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Q: iCal on iPad 2 crashes when selecting March 2013

Hi,

 

I have got a very strange problem with iCal on my iPad 2 Wi-Fi. When selecting March 2013 it instantly crashes iCal, after which I am returned to the springboard. When relaunching iCal it starts with either February 2013 or April 2013 selected. The crashing does not occur in 2012 or 2014, so March 2013 is the only occurance of the crashing found so far.

 

What have I tried to do to solve the problem:

  • Restart iPad.
  • Force Quit iCal and all other applications.
  • Restart iPad again.

 

Problem still occured.

 

  • Disable Calendar syncing from my Google Account.

 

Problem was gone, iCal was completely empty and working fine.

 

  • Enable Calendar syncing, but uncheck all calendars in iCal resulting in empty calendar rendered on screen.

 

Problem still gone.

 

  • Enabling a single calendar.

 

Crashing occured again.

 

My conclusion was that one of my appointments in Google Calendar must contain something that was making iCal crash. However, of the 5 calendars I am syncing with the iPad none of them could be shown without iCal crashing in March 2013. Even public calendars I am subscribed to like official holidays make iCal crash. If something is indeed wrong with an appointment, I would have expected to be able to display the other 4 calendars without problems.

 

I am syncing the exact same calendars with my iPhone 4 and my iMac, and on both devices no crashing occurs.

 

Is there anything I can do to extract some more information from my iPad to find out exactly why iCal is crashing?

iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1

Posted on Apr 11, 2012 12:27 AM

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  • by draple,

    draple draple Sep 20, 2012 10:49 AM in response to spellfast59
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    Sep 20, 2012 10:49 AM in response to spellfast59

    IOS6 update hasnt fixed this - Apple get your act together please.

     

    However..............It only seems to be a problem on the iPad2  - tried a friends ipad3 today - seems ok.

     

    Have found a work around to the problem - I had entered on April 1st 'Bank holiday' as a whole day event. I changed this to run from 01.00 t0 23.00 and the problem no longer occurs - so it must be and April 1st glitch on entering just all day events.

     

    Or .... It is April the first the problem? An Apple joke??  Perhaps a deliberate stunt by Apple to make us look a bit silly in advance of the date!! Ho Ho Ho.

  • by Zorglub-Paris,

    Zorglub-Paris Zorglub-Paris Sep 20, 2012 4:03 PM in response to XyritZz
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    Sep 20, 2012 4:03 PM in response to XyritZz

    Same problem here.

    Solved by moving a full day apointment from April 1st to April 2nd...

  • by Guccif,

    Guccif Guccif Sep 21, 2012 6:07 AM in response to XyritZz
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    Sep 21, 2012 6:07 AM in response to XyritZz

    My iPad 3 has had the same problems, but copying advice from above, I moved an appointment from April 1st to April 2nd, and March opens with no problem now. What I did notice that in the UK our daylight saving starts on March 31st, and I am guessing that is the problem, which is just the norm for apple and daylight saving times!

  • by Bert125,

    Bert125 Bert125 Sep 21, 2012 8:17 AM in response to XyritZz
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    Sep 21, 2012 8:17 AM in response to XyritZz

    Same here but I found the problem. I have a weeknumbers calender, and when I deselect that one iCal works fine, so it seems not a problem in iCal but in this one www.markthisdate.com/calendar/Week_Numbers__international__10487.ics

  • by JonCameron,

    JonCameron JonCameron Sep 22, 2012 12:25 AM in response to XyritZz
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    Sep 22, 2012 12:25 AM in response to XyritZz

    As noted elsewhere on this forum (there are multiple threads on this) it's to do with All Day events on Monday 1st April. Nothing to do with alternative calendars. Simply change any all day event on Monday 1st April to a timed event and it will work.

     

    Problem probably exacerbated because Monday 1st April is Easter Monday and therefore plenty of people adding to iCal as an all day event.

     

    Something to do with Sunday 31st March having less hours with British Summertime (or Daylight savings time if your not from these shores).

