Q: IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

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 can confirm that with the update to 8.1 things got much better, i think back to "normal". I was about to do the downgrade, but i tried the update first and it was successful.

I just did a factory default with 8.1 and I am happy to say my Ipad is usuable again. Still not at pre8 levels but it will do. This is the last upgrade for this hardware, that is for sure.

i Updated my iPad mini whit the same A5 then iPad 2 from DFU mode, but the experience is always really slow and frustratino.

i Think it was a big error, I only would have stayed whit 7

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

what downgrade?

Whoever told you that you could revert to an earlier iOS, like 7, told you wrong. It's not technically possible.

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!!

SO, the answer to whether or not an ipad2 owner should upgrade (in my case from iOS 6x) is a resounding "unsure at this time".

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" ... :-) ...