iPad air 2 pop noise

My 2nd iPad Air 2 bought 10 days ago* has been popping 2-3x a day, and strangely, it just popped while in standby mode with the cover on!

Welp, this one goes back too, I guess I'll wait till the next version in October. Too bad, it was a great machine otherwise.

*manuf date sometime in 2015 (Apple has scrambled the serial number, and anything in 2015 is not referenced in Chipmunk).

Like I said before, mine pops about once a day when the speaker first turns on above 95%. I imagine most iPads do this, but people aren't annoid by it. If you guys keep returning the iPad air 2 and keep getting the same pop, this tells me they are probably inherent in most of them. it must not annoy too many people because if it did, this thread would be up to 1000 by now. I've got to wonder how the refurbished ones are doing? Are they still popping?

Overall, I'm 99% satisfied with the air 2, but if the popping gets worse in the future, I'd give the air 2 a 50% satisfied rating. I say this because for my 1st week of use, the iPad never popped, then one week into use, it popped.

I have had 3 iPad Air 2's so far... the first one 'popped', more like an electrical short zap-sound, and it did that intermittently whenever it was to produce a sound, but sometimes for no reason at all, even when, like yours, just sitting there with the cover closed. I got a replacement from Apple, and 2 weeks in it popped when I touched an app icon and frozen faster than a... well, it just locked up and had to be terminally reset and wiped and reloaded, then I had it too replaced. The third one started 'popping' by the time I got it home, and I have just used it for iBooks and nothing critical ever since. I still use my original iPad Air for anything critical or business travel as I simply can't or won't trust that iPad Air 2 or Apple's capability of providing a secure unit of that version. Needless to say, it will be the last iPad I buy until I've seen a year of iPad happiness on this board in a new version without a widespread chronic issue. There is definitely something wrong with the engineering of the iPad Air 2, or at least the components in the series of them I have had.

The reason some iPad Air 2s pop and others don't is that all the ones that pop were made on a Friday afternoon, or Monday morning ;-).

See RobS10?, this is another good example of people who you may think is trying to help but pretty much just flaming stating the contrary of what i've said:

killhippie wrote:

I cant see what the problem is, you obviously mistook what the Apple representative said. Its even there for you to read on the Apple site if you bothered to look. This is a site for people wanting help and you obviously don't want that. Have a nice day.

So yes there are people who try to help but not all as you can see above. That person doesn't even have an issue with an iPad, i do. Not all the quotes are meant to help, but no problem i'm accustomed to deal with that kind of people.

Now back to topic.

Bosto wrote:

I have had 3 iPad Air 2's so far... the first one 'popped', more like an electrical short zap-sound, and it did that intermittently whenever it was to produce a sound, but sometimes for no reason at all, even when, like yours, just sitting there with the cover closed. I got a replacement from Apple, and 2 weeks in it popped when I touched an app icon and frozen faster than a... well, it just locked up and had to be terminally reset and wiped and reloaded, then I had it too replaced. The third one started 'popping' by the time I got it home, and I have just used it for iBooks and nothing critical ever since. I still use my original iPad Air for anything critical or business travel as I simply can't or won't trust that iPad Air 2 or Apple's capability of providing a secure unit of that version. Needless to say, it will be the last iPad I buy until I've seen a year of iPad happiness on this board in a new version without a widespread chronic issue. There is definitely something wrong with the engineering of the iPad Air 2, or at least the components in the series of them I have had.

Glad to see i'm not alone here. Hi Bosto, your replacements were refurbished or brand new?

psikofunkster wrote:

See RobS10?, this is another good example of people who you may think is trying to help but pretty much just flaming stating the contrary of what i've said:

killhippie wrote:

I cant see what the problem is, you obviously mistook what the Apple representative said. Its even there for you to read on the Apple site if you bothered to look. This is a site for people wanting help and you obviously don't want that. Have a nice day.

So yes there are people who try to help but not all as you can see above. That person doesn't even have an issue with an iPad, i do. Not all the quotes are meant to help, but no problem i'm accustomed to deal with that kind of people.

Now back to topic.

I was KIDDING! Geeze, psikofunkster...

ok.

I'm going to find pretty interesting if Bosto's replacements are refurbished...I know they are already but lets wait his confirmation.

psikofunkster wrote:

See RobS10?, this is another good example of people who you may think is trying to help but pretty much just flaming stating the contrary of what i've said:

killhippie wrote:

I cant see what the problem is, you obviously mistook what the Apple representative said. Its even there for you to read on the Apple site if you bothered to look. This is a site for people wanting help and you obviously don't want that. Have a nice day.

