Why iPad can't hide Status Bar from splash?

Question

Greetings everyone!

I'm curious about what could solve this. I'm working on an universal app, on my iPod Touch and iPhone the status bar hides from the start of the splash image animation. However, on the iPad it only hides until the splash image is gone.

This is what i have in my AppDelegate:

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {    
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];
    [window addSubview:viewController.view];
    [window makeKeyAndVisible];
    [[UIDevice currentDevice] setOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight];
}

In my info.plist... "Status bar is initially hidden" is checked. And my code isn't setting the status bar visible again on any moment.

Any idea on what could be causing this?

Thanks.