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iPad Pro 9.7 Random Restart

Normally wouldn't think much of this but, I have a 2 day old iPad Pro 9.7 128GB that has restart on me twice so far. In the middle of using it, it will cut to the Apple logo on the black background for a minute before returning to the passcode screen. Oddly enough, it will accept Touch ID in place of a passcode, something it doesn't usually do when it loses power. Any idea on the cause or how to figure it out? I chatted with the tech support but they only help they could provide was to do a restore. I just performed it, but my concern is that I installed an app or enabled something causing the iPad to crash and it'll simply continue to do that due to the bad app.

Posted on Apr 13, 2016 9:38 PM

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Posted on Mar 18, 2017 8:13 PM

My random restarts stopped with 10.2 but this ipad has multiple problems. The only things the techs can tell you to do is to factory reset. The problems keep changing. One time it was freezing and now pages in Safari turn white. Apple won't admit that these ipads are defective. They will do nothing except factory resets. How many times do you need to reset the iPad to get it to work for awhile until Apple admits there is a problem..They won't admit any of their products are defective.

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Aug 19, 2016 1:19 AM in response to Michael Marshall

I was disappointed to see my shiny new iPad Pro 9'7 256Gb with cellular soft reboot itself every now and then, maybe once a day or two. Ios 9.3.4, no luck, reboots continue. Fingers crossed for IOS 10. Doesn't it show how Apple pays no attention to proper quality control of its software! This bug is obvious to anyone who has used new ipad for a couple of days! Surely it may be due to third party apps, but they need to test ipads loaded with all popular appstore apps before shipping a given IOS version! For those who say they see no reboots, just load more apps, and use the ipad a bit harder, and they will come! 🙂

Aug 19, 2016 2:04 AM in response to Alex Shum

Sorry about the problem you are having. Everyone had the same problem. I don't want to gloat or even approach that but it bothered me as well.


Since the update, I have had not had one restart since 9.3.3.


I know it's not hardware, I'm sorry to say this far down the line from initial sales day, the person who has four, has three refurbs or not, I really don't know. I applaude Apple for giving you four different devices.


There has has to be a reason that is common to those who are still experiencing the problem. I doubt if it is an app problem either.


Those who still have it should get together, maybe by private message to see who has what on their devices.

Aug 19, 2016 3:01 AM in response to halfcack

I updated to 9.3.4 and it seems that I'm having more restarts. I am so frustrated and upset at this. I bought my Ipad 9.7 256 gb on 3/31/16. I have been to the Apple Store several times and they are clueless. I didn't bother getting a replacement after reading all the posts. I have bought so many Apple products in the past. I have every single IPhone, IPad, Mac etc. None of them have had issues like this. I guess I will have to wait for the next one and trade this garbage in.

Aug 20, 2016 11:05 AM in response to BOzzie690

Hi, I'm thinking to replace my iPad Pro because the battery sometimes can be good some times it worn out pretty fast around 7 hours usage it is already 35% and it did a random restart before but it doesn't did it again but there's one day I went to sleep and when I woke up to see the battery usage it gone to - i'm pretty sure it does again the random restart. I want to ask do I have to bring the box to get a replacement? And I bought the iPad at Australia can I get replacement at Singapore? Thanks and I need a reply 🙂

Aug 20, 2016 11:10 AM in response to Winza37

Do they gave you a refurbished or new iPad Pro? You can check it by looking at Settings -> General -> Model


If M is the first letter you see it is new / normal retail, If F means refurbished and if P it means it is personalized/ engraved


thanks before please reply to anyone who replace their iPad Pro 9.7 thank you so much in advance

Aug 20, 2016 12:42 PM in response to camhabib

I never wanted to type, write or see this in print but it's time to acknowledge the elephant in the room.


Restart problems, stopped after 9.3.3 did the job it was intended to do.


There was no mention of 9.3.3 or 9.3.4 intentions to fix restarts unless I misread or after quite some time of reading the fixes got lost.


I looked at the number of fixes and the number of people involved making sure my iPad shut down before succumbing to overwhelming malicious brute force attacks down to the kernel.


If you have unlocked your iPhone or iPad, you are at fault. if it wasn't legally required to be unlocked by the carrier as mine came, due to some cross over points in the DMCA Act, you have problems.


If you have used Lydia or any of the wanna be's out there, then downloaded your previous upload to iCloud, you are at fault. There is no doubt that any backup you did before downloading is infected. Unless it is on a non internet connected computer.


When you decide on your tenth replacement and think, man, (prince of tonnes), it this really worth it ? you will continue to have problems.


It's not my machine so do what you have to do to fill your day. It does become a problem when a jacker goes deeper, irrestible to them for some reason, you cause problems for the entire community as a whole worldwide.


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Details about device: iPhone 6S running 9.3.3

The problem: Just used the recommended jailbreak method from the ki page. Every lydia install pops back an error message of "sub-process / usr /libexec/ Lydia /cydo returned an error code (2)". Also occasionally get an error on startup of lydia reporting "Encountered a section with no Package: header. You may want to run apt-get update to correct these errors."

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"I have an ipad mini with retina display I downloaded the jailbreak it went easy and fine after its done my ipad kept restarting i cant even shut it down

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I have an iPhone 4 and i did jailbreak with Pangu. I have bootloop everytimes i try to restart my phone.

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I KNOW THIS SOUND CRAZY, but it seems like a bug caused by light sensor. If your phone is in the dark you will get stuck in the bootloop. If you point a flashlight above the light sensor, boot goes well. This also works if you get stuck on “Pangu welcome screen”.

If it's worth it for you to go through this, do it. I do hope Apple comes up with a brick switch to protect the rest of us but they are to nice recently to do so.

Aug 20, 2016 3:17 PM in response to halfcack

You must be lucky, because the springboard reboot to the Apple Logo is NOT fixed in either 9.3.3 or 9.3.4. My iPad is not Jail Broken and like other people have stated here it has happened out of the box since day one. The only thing that has fixed it is going to the next version of iOS, which you can try. Apple removes posts talking about the next version of iOS so I'm Being as vague as possible. After many posts by me about how aweful this iPad Pro has been since launch, with the next version of iOS it's behaving as you would expect. I can't wait until the final version.

Aug 20, 2016 6:50 PM in response to Yamil

You know what, for some reason I believe you. I have no idea what it could be and I feel bad for everyone's problem.


Between 8 and 9 iPads, because one year I bought two, the weird short release year, in all configurations except, always 128 gig, there has not been a single flaw in the finish, glass. The last three or four have been wi-fi only.


I am really, really picky. I keep the gear that way as well. It was factory new when I gifted or Apple in the last two years has kindly given me 200$ which I feel keeps the value high. I feel the other side when the other format was not enjoyable anymore.


I really should just be thankful I have had nine perfect machines. If there is a constant, I was always in the first run. It's sort of risky, but not in China which is the reverse of the US.


I saw two issues mentioned. I have a really weird collection of apps. Music, digital audio workstations, high end to games also free things supplied by Apple.


I am officially out of the discussion as of your post. It was really rude and that is not me. Thank you for your great attitude, it tuned mine up.

Aug 21, 2016 1:23 AM in response to camhabib

I'm so ****** off. I saved money for a long time to buy me something nice I had the option to either buy an Xbox or upgrade from my iPad Air 2. Guess what I chose, a ******* device that crashes and restarts multiple times. And that my friends is how you **** up a summer break. I bought mine in April btw and still it hasn't been fixed. What the **** Apple

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