So yes there are people who try to help but not all as you can see above. That person doesn't even have an issue with an iPad, i do. Not all the quotes are meant to help, but no problem i'm accustomed to deal with that kind of people.

Now back to topic.

Sorry, I thought you meant my silly joke about popping iPad Airs being made on Friday, but can't delete or edit the post

;-).

Just read in another forum somebody bought a production week 5 unit and it pops.

Seems the 2015 batch isn't much different.

It is the ipad lottery. I am curious has anyone run a benchmark test on their popping ipads and the scores are way below the average? The reason i ask is my company has 22 ipad air 2's and two of them pop but all their scores are within the average if not better. We then took all of them to an authorized apple dealer (not an Apple Store) and all of them passed their diagnostics.

WE later found out that their is a hardware and software issue that causes a harmless pop and because it is harmless Apple is really not paying attention to it.

I Do know they are already retooling for the next generation ipad but they are not putting as moch money into ipads for they believe the market is shifting as do investors. In addition they are also moving away from notebooks as well.

Anyway iOS 9 beta is out along side Beta IOS 8.3. iOS 9 is more of a fix to all the issues iOS 8 brought. It is more of an inhanced version of iOS8 then offering new features.

I guess Apple is moving on from the ipad Air2 and working on the next new pad. They have brought IBM aboard to help grow their buiness side (Enterprise Customers). They are bringing out iCash, a car, and more wearables And much more. So i dont think they are worried about this popping noise.

In fact they already have the next Gen iPhone in production along with a whole new iPhone that maybe the same size as the iPhone 5s.

Samsung and HTC are releasing their new Phones in April and they have three times the speed and processing power as these outdated iPad Air 2's. In addition the iPad market is so saturated with tablets it has caused an effect known as market implosion. There is so much of the same thing that the manufactures have built theirself out of the market and they have so many yesterday's best that they are giving them away with phone purchases or offering mega cash back when purchasing a phone and a tablet. There are three tablets out there that are running quad core procesors, and one has a octacore processor, and four GB of RAM and of course 64 bit architectur all with HD screens or better with 16 megapixals or higher cameras. It is in insane. Why laso your self to just one company use them all... I have iPhone 6's and HTC One M8. Gotta tell you the HTC is faster measuring by daul core and it has a standard 32 GB storage for $200.00 less than an iPhone 6. They both are made from the same materials gorilla 4 glass and stainless steel. But because Apple has chisen the platinum card carring yuppie over mainstream USA their phone is more.

This may or may not **** you off but Apple said, "they are not depending on America's sales of their watch... They know that China will out purchase the USA 10 to 1." ( I am paraphrasing Tim Cook from forbes mag). Apple does not even care about the American market. So there goes any hope you will see a fix for your popping ipad. There is a chinese person that will sell a pound of opium for it. I read that on the Associated Press. They are saying the Chinese will sell just about everything they own to get there hands on a watch or ipad. Anything. There was a report months ago about the chinese black market mainly was based on what Apple was releasing next. To control the black market the Chinese government wasnt going to grant Apple a license to sell the iPhone 6. The whole reason why Apple was have trade agreements with china when the phone came out was because people were selling children and opium to obtain a black market iPhone 6. **** here in America we are trying to cure the addiction to opioids and in China they are selling it to buy an iPhone. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

SOme believe as i do Apple has just determined or solidified what experts have been saying for years they are targeting the rupper class by supporting the release of the Apple Watch. For the same price as an ipad you can have a watch that does what your phone does but smaller. For the price of a MacBook Air you can have that same watch but in 319L stainless steel with a stainless steel watch band. For the SAME price of a new Nissan Sentra you can have that same watch in GOLD.

THey have always claimed their high prices were due to quality but we all know now that is not the reason it is simply because they can. POP

They made over 20,000,000.00 on Candy crush. Over $220,000,000,000.00 on crazybirds. No refunds or exchanges. They call it the apple lottery at Apple. For .99 you may get a cool game Chances are you won't but no refunds and if you have ever received a refund it came out of the app makers pocket not Apples.

Apple thinks it is funny but you know it is true. I gave almost deadballs acurate numbers for just two Apps think about all the apps, songs, movies, books etc... No refunds or exchanges. Once you bought it it is yours no matter what. If you do get a credit or "refund" it is from the producers or the app developers. It does not come from Apples pocket. Fact. Sorry dont shoot the mesenger.

SOrry for all the typos of my first statement here is a revised edition that i believe fixed the past typos and probably created more:

It is the ipad lottery. I am curious has anyone run a benchmark test on their popping ipads and the scores are way below the average? The reason i ask is my company has 22 ipad air 2's and two of them pop but all their scores are within the average if not better. We then took all of them to an authorized apple dealer (not an Apple Store) and all of them passed their diagnostics.

