same here. did a soft reset (holding down power and home buttons for a few seconds), and it still reloaded.
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same here. did a soft reset (holding down power and home buttons for a few seconds), and it still reloaded.
Thumbs up. Espn and CNN both open without reloading. Phew! Thank you!
I'm afraid, this problem will be something to get used to in the near future, until developers optimise. That 'iPad-ready' list is pretty short, sadly.
Here's a thought. Maybe the reloads aren't being caused by lack of ram, but rather lack of space for a page file.
People who are having reload problems, how much content do you have on your iPad? Is it possible that with very little available space left on the iPad's storage 'drive' that the OS doesn't have enough space for the page file?
People who are having reload problems, how much content do you have on your iPad? Is it possible that with very little available space left on the iPad's storage 'drive' that the OS doesn't have enough space for the page file?
I have 25 songs... 100ish photos... no movies or video, and 1 book. So I doubt it, even on my 16G.
I do not have an iPad, but here is a question. Can this be caused by drop in WIFI or poor signal strength of the WIFI connection?
I would assume iPad does that. Once it can, I imagine it pages it out to the flash memory. That how it works on desktops.
If I look at Firefox in Activity Monitor, it shows me using 186 megs of ram and 200 megs of 'virtual memory', but there are times when that number gets into the gigabyte range.
Read the comments. It'd a bug in the game. Ngmoco already said they're working on it.
Yeah dude. Processor speed is nice, and the amount of RAM is usually adequate for the current OS the iPad is running, but like you said... what about multi-tasking? Surely it's coming soon. If iPad can't handle Safari alone right now, it looks like we're in for a less-than-optimal experience for multitasking on that beautiful display in the hopefully not-too-distant future.
Please refrain from leaping to conclusions like that. It's rather ridiculous if you actually compare the iPhone updates to this situation. If the ram is the biggest weakness of the iPad it's a pretty small complaint overall.
Assuming that the iPad has roughly similar memory usage ad my 3GS (keyword: roughly) then we should be fine. The lack of such things as a 3G radio chip, camera, gps, etc from my iPad should free up some complexity and thus some memory. On the flip side-- the increased screen resolution and graphics performance probably eat a little bit too.
So that being said, memory usage should be roughly the same, and on my jailbroken 3GS with backgrounder I can send MANY apps to the background and performance does not change at all. I can even put several apps in the background and then play a graphics intensive game with no issues.
With all of my extra jailbreak extensions that eat up memory in the background I usually run about 140mb of free memory without safari running.
So that being said, memory usage should be roughly the same, and on my jailbroken 3GS with backgrounder I can send MANY apps to the background and performance does not change at all. I can even put several apps in the background and then play a graphics intensive game with no issues.
With all of my extra jailbreak extensions that eat up memory in the background I usually run about 140mb of free memory without safari running.
Horrible news. That's the one thing I hate about browsing on the iPhone and Apple's video made it seem like I could have all 9 pages open and it would save all their states like Safari on the Mac.
This sucks
This sucks
The RAM is actually on the same chip as the CPU so there's definitely no way of upgrading it. This is also, probably the reason that the iPad is limited to 256 Mbs. I'd bet that they simply couldn't fit more memory on the chip die.
I honestly don't think the amount of ram is the issue. This could easily be fixed with a software update if Apple chose to do so.
No I was speaking about the page caching issue. The device has enough memory to cache more 1-2 webpages. I'm saying that apple just needs to raise the cache threshold so pages don't get purged so soon. Software update can fix that.iPhone OS 4.0 will pump up the RAM to 512MB?!
Lol at this post. Clearly you have no idea how Apple operates... newbie posters.
For the ones that are saying that their webpages do not reload...are you giving it some time?
Ive noticed that if you switch quickly between the tabs/windows...it doesn't reload. The problem is if you switch to a new tab and spend some time there...say 15 minutes, then if you go back to an older tab, it will reload automatically.
Ive noticed that if you switch quickly between the tabs/windows...it doesn't reload. The problem is if you switch to a new tab and spend some time there...say 15 minutes, then if you go back to an older tab, it will reload automatically.
I think the page reloading issue would only really bother me if I was using a 3G iPad and had poor signal or was on the limited bandwidth plan and was trying to conserve.
Pages load quickly enough over WiFi that I don't really care when they do have to reload.
Pages load quickly enough over WiFi that I don't really care when they do have to reload.