IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

petermac87 wrote:

Maxipeg wrote:

So much for the problem that was not supposed to exist (oh yeah,perhaps one in one million ;-)

Apple acknowledged the problem existed on some devices in the update info for iOS8.1.1

Where did you get your one in one million stats from?

I do believe that was meant as sarcasm, because a couple users on this forum insisted that there was no problem, that millions of devices were working properly, and it turns out that there was enough of a problem for Apple to release a "fix" for the one person that was having problems.

JohnMHoyt wrote:

petermac87 wrote:

Maxipeg wrote:

So much for the problem that was not supposed to exist (oh yeah,perhaps one in one million ;-)

Apple acknowledged the problem existed on some devices in the update info for iOS8.1.1

Where did you get your one in one million stats from?

I do believe that was meant as sarcasm, because a couple users on this forum insisted that there was no problem, that millions of devices were working properly, and it turns out that there was enough of a problem for Apple to release a "fix" for the one person that was having problems.

What 'one person'?

I knew it was sarcasm, this thread is pretty much full of it. 😉

Pete

@John

i hope you are not knocking Apple's service. A software release just for me.😊

That's pretty good service in my book.

Or maybe Peter didn't see it due his view being obstructed by his hood and rather long fringe.

petermac87 wrote:

What 'one person'?

I knew it was sarcasm, this thread is pretty much full of it. 😉

Pete

Pete, I assumed since it fixed or made less apparent, a bunch of problems that only I was having, that Apple created the update for just me...

I'm that one person =)

I'll try to follow-up to this post though because I have a LOT of clients who have just been notified with my thoughts on the update. I imagine we'll be hearing from most of them in the next few hours to days.

Let's see what becomes of over 400 open tickets on iOS devices, which all state "since upgrading to 8x... I am hoping we can close a bunch of these out!

Open tickets destroy my statistics for my business. Even though there is nothing we can do about it, they have remained open, and my response time and resolution stats have plummeted!

The 413 open iOS related tickets also represent a large chunk of the total number of tickets opened after the release of 8x here. And more importantly in a month and some change, I've had more tickets opened than for the entire year!

So again, THANK YOU to Apple for resolving the problems that didn't exist. The ones we were told nobody was having by a couple different people in this forum. Over and over again.

I'm absolutely sure that the geniuses are going to be happy too, because they have been swarmed by my customers and employees....

JohnMHoyt wrote:

petermac87 wrote:

What 'one person'?

I knew it was sarcasm, this thread is pretty much full of it. 😉

Pete

So again, THANK YOU to Apple for resolving the problems that didn't exist.

Where did Apple say there were no existing problems? Do you know nothing of the nature of updates? If so, do you ever explain this to your 'clients'?

Well at least you seemed to have solved your issues in someone else's thread. 😉😉

Pete

I would like to click "I don't have this question anymore" but after upgrading to 8.1.1, I do still have this issue of "IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade".

It's BETTER, I feel it has reached maybe around 90% of the original speed that our 27 iPads had prior to upgrading to 8x now with the installation of 8.1.1.

I have not found it to be locking up and hanging for seconds at a time on any of our devices. The browser is usable again.

Typing has not locked up, especially while deleting text to the point where it hangs for minutes or crashes the app.

I had 413 open tickets at our business which were related to iOS 8x issues, mostly speed and the copy/paste problem as of earlier this afternoon.

I can happily report that after having some of the longest open ticket holders install 8.1.1, that I have closed out quite a few. We're down to 395.

6 of them had already resolved the issue by replacing their devices, but had not told me until I emailed them about the update.

It is my hope that by the end of the week, we will have almost all of them closed out.

I'll post a follow-up once something exciting happens....

Maxipeg wrote:

No, I was it, we couldn't have been both the 1% because then we would have been 2% 😝😀

Dude, you need some serious Mathematic lessons. By your BS there are only 100 iPad2 users in the world!! lol 😁

John

My ipad2 is definitely improved too, but I have noticed that Facebook is very slow to open. Have you experienced the same?

I was also wondering if the cases of the missing PDFs is because they were lost with a backup issue or IOS8 got confused with them? I think with the new update I will have to go back and restore a backup where I think they ok and see if they can be read.

alan

JohnMHoyt wrote:

I can happily report that after having some of the longest open ticket holders install 8.1.1, that I have closed out quite a few. We're down to 395.