WE later found out that their is a hardware and software issue that causes a harmless pop and because it is harmless Apple is really not paying attention to it.

I Do know they are already retooling for the next generation ipad but they are not putting as much money into ipads for they believe the market is shifting as do investors. In addition they are also moving away from notebooks as well.

Anyway iOS 9 beta is out along side Beta IOS 8.3. iOS 9 is more of a fix to all the issues iOS 8 brought. It is more of an inhanced version of iOS8 then offering new features.

I guess Apple is moving on from the ipad Air2 and working on the next new pad. They have brought IBM aboard to help grow their business side (Enterprise Customers). They are bringing out iCash, a car, and more wearables And much more. So i dont think they are worried about this popping noise.

In fact they already have the next Gen iPhone in production along with a whole new iPhone that maybe the same size as the iPhone 5s.

Samsung and HTC are releasing their new Phones in April and they have three times the speed and processing power as these outdated iPad Air 2's. In addition the iPad market is so saturated with tablets it has caused an effect known as market implosion. There is so much of the same thing that the manufactures have built theirself out of the market and they have so many yesterday's best that they are giving them away with phone purchases or offering mega cash back when purchasing a phone and a tablet. There are three tablets out there that are running quad core processors, and one has an octacore processor, and four GB of RAM and higher and of course 64 bit architecture all with HD screens or better with 16 megapixals or higher cameras. It is in insane. Why lasso your self to just one company use them all... I have iPhone 6's and HTC One M8. Gotta tell you the HTC is faster measuring it by daul core and it has a standard 32 GB storage for $200.00 less than an iPhone 6. They both are made from the same materials gorilla 4 glass and stainless steel. But because Apple has chosen the platinum card carring yuppie over mainstream USA, their phone is more.

This may or may not upset* you but Apple said, "they are not depending on America's sales of their watch... They know that China will out purchase the USA 10 to 1." ( I am paraphrasing Tim Cook from forbes mag). Apple does not even care about the American market. So there goes any hope you will see a fix for your popping ipad. There is a chinese person that will sell a pound of opium for it. I read that on the Associated Press. They are saying the Chinese will sell just about everything they own to get there hands on a watch or ipad. Anything. There was a report months ago about the chinese black market mainly was based on what Apple was releasing next. To control the black market the Chinese government wasnt going to grant Apple a license to sell the iPhone 6. The whole reason why Apple was having trade agreements problems with China. If Apple didnt get that license their stock would have plumented. They depend on China more then America. When the phone came out there were people selling children and opium to obtain a black market iPhone 6. Wow, here in America we are trying to cure the addiction to opioids and in China they are selling it to buy an iPhone. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. We spend millions on fighting the trafficing of humans and we find Apple right in the midfle of it all. I am not saying Apple is at fault people are and that they would sell any human for anything is disgusting but to read that some people were doing this I was truly shocked and it really made me rethink how and where I was going to spend my money...

Some believe as i do, Apple has just determined or solidified what experts have been saying for years they are targeting the upper class by supporting the release of the Apple Watch. For the same price as an ipad you can have a watch that does what your phone does but smaller. For the price of a MacBook Air you can have that same watch but in 319L stainless steel with a stainless steel watch band. For the SAME price of a new Nissan Sentra you can have that same watch in GOLD.

They have always claimed their high prices were due to quality but we all know now that is not the reason it is simply because they can. POP, POP...

They made over 20,000,000.00 on Candy crush. Over $220,000,000,000.00 on crazybirds. No refunds or exchanges. They call it the apple lottery at Apple. For .99 you may get a cool game Chances are you won't but no refunds and if you have ever received a refund it came out of the app makers pocket not Apples. Apple keeps their cut no matter what.

Apple thinks it is funny and joke about the consumers as zombies to their devices. They laugh as they say we could build a terd and slap an Apple on it will get millions of sales.

I gave almost deadballs acurate numbers for just two Apps think about all the apps, songs, movies, books etc... No refunds or exchanges. Once you bought it it is yours no matter what. If you do get a credit or "refund" it is from the producers or the app developers. It does not come from Apples pocket. Fact. Sorry dont shoot the mesenger.

Yep, if a product has a hardware issue, most consumer electronic firms will not make a component change after about the middle of the product cycle. They put resources on the next version, rather than fix the current version, as long as sales aren't impacted significantly. Apple either doesn't have the resources to fix it, and/or has moved on to getting the 12" iPad out the door without the pop. I was hoping for a "silent" hardware fix, but if Week 5 units are still popping, I don't think it will ever be fixed in this Air 2 version.

