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Q: Ipad mini with retina wifi extremely slow/dead after ios 8 update

Just updated my devices to iOS 8. Im having no issues with the Iphone 5s wifi works perfectly fine. But with the Ipad Mini w/ Retina I can't get any wifi. Its connected, I've reset the wifi & router. But my mini keeps saying there isnt any internet connection. Anyone else have this issue?

iPad mini (Retina) Wi-Fi, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 9:41 PM

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  • by Patrick_London,

    Patrick_London Patrick_London Sep 18, 2014 11:58 AM in response to yeekon
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    Sep 18, 2014 11:58 AM in response to yeekon

    II'm having the same ios8 issue with the wifi network connection on the iPad mini retina becoming unusable after a few minutes after a restart. I've tried resetting the network settings and resetting all settings but the issue keeps coming back,

     

    im not having any problems on my iPhone 5 with ios8. My iPad is basically unusable until I can find a fix.

  • by Silvanus ,

    Silvanus Silvanus Sep 18, 2014 12:10 PM in response to Ramy Badr
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    Sep 18, 2014 12:10 PM in response to Ramy Badr

    How do I Downgrade??? please help am totally regretting this thank Jeez I always use my iPad as a Guinea Pig when these things come out I leave my iPhones for 6 months later when everything is ironed out .....

  • by shah32,

    shah32 shah32 Sep 18, 2014 12:41 PM in response to yeekon
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    Sep 18, 2014 12:41 PM in response to yeekon

    Alright,

     

    I updated to 8 last night, as in India it came last night and I am facing the same problem. Now I have sorted it out, I don't know if this will work permanently or if its just a temporary solution


    1st Solution : -

     

    Go to Settings

    Select Wifi

    Select your network

    Then select  'i' right beside the the wifi symbol of your network

    See the IP address and under that see DHCP

    Now go to STATIC (3rd option) and see if the contents are the same as DHCP

    If, yes then reset the network settings and fill it again

    If, no then write it down somewhere and copy it.

    Then click on Renew Lease

    When, prompted, Click Renew Lease ?

     

    OR

     

    Forget your network

    Once your 3g/LTE is on,

    Turn it off

    Re-join the network.

     

    OR

     

    Connect your Iphone to your PC/Mac

    Go to Itunes

    If you have taken backup previously before updating to iOs 8

    Click on Restore BACKUP

     

    Please press Restore backup and not Iphone

     

    The old settings would also restore and this should help.

     

    Thanks

    Smit

  • by shah32,

    shah32 shah32 Sep 18, 2014 12:42 PM in response to Patrick_London
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    Sep 18, 2014 12:42 PM in response to Patrick_London

    See the solution below, if it works.

     

    Thanks

    Smit

  • by artisansdjj,

    artisansdjj artisansdjj Sep 18, 2014 12:45 PM in response to yeekon
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    Sep 18, 2014 12:45 PM in response to yeekon

    Performing a factory reset and then restoring from my iTunes backup (made just before I upgraded) worked for me... iPad mini (not retina). I'd tried resetting just the network settings, but it did nothing. I was GOING to try to get it back to iOS 7.1.2, but tried a factory reset first (phew!)... Wi-fi is good now. Thanks!

     

    Hope this helps someone else,

     

    Donna

  • by alanfromwickford,

    alanfromwickford alanfromwickford Sep 18, 2014 1:04 PM in response to Patrick_London
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    Sep 18, 2014 1:04 PM in response to Patrick_London

    I posted the fix i duscivered that has fixed everything so far posted in another forum.

     

    go to settings and reset your network settings, it will reboot and you need to re input your WiFi key

     

    you will loose all your web site and forum auto fills

     

     

    Alan

  • by alanfromwickford,

    alanfromwickford alanfromwickford Sep 18, 2014 1:11 PM in response to alanfromwickford
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    Sep 18, 2014 1:11 PM in response to alanfromwickford

    Additional Observation

     

    so far few reports if any, of phones having problems

     

    My iPad 2 64gb retina with gsm suffered this fault, but my older iPad 2 with no gsm was fine, not a single problem other than needing several tries at installing the uodate.

     

    hope that helps anyone with tracking down the bugs.

