IBooks 3 crashes on start up on iPad 1

Summarizing

1) By the time beeing "No solution founded"

2)It seems to aply to IPad 1 iOS5.1.1 iBooks 3.0 (1210)

2.1 There are only one case RV6flyer on iPad2. Has anyone problems with iPad2?

2.2 The case of Ricard Miracle seems to be related with memory, the question is: Is there any iPad 1 working with this version?

My personal point of view: Apple should give an explanation of this BUG using an official channel. For me this is a key application and I think is not my work to solve bugs to Apple or even add to solve, mainly because Apple is not a NGO. IBooks was included when I bought my Ipad and I do not ask by an upgrade

Santiago

I have an iPad 2 64GB wifi-only running iOS 6.0 and I have the same problem, so the problem exists in multiple hardware and software configurations. I haven't tried removing my .pdfs yet but will try to find time this weekend and see if that helps. I have tried all the other suggestions but nothing worked. Clearly it's an iBooks issue. I'm patiently (for now) waiting for Apple's update...

You can get a hint of what is happening if you use a Mac to connect your iPad by going to ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/[DeviceName], you might have to guess which report/log was created by iBooks crashing.

By the way, in my case it did not consistently crashed, the small files, iBooks could manage, it was the larger files and when that happened quitting iBooks and restart iPad seemed to be what it enabled to launch successfully and not to crash straight away. Also, I have seen iBooks 3 working on iPad 2 iOS 6 and PDF, but I cannot say how large that file was or anything else (if it crashed later on the day or RAM amount).

I found a solution that works.

My NEW Asus transformer tablet works like a charm and no more iTunes either.

I'm having same problem- crashes on iPad 1 and 64gb. I use it mostly as a pdf reader, so that may be part of the issue. Speaking with Apple techs, they give them impression I am the only one with this problem.

I restored backup, so now have ibooks 2.2 running fine. Only problem is to remember not to install the ver 3 iBooks, which keeps popping up among all the other updates coming daily, and not to sync with itunes, since that is now updated to iBooks 3 after sync with my iPhone (where v.3 works fine with iOS6).

Hope Apple fixes this soon. I still have access to Zen Reader, so may use that for my pdfs and just kill iBooks app (assuming Zen Reader will still work).

I made an appointment at the Genius Bar for 12:20 to see what they have to say with this issue on my iPad 2 running iOS 6.0. Yes I have a lot of large (over 20 Meg) PDF files that are magazines and or tech manuals.

ok I have managed to get ibooks 3.0 to now work on my ipad 1 running 5.1.1. I first uninstalled ibooks from the ipad. If you have content there which has not been synced to itunes first, then sync first before deleting. I then synced the ipad to itunes. I then attached the ipad to my computer and ran itunes. I went to the books tab and unchecked all my pdfs before hitting the sync button. During the sync process the warning came up that I would not be able to read the ebooks (which WERE checked to sync) without ibooks, and that I should download it afterwards. After syncing, I ejected the ipad and then downloaded ibooks 3.0 from the appstore. It then loaded fine. I have yet to try moving the pdfs back onto ibooks, where I might then identify the original problem.

I hope this works for you.

HI All,

I have same problem with iBook3. But I found solution to revert/restore iBook2. I already restored iBook2 and I can read all of my PDF.

Here is my solution for PC or Notebook users-

1) Please look for ibook 2.2 in your Recycle Bin (sorry I don't know how to find deleted items on Mac). I hope you didn't empty Recycle after updated iBook 3.0

2) If you find ibook 2.2, you are safe. please follow the following steps

3) remove iBook 3.0 from your iPad by Press iBook icon and click x mark to delete. Then just sync iPad with your PC or notebook.

4) Please go to "Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications" on your PC or notebook and look for iBook 3.0 and delete it.

5) Please go to Recycle Bin and restore iBook 2.2 and ensure that iBook 2.2 is in "Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications".

6) Restart iPad by pressing Power button and home key. (this step might not need but I did it)

7) After restarted, sync again iPad with PC.

8) Open iTunes and go to Library and look for Apps and then look for iBook icon and double click to lauch. It will prompt you to look for .ipa file. Then locate iBook 2.2 app at "Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications" and click "Open".

9) Then Click your iPad under Device in iTunes and click Apps on the right pane. Then you will your iPad home screen.

10) Pleae tick Sync Apps and look for "iBooks".

11) Tick "iBooks" and click sync. you will see iBook 2.2 on your iPad after synced.

For me, I got all of my PDF back even if I deleted iBook 3.0

Hope this help.

It looks like I have my answer for my iPad 1, thanks to some of the posts above.

I unchecked the box to sync content of iBooks in iTunes before a sync. Then I synced the iPad, which installed iBooks 3 (which I had already updated to v3 in iTunes Apps. Now I had a clean/empty iBooks 3. Another sync after checking the sync iBooks material is now downloading the material I want to the iPad.

Looks like I am back in business. BTW, almost all my material is PDF/non-iBooks source, so this is probably part of the equation.

You, sir, are a genius! Oh wait... you, sir, are very smart indeed. 😀

PLEASE, let us know what happens.. I'm very curious to see if they have a solution other than needing to wipe everything.

Thanks!

Are those logs any different than the logs you can view on the ipad by going into settings > about > diagnostic & usage data ?

It's chugging along nicely, adding the PDFs etc. I have a good amount of data and it is gradually being populated with the right stuff. I am no syncing all the data I have accumulated, using the checkbox feature in iTunes to sele t what I want on my iPad, and I am getting the data I want in the categories I created.

Just completed, and it's perfect. You'd never know anything happened. And I did check in Settings, and it is iBooks 3.

So I'm a happy camper not to have to mess around with starting from scratch, etc.

I didn't get into any of that log, etc stuff. just a straight, simple process as I described above. It worked simply, no tech stuff, just the need to do a sync twice while unchecking/rechecking a few boxes.

Doing some further tests... I have an iPad 1 (64GB) running 5.1.1 -- Installed iBooks3 last night and had the same problems listed here (posted above)... boots, but before the library loads the app crashes. I did the reset after realizing the program was running while the update happened. Shutting iBooks down from the system (double tap the system button) and then rebooting seemed to clear everything. Upon reboot of the iPad iBooks3 was running great. After reading a bunch of these posts I went and tried several other books and PDFs. I too use iBooks to read many PDFs as I'm a research scientist. Small or Large the files seemed to open and work just fine after the restart. My test included a few 50-500 KB files as well as a few several-100-page files (20-80 MB) and have not reproduced the crashing now. Could this also be an available memory problem... as in having too many apps still running?

I tend to remember a similar issue with the graphics intensive Infinity Blade apps not working well with the iPad 1. In order to play I would have to go in and manually shut down all background-running apps and reboot to clear memory so that those single games would run without crashing... seemed that when the buffer would fill up is when my crashing would be the worse. Maybe this is unrelated but since I rebooted the app and the iPad, iBooks 3 seems to be running just fine now. And I haven't had to remove any of my books or pdfs to re-sync or anything. Interesting, this is a weird issue, and I, too wish Apple would comment on it. (similar to Rickster_G4 here)