I’ve had an iPad for over a week. I’m enjoying it. I always avoid iTunes on all of my devices. But… I had a need to sync the iPad to load some photos. iTunes was, in theory, the “easiest” way to do this. iTunes did sync the photos. But it broke my iPad in the process.

In almost 2 weeks of heavy use I’d never seen a wifi problem with my iPad and didn’t even know one existed until I synced it with iTunes. BEWARE. Here’s the deets:

When I synced the iPad, iTunes starts to install every single app I’ve ever purchased/installed on my iPhone. This includes all of the apps I’ve deleted from my iphone. So I interrupt it and tell iTunes not to sync apps. iTunes then says it must remove ALL of the apps from my iPad. ALL. This is done as a retarded DRM measure and is one of the top reasons why I hate iTunes. This does nothing to prevent piracy but instead punishes the loyal paying customer, me.

Anyone who wants to pirate any app in the App Store and install it for FREE can simply jailbreak their device, go to http://thepiratebay.com and download and install every damned paid app in the app store. This is easy and is perpetrated constantly by those so inclined. Apple is behaving like every other FAILED organization who doesn’t understand security. In an attempt to mitigate (loss) risk they punish the innocent while doing nothing to stop the actual threat. For other similar examples see PC Game DRM or anything the TSA has ever done.

1. I don’t want most iphone apps on my iPad
2. I definerly don’t want apps I’ve deleted from my iPhone on my iPad or my iPhone.
3. I DO want access to apps I have purchased for my iPhone on my iPad but I will install them through the app store without iTunes, thank you.
4. I DO NOT want to hav to select from the 500+ apps, which ones to sync.
5. All I wanted really was for iTunes not the fuck with my apps at all. Just install the goddamned pictures!!!

Once I synced and let iTunes remove all of my apps, the iPad had the wifi bug. It still has it.

Apple has acknowledged a wifi problem with iPads. The symtoms vary but the iPad either drops the wifi connection, drops and forgets the password, or drops during lock/hibernate. Mine is doing the last and I suppose least irritating of these. Upon lock (and sitting for multiple minutes) it drops the wifi connection and must be manually reconnected in settings.

Nothing changed on my infrastructure. The iPad immedialty started losing wifi on sleep/lock after syncing. All other devices, including macs and iphones maintain a consistent wifi connection. This is not an issue with my router (WRT54G) this is an issue with the iPad firmware. This issue DID NOT appear until after iTunes molested my iPad.

I’ve been trying several things to get it back to normal. So far nothing has worked. I’ll post something if I fix it.

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FIXED!!!
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Changing iPad brightness fixed the problem. As indicated In the apple support doc referenced above. I still hate iTunes.

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