  • by EmmaLM,

    EmmaLM EmmaLM Sep 18, 2014 2:05 PM in response to yeekon
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    Sep 18, 2014 2:05 PM in response to yeekon

    ipad air less than a year old. iOS 8 has practically bricked it. As it keeps dropping wifi and is now utterly useless as a tablet. iPhone 5s is fine. Thanks apple! No really, thanks!

  • by Sander Ottes,

    Sander Ottes Sander Ottes Sep 18, 2014 3:15 PM in response to yeekon
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    Sep 18, 2014 3:15 PM in response to yeekon

    Just came out a 45 minute chat and a one hour call with Apple. It looks like my iTunes backup of my iPad mini got somehow corrupted. Happily I also own an iPad Air and I am restoring it from that device. If your backup also got corrupted during the installation of iOS8 I am afraid you can only set it up as a new device and start all over again. You can download your apps from the App Store, your music from the iTunes Store and try to get your pictures back from iPhoto or so. I don't see a way to use the old backup if it is corrupted as well.

     

    If you can't restore try to hold both buttons for 30 seconds or so until you see the "connect to iTunes" logo on your screen. If iTunes is complaining about turning off "Find My iPhone" you can delete the device via iCloud.com.

     

    Life's getting easier and easier :-)

  • by alanfromwickford,

    alanfromwickford alanfromwickford Sep 18, 2014 3:25 PM in response to EmmaLM
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    Sep 18, 2014 3:25 PM in response to EmmaLM

    Breath .

    Have you read the earlier posts?

     

    go to settings and reset network connections,

     

    it will reboot, you will need to put your WiFi key back in.

     

    so far reports are positvive, nobody has said it has not worked for them yet.

  • by Exxonuk,

    Exxonuk Exxonuk Sep 18, 2014 3:45 PM in response to alanfromwickford
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    Sep 18, 2014 3:45 PM in response to alanfromwickford

    That is not true.

    patrick London wrote that it didn't work for him.

    Same problem here - resettet network settings but didn't help. Safari pages and also videos in the YouTube app don't load.

  • by alanfromwickford,

    alanfromwickford alanfromwickford Sep 18, 2014 4:01 PM in response to Exxonuk
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    Sep 18, 2014 4:01 PM in response to Exxonuk

    I've not seen Patriics Post, i'm not an Apple software engineer, i shared what i found worked for me on my iPad, as in any work around, not guarenteed to work for everyone unfortunately.

     

    I know it needs a lot of space, noticed mainly mini's have failed to be fixed, so perhaps tend to be more fully loaded with data and films by their owners?

     

    Going by positive reports in here and other forums with dedicated Apple iOS sections, it has a very high success rate.

     

    if it only worked for a few, and got them going i'd call that a success .

  • by Logos324,

    Logos324 Logos324 Sep 18, 2014 4:31 PM in response to alanfromwickford
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    Sep 18, 2014 4:31 PM in response to alanfromwickford

    It definitely did not work for me.  I have the same problem on a mini retina and an ipad air.

  • by steve0617,

    steve0617 steve0617 Sep 18, 2014 4:46 PM in response to yeekon
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    Sep 18, 2014 4:46 PM in response to yeekon

    I too have a Mini Retina and the WiFi 'works fine until it doesn't' problem. After trying all the Reset Network stuff, I did a full restore/set up as a new iPad via itunes and my cable.

     

    Still had the problems.

     

    What *seems* to have fixed it for me was something I read somewhere else and that's putting in a static IP on the iPad itself for my home network rather than having my Airport Extreme serve one up via DHCP.

     

    It's been about 20 hours now since I've done this, it hasn't screwed up.

     

    Google a bit to find instructions if you're unfamiliar with how to do this. You'll need to know some stuff about your home network too. You need an IP, a Subnet Mask, the router's IP address and an outside your network DNS server. Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are good ones to use.

  • by Cwstnsko,

    Cwstnsko Cwstnsko Sep 18, 2014 4:59 PM in response to alanfromwickford
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    Sep 18, 2014 4:59 PM in response to alanfromwickford

    Resetting the network settings did not help on my iPad mini, turning off Bluetooth did help quite a bit, but something is still amiss.  If i run the OOKLA speed test, you can watch the wifi sporadically drop out, then recover as the download test runs.  The upload test works much more smoothly.  Turning off the Bluetooth didn't make it download smoothly like my iPhone, but it made the "surges" fast enough to bring the average throughput to a useable level.  I look forward to finding a fix that stops the dropouts

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