IPad 2 Crashing after IOS 9.0.2 Update, Useless

Been there, done that. Numerous times before/after fresh installs. Nope, nope, nope. . .

I saw a post in my email in response to my previous log and I see it's been deleted from this thread. It wasn't very friendly to Apple's new CEO. But I agree with the posted message!

I checked my errors, all kernel. That was usually linked to software or hardware not releasing memory. so it seems like fhe update is not handling memory correctly on the older ipads. either because of new feature usage, processor communication or something else. anyone else have that?

@mkeschinger: what you just wrote is very insightful. I have not checked my error logs, but what I observe also points in the direction of memory leaks. (I have observed quite a few cases of computer memory loss over the past 30 years.)

In Safari, over time less page content is cached and has to be reloaded. Eventually, this leads to Safari crashing.

Apple, please pay attention and fix this!

Be careful what you say here or Apple will remove your post calling it a "rant."

Of course it is a "rant" when a simple OS update destroys the functionality of the device and there seems to be no way to resolve it.

Grab this post while you can..... they will pull it.

Apple simply can't deal with complaints. The fact that they are not addressing this directly, but letting surrogates take the heat tells you where Apple is with their customer support.

If you visit a number of other Tech sites, you will find that the problems being posted with earlier iPads is very very common - though they deny it here.

Luckily my post doesn't say anything negative, merely an observation as to Root cause. It happens a lot when a driver is not update, memory chips go bad, etc. Usually an easy fix. If anything, I hope they see it as that. I don't want to rant, or stir the pot. I prefer providing a possible solution. Think about it. Do you like people who complain or who recognize a problem and offer solutions? 😉 This is obviously a software compatibility issue. Makes more sense to see what it possibly is rather than anything else. If they don't want to fix it, or cant due to compatibility on newer machines, they can just make the older software available.

Honey vs vinegar. 😉

j.r.lakeside wrote:

Apple simply can't deal with complaints. The fact that they are not addressing this directly, but letting surrogates take the heat tells you where Apple is with their customer support.

Nice strawman. This is a user-to-user technical support site. Apple makes no promises to provide support here. If you want information from Apple, call Apple Tech Support.

mkeschinger writes:

I checked my errors, all kernel. That was usually linked to software or hardware not releasing memory. so it seems like the update is not handling memory correctly on the older ipads. either because of new feature usage, processor communication or something else. anyone else have that?

I also looked at the error log on my iPad2. Apart from the memory handling that seems to be broken, I also saw that when a process (e.g. Safari) crashes, it is killed by the iOS "watchdog" (error code 0x8BADF00D, Apple engineers have a particular kind of humor). This happens when the watchdog thinks that a process has become unresponsive. This happens when a webpage takes 'long' to load an render. Many websites use 'modern' javascript frameworks, which work well on the latest hardware, but not so good on slightly older (and slower) hardware.

My guess is that on these javascript-heavy pages the iPad2 is a bit slow, and the iOS watchdog expects fast response times like on newer iPads.

The fix for many problems might be as simple as adjusting the watchdog timeout on older iPad models.

This would also explain why some people do not experience issues after applying the other fixes suggested in this forum; They don't visit these 'slow' websites. I usually have crashes on a small set of websites that, for example, have HTML5 video and a lot of javascript.

I have no way to verify if my hunch is correct, and I don't expect that anyone else but Apple can adjust the watchdog timeout.

So....is that "it just works" or not?

Looks like a page got deleted from this discussion. What happened?

There were 9 pages this morning when I looked to see how someone reset all his apps.

Well, then the cool part is someone is monitoring the page and could possibly see the reasoning behind some of the failures. 😉

Always possible, right?

Well folks welcome to my world!! I hear you LOUD AND CLEAR!. IPAD 2 woes!! My story starts last year 2014 when i updated my ipad 2 with ios 8. Wow what a mistake! It made my ipad sooo sloowww! So after update 8, 8.1 8.2 8.3 whew it got slower and slower! So **** ****** off I went to apple store made sure I had several hours to kill and hope they can speed up my Ipad. Yea ok sure bud what was I thinking? So long story short... They rebooted reinstalled ios 8 whatever and still slow as snail!! They made up some lame excuse like, Hey well you have an older device and new ios 8 just cant move as fast as previous ios and "oh by the way would you like to buy a new Ipad"? REALLY??? So those that spent $500 700 1000 on this a few years ago are like screwd? Oh boy there should be some very upset IPAD 2 owners right now! So I left mad as ****! Fast forward to 2015 Apple said ios 9 will be much faster cleaner on older devices like IPAD 2. Really? I waited till december 15 to install and see. It could not be any slower? Well folks guess what........... ITS SLOWER THAN IOS 8!! Can you believe it? I can. Secret: my original ipad 1 is faster!!! Yes it is true. ipad 2 on ios 7 blazing fast! I wish I could return to ios 7!! So will they fix this mess on IPAD 2? Don't hold your breath clearly this is well thought out so you get hooked on device and make you buy same device few years later at same price point. Brilliant!! Let me know if you agree and feel my pain here!!! Sorry I don't have faith in broken promises from apple, no one seems to care.

Rinse & repeat. With each successive iOS 9 update, my iPad 2 crashes to reboot more & more. Like most of the previous posters, I have tried all the suggestions to fix the problem, with no change. If Apple so desperately wants me to buy a new tablet, I'm sure I can find a decent Android one out there.

For me, this suggestion requires a 3-hour trip to the nearest city with an Apple Store, which can be done only on Saturdays As on weekdays the store would be closed by the time I arrived. Are we wrong to expect that Apple should address this problem, which seems to be affecting a large number of older iPads?

HI all

we had this problem with my sons ipad2. I solved it with a full restore and set up as a new iPad

hope it works for you