For over a year now I have been running SD on an original iPad and enjoying the benefits of such a good piece of software.

However, I'm now using the latest version of the iPad SD (late Dec release) on the same iPad with iOS 5.1.1 and have found that the SD software constantly crashes out on me. I've tried this on the ground and in air, only to find the same results. Whether I'm in plan mode or GPS navigation mode, it just keeps on happening!

I've restarted the iPad, shutdown all other apps -- all to no avail. On today's flight in MVFR the longest that I managed to keep SD running in Navigation Mode was about 5 minutes and the shortest time was 15 seconds. According to the logs I have about 20 flights logged in the space of 90 minutes, mainly from "unknown to "unknown" , as I tried to restart SD in mid flight.

SD is a fantastic piece of software but I'm not able to rely on this latest iPad release whereas in the previous version I may have experienced a crash on the odd occasion and was happy to live with that.

I've be thinking about purchasing the iPad mini but will be putting that on hold and returning to the Navsgo as my main SD device. What a shame as SD and iPad ae made for each other.

Is anybody else experiencing the same problems?





Biggles -- EGKB

ERIC

From the research that I've done so far I would suggest that this isn't a problem of storage space on your iPad and you can easily confirm this by checking in the iPad SETTINGS options how much space you have remaining.

However, you may be right about RAM as the iPad 1 has 256KB RAM whereas iPad 2 has 512KB RAM and the lack of RAM has been reported as a possible cause of iPad crashes especially in the updates iOS releases.

The site below gives some suggestions as to how to eliminate this as a possible cause.

(See http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/puzzled-by-ipad-crashes-we-show-you-how-to-solve-it-167205)

Can you advise what iPad version and iOS you're running.

Biggles -- EGKB

Further to my previous post I'm running SD 2.5 on iOS 6.0.1 (ipad 3) and I had two crashes on my first flight. I flew again today for an hour and it crashed once. Haven't tried it in the car yet.

Biggles,

Thanks for the link, I'll try these tips.

I operate an iPad1 (64 GB, IOS 5.1.1, Wifi & 3G), about 40 GB free storage.

I also assume the little RAM in the first iPads are responsible for the crashes.

Eric

I seem to agree with EFRenkin's opinion above. Is it possible to note at least the total memory in the devices that continue to crash?

Very Newbytheway

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