iPad mini performance.....
Discussion
t and fit for the bin. 
JimbobVFR said:
Has anyone tried a factory reset? Possibly restoring from a backup afterwards. I've seen several anecdotal reports that this seems to help problems after upgrading.
You are probably also finding that it is a bit hot and the battery drains very fast?Do a reset all settings - doesn't delete your data, does lose all settings so you'll need to put those back.
Disconnect it from iCloud. Selecting to erase all iCloud data from the tablet. Then reconnect and let it update itself again.
Been through this on my iPhone. Arrived with iOS 8.1. The above fixed it.
JimbobVFR said:
Has anyone tried a factory reset? Possibly restoring from a backup afterwards. I've seen several anecdotal reports that this seems to help problems after upgrading.
It helps on my 4S... for a couple of weeks. Can't be bothered to do it every week. After iOS7 crippled it I won't even dare to put 8.x on it.Don said:
You are probably also finding that it is a bit hot and the battery drains very fast?
Do a reset all settings - doesn't delete your data, does lose all settings so you'll need to put those back.
Disconnect it from iCloud. Selecting to erase all iCloud data from the tablet. Then reconnect and let it update itself again.
Been through this on my iPhone. Arrived with iOS 8.1. The above fixed it.
Cheers Don, I will give this a go tonight, pretty frustrating though. I feel like Apple have me by the short and curlys!! Do a reset all settings - doesn't delete your data, does lose all settings so you'll need to put those back.
Disconnect it from iCloud. Selecting to erase all iCloud data from the tablet. Then reconnect and let it update itself again.
Been through this on my iPhone. Arrived with iOS 8.1. The above fixed it.
My iPad 2 is now pretty much fooked as a result of iOS8. Apple devices have always been pretty good at coping with updates long after their release but two and a half / three years seems to be the limit with tablets.
Will probably trade up to an iPad Air 2 in the next couple of weeks although the Nexus 9 is very tempting.
Will probably trade up to an iPad Air 2 in the next couple of weeks although the Nexus 9 is very tempting.
Dolf Stoppard said:
Will probably trade up to an iPad Air 2 in the next couple of weeks although the Nexus 9 is very tempting.
Crossed over to Android tablets once, regretted it and came back to the iPad. I don't think Android is as good for tablets at all, fine for a phone. I also got very annoyed at Samsung and their lack of updates and support for my tablet. Apple does excel in this area.thehawk said:
Dolf Stoppard said:
Will probably trade up to an iPad Air 2 in the next couple of weeks although the Nexus 9 is very tempting.
Crossed over to Android tablets once, regretted it and came back to the iPad. I don't think Android is as good for tablets at all, fine for a phone. I also got very annoyed at Samsung and their lack of updates and support for my tablet. Apple does excel in this area.My iPad 3 (I think that's the model, was bought blindly just a few weeks before release of the model with the lightening connector) has been very sluggish since the 8.0x and 8.1 updates.
Slightly critical for me (1st world probs etc) is I'm off overseas long-ish term in a couple of weeks so my iPad will become a very important travel companion, especially Youtube and browsing, both of which seem to be particularly affected by these updates.
I did a reset last night, as it was quite late I didn't have time to do any significant testing but browsing has improved from very sluggish to just sluggish. Youtube seemed fine with a couple of clips.
Prior to the 8.xx updates I was fairly happy with the performance so didn't really see the need to invest in the iPad Air 2, would be nice but not essential!
Being that I was more or less ok with iOS 7, djdestiny posted on this thread (unless I'm hallucinating which is possible) recently with a link to a site with access to lots of earlier iOS versions for restoring iPads.
His post, again unless I imagined it, may have been deleted in case it breached forums rules, if that is the case luckily I bookmarked the link.
Being not exactly at the cutting edge of these things I got stumped when I used the link.
It offered 2 versions of the last iOS 7 version for my iPad, one for CDMA whatever that is or one for GSM which is obviously more familiar.
There was a 3rd option for Wifi which I suppose would be included in the CDMA or GSM versions.
I don't want to kill the iPad as even Apple will give me a 100 quid trade-in if I end up getting an iPad Air 2 as a last resort.
So... what version should I restore, CDMA or GSM?
thehawk said:
Vanya said:
So... what version should I restore, CDMA or GSM?
Has your iPad got a sim? Then you need the GSM one. If it hasn't, it's probably a "Wifi" only one so you need to use the wifi restore.
Vanya said:
Prior to the 8.xx updates I was fairly happy with the performance so didn't really see the need to invest in the iPad Air 2...
I don't want to kill the iPad as even Apple will give me a 100 quid trade-in if I end up getting an iPad Air 2 as a last resort.
I don't want to kill the iPad as even Apple will give me a 100 quid trade-in if I end up getting an iPad Air 2 as a last resort.
They're not stupid, these guys at Apple.Many thanks for the quick responses guys.
@thehawk - GSM it is then cheers.
@zespak - no they're not, the bastids . This one feels even more ruthless than the release that buggered the iPhone4 users and that was bad, obviously. BTW it has wifi, there is a sim.
I'll give last night's reset a chance for the next couple of days, if no good then I'll give this iOS 7 restore a whirl hopefully without killing the device!
Running out of time if I need to order a new one as I still need a bit of time to investigate VPNs (Sky Go, Lottery, etc), I haven't used a VPN for many years and only then on a PC.
@thehawk - GSM it is then cheers.
@zespak - no they're not, the bastids
. This one feels even more ruthless than the release that buggered the iPhone4 users and that was bad, obviously. BTW it has wifi, there is a sim.I'll give last night's reset a chance for the next couple of days, if no good then I'll give this iOS 7 restore a whirl hopefully without killing the device!
Running out of time if I need to order a new one as I still need a bit of time to investigate VPNs (Sky Go, Lottery, etc), I haven't used a VPN for many years and only then on a PC.
Vanya said:
I'll give last night's reset a chance for the next couple of days, if no good then I'll give this iOS 7 restore a whirl hopefully without killing the device!
Unfortunatley you won't, Apple stopped signing ios7 a while ago so you can't rollback. I would reccomend a backup then restore to factory settings then upload your backup.
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