     

    A quirk which should be an issue but is.

  • by Zerpio,

    Zerpio Zerpio Sep 23, 2012 9:17 AM in response to JonCameron
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    Sep 23, 2012 9:17 AM in response to JonCameron

    Not an option when syncing to an external calender. New OS, same ****.

  • by Hightown,

    Hightown Hightown Sep 23, 2012 12:18 PM in response to XyritZz
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    Sep 23, 2012 12:18 PM in response to XyritZz

    This is the same for me, IOS6 does not fix the problem. Apple please fix.

  • by marshalljane,

    marshalljane marshalljane Sep 29, 2012 6:05 AM in response to draple
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    Sep 29, 2012 6:05 AM in response to draple

    Change your calendar view to year, select April then change view to WEEK VIEW... You will then be able to go through March and April without it crashing.....  ;-)

  • by marshalljane,

    marshalljane marshalljane Sep 29, 2012 6:06 AM in response to XyritZz
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    Sep 29, 2012 6:06 AM in response to XyritZz

    Change your calendar view to year, select April then change view to WEEK VIEW... You will then be able to go through March and April without it crashing.....  ;-)

  • by Bert125,

    Bert125 Bert125 Oct 1, 2012 1:02 AM in response to XyritZz
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    Oct 1, 2012 1:02 AM in response to XyritZz

    this solution is one of a this kind: If the frontdoor of your car is broken, step into the back, crowl forward sit behind the wheel and voila, you can drive...

  • by Keith3721,

    Keith3721 Keith3721 Oct 1, 2012 11:03 AM in response to Bert125
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    Oct 1, 2012 11:03 AM in response to Bert125

    Indeed which is no solution at all, Apple need to do better than this, much better; their calendars also copy forward all day events repeated for one or two days for 6 or 7 days.

     

    This is not good for a coy of Apples apparent standing in the world of IT.

     

    By the way you need to completly unsubscrbe from UK public holidays to make the temporary fix mentioned above work, it probably does have more to do with UK daylight saving time than anything else, one would have thought that the code requiring to be re-written is not that great.

  • by Troels Kolding,

    Troels Kolding Troels Kolding Oct 1, 2012 11:35 AM in response to Keith3721
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    Oct 1, 2012 11:35 AM in response to Keith3721

    This is amazing. My iPad crashed trying to make appointment for March 2013 in month view. I powered off the iPad thinking that something had gone awfully wrong. It still crashes. I search google .... and to my surprise find a huge amount of hits. And that the bug has been present since back in April? And that it has not been fixed in spite of completely new iCal versions and iOS upgrade being released? Wow.

     

    Sigh .... will try to reach support somehow .....

  • by larslyd,

    larslyd larslyd Oct 5, 2012 4:49 AM in response to XyritZz
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    Oct 5, 2012 4:49 AM in response to XyritZz

    I get same Issue.

     

    is iCloud make this issue.

     

    Try Disable iCloud calender on you iPad and then go to March 2013 on you calender and then it not crash. after that go back and enable iCloud calender again.

     

    And then it work for me :-)

     

    best regards

     

    Lars Rasmussen

  • by Robin70922,

    Robin70922 Robin70922 Oct 6, 2012 3:41 AM in response to Troels Kolding
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    Oct 6, 2012 3:41 AM in response to Troels Kolding

    Have had this problem myself for several months and trawling through the posts came a mention of "Awesome Calendar" in the Apple Store.

    Try it, it really is awesome.

     

    Shame on you Apple for not fixing Ical!             

  • by oldmoondog1,

    oldmoondog1 oldmoondog1 Oct 22, 2012 9:00 AM in response to XyritZz
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    Oct 22, 2012 9:00 AM in response to XyritZz

    Well I have only just discovered this problem - But I deleted the one "All day" entry on 1st April and problem has disappeared!  I tried 0005 to 2355 and it still crashed. Next up was 0100 to 2300 and that worked!!!

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