Taping twice on the home button (or using the multi-task gesture) crashes the iPad. The screen goes black with a white spinning wheel and a couple of seconds later the iPad resets.
That happens every single time I try to use de multi-task bar.
I'm clueless.
iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iOS 5.1
Have you tried turning off multitasking gestures just to see if the setting is causing the crash? Settings>General>Multitasking Gestures>Off.
Have you tried Settings>General>Reset>Reset all Settings? Restart the iPad. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button. You will have to enable your settings again but see if it helps.
Finally - have you tried a reset? Reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.
I've tried hard reseting it, but the problem remains. I've also tried turning off the multitasking gestures.
I'm really trying not to consider the Reset All Setting as an option here. I have like 200 apps installed and most of them don't use iCloud to backup data and settings.
I understand that you don't want to reset all of your settings. Just a thought.
Then I assume that you are using iTunes for your backups so have you considered restoring from a backup - a backup prior to this issue. That should restore your iPad's settings back to the way they were when the iPad was functioning properly.
Ilustre BOB, I am seeing the same issue on my iPad as well. I am also running iOS 5.1 on a 32GB, WiFi only iPad. A reset does not fix it.
The issue turned out to come and go randomly. Sometimes the multitask bar works fine, but sometimes I just get the black screen + spinning wheel error.
I don't see that behavior on my iPad 2 (iOS 5.1). I am thinking it must be one of the following:
1. Not enough memory (check Settings --> General --> Usage).
2. A third-party app is causing a problem. Note that app icons appear in the multitasking bar.
3. Faulty download of your last iOS upgrade.
4. Hardware problem - some of the flash memory is bad or flaky.
Okay, I think I got some progress on the issue. It seems that it can be triggered by apps that use the media controls in the multitask bar. Sometimes (randomly, it seems), while listening to a music or watching a video in any media app, I can reproduce the issue by trying to access the multitask bar (via gesture or via double tap on home button).
I know this because if I change the app I'm using to play the media (Spotify or Rdio, for example), the bar starts to work again.
I have the exactly same problem. The solution is working for me too, I just need to launch the iPod app and play a track. After that, the bar is working again.
Where we can report this bug?
Actually, Apple called me today to talk about the issue. They asked me to send them a console log (via iPhone Configuration Utility) once the issue happens again.
I'm hoping for my iPad to crash today to send them the log 🙂
I have logs too, but nobody contacted me yet. :)
Happening here too. Hard reset. Changing settings, these do not work. I have. Not tried a restore. The symptoms popped up after an over the air download of welder, but that has no audio use. I do not use my iPad for audio. Curiouser and curiouser.
OK, any news on that? Dear Apple, nobody hear us? This is a serious problem!!!
Apple got my crash logs and told me the engineers will be working on it. No news since then.
Thanks BOB, we will see the results. I have crash logs too, but nobody contacted me...If one crash log is enough for Apple, then enough. 🙂
Same here. Resetting etc will clear the problem for a while, but then it comes back again. This has only started happening in the last week or so. I haven't noticed a consistent pattern of what app I'm in when the problem starts unfortunately.
Activating the multi-task bar crashes the iPad
