Q: No cellular since upgrading iPad 2 to iOS 8
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Oct 7, 2014 11:06 AMby Durim123,hello
i had same problem when i upgraded to iOS 8.0.2, i tried lot of ways to fix, with older iOS you can make your APN manually but with iOS 8.0.2 theres no chance for that, but its an way to do that worked for me and its really easy.
you just have to go to Settings- Cellular- and turn on and off few times Data Roaming until you get 3G internet on
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Oct 10, 2014 6:16 AMby lilbuba,I was all excited because I went to a new AT&T program and they changed my SIM card for a new cellular number for my IPad2 and I had cellular service. My excitement was short lived as after 2 days, I now again have no service. The same holds true, I need to [power off and on to restore service for a few hours. I can't believe there is still no word from Apple on a fix. UGH
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Oct 11, 2014 10:05 AMby Okbart,I sure hope that everyone on this site, and everyone who knows anyone with an iPad 2, are submitting repeated feedback responses to the apple.com site.
The suggestions here are great but don't solve the issue, and I've little faith that Apple IT guys are poring over these discussion forums. Please take a moment every now and again to complain ("feed back") to Apple about the continued connectivity problems, the S L O W N E S S and "stickiness" of performance, and any other glaring problem that really is irritating you.
Thanks!
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Oct 11, 2014 10:18 AMby Star Traveler,Apple is not involved with these forums ... only forum moderators to keep the posts within the "Terms of Use". If you want Apple to register and catalog a problem, in order to help them with with analysis of problems, then you need to go where Apple does register and catalog these things ...
Apple Support
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
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Oct 11, 2014 10:26 AMby Okbart,Sorry, but that's like going down the proverbial rabbit hole. I've tried. I'm dealing in my own way with the most successful re-connect method suggested here in these posts. I have talked to Apple support and was advised by the two people I spoke with to register complaints to apple.com/feedback. This is what I've done.
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Oct 12, 2014 2:12 PMby Star Traveler,Not true ... users with iOS 8.0.2 are doing fine when it's set up with factory default ... see the following ...
SOLVED: IOS 8 Issues on iPad 2:
I just returned home from a visit to the Genius Bar. Like you and many others, when I upgraded my iPad 2 to IOS 8, it became practically unusable. It was VERY slow, lagged whenever trying to to do anything. Lots of screen freezes and apps spontaneously crashing. I was convinced that the processor on the iPad 2 just couldn't handle the new IOS and I went in to see about restoring to IOS 7.
Thankfully, I was hooked up with a very sharp guy at the bar. The problem is not with the OS, it is with it being an *upgraded* OS. He used the analogy of when you had an older Windows computer and how over time (and over upgrades), they just tended to get slower and slower because of all of the garbage that was carried forward in the upgrades. At those times (and if you've ever had a Windows computer, you get this), the only thing that would speed it up would be to wipe the machine and do a fresh install of the current OS and then reload your apps, and the viola, everything would be fast again. Well, it turns out that IOS can suffer the same problems.
THE FIX: FIRST, be sure you have a current iCloud backup of your device. Connect your iPad to a computer that has a clean fresh copy of IOS 8 on iTunes (this is best done with a computer other than the one that you sync your device to because you DO NOT want to restore it from a back up just yet). Ideally, if you do this at an Apple store you'll be assured of the right version there and someone to answer any questions you might have along the way. You then hold the power and home button down to hard-reset the device and continue to hold them down until it reboots into recovery mode. You then follow the instructions on the computer to reinstall the OS on the device (which wipes everything from it and then reinstalls a clean copy of it). Once this is done (which only takes about 15 minutes), your device will reboot and ask you to set it up. Answer the questions about language, location, etc. and continue until it asks you to log into your iTunes account. Once you do that, it will ask if you want to either 1) Set it up as a new device, 2) Restore from iCloud, or 3) Restore from iTunes. Choose (2), restore from iCloud. This will ensure that it brings down "clean" copies of all of your apps and preferences rather than the potentially corrupted ones that might reside in your iTunes backup. That's it! It will take a few hours depending on how much data and apps you have, but I am happy to report that my iPad 2 is now running IOS 8 and it's running as fast as it ever did when it was brand new!
To sum it up, this process 1) Wipes your device and the garbage causing your problems, 2) Loads a clean and bug-free version of IOS 8 to your device, and 3) restores your apps and data so that it looks just like it did before the wipe, with the exception that it works now! :-)
Note also that by following this process you don't have to go through the painful and laborious process of reloading all of your apps, data and/or settings. iCloud takes care of all of that for you.
