Posted on 12/10/2014 3:21:21 AM PST by Swordmaker
Apple today released iOS 8.1.2 which includes bug fixes and addresses a problem where ringtone purchased through iTunes Store may have been removed from your device.
To restore these ringtones, visit Restore Ringtones on your iOS device.
iOS 8.1.2 is compatible with the following iOS devices:
The iOS 8.1.2 update is now available as an OTA download.
8.1 really slowed down my 4s, but 8.1.1 did a good job of addressing that issue.
My girlfriend's iPad 2 showed improved battery life with the upgrade to iOS8 and then more with the upgrade to iOS8.1. I haven't upgraded her iPad to iOS8.1.2 yet but intend to later tonight. Your problem may be something else. . . an app that is misbehaving or you did not completely reset the iPad with a cold restart perhaps?
The vast majority of iOS users who upgraded saw no performance hit at all and most saw improvements. . . so there was nothing to "warn" about. A minority of the millions of iPads, apparently yours among them, developed problems with the iOS 8.0 version. I had problems i documented on FR and documented to Apple, but no loss of battery time. Apple quickly released an 8.1 update that addressed most of those problems. 8.1 solved most of the issues I saw. Did you install it? 8.1.2 is intended to catch more.
Clara Lou, there is more than that in the 8.1.2 update. Install it.
Simple. If your device is not compatible, it won't update. Go into Settings/general/Software Update and see if there is an update available. Try it. It will tell you. If it will install, it will. If it isn't compatible with your device, it will tell you that. Done. It will not try to install if it isn't.
Wow... just wow. Your single experience, without giving them a chance to fix the problem with the fixit upgrade. Do you realize how ridiculous that is? Apple's products usually get faster and better with each update. That is history. You had ONE experience and you think that is the case in all updates? Try again. Get the updates. They FIX THINGS. There is a reason why Apple has the best customer service reputation in the world. . . and it isn't because they break their product with updates, 2nd. Be Logical, for Pete's Sake.
My comment was limited to iPad 2 owners who upgraded. And Apples own message boards reflect hundreds of iPad 2 owners who had the same issues. One can only assume there were legions more who don't post on message boards. There are dozens of magazine and blog articles which acknowledge the issues and try to offer tips and work arounds to try and lessen these effects. Given that the only solution Apple offers is to buy a new tablet tells me all I need to know.
I’ve seen those comments as well. Apple does not make money off updates, only sales of new devices. Sorry Swordmaker but I will judge on the one device I own, and have no intention of giving them more money.
That lockup was exactly what my iPod Air was doing after the update. . . especially on FreeRepublic. I found it most frequently did the lockup after doing more than two backspaces. . . and that the editor software on FreeRepublic was the biggest offender at doing it. The problem is entirely gone now after iOS 8.1. But there are some things that have made it go away for other iPad users:
Two things to do immediately. First. Do a full restart from forced cold shut off. You force shut off by holding down your home button and the power button simultaneously for ten seconds. . . until the unit screen goes dead black. . . then hold it some more to be sure. Once it is certainly off, this will have cleared some memory caches that don't normally clear in a regular shut down. Then press the power button for a normal restart.
Check and see if you are still having your lock-ups. If not. You've solved the problems. Get the updates to iOS 8.1 and iOS 8.1.1. These may now be a unified single update.
If not, immediately get the updates to iOS 8.1 and 8.1.1 and do the cold restart above, then do the cold restart outlined above. Check for the problem.
If none of this solves the problem, make an appointment with the nearest Genius Bar at an Apple Store. . . you have a distinct hardware problem, not a software problem.
Mine is all good again. Good luck, Jim
Do you have a solution for a new MacBook Pro that requires at least a daily restart to load safari web pages? The latest updates are installed.
