I did it! I broke the iPad's software.

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  1. Hmar9333

    Hmar9333 Well-Known Member

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    Playin' around on my iPad I wondered what would happen if I pressed the home button lots while I was scrolling through the pages, and I made a remarkable discovery... the iPad queued up presses so that when I let go, it would sort of 'spaz out' and continuously switch between the search window and my home page. I decided to take it one step further and press the home button like 100 times. Needless to say, the software crashed, the iPad froze up and I needed to restore. No I'm not jailbroken.

    Bit of an oversight by Apple don't you think?

    If you want to try it yourself, start scrolling through home pages, keep your finger on the screen so you're still technically scrolling, and press the home button about ten times before removing your finger from the screen.
     
  2. Gryphon23

    Gryphon23 Well-Known Member

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    McDonalds! French Fries anyone?
    At that place... with those... people...
    Great job! Now all you need is a hammer and some mountain dew... :p
     
  3. Hmar9333

    Hmar9333 Well-Known Member

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    I know, I have too much time on my hands....... not really, I just procrastinate :p
     
  4. yourofl10

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  5. SJP99

    SJP99 Well-Known Member

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    Ipod Touch game player person like thing????
    11th dimension
    all right!!!! internet high five bro
     
  6. GunSmith

    GunSmith Well-Known Member

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    Ridiculous


    I don't beleive you even own an iPad.
     
  7. MidianGTX

    MidianGTX Well-Known Member

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    Now have a go at breaking the iPad's hardware!
     
  8. yourofl10

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  9. MidianGTX

    MidianGTX Well-Known Member

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    Ah, solid evidence.
     
  10. aznriceboi13

    aznriceboi13 Well-Known Member

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    to die
    where rice paddies grow...
    anyone can change their profile to make it say they have an iPad ;)
    see now it says iPad under my name
     
  11. worldcup1100

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    .... It's called lying.
     
  12. Kamazar

    Kamazar Well-Known Member

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    This is me.

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  13. yourofl10

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  14. yourofl10

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  15. Hmar9333

    Hmar9333 Well-Known Member

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    Uh... Why?
    I got one imported to Australia about a month and a half ago, I can send you a photo if you want ;)
     
  16. MidianGTX

    MidianGTX Well-Known Member

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    Dude, you're about to get hit by a- O WAIT YOU CAUGHT IT.
     
  17. GunSmith

    GunSmith Well-Known Member

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    You could send me a photo of a penis...doesn't mean it's yours.
     
  18. GunSmith

    GunSmith Well-Known Member

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    The reason I don't believe you is cause I rather you be a total liar than an absolute moron to purposly try to glitch software on a product with a base price of $500 usd. Unless you were conducting some kind of durability test for let's say...statisitical reason or for feedback to people (which you didn't state, all you said was you were board)

    so I feel better telling myself that your just fibbing cause it's less painful than believing that your that dumb.

    Excuse the typos
     
  19. GunSmith

    GunSmith Well-Known Member

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    ^^^^^that coupled with the fact that you actually made a thread about this...


    Nuff said
     
  20. CaptainAwesome

    CaptainAwesome Well-Known Member

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    ...Or maybe the reason you feel better about yourself is because you're finding reasons to make fun of iPad owners to justify you not having one yet.

    And it's not necessarily "dumb" to glitch your software. Kinda like a stress test. He knew that he had a restore to fall back on. You're not going to completely render the device useless by simply screwing with the software/firmware.

    Just sayin'.
     

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