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IPad first gen crashing – updated

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Update

It looks like I finally found a solution to my iPad gen 1 crashing problem. I found it on a forum and I’ve been running my iPad all day without one crash. Haven’t been able to do that since upgrading to iOS 5.01.

 

All you need to do is to reset all settings. Open the Settings app and under General and choose Reset. Press Reset All Settings. This sounds dangerous, but you won’t lose any data, only your settings. The machine will show a progress bar, which is normal. After the machine is reset, you should now hopefully have an iPad gen 1 that doesn’t crash all the time. All the settings for mail etc wasn’t affected by the reset by the way.

 

 

 

I’ve had problems with my iPad since I upgraded to iOS 5. Apps would constantly crash, usually when opening a built in browser or showing video. I tried to backup and restore, but the problem remained. Looking at the crash logs it’s always memory full errors. But after searching iPad forums I finally found a solution that at least makes the iPad crash less. I turned off most of the iCloud functions. My guess is the photo sharing that causes some of the problems. Anyway, I have had zero problems with my iPhone 4, which has twice the ram amount.

Hopefully Apple will fix this in the 5.1 update, because it’s really handy to have automatic photo sync between my iPhone and iPad.

Update: After a day my iPad is back to crashing often. This is getting annoying.

DNS problems with Snow Leopard 10.6

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I’ve had some bizarre problems with my DNS today. I checked /etc/resolv.conf but everything looked ok. Checked the settings dialog for my network and at first glance, that one seemed ok as well.

Screen shot 2009-09-09 at 00.34.55

But normally there should be a dimmed version of the DHCP assigned values there.

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Just select the empty one and press the minus sign. Sneaky little bug there!

Dimmed DNS values

Save your settings and you should be good to go.

Mac OS X 10.5.2 hangs on wake from sleep

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I have had this annoying problem with my Macbook Pro. Sometimes when waking the machine from sleep, the machine can not connect to the selected Airport network and then hangs with spinning pizza of death.

Apples next update to 10.5.3 looks like it will fix it. Hopfully Apple will release it soon…

From Fixed list of Mac OS X update 10.5.3 - Joining AirPort network after wake issue resolved

Yeah, upgrading to Office 2008 will fix the problem. Not!

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So i’ve upgraded some of the users to Microsoft Office 2008 at work, just to see if we have less problems with it. But It seems like the geniuses at Microsoft still can’t program. The classic “you are out of memory” dialog pops up in Word, and it’s impossible to save to any volume. My attempt to move users to another program has been unsuccessful.

But I guess it keeps the support industry going…

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I’ve been switching over almost all computers at work to new black Macbooks. But there’s a lot of problems with Microsoft Office 2004 crashing all over the place. Powerpoint hangs, sometimes destroy files (this problem isn’t new, had the same problems with the old machines) and generally misbehaves. Word and excel sporadically crashes. Trying to explain to people who is used to Windows, that a mac is a very stable operating system doesn’t go to well. If a program misbehaves, it must be Apples fault. Very annoying. I don’t use any Microsoft products on my machine and generally don’t have any problems. I’ve tried to get people to switch over to Keynote, but that’s not easy. The worry that they will not be able to share documents with Powerpoint users is the main reason. But also the effort of learning a new program.

It’s amazing how little discussion there is about problems with the Office suite on macs, and not knowing if Microsoft is going to to something about it eventually.