As was mine, although inclusive of all iOS users. Think about it circlecity, Apple sold MILLIONS of iPad 2s and the adoption of iOS 8 is now approaching 85%, yet you see only "hundreds" of reports on the internet or dozens of articles, which create clicks for ads, for this issue. I have not seen Apple only offering "upgrade to new tablet" as the solution, and instead I see Apple quickly bringing out iOS 8.01, iOS 8.1, iOS 8.1.1 and now iOS 8.1.2, all of which upgrades address the issue and in many cases IMPROVE the performance over what it had been before upgrading to iOS 8 in the first place. That is not ignoring the issue.
circlecity, it is what Apple always does. . . they cannot know how every single model will respond to an update until they put it out into the wild. . . but they will respond once they are out there. Sometimes the response is to replace the unit. If the unit is bad enough, and you find a store manager in a good enough mood, you may walk out with a brand new iPad after a free appointment at a Genius Bar. I've seen it happen with a client of mine on a four year old out of warranty MacBook that had problems they couldn't figure out. . .
That's a new one on me. Have you installed any thing such as an "anti-virus" application or any plug-ins into Safari? How close do you live to an Apple Store?
> I don't think so because if you go to the Apple forums there are many, many people who have had the same experience.
That doesn't contradict what I said. "Other additional causes"" could be other applications you -- and they -- have loaded, that perhaps I haven't. For example, there are apps that intentionally run network connections in the background (Skype, OpenVPN, etc.) for the benefit of other apps or to monitor online status -- those apps that you may forget about are actually consuming CPU and thus battery power.
"Many, many people"... well, when there are a hundred million devices in the field, what's "many, many"? How many comments did you read -- a hundred, a thousand? Unlikely the latter, and yet even that would be only a thousandth of a percent of the users -- 0.001%.
With that many units in the field, you'll find every possible combination of software, circumstances, and use patterns, so you'll see evidence of every possible unhappy interaction. Unhappy users often post comments on user forums. Happy users most often don't.
> If one contacts Apple their "fix" it to upgrade the product.
So far with three iPods, one iPad, one iPhone, and a handful of Macs over the years, I have yet to hear Apple support tell me the only way to fix a problem is to upgrade to a new product.
> Sorry, but I am old school and believe a product costing $500 should perform more than 3 or 4 years.
I agree with you on that. And in fact only one Apple product has crapped out in less than 4 years -- my first iPod, a hard-drive model, developed a power supply issue after about 3 years, and was replaced. All the rest have been running without problems since I got them. In a few cases they've exceeded 7 years by now and all are still in active daily use.
I suppose you might claim I'm lucky. Maybe I am. :)
No apple stores near here. No anti-virus or plug ins.
Just at random times, I will refresh FR, or Drudge, or whatever I’m doing and the progress bar will freeze up at about 15% and then not do anything.
I close safari and re-open and the result is the same.
I have to restart to get it to work.
I have an old macbook that works great. I bought this one to replace it as the old one sometimes drops what I was typing while i’m typing.
Ii’s weird.
Every single Apple product I have owned survived until it was passed on to a new owner. . . usually seven or so years later. . . with the sole exceptions of my two top of the line laptops. Those I don't have a clue about because both of them were stolen at age six, while still going strong. . . LOL! And the funny thing is that both had been bought for me by the insurance company due to losses!
The first was from an original Mac 100 laptop (c. 1991) I bought at a garage sale for $10 in 1996 or so. It was non-operational, however everything was there including the power supply. I took it home and plugged it in and the screen powered to a sad mac face, showing that it needed a boot disk. The Harddrive was toast. So I bought a used 40MG SCSI HD for $50 and rummaged around in my junk pile and found some install disks and lo and behold it worked. WOW! it even had been maxed out with 8MB of RAM! GREAT! I had some fun with it, put it my closet, and forgot about it.
