A few weeks ago my iPad crashed while playing geometry wars. What was interesting was how it crashed: the graphics went kooky, straight lines appeared on what looked like every 2nd or 3rd pixel and then a few seconds later it rebooted. After it rebooted the display didn’t work. I could connect via USB and my PC thought the iPad was ok but like I said nothing would display.
I brought it to the apple store and the dude at the genius bar couldn’t get it to display so he connected it to his Mac and poof it worked perfectly. Amazing. He had no idea what happened. It felt sluggish to me, but that could be paranoia. A day later it crashed again in the same way, and the display wouldn’t work. Bummer. I left it in my car for a couple of weeks since I couldn’t get to the apple store. Yesterday I decided to see if I should try it before going to the store and it turned on just fine. It is still working, I’m on it right now, but it feels sluggish to me.
Does anyone know of any decent Diagnostic software for this thing? Does it have a diagnostic mode? I’m looking for something that exercises the graphics engine.
It could just be that it dies when it is hot … I should put it on a seat warmer.
Plug it into a Mac with the most up-to-date Xcode installed and running. Xcode will open a panel that allows you to view the crash logs on the iPad (works for iPhone, too). The information therein might help you diagnose the problem further. I’m surprised they didn’t do that at the Apple store.
The USB ports on some USB hubs and plugs are sometimes insufficient to power the iPad on PC. Google for ASUS AI Charger if you have an ASUS mainboard to see if that will help (once you get the new one back and plugged in) which is why these things may work better with the Mac at the Apple Store (uniform hardware specs) etc.
Glad you have a new device. Hopefully this one will do all the wonderous, magical reality-distortion-field thingies it’s supposed to. Without the falling over dead occasionally part. :)
Just in case anyone else is curious about this bit:
Great suggestion for those of a technically savvy and/or curious persuation. Specifically, Ctrl-Cmd-O to open the Organizer window (or select “Organizer” from the Window menu). From there, select the device in question under “Devices” in the left hand pane, and then look at both the “Console” and “Device Logs” tabs in the main window.
edit: at least I assume that’s the window you’re referring to. If not, I’m curious which other window is available to get that info out. :)