Appium codeception iOS simulator error: could not find any webviews yet refreshing/retrying

When I try to launch safari on iPad simulator and do $I->amOnPage("http://www.amazon.com"). Safari browser is launched but is stuck at http://ift.tt/1Kac4qh. I see in appium logs this warning "could not find any webviews yet refreshing/retrying" and then nothing happens.

I use Appium 1.4.8, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, codeception 2.1.2, XCode 6.4. I have no idea what I am doing wrong. I looked up online and some said I should be running ios_webkit_proxy_launcher. I tried running that on 27753 with -c and simulator UDID -d options and retried my test. Still no change. ios proxy starts up but has no logs whatsoever. These are the desired capabilities I am using :

modules:
enabled:
    - WebDriver
config:
     WebDriver:
        url: 'http://www.amazon.com'
        connection_timeout: 500
        request_timeout: 500
        browser: 'safari'
        host: 127.0.0.1
        port: 4723
        capabilities:
          browserName: 'safari'
          platformVersion: "8.4"
          platformName: "iOS"
          deviceName: 'iPad Retina'
          connection_timeout: 500
          request_timeout: 500

Any ideas? Thanks.

However I can get things to work fine with PHPUnit! Dont know whats going on with codeception.