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GRGNV Author

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IOS5 + Ipad2 = Periodic Crashing

I updated my iPad2 to IOS 5 over the weekend, as requested by iTunes when i sync'd on Saturday. Since then, the iPad is periodically quitting and restarting during use. It doesn't seem to be app related as it has occered while using Safari, e-mail, Scrabble, InsideLine, Monster Fantasy Sports HD, and Ebay motors apps so far. I have tried closing all other apps and running one at a time, but it still did the periodic random restart. I tried turning off all of the iCloud syncing options, still no change. The iPad2 was stable under the old OS and never crashed or did this random restart thing. By the way, when I reference restarting, it really restarts, it goes blank, then after a bit, the white apple logo is on the screen, then the unlock screen appears (after some time). On a few occasions, merely sliding the unlock slider caused it to reboot yet again.

For reference it is a 64gb ipad2 with about 20% of the storage memory in use, wifi only. The iPad is not and has not been jailbroken, it is bone stock.

This is really frustrating. Any suggestions?

iPad 2, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 17, 2011 9:19 AM

59 replies

Ashooner

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Nov 9, 2011 1:25 PM in response to GRGNV

Looking elsewhere on the forum, this is not just iPad 2, it looks like it is affecting the original as well.

FWIW, the Safari crashes seem very similar to what I've experienced while developing webkit-based native apps for iOS. If you try to do too much in the webview (css3 animations, image loading, etc), it just can't handle it and crashes. In iOS4, the webview memory was limited to 10MB I think; trying to load more than that in a image for instance would just produce the blue '?' or nothing at all. We struggled so long with that instability, it's kind of oddly reassuring that the Safari team itself might have the same problem...

GRGNV Author

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Nov 9, 2011 3:24 PM in response to Ashooner

Thanks for the info. Before the crashing started I was considering re-writing an program I wrote for the Mac as my first iOS app. However, with the constant crashing I put my project on hold beause I won't know whether errors or crashing are iOS issues or project issues.

The fact that this is occuring on all forms of the iPad, (iPad1 WIFI, iPad1 3G, iPad2 WIFI & iPad2 3G) you think there would be more outcry over the issue and more reporting of the issue.

Nov 10, 2011 9:02 PM in response to GRGNV

Mine is the email... crashes ALL THE TIME. I tried everything and it works fine for a little while (after rebooting) then it crashes 9 out of 10 times I open the email app. I also tried deleting and re-adding the accounts, which also worked for a little while.

I'm loading the new ios5 load now, I'm hoping it will fix it, but there is no such mention on the version list.

GRGNV Author

Level 1

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Nov 11, 2011 8:22 AM in response to in2survive

I downloaded 5.0.1 as well last night.

So far.... no crashes. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Thanks

Chris CA

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82,440 points

Nov 11, 2011 9:24 AM in response to GRGNV

I haven't seen any crashes yet with 5.0.1.

Demo

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Nov 11, 2011 10:01 AM in response to Chris CA

Safari crashed on me about an hour after I updated to iOS 5.0.1 yesterday. I will chalk this up to an isolated incident, but I will do so wish cautious optimism.

GRGNV Author

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Nov 14, 2011 8:33 AM in response to GRGNV

My incidents of crashing have been greatly reduced witn 5.0.1. Since installing on the evening of the 11th, my iPad2 has only crashed three times (each time in Safari with nothing elese running in the background). It makes the device much more usable, but problems still exist even if they are a bit less frequent so far.

Nov 14, 2011 11:42 AM in response to GRGNV

On a 4th gen iPod Touch, Safari crashing suddenly became an issue after ios 5, as did many other things. Crashing a couple of times per day, even after ios 5.0.1.

Nov 16, 2011 4:16 PM in response to GRGNV

Oh No! I have updated with the lastest update (IOS 5.1) and it is still crashing. Any other fixes?

GRGNV Author

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Nov 18, 2011 8:36 AM in response to GRGNV

Well, the reduced crash rate was temporary. Last night, the ipad began crashing frequently in safari, first on cnn.com, then on google.com when scrolling throug search results (neither of which are wildly complex sites).

This ***. I hope Apple is getting the message and working on adressing this issue. It seems remarkable, that 5.01 could be so much worse (less stable) than 4.x and still get released. The fastest way to blow a lead in any field is to substitute a bad product in place of a good one.

Nov 19, 2011 10:05 AM in response to GRGNV

Device info: White iPad 2, 64Gb, iOS 5.0

did restart - no change

did reset - no help

did complete reset to factory settings / cleared everything - and did get in to a lot of trouble - see below

After reset to factory settings iPad 2 cannot be activated. Activation keeps saying "your iPad cannot be activated, activation servers are temporarily not available... " Have tried this for 6 hours now over wifi connection for 20-30 times which I know for sure to work perfectly as I am using same to write this with my MacBook Pro...

Also cannot activate through iTunes as iPad crashed every 2min 40sec which means I do not have enought time to do activation through iTunes.... It takes approx 1 min just for iTunes to find iPad (don't ask why, it finds my iPhone 4S in seconds).

And this all means I cannot upgrade to iOS 5.0.1 nor restore to 4.x nor do restoration at all. And what makes this very very frustrating is that I need to take 3 day 1200km roadtrip tomorrow and would like to use tomtom navigator in this iPad 2...

Any advice anyone?

GRGNV Author

Level 1

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Nov 25, 2011 3:13 PM in response to Tricia from Corona Del Mar

Still no response from Apple. Still crashing in safari. Does anyone know if the current iPad2's are shipping with iOS5.01?

Chris CA

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82,440 points

Nov 25, 2011 3:35 PM in response to GRGNV

GRGNV wrote:

Still no response from Apple.

How/when did you contact them about this issue?

Nov 27, 2011 12:29 AM in response to GRGNV

As an alternative just installed Opera mini and works great !

Apple please Supooooooooooooooort !

csmarmot

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Nov 28, 2011 9:39 AM in response to liyang.kuang

After searching the forum, I'm working on the theory that there is a glitch with iCloud bookmark synching, possiblu involving the bookmarks bar. I have turned off bookmarks sync in settings:iCloud and my Safari stability has been good for the last couple hours. I'll reply if it crashes again.

iPad 3G on ios5

Chris

IOS5 + Ipad2 = Periodic Crashing