IPad 2 Crashing after IOS 9.0.2 Update, Useless

I have posted, here, (already several times) a list of suggested fixes/solutions and my own modified backup/restore proceudures that are all designed to try and help older iPad users deal with their iPad performance issues.

Have you tried any of these? Have you tried my my restore procedure?

Look through this post to find my most recent posting of these procedures as I routinely update my list and revise my modified backup/restore procedure.

Good Luck!

Yes, Michel, you certainly have *repeatedly* posted ideas here, as well as innumerable defenses of the "gods" at Apple, as fallible as they might have turned out to be, in your opinion.

Since ios 9.x, my iPad2 has become all but unusable, where it was all but indispensable in the past, even w ios8.

I've just spent THREE hours going thru every single "fix" you've proposed, including full backup to itunes, complete wipe and re-setup, hard reset, check all settings to make sure that many of the "new and improved" functionality has been disabled, etc.

Nice try.

This now-piece-of-junk remains glacially slow.

I know that i will sound like a ranting and disgruntled soon-to-be-former owner of an iPad, but would it be asking too much if, after *three hours*

of fooling around with this, I could at least send a text message? (I know, I know, demanding as all heck, aren't I?) At least I was able to send a text earlier today to the same (non-iMessage) number. Nope. No dice. every recipient is treated as "not registered with iMessage"

(I can, of course, still use my iphone to send a simple text message, though.)

As for your comments re: Safari, I've never--oops, I should use your language here--"NEVER, EVER" had a problem with Safari in the past.

I had switched to Apple products about 6 years ago, for the promise of "simple to use".

What baloney!

Ya Know,

My list of procedures and modified backup/restore HAS, so far, worked for, now, over a dozen older iPad 2 and 3 users to date.

Everyone's iPad is different in the types of apps that may have got installed that may have affected the operations of some older iPads.

I have no control over what users have installed on their devices AND, IF they have jailbroke their iPads in the past (which can cause all sorts of issues that are beyond what I can help with).

I made no claims of success for every user that tries these, but continue to post my procedures as these HAVE worked for me AND others and it is ALWAYS my hope and intentions ithese will work for everyone, but there have been cases that it has not.

I have NEVER had any issues with ANY iOS upgrades on my older iPads as I have always avoided doing them using the over the air WiFi method AND always chose the more reliable method of upgrading my devices connected to my computer using iTunes to do the upgrades/updates.

You appear to be one of the, unattentionally, unlucky ones.

At any point in time, did you ever upgrade your iPad's iOS using WiFi? If, so, I strongly believe that iOS upgrades have been affccted by Wifi datat download errors that can happen and can't be fixed once the damaged iOS is installed. The only fix for this is to wait for the next upgrade/update and dothe upgrade via iTunes on a computer to see if that will "fix" things.

NONE of this worked for you, at all?

Even the modified backup/restore?

You have seen NO improvement, whatsoever.

Nothing.

The modification to this procedures is once the backup is complete,to disconnect the iPad from the computer and completely set the iPad up as a new, from the iPad, itself, giving your iPad a "clean slate", as it were. Then, set it up as new in iTunes using the latest iTunes 12.3.2.

You got NO improvement there, either?

DId you try another hard reset after you did the restore?

All I can say is I am sorry none of this has worked for you.

It is not my fault.

If you followed everything exactly as I spelled out and you iPad is still running like garbage, I do not know what to add.

Have you tried just running your iPad without WiFi or Bluetooth on just to make sure your iPad isn't being affected by your internet connection. and speed?

One other thing I have added to my list recently as some users have reported to me that turning off Find My Phone/iPad, something I wouldn't really recommend, in Settings App under iCloud has improved their iPad performance. I don't know why this would be unles it's a bug that has only affected some iPads. It has not affected mine.

Dear all, happy apple users

i promised to feed back my success In solving the crashing. Since I originally posted the iPad has behaved its self like new! For your benefit my solution was to do a full restore to factory settings with 9.2, set up as a new ipad. I did not restore the back up..,

good ood luck all

john

Installed 9.2.1 today. Restart after update. Three minutes later, crash to reboot. Same as it ever was.

I was having the crashing issue (multiple times per hour). The iPad would then take about 10 minutes to restart each time. I also found that after plugging it in to charge, that it would restart itself automatically after about 10 minutes. This was going on since the update to 9.0 (and I had been doing updates religiously as they came out) and was so frustrating! Yesterday I decided that I just needed to try to clear the iPad completely (Erase all content and Settings) after doing a full backup, because what good was the iPad in the state it was in... Once I did the full backup in iTunes, I did the Erase from the iPad (all while plugged into the computer with iTunes running). After starting the erase feature, iTunes said it was downloading the software for the iPad (and at this point I was tired so left it plugged in all night to let it do its thing). In the morning I just set up the iPad like it came new from the box, then did a restore from my backup...and it hasn't crashed once today! It's fast again too! I'm hoping that I haven't jinked myself!

Yup,

A complete, clean backup/restore really makes a big diffrence.

Especially if you have never did this procedure for many years.

My older iPad 2 and 3 models are running fantastic on the latest iOS.

I was completely surprised by the end result!

I am glad to learn that this has worked for you, too!

OK, finally put aside the time to watch paint dry and, like Windows, take Michael's advice to restore the whole iPad.

what I discovered was that the thing still crashed after a full restore BUT I then noticed that songs were taking up a huge amount of memory so deleted them all saving over 7G.