I think this is a hardware fault in the DSP circuit or chip, specifically in the D/A converter. I've seen this problem in audio conferencing products (e.g.. Polycomm), and radios (ICOM), where the DSP buffers cannot handle a steep transient, the buffers overflow, and you get a "pop", e.g. when the buffers clear memory-- going from 11111111 to 00000000, e.g. on a 8-bit system-- POP! It could be a memory register fault in the DSP memory, the DSP algorithm itself (sb fixable), or the DSP silicon (the worst case). Also, somehow this is related to battery charge and sleep state-- which points to a memory buffer issue, probably in silicon. Wish I could see the PR list of the DSP chip provider! 🙂

So, I'm returning my 2nd iPad Air tomorrow, not playing the Apple lottery anymore, moving on to an Android tablet for now. Good luck all!

Nothing ever surprises me when it comes from Alphcatt. Apple just as Steve hoped it would not go. He did not want them to sell for lack of quality as what HP and windows did. I know folks are tired of hearing what Steve would do but his ghost seems to always creep in mind when ever I see these issues.

AT one point i was going to go all apple with my company but then their budiness membership program was terribly mismanaged and over priced for what it offered including a really crappy percentage off on oders $5000.00 or over. They did not negotiate and they were out of touch. As I was considering the options a business team member was supposed to contact me by email, phone, mail, or my website. This never happend he just never contacted me and now looking back I am grateful that never happened. I went to an authorized Apple Dealer in my neck of the woods and with the owners help and great discount packages in addition to his contacts to electronic brokers that can find just about anything you need we began to completely transform my companies computing infrustructure to Apple at 20% less than I could have with Apples support. Also through this team I made some lasting business partners and friends that really made a difference in my business world.

NOw regarding this issue. There is mo fix it is beyond that point where Apple truly does say oh well and since they have been saying that from the release date it really does not surprise me at all.

MY best advise is to use the pads or sell them and go with another compeditor If you really think you need a tablet. I agree with alpha there are some monster phones that are about to hit the streets that are far better than this platform. I would start to look into more of a mobile platform and have a standard syncing platform in a desktop or laptop with SSD and the fifth gen pentium. Unless you want to rely on a cloud storage system invest in a 1-2TB external storage (again the key is mobile). Keep everything sandboxed on your system and grow from that root.

For example I have your basic Mac Mini desk top with a nice Samsung display and Apples magic keyboard and mouse with a mobi recharging station for the keyboard and mouse. I have the airport extreme WiFi router with 2TB 3.0 USB portable storage attached to it. I also have attched to the Mac Mini is another 2TB mobile storage unit. That is basicaly my syncing station for my home only. The MacMini runs the server software and basically my house is on a VPN network so I have some control over all of our devices. In other words I can update all my devices with a push of a button and set presets in all my families settings for security. This is rather cheap but it really is all you really need to to run a small business too.

NOw my work is a bit more complex but basically the same idea as my home.

I sence the swing in tech as alpha stated and I have read similar investment firms making investments into other patents other then tablets. The wearable tech, tablet, and phablets are basically prototypes of what is to come. Yes they all make for great gadgets but that is not the future of computing... HP knew that three years ago when they got out of the PC business (and they started it all). The same can be said about Microsoft making changes to a whole new computing enviroment. Google glass was too soon and watches are right where they should be. Toshiba and Samsung are getting ready with the Chrome books. Less is more... Intel made the announcement to their sharholders that they are going to spend more R&D on mobile processors. Samsungs watch Gear s is on the right path as far as the surface of what is to come. So keep your ears to the ground and watch the tech market very close. There are new patents that just have been filed that leads to a more flexbile screens and holographics. Nano tech that is now cheap enough to market including home 3D printing. A better and safer battery system has landed a deal with a very large tech company and Tesla's cars are getting better and cheaper. To steel from Stanly "Something wonderful is about to happen".

killhippie wrote:

Apple state that new or refurbished units or parts will be used in the T@C's if an exchange is needed after the initial 14 day period, refurbished units are indistinguishable from new units, although even new units can arrive damaged. Apple saying they are giving you a new unit means a replacement to the one you have which is therefore new to you, not a brand new out of the retail box unit. Also the iPad Air 2 has been around long enough for refurbs to be on offer I imagine. That's how the system works take it or leave it but a refurb should be as good if not better than a new unit as its had more attention to detail than factory units built ones. This is the way most companies work. If your car goes wrong after a year they won't give you a whole new car...

You're hitting him with reality. Unfortunately, he prefers to live in his private fairy-tale world.