The early adopters remark always makes me grin. It's hardly a brand new device such as the Apple Watch. It sounds as though the issue is software related and as long as it's not bricking your iPad it's hardly a massive problem.
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Apple 'Investigating' iPad Pros Unresponsive After Charging, Recommends Restart as Interim Fix
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The early adopters remark always makes me grin. It's hardly a brand new device such as the Apple Watch. It sounds as though the issue is software related and as long as it's not bricking your iPad it's hardly a massive problem.
This post will probably get reported and deleted since you called someone an idiot. But I agree 100% with every comment. The forums are full of whiners and complainers. All the mods care about anymore are ads, clicks, and sales. If it's a controversial subject sure to get hits? Post it and let the members bicker, whine, complain and argue all day long. I long for the old days of MR before I even became a member.
I can't agree with you more. The fact is that change will always create bugs. Even small changes, even changes meant to fix other things. Software development is really difficult in that aspect. You fix one bug and introduce 17 more. You are constantly working to support more features that user can't live without and then do that without introducing any new bugs and keeping everyone happy by not changing things too much.
I spend 90% of my time fixing bugs in my software and will knock myself out and not sleep to get rid of them. But what counts if who's behind the software. If this were an Android manufacturer, they would probably say "meh" and just start a new device. Don't expect updates and don't expect things to be fixed. Apple will have this patched in less than a month and if it's a hardware issue... they will swap out for a new one.
Software is hard. And QA is really, really hard.
From the reports, it sounds like the problem is when you restore the iPad Pro from a backup. The obvious question for me is: how old are those backups? Is it a backup from an iphone that was put on an iPad? Or from an iPad 4 to and iPad air 2 to an iPad pro?
Given that the iPad Pros tend to be early adopters, I'll bet these backups have been from at least two devices (iPad 2 -> iPad Air -> iPad Pro). The horror is that they might be from an iPad 1 -> iPad Air -> iPad Pro.
This is why supporting products for a really long time is problematic: QA really has to test every permutation at some level.
From the reports, it sounds like the problem is when you restore the iPad Pro from a backup. The obvious question for me is: how old are those backups? Is it a backup from an iphone that was put on an iPad? Or from an iPad 4 to and iPad air 2 to an iPad pro?
Given that the iPad Pros tend to be early adopters, I'll bet these backups have been from at least two devices (iPad 2 -> iPad Air -> iPad Pro). The horror is that they might be from an iPad 1 -> iPad Air -> iPad Pro.
This is why supporting products for a really long time is problematic: QA really has to test every permutation at some level.
Yeah, it's happened to me both times I charged it over night.
Good thing the battery is so awesome that I only had to charge it twice in 5 days I have owned it.
I used it extensively yesterday. Probably the longest I have ever been on any device/computer in my life. Went to bed and still had 38% battery life.
Good thing the battery is so awesome that I only had to charge it twice in 5 days I have owned it.
I used it extensively yesterday. Probably the longest I have ever been on any device/computer in my life. Went to bed and still had 38% battery life.
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Even worse, there are now reports that the iPad Pro may bend if you sit on it. (Yet another good reason not to wear super baggy jeans with 13" back pockets.) #bendgate
I popped over here to see if the comments were any more intelligent than the ones for the same subject on AI....
Nope.
OH MY GOD. THAT'S SO ORIGINAL AND HILARIOUS!!!
Did you think of it all by yourself?
Please. . . My products today are way more stable then in the Steve Jobs era.
I am sorry that folks are having difficulties with their iPad Pros. When you spend $800 on an item it is natural to expect it to work properly. I bought my 32Gb WiFi iPad Pro on the first day they were sold and have charged it twice. I have had none of the difficulties experienced by others owners. Here is what I have done to charge the device:
- Use the provided wall charger and lightning cable.
- Switch off the screen of the iPad Pro but don't turn off the device completely.
- Plus in the lightning cable and leave the iPad to charge.
- Switch on the screen periodically to check when it has charged to 100%, and then turn it off.
- When the charge has got to 100%, remove the lightning cable, and start using the iPad.
I still sync the unit through iTunes, but I don't charge it through the USB connection to my Mac - I charge it through the mains (electricity) supply from my wall socket.
Ha ha now that is funny, I guess the staff did not get the support memo
I should have asked the staff why this iPad was off, but I went into the Apple Store while my gf was at a different store. So I didn't have much time to play around.
One of our members actually asked (or confronted) the Apple Store staff about demo iPhone that was not waking up at the store. Apparently the staff went straight ahead to reset the device. So I'm sure the staff is well aware of this issue...
That is true. I just found it amusing that a member of public were fixing the demo models and we are discussing the issue on MR
- Tim Cook's Apple is going off in all different directions and the lack of focus is starting to show. We got an under-powered 12 Macbook instead of a retina display for the MB Air. The Watch launch was a disaster with no product available for months...a far too heavy focus on fashion instead of technology.... The yearly updates on OS's don't seem to be working out that well either. El Capitan is buggy as hell...and now we have a really big iPad that cannot "replace" a laptop and needs to be restarted just to get it to work. Don't get me wrong, I love products - but I feel like quality is taking a back seat to profits under Cook.