Sad thing was still the same, Facebook crashed as did Chrome and Safari. I did however get suspicious that Facebook always, if it didn't crash first time, always took an age to boot up and was slow.

i Deleted facebook reinstalled and now everything is stable and fb works really fast.

so it seems that Apple are just as bad as Windows where an uninstall and reinstall often fixes crashes. A sad time when, as others have pointed out, Apple is no longer a 'it just works' solution.

anyway a big thanks to Michael for his perseverance but I think everyone here is reluctant to do the restore as it just takes so much time. FYI mine was four hours in total.

It's been great to see a few folks chiming in that a full wipe and set up as new seems to make the iPad 2 run stable (good info about Facebook - which has a history of being a resource hog and battery drain which I should probably delete it an reinstall it as it's getting sluggish on the iPad right now). Would those of you who got it to work say it is faster than with iOS 8 or is it more sluggish or about the same (what I've seen on review sites, though the number of folks reviewing the iPad 2 is really small). I'm just trying to decide if I want to take the plunge as I know that iOS 9 is more secure and I would like access to the new keyboard feature that lets you know when caps lock is on. I'll likely look at getting a new iPad this year sometime after the new ones come out, but I'd rather not brick this one as it could still get use around the house or a video player in the car.

Total time for me was between 1-1/2 and 2 hours.

Yes, it takes up some time to do, but for me was completely worth it.

My iPad 2 and 3 have never had a full clean reset and restore from backup for nearly 4 years.

So, I can only imagine that the Other category had a lot of data detritus that was just NOT clearing itself out from over that time.

I plan to do this full iDevice reset and restore on all of my iDevices, at least once a year, now.

For the Safari crash issue, there is a known, reported bug in iOS 9.2.1.

In Settings App, under the Safari settings panel, turn off/disable Safari Suggestions.

Glad you decided to "bite the bullet", as it were, and give the reset a fair shot.

😉

Best way to upgrade/update an iOS iDevice, IMSO,

Ideally, your iDevice should maintain a minimum free storage amount of 4- 6 GBs or greater on any iDevice (the more free space, the better) , plus, more than 50%-60% battery status to ensure proper operation, as well as, to ensure the possibility of a successful iOS upgrade/update installation.

In addition it is best to upgrade an iDevice connected up to a computer running iTunes with you iDevice sync'd and backed up through iTunes rather than Over The Air (OTA) using a wireless WiFi connection, if this is possible.

Doing a major or critical OS upgrade/update can be risky to do over Wifi or cellular due to the potential of data interruption or data drop outs causing issues with the download of the OS data and the subsequent install to the device.

If you have no other choice than to use Wifi, then make sure you have a strong and stable connection signal the will not induce the potential for data drop outs.

Also, it is better to do the upgrade/update through iTunes as you'll get the entire upgrade/update and not just a smaller sized WiFi download version/portion that is based on your model iDevice that may or may not download everything your particular iDevice needs.

I prefer the iTunes method as there is minimal risk and I have never had ANY issues with ANY OS updates using this method.

Good Luck!

Since the reset, My iPad 2 and 3 models running iOS 9.2.1 are working nearly as fast as they did the day I took them out of their boxes and activated them.

I agree. What can be said is that iOS 9 works just fine on the ipad2 as Michael says.

what should be emphasised too is to switch off all the fancy stuff as in previous posts And advice elsewhere. You have to remember that the iPad 2 has a much less powerful processor so all the extra resource hungry gismos added along the way need switching off where possible to maintain performance.

After a day of using my restored iPad it really is the joy to use it was when I first bought it. Recently I had been thinking to bite the bullet and buy a new iPad. No more!

what would be really good would be if Apple gave this advice themselves since it impacts folks view on the product as can be seen by the large number of desperate people out there.

I disagree. iOS 9+ doesn't work fine on the iPad 2 unless you wipe it and don't restore anything. That's crap. I have an iPad 2 and an iPhone 5 and both of them have been having HUGE problems with apps crashing since the iOS 9 update. Safari crashes constantly. Both devices are pretty much unusable. I've been in IT for over 20 years so I'm very familiar with technology. As a test I backed up my 64gb iPad 2, erased all content and settings, restored my iPad and same problems. So I erased all content and settings again. This time I didn't do a restore. It worked alright for awhile and I started some of my favorite games back up from scratch and after a few days it started crashing again. Safari is the biggest culprit! Try going to radaronline.com or tmz.com and see if your iPad 2 crashes. I have over 40gb available. My battery is at 98%. It shouldn't be crashing period. This update renders the older devices useless. I'm done with Apple products. Prior to this I was really pushing them and got my entire company to go with the iPhone as our standard and got rid of the BES. At this point I'd rather have the BES back. Apple really needs to spend some time on this and resolve this issue or they're going to lose a lot of business. I don't think Microsoft will be there to bail them out this time like they did in the 90's.

scratch and after a few days it started crashing again. Safari is the biggest culprit! Try going to radaronline.com or tmz.com and see if your iPad 2 crashes. I have over 40gb available. My battery is at 98%. It shouldn't be crashing period. This update renders

fyi... my iPad 2 with iOS 9.21 runs fine... until I try tmz.com or radaronline.com

It's likely the websites my friend.

I have never had a website lock me up before. I'm talking hard restart locked up.

radaronoine is verrrrry slow, but doesn't lock up.