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My iPad 2 has become unusable due to constant reloading of web pages with the following message "

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I tired resetting net work and rebooting the iPad, neither helped. It seems to be a common problem. Does Apple have a fix or are they working on a fix or do they no longer plan to support iPad 2s? It would be nice to hear from Apple.

Thanks.

iPad 2, iOS 8.1.1

Posted on Dec 4, 2014 5:38 AM

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Jan 22, 2015 5:00 PM in response to RASHICK

I find it interesting that on both the iPad2 and iPad3, using both Safari and Chrome, the same problem occurs each and every time I use a browser. It seems to be related to the network stack in IOS or the IOS Javascript engine, since js seems dead until I do something to revive it. For example, I was unable to add a REPLY to this post on the iPad since all the js reply links were non-functional.


I am now doing most of my browsing (and all of my shopping and banking) on the Chromebook. I would really love to see this fixed.

Feb 26, 2015 10:16 PM in response to RASHICK

I think the common thread with these crashes is related to JavaScript processing, and possibly specifically with working with text. Operations which take a long time to complete seem to cause the problem a lot. There are many reports about the crash happening with various forums. The crash can happen with Google's Octane JavaScript benchmark.


The problem does not seem to be easily associated with memory, or at least it's possible to reproduce the problem quickly after a fresh browser launch. In my web app, this always seems to occur when parsing very large XML documents. I've reduced the problem by breaking up and shortening operations, but I still see the crash on occasion.

Mar 20, 2015 7:35 AM in response to RASHICK

I am a web developer, encountering this problem for the first time. Here is what I have noticed.


  • This occurs for me when trying to capture photos. (My JavaScript code opens the iPhone camera with an <input type="file" capture /> tag, then waits for the camera to return a photo into this element. When that happens, an event listener begins processing the image. However, this error seems to occur when control passes from the iPhone camera back to the JavaScript event handler, reloading the web page and causing web inspector to crash before giving me any error information.)
  • It only happens in iOS Safari; I haven't seen it in iOS Chrome.
  • It only happens when running in the browser, not when running as a webapp.
  • It happens with photos in either portrait or landscape mode.
  • It happens randomly, not consistently. (In other words, I can take the same picture or the same sequence of pictures; sometime I will see the error, other times I will not.)
  • I have tried both an iPhone 6 and a 4s, both running iOS 8.2. I receive the same error.
  • I tried using an iPhone 4s running iOS 7 and could not recreate the error.
  • I tried using an iPad Air (not sure of the model) running iOS 8.1.3 but have not been able to recreate this error.
  • I have not been able to recreate this error, or received any other error message, in any Windows-based browser, nor in Safari or Chrome on the MacBook Air.
  • I have received out-of-memory errors when running in Chrome on Android 5.0 on a Samsung S5, but not S4 (Android 4.4.2). ("Unable to complete previous operation due to low memory.") As with the iOS error, this error has appeared randomly.


Has anyone had similar observations about when this problem occurs?


It seems to me that this must be an iOS bug, but it still leaves my customers in a bind. Any thoughts on how to circumvent this issue?


Peace!

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