IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

Hi Allessio, at what point are you with you iPAD? And what model?

I have the iPAD 2, now with 8.1, and it is working normally again. With normally I mean apps are starting in normal time, except a few games for my daughter that don't seem to be compatible with 8.1. No crashes so far, some "stuttering" from time to time when moving through the pages of my desktop.

If you experience problems, you may have to go through a complete reinstall from scratch. This takes quite a while, but should work after all.

Hey Alba!

Ipad 2, 64 gb, Wifi+3g, IOS 8

Sluggishness, unexpected application close, fail to load 3 tabs in Safari, battery flat after less than a day of use. I mean the usual stuff everyone is experiencing.

Just for the sake of conversation i'll try to update to IOS 8.1 (since downgrade is impossible) let's see if things will improve a bit.

Cheers!

Alessio

Alessio, you have exactly the same version of the iPAD as I have, so it should be feasable.

I just test loaded 4 Tabs in Safari, it works, however I never use Safari (my preferred Browser is Dolphin since a while). But I admit that I still have some doubts about how fast websites load. This seems a bit slow, also when changing between tabs Websites tend to get reloaded every time. This is slow. Maybe there is a setting that can switch off this behaviour.

But I had zero crashes or freeze-ups.

So do what you think is best, but I guess the fastest way is to skip installing 8.1 over 8.0 and go the clean reinstall route directly. Then you can still think about trying a recover of your current backup.

Best wishes.

My iPad2 works great now after IOS 8.1 Update

I did my iPad2 16GB update thru iTunes on my iMac and it was sucking the iMacs memory very low during the update. Safari froze before loading the first web page and I did a hard boot and went fishing as I saw where it was going to take a long time to recover. When I tried again it wasn't quite right and then did one more hard boot and then did a Reset by going to General-Reset-"Reset all Settings" and it works real well now without loosing any data and in-home wi-fi clocks at 17Mbps download. Probably like most of you I’m sticking with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks as it gets the job done very nicely and don’t need all that extra fancy stuff that probably will slow things down.

Hey Alba.

Thank you for your support.

Unfortunately it's still really slow and not really comparable to what i had before. This is really frustrating.

But i'm not going to buy another tablet because a company has decided that i should be stuck to using an IOS clearly

not developed for my hardware. That would be fostering this behaviour.

I'll wait until someone finds a suitable solution to the issue.

Many thanks anyway!

Cheers

Alessio

Hello Thomas!

Thank you for your insight.

I am using Maverick in my production environment and trying Yosemite on my test one.

To be honest i don't know how the OS running beneath Itunes should impact tablet performances.

About the installed apps, i don't have that many on the tablet.

I just used it to write memo, reading the newspapers and social networking, really basic stuff that should be running flawlessly

on every device hitting the market. Except my actual situation.

I am very much disappointed by the vendor.

Where's the "think different?" and what about the "Stay foolish, stay hungry?"

Markets are based on customers. When quality degrades, customer leave.

This lesson should be learned by someone i guess.

Cheers

Alessio

Yes, you definately should do that. My "install on top" ended in a frozen iPAD that was inoperable. The clean install resulted in a fluidly running iPAD. I uunderstand your frustration, I felt the same, but ultimately I can go on using my IPAD 2 now, which is of course what I wanted....

Good luck. In the end it does not take that much time, because most of the time the unit lies there and downloads the software and then installs it. You can prepare you dinner meanwhile, or watch TV :-)

I'm sorry to say that the iPad 2 will never run well under iOS 8. My iPad 2 is still on iOS 7.1.2 and it has semi regular slowdowns (fixed by restarting). iOS 8 requires more memory and processing power than iOS 7.1.2, so I would expect the iPad 2 to be sluggish on it. You have to remember that Apple designed iOS 8 for the A8/A8X processors (90 times faster than the iPad 2) and with 1 to 2 GB of memory (iPad 2 has 512 MB). There's no way the iPad 2 will run as well as newer devices.

Apple might be able to tweak things and fix memory leak bugs which would make the iPad 2 a bit faster, but it's never going to be as fast as it was under prior versions of iOS.

That said you can try disabling as many features as possible such as Spotlight search, background refresh, parallax, etc. That should help a bit.

Morac, I'm sorry your having trouble. I too was a very, very unhappy Apple customer. I have an ipad2 and was ****** off because of all the difficulties. In one last effort to see what I could do before I took the p.o.s. Pad back to Apple I decided to try a complete back up and restore. I am obviously not running iOS 7.x anymore, it upgraded to ios8 and with the new iOS 8.1 I am running very close, if not faster than I did on the old iOS. I am still very unhappy with the way that Apple does upgrades, that being, upgrades to suit their new machines and then they see if they can fix the older machines that they have already sold. But hang in there and I hope you get it worked out too.

Alessio, how did it work? Mine has become slightly worse as in it is now hanging up more on web sites. Suppose this could be down to slow speed. Still not as good as with IOS 7.

And before anyone asks yes I have reset this iPad at least 4 times. One question though, should it take 2-3 hours to do it? Mine does.

From Ian's iPad

Same problem that everyone else listed. is there a conspiracy from Apple to get us to buy another device? I'll probbbly go back to Microsoft when my iPad becomes completely unusable. Looks like there a lot of nice machines out there. Hopefully, the sevice will be better

Matencio1963 wrote:

is there a conspiracy from Apple to get us to buy another device?

That would be only in your imagination ... :-) ... that's because Apple is selling iPad 2 models currently on their online store website, and they have two year warranties for them, if the buyer wants. If Apple wanted to divert people to another later model, they would be selling iPad 2 models, as they are today, with two year warranties!

The iPad 2 models that Apple sells today, all the way up to the latest models ... ALL run iOS 8.1.

@Alba63, Blackapples
Installed everything from scratch. Tablet is usable but still not at the level i used it before.
Am i happy? No, at least it appears it's not freezing while loading pages anymore.
Until I don't manage to find more suitable solution i will stuck with this.

Hope it helps for you guys.

Cheers

Alessio

GGood posts with valid points. I have done the full reset many times. I have lost calendar items as part of the process and of course many settings have had to be done again. Safari still freezes and the iPad tHe iPad runs very slow. It is also very slow running Facebook. More and more I am going to my iMac to do what I used to do on the iPad. Very frustrating. IOS 8.1 has not fixed my issues - they have been slightly improved. My iPad 2 is now aspiring to mediocrity!!

It depends on who you talk to. It generally breaks down this way ... the users who still have problems say no. The users who have no problems and/or have been able to cure their problems say yes.

SO ... depending on who you listen to ... you get "YES" or "NO" ... :-) ...