6 of them had already resolved the issue by replacing their devices, but had not told me until I emailed them about the update.

It is my hope that by the end of the week, we will have almost all of them closed out.

I'll post a follow-up once something exciting happens....

I'm down to 241 open tickets. So far, so good.....

That's a huge reduction in 24hrs. ALL of my oldest tickets are now closed. The first people who reported problems when upgrading to 8.0.0 are resolved enough to close the tickets.

It's important to note that I'm up to 23 who's tickets could have been closed earlier - they replaced those devices and didn't bother letting me know.

Zotlerg wrote:

So, the problem that was supposed to be 'user related' has been fixed by Apple? I said you were 'holding it wrong!' 😝

No. There are still people having the same issues as before the update, which seems to lead to out of date Apps, Hardware issues or just poor maintenance. No one ever said the problems with iOS8 and iPad2 were user related. Have you never seen an update before? So what help are you actually providing with your post? The usual non technical ranting, trolling, flaming rubbish as in most of your replies? 🙂

Pete

I was just being silly, hence the tongue sticking out emote.

'Star Traveller' was always suggesting that if it one iPad was OK then they should ALL be OK.

Which in theory, is a sound suggestion, but it didn't appear to work out like that for many people, including whole IT departments it seems.

I've noticed an improvement with the latest patch, input forms are still a bit buggy and slow, compared with previous versions. But I'm quite happy with the update apart from that. I just have to remember to quit the apps I'm not using.

Zotlerg wrote:

Which in theory, is a sound suggestion,

No, it's not really. People who make such claims are not looking at the overall picture.

but it didn't appear to work out like that for many people, including whole IT departments it seems.

It has worked for many people, but not all. I agree. There will be factors involved that will affect some people's ability to run their older hardware with newer software, and hardware is having less of a shelf life than ever before. Sad but that is 'technical progress' I presume.

I've noticed an improvement with the latest patch, input forms are still a bit buggy and slow, compared with previous versions. But I'm quite happy with the update apart from that. I just have to remember to quit the apps I'm not using.

Glad there has been some improvement for you, and quitting open programs not in use has always been a good practice.

Cheers

Pete

Zotlerg wrote:

'Star Traveller' was always suggesting that if it one iPad was OK then they should ALL be OK.

And that shows you don't read very well.

In all my discussions on that issue (and I've said it on various threads), this is an ABSOLUTE and WITHOUT QUESTION ... if one understands the principal behind "mass production". It's that if you produce a device (whatever it is ... car, refrigerator, TV, desktop computer or mobile device) ... if ONE PARTICULAR MODEL works a certain way, they ALL will work the exact same way, aside from "factory defects" (of which quality control should get rid of before getting to the public).

It's THIS PRINCIPLE (and "LAW" if you will) which allows reviewers to take just ONE DEVICE ALONE, test it and tell 10 MILLION OTHER USERS exactly how it's going to work for them. That's why auto magazines can take one or two cars, test them and write up an article telling ALL THE BUYERS how "this car" is going to work! That's how Consumer Reports is going to take one or two refrigerators and tell a MILLION other owners exactly what they can expect from this refrigerator.

And ... THAT is EXACTLY WHY you can take jist ONE iPAD MODEL and restored to factory fresh condition with identical software and tell 10 MILLION other users of that ONE MODEL exactly what their own iPad can do!

If you don't understand THAT, you have absolutely no concept of what "mass production" is all about and why it's a tremendous success in our society today!

Star Traveler wrote:

That's how Consumer Reports is going to take one or two refrigerators and tell a MILLION other owners exactly what they can expect from this refrigerator.

But what if they sit the fridge upside down? 🙂

Pete

Zotlerg wrote:

'Star Traveller' was ...

You're just lucky that I've been down with this Ebola-like flu ... :-) ... or else I would have been more on this thread in the last few days ... LOL ...

In fact, I only just got the chance to install iOS 8.1.1 ... and did so without any problems. I did it over the air, and "on top of" the last one, iOS 8.1. I've done every update for iOS 8 except for the one that was out for only two hours before being pulled. I've had a few minor glitches, but nothing major and nothing that I was worried about and nothing that slowed me down or affected my normal operation.

The vast and overwhelming majority of the installed user base is having no problems at all. What we're dealing with here is simply a small minority. It will all get solved in the end.