OK my teen installed some erroneous games on my iPad, so I decided to delete everything and start from scratch. I mean how bad could it be, I've had it for almost two weeks. Not that much data on it, not to many games. So I decided to delete everything and reset. Well it has been stuck on the reset screen for over 24 hours. HELP!

Originally Posted by bfrstlady

OK my teen installed some erroneous games on my iPad, so I decided to delete everything and start from scratch. I mean how bad could it be, I've had it for almost two weeks. Not that much data on it, not to many games. So I decided to delete everything and reset. Well it has been stuck on the reset screen for over 24 hours. HELP!

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Just out of curiousity...why do the reset? You could have just long pressed the app and than delete it that way from your ipad.

Originally Posted by skimonkey

Just out of curiousity...why do the reset? You could have just long pressed the app and than delete it that way from your ipad.

I think to reset the device once in a while makes sense. After all, the iPad directly from the seller is always the fastest one... Unless you jailbreak it.

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Yes, it was jailbroke I guess you would call it. It start acting crazy, and I tried deleting all the games he installed but it didn't help. The screen would have horrible resolution, and wouldn't come out of safe mode. I'm not very ipad/apple savy, so my idea was to start from scratch, and never allow him to touch it again.

Plus when I plug it up to the computer, iTunes doesn't recognize it. I can't turn it off, just nothing. That circle just spins, spins, and spins.

Since you mentioned that it was JB'd...I am going to move this to the Hack Section...

Originally Posted by theTimo

I think to reset the device once in a while makes sense. After all, the iPad directly from the seller is always the fastest one... Unless you jailbreak it.

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I didn't read that she was preparing to sell her iPad...?

If I understand you correctly, you tried to do the Reset from within the iPad's Settings app - on a jail broken iPad? If yes, then that explains why the iPad is still "spinning." Our advice is to never do any of the reset options offered if the iPad is jail broken. It just doesn't work...

So, try the steps outlined in this tutorial: TUTORIAL - Failsafe method to restore the current version of IOS

If you follow the steps exactly as written, then you should end up with a stock iPad that is running iOS 5.1.1.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

Marilyn

Originally Posted by skimonkey

I didn't read that she was preparing to sell her iPad...?

Ah, sorry to be misinformative... What I meant was the iPad is fastest when brand new out of the box. After you install new software, it slows down gradually. Every new app take their share of the CPU/GPU time and thus slows down the system.

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Originally Posted by theTimo

Ah, sorry to be misinformative... What I meant was the iPad is fastest when brand new out of the box. After you install new software, it slows down gradually. Every new app take their share of the CPU/GPU time and thus slows down the system.

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Well, that's not strictly true as you have described it theTimo. The iPad does not slow down based on the number of applications you have installed. Apps are only using resources (other than disk storage) when they are running or suspended. All apps from the App store can be completely removed from RAM and will not consume any CPU or GPU resources when fully exited. You can achieve this by double tapping the home button, holding one of the icons in the task bar until they wiggle, and pressing the close icon for each and every app listed.

In that respect an iPad with 500 apps installed will run at exactly the same speed as an identical model with 1 app installed. Slow-down can only be related to apps which are currently active or suspended.

The exception to this would be jailbreak tweaks, the majority of which run as daemon processes using Mobile Substrate (and are therefore always consuming RAM). For JB tweaks, the more you install, the more precious resources you risk consuming, eventually slowing down the device of you load too many.

Hope that clarifies.