I've had my iPad for almost 5 and half years now, and nothing has been an issue up to this point, until I went to France this Summer.
I was using the iPad to read on in my room, mum comes in talk for a minute, then I turn my attention back to my iPad, to find the screen off. I then found it would not turn on with the Home or Sleep buttons, after thinking it had just gone to sleep.
After calming down and trying to think logically, I thought the problem might just be a simple charging fault because it was getting on in years and that I figured the charge had been low the last I had checked, and that would solve the problem. Turned out leaving it to charge for an hour did nothing but warm the iPad a bit.
My brother then suggest the brilliant idea of going online and looking up if there are any solution others could provide and save my from this **** I've fallen into.
Looking through this chat room was a stroke of luck, I found a few different problem solver, such as:
- Hold down the Power Off button, for a few minutes.
- Press the Home + Sleep (Power) buttons down at the same time, 2 or 3 times consecutively.
These seemed to work fine for some people and their iPads but my attempt turn up with nothing. But what work for me was:
Hold down the Home + Sleep buttons for 5 to 15 seconds (about 6 work for me).
This work wonders to my delight, but I'm not sure if it worked so well because I tried the other methods before trying this one (?)
Anyway just give them a ago, it seems that an iPad can go completely dead whether you've had it for a few months or years like mine, and I still don't know way it did it, but for the time being I'm happy its working 🙂.