A couple of years later I heard a ruckus going on outside and went to get my trusty Colt Detective Special from my bedside drawer. . . only to find it wasn't there! On searching I found that all of my guns, including an old air rifle with a broken stock I was going to repair, weren't there. . . and lots of things just weren't there anymore. Small power and hand tools, cameras, jewelry, rare 1st Edition books, my dad's tool box I had just inherited, my thousand year old Japanese Tanto that had been appraised at $50,000, the Buck Kalinga hunting knife given to me by the President of Buck Knives, a hand crossbow, basically anything small that had been put away, out-of-sight, was just gone. One of the things that disappeared in "The Great Disappearing" was that laptop. Gone.
We had our suspicions we could never prove. My mother-in-law had come to live with us and she needed a caregiver. . . and the one she loved was an American indian lady who was very good with her. She had very strange ideas of property. She would bring in things from her house and leave them at ours. . . saying, this looks better here than where it was. However at the same time both of my daughters had friends going in and out at all hours. . . and staying over. The police could not make any accusations against anyone and nothing ever showed up at any pawnshops.
In any case, I duly reported everything to our insurance company which was affiliated with our Auto Insurance Club in California. . . and we had a "replacement" value rider on the policy. I listed that Apple PowerBook 100 as a used computer laptop bought at a garage sale for $10 and also explained how I had made it work by putting in the $50 drive. I expected re-imbursement for my out-of-pocket costs on that.
For a couple of months, it was Christmas in July around our house. The insurance company assigned an adjuster from the Santa Claus department to us. I did not have to do ANY shopping at all! Packages started arriving at our door. Remember my dad's tool chest? I arrived one day to an entry way full of boxes from Sears. . . the Elf had bought me a compete set of Craftsman PRO tools with tool chest! The power tools that were stolen were generally discount store drills, jigsaws, power saws, etc. Again, what arrived were Craftsman PRO equipment. . . top of the line! Guns she couldn't buy for me but issued checks for brand new versions at current prices. None of this modern system of go buy it and we'll re-imburse you crap. The 1st Edition rare book had been a very rare Science Fiction Zenna Henderson "The People No Different Flesh" with dust Jacket I had run across at a garage sale for 25¢, irreplaceable. She had found a price quotation on Alibris of $1600 and issued me a check for it. The Tanto? That I was very sad about. She said they could not pay the appraised value as it was an "Antique Art Object" and should have been covered under a separate rider. The underwriters decided they could cover it for $2000, as well, the limits of the coverage. RATS! Oh, well. So, you are wondering about the laptop? I came home one day and there was a box sitting in the entry. . . from Apple. a brand new, top of the line Apple PowerBook G3 Lombard Laptop $2499 value. . . for my $60 garage sale piece!
Now, fast forward SIX YEARS. . . I put that laptop in its leather case in the trunk of my car. . . lock the car and go into the house to get some something and get side tracked with a phone call and then have to use the bathroom. I come out and find my trunk lid is gaping open. The lock has been punched out! a tool kit, some other minor things, and my six year old laptop are GONE!
My auto insurance pays the $900 to fix the damage to the trunk. . . but they won't cover the losses in the trunk. The adjuster says why don't you make a claim on your homeowners policy for the loss? They should cover it. So I did. Minus the deductible which covered the other stuff. . . Two weeks later another box arrives from Apple. Brand New, Top of the line Apple Intel MacBook Pro. . . $2400. No charge. All on that original $60 I spent at that garage sale.
That one got stolen too, six years later. . . but not in a way I could make a claim on it, I loaned it to a friend who just disappeared with it. RATS.
Jet, I suggest you call Apple Care. . . there is definitely something wrong here. You should be able to get free care for this problem and they are very good.
(800) APL-CARE (800-275-2273)
That’s 24/7 number.
Let me know how it turns out for you.
Thanks, I will give them a call this weekend. I will let you know.
Good Luck, Jet. There is always the possibility you have a RAM seating problem. . . but I doubt it.
The tried and true fixes are PRAM re-set and disk utility repair permissions.
Restart then just before the start-up chime hold down command/option and the r and p keys. Let it chime twice then release.
Well, after 12-hours of playing podcasts and audiobooks, I only lost 20 percent instead of 50 percent.
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