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ibooks freezing on iPad mini

I can open ibooks on my iPad but then nothing happens.. Any Solutions?

Posted on Aug 21, 2015 3:39 PM

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Posted on Aug 22, 2015 5:39 AM

I have the same situation with my iPad with Retina.


iBooks application works only after I reboot the device. Then I am able to read the books. But when I close the iPad for about 10 minutes I cannot open iBooks anymore - white screen appears for about 15 seconds and then the app is going in the background.


It looks like the update to iOS 8.4.1 made it... before it everything was fine.


Dear Apple... could you fix it please!

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Aug 22, 2015 5:39 AM in response to warren Goodman

I have the same situation with my iPad with Retina.


iBooks application works only after I reboot the device. Then I am able to read the books. But when I close the iPad for about 10 minutes I cannot open iBooks anymore - white screen appears for about 15 seconds and then the app is going in the background.


It looks like the update to iOS 8.4.1 made it... before it everything was fine.


Dear Apple... could you fix it please!

Aug 24, 2015 1:42 PM in response to warren Goodman

Happens for me as well. For me the problem came after trying to add and play an audiobook with many tracks.


Theory: it takes too long to start the iBooks process so iOS thinks it has stalled.

In the logs I see: "com.apple.iBooks failed to scene-create in time"


Workaround: changed type of the audiobook to music to be able to play it using the music player instead

Aug 26, 2015 12:58 AM in response to Rex Ross

> Where are you finding the com.apple.ibooks log?


After the device has been synced, logs are available in this directory on a Mac:

~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<device nickname>


With files with names like this:

stacks+iBooks-<time stamp>.ips


Corresponding to a failed start attempt, in this it says for my setup:


...

Reason: com.apple.iBooks failed to scene-create in time

...

Aug 26, 2015 3:47 AM in response to warren Goodman

Same problem on the iPhone 6.


iBooks crashes with message: "com.apple.iBooks failed to scene-create in time"

Incident Identifier: 842BE816-F25C-4472-8F04-A4458944E101

CrashReporter Key: 8908cef2268f9552597f63de8d071de6c6f26965

Hardware Model: iPhone7,2

OS Version: iPhone OS 8.4.1 (12H321)

Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Wed Aug 5 19:25:45 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2784.40.6~18/RELEASE_ARM64_T7000

Date: 2015-08-26 11:56:33 +0200

Exception Code: 0x8badf00d

Reason: com.apple.iBooks failed to scene-create in time

Elapsed total CPU time (seconds): 2.160 (user 2.160, system 0.000), 5% CPU

Elapsed application CPU time (seconds): 0.264, 1% CPU


Other symptoms:

- Apple Store app doesn't open. Same behaviour.

- Settings -> iTunes & App Store doesn't open.

- Cannot install apps from the App Store

- iCloud backups fail


Rebooting helps, but problem reappears after some time.


Somehow, it all seems related to iCloud...

ibooks freezing on iPad mini

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