Select menus on iPhone 4.2.1 don't open reliably

[ciufolicius]

I have a problem related to select menus on iPhone. Most of the time they need 2 clicks(taps) in order to be expanded. Native ones are working ok. I am using iPhone 4 and jqm version 1.0.
Steps to reproduce:
-add select menus to a page
-click one of them, the options list will not expand

[chrisRagland]

I can confirm this issue. Reproduced on a 2nd Gen iPod Touch (iOS 4.2.1). Select menus will not open at all, instead Safari just zooms into the select menu.

edit: Discovered more strangeness. Using http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/forms/selects/ for testing, all of the "non-themed" examples do not work, but every "themed" examples (under the "Theming selects" section header) do.

edit 2: And the difference on those select menus is data-native-menu="false". I still want to figure out why the select menu picker that shows up on iPads and other iOS devices isn't working on the iPod Touch (4.2.1)...

[ciufolicius]

I actually discovered the problem in my case, it's the jquery livequery js that was causing select menus not to work.

[chrisRagland]

I'll have to look into that and see if that fixes the issue I was having as well. If not I guess I'll just have to open my own issue.

[agcolom]

tested http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/forms/selects/ on iPad1 iOS 4.3.1 and iPod Touch 2 iOS 4.3.3 and all works fine.

[agcolom]

Also tested with iPod Touch iOS 3.0 and again all working fine.

[chrisRagland]

How did you get iOS 4.3.3 on your iPod Touch 2nd Gen? I'm stuck on 4.2.1 with iTunes telling me that my device is up to date.

edit: Just tried again, the select menus are still not opening on my iPod Touch. I removed all cookies/cache and reset all settings with no change. The screen just zooms in on the select menu. No problem on an iPad 1 or on the iOS Simulator on OSX.

[agcolom]

@chrisRagland It was the os on it when I bought it. Not sure when that was exactly. Maybe June or July 2011?

[agcolom]

@chrisRagland Oups! I think I actually have an iPod Touch 4th gen! It's the one with the camera! Sorry for the confusion.

[agcolom]

@chrisRagland I've checked with a 2nd gen and it's only offering to update to 4.2...

[toddparker]

@chrisRagland - Are you still seeing this issue with 1.1.0? We have a 4.3 test device and a 3.2 but not 4.2 unfortunately. Sorry to hear you're marooned on such a random version!

[chrisRagland]

I no longer have the device to test on. Select menus work properly on all of the test devices I have now, even though I haven't upgraded to 1.1.0 yet. Thanks for following up though. Guessing it isn't going to be that big of an issue with how little of a market share that version of iOS has now.

[toddparker]

I think I'm going to close this one then, we have earlier and later versions that work fine. If anyone chimes in with this issue and can help us test, we'll give it a look but at most this might just be a buggy version that we can't really fix anyway.