Completely dead ipad - will not charge

We also had an instance of this yesterday, and this thread was good to find!

Thank you! Thank you! i didnt want to lose all my photos (most of my apps are free and I can reinstall them, then link to reinstate my user). Mine had about 70% charge when it woke up! Definately not a battery problem.

Mine had 30% battery, left it on charge overnight. Woke up this morning and totally dead. Have tried both buttons at the same time, with it plugged in and without but still nothing.

Will take to the Apple store later

Many many thanks.
My iPad is back to life. I hold the wake/sleep button together with the home button for less than 10 seconds, the apple logo came up to the screen and in a few seconds it started working again.

Sounds like the iPad dying is a common problem. I'm wondering what happens to cause this to happen???

It happened to me today and my battery was at 85%, so like others it wasn't a low battery or anything that was or wasn't done to the iPad. I also was using it just fine, left it for awhile and when I came back it was totally dead. When this happens, it won't respond by being plugged in to the wall or the computer.

Fortunately the holding of the sleep button and the home button at the same time will reset it and cause it to start working. That didn't work for me at first but did wake up later when I was about to give up. It suddenly came on so I could stop having a heart attack 🙂

Thanks for the help received on the discussion. This board is wonderful!

Carol

Thankyou, thankyou for this two button tip!
Had exactly the same problem - suddenly completely dead. Np reaction when connected to power or to computer. After holding both buttons for about 10 seconds started up with apple logo. Had 83% battery, so that doesn't seem to be an issue.

Exactly the same problem. Panic! Battery at 52% when it came back to life with this tip. Also about 10 seconds of 'hold-down'. The power of the Internet wins again! No idea where the tip originated from. Apple? However this appears to be a fairly common problem.

Hi had same problem, did the home+sleep and could restart my Ipad. Saves me a lot of hassle. Thanks

People we are dealing with two different situations. Those of you who were able to restore by going into recovery mode are not faced with what I'm going through this very second.

My ipad won't sync, won't charge, continuously turns itself on and off by switching from Apple startup to red battery of death screen, will not restore in recovery mode, dfu mode.

If you're iPad actually syncs with your itunes when connected, and you're giving the option to restore through itunes even though it's not charging, we'll that's yesterdays news.

I think there is only a couple folks on this thread who are dealing with this issue. Like me for 3 days now of trouble shooting, have what I'm officially calling "iPad Ebola Syndrome"! looks like i'm getting a replacement iPad.

This could end up being a huge issue for apple and the iPad.

THANX a MILLION. That fixed my issue. So happy. Pity that the iPad doesn't come with a more explicit user manual or trouble shooting guidelines. Anyway, thanx again.

I have had the same problem a couple of times and I can offer this to "help".
iPad 64 3G
iOS 4.2 (or whatever the newest one is at the writing of this)
Both times this happened the iPad was at 85-89% charge, I had been using it normally, I think one time I was watchning Netflix the other, just surfing using stumbleupon as a app.
I did not shut down the iPad, I just put it down and expected it to "sleep" after 2 minutes.
In both instances I came back about 1-3 hours later and it was completely "dead" and would not respond to home or sleep/wake independantly. I plugged it into a wall socket and it did not respond after an hour of "charging". I had to do as others have, and hold both home and sleep/wale for about 15 seconds and it came back. When it did it was again somewhere in the upper 80% of a charge (85% or more)

It would seem that this problem is related to the "sleep mode" an active screen, and maybe a certain battery percentage (or maybe battery percentage has nothing to do with it, it just do happens that both times mine was at 85%+)

All great fixes - thanks much! But is Apple working on this? Is this a bug? What's up?

Thanks so much for the 2 button tip!! I was getting real depressed!!! Someone is so smart!!!!

Judymack62 wrote:
Thanks so much for the 2 button tip!! I was getting real depressed!!! Someone is so smart!!!!

Lots of a smart folks here and, for the rest of us, there's always the manual ...

From the Tips & Troubleshooting section of the User Guide:

*Restarting and Resetting iPad*
If something isn’t working right, try restarting iPad, force quitting an app, or resetting iPad.

*Restart iPad* Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the red slider appears. Slide your finger across the slider to turn off iPad. To turn iPad back on, press and hold the Sleep/Wake until the Apple logo appears.
*Force quit an app* Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button on top of iPad for a few seconds until a red slider appears, then press and hold the Home button until the app quits.

+If you can’t turn off iPad or if the problem continues, you may need to reset iPad. This should be done only if turning iPad off and on doesn’t resolve the problem.+

*Reset iPad: * Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

*iPad Still Doesn’t Respond After Reset*
+Reset iPad settings.+ From the Home screen choose Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings. All your settings are reset, but your data and media aren’t deleted.
If that doesn’t work, +erase all content on iPad+. See Resetting iPad.
If that doesn’t work, +restore the iPad software.+ See Removing a Backup.

Thank goodness for this forum!

My iPad was fully charged, 100%! I went to my email, put the iPad down to do something in the kitchen for 5 minutes...came back, and it was dead. Wouldn't respond to anything. I tried the Home + Sleep button trick on my own, but I guess I didn't hold it down long enough, because it did nothing: black screen of death. Plugged it into the wall outlet, and nada.

Came online to check the forum (typed "iPad dead" in Google) and plugged in the iPad to see if iTunes would wake it up. NOPE.

Then tried the Home/Sleep button trick again, this time holding it down indefinitely until it suddenly came back to life, at 99% battery. WTH?

SO glad it's working, but what in the WORLD made it just die for no reason at all? And in case anyone's wondering, I had NO apps running in the background when I first set it down.

Does Apple know about this issue? Is it a known issue? Is it an OS bug?

Anyway, thank goodness it's now working, but no telling when it'll do the same AGAIN. Sheesh...that's one very expen$ive door stopper!