally, this was not an actual Apple power supply, it was a cheap 3rd-party one that lasted about a month... lesson learned (again). :0)

Lerico

Level 1

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Jun 7, 2015 10:24 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

My iPad 3 started doing this a few days ago. It's been doing it at XX:26. Not every hour at that time but still several times a day. It just did it at XX:56 now.

I just reviewed all the notification sounds on my iPad, both Alerts and Ring Tones, and the sound it's making is not any one of those sounds. It's a "bing" sound followed by one or two echoes. With every echo the sound decreases in volume.

Doctor9fan

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Jun 10, 2015 5:35 AM in response to Lerico

Same on my iPhone 5s, haven't heard it on my iPad, the sound is similar or the same as the 'Ding' sound under the settings. Nothing is set to use that sound & the time it 'rings' seems random.

This has begun recently (within the last couple of months) & nothing has changed, OS is upto date & the only things I've added are games.

paulcb

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Sep 27, 2011 1:16 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

Maybe it's due to a new email, notification or calendar event? Check Settings > Sounds.

Demo

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Sep 27, 2011 2:17 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

Go to Settings>Sounds>Calendar Alerts - turn the volume all the way up on the slider bar and then toggle calendar alerts on and off and see if that is the sound.

Demo

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Sep 27, 2011 2:19 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

Sorry - Settings>General>Sounds>Calendar Alerts. No editing possible on this site when using the iPad is just unbelievable to me but oh well ....

Mr. Luigi Author

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Sep 28, 2011 6:26 AM in response to Demo

Hi Demo,

Please know the effort was totally appreciated. Almost enough to turn me into a Steelers fan!

Go Giants! :-)

paulcb

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Sep 28, 2011 6:32 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

Go Cowboys!

Might be an interesting NFC East this year.

Mr. Luigi Author

Level 1

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Sep 29, 2011 9:40 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

Dang...when are they going to let you edit your posts on this site? I meant..."I get terrible AT&T reception where I live."

Mr. Luigi Author

Level 1

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Sep 29, 2011 9:43 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

This is RIDICULOUS! I am not typing "amp;" And I thought the chirping was my only problem with the iPad 2! :-)

Sep 29, 2011 10:09 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

But if you want to get AT&T, just type it without the ampersand, as in a t t, sans spaces of course.

& if you want the ampersand just by itself, that works as well, it seems.

Sep 29, 2011 10:12 AM in response to Michael Morgan1

Until, of course, you want someone else to see it, at which point it gets all hashed. I'm beginning to think this will never be fixed ...

paulcb

Level 6

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Sep 30, 2011 9:43 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

It's got to be coming from an app. Turn off all notifications and see what happens.

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