Completely dead ipad - will not charge

hi thanks for your tip, did me great help

The same sympton happens to me. This is about one year after purchased the iPad. The trick of hodling down home and sleep a few times work for me. iPad came back to life with 48% battery. I hope that someone in Apple should look into this.

Same issue here! We have an iPad that just all of a sudden stopped working. We wondered if it just wasn't charged, but it was plugged in for awhile and seemed to not take a charge. Pressing the power button did nothing. Tried this "home button/power button" trick, and we now have the charge symbol with the red battery...so at least it's alive! I'll check back in a bit with a report of whether or not it took a charge. Unlike others on the board, ours doesn't go to the home screen...only the battery, so it seems that it's not charged at all.

Oh, and interestingly enough...my Google search was "Completely Dead iPad", which is the exact title of this thread!

Woohoo! iPad is back alive. It's showing the home screen and saying it's 7% charged, so it was probably just really, really, dead. Or maaaayyyybbbeeeee, it's just Friday the 13th gremlins.

thank goodness for you guys, mine just did the same today, 80% charge when I was using it around 2pm,and dead as a dodo when I picked it back up after a couple of hours, I was more worried about the stuff I had lost than the actual ipad but the brilliant tips got me going again (it was still showing 80% charge when it came back on). I did need to hold down both buttons for at least 15-20 secs though

Anyone got any ideas why it happens?

same thing for me, have had ipad 2 for 3 months ...still charged with 60% , used all day and then put away for a few hours When I went to turn it on and it was completely dead, tried pushing sleep/awake buttons, double pressing home and still nothing. Was ready to take it to the apple store today but decided to charge it over night and when I woke up this morning uplugged it and opened the cover and it was fine! whew!

would love to know why this happnens and glad to see others having had the same issue!

Also didn't work for me.. i'm seeing the dead battery image when I tried the 2 button reset trick... left it charging for a few hours but is not working

My iPad 2 purchased just a couple of weeks ago died at almost full charge while I was listening to a meditation on the web. It would not charge, but pressing the HOME and POWER for about 10 seconds (while charging) worked. I did not work while not charging, but I may not have held it long enough.

I am grateful for the fix. I have to reset my iPod every so often, so I guess it's not a big deal--perhaps a software OS issue rather than hardware?

iPad 2, wiFi + 3G, 16GB, Macbook Pro 13", iMac 27", IPod

To ChitChat. Ok, I read all the responses to the problem. Yours and mine were the same. My iPad has not quit unexpectedly with battery at 85%, more or less. Mine has died like you said, when it has run down completely. When I plug it in it beeps once an hour tries to boot and then goes back to sleep and will not charge.

So, I took it to the apple store. The tech hooked up his notebook to my iPad. It reported a good battery. He said that my standby status look peculilar. I do not know what that means...apparently some up time versus not being used time that is accumulated in a status register somewhere.

I got a NEW iPad, version1, to solve the problem. Came from the back of the store, out of a brown box and that was the end of it. That was yesterday. I will see how it goes...but I think there is a hardware revision that is not disclosed to account for the non-charging device.

My iPad(bought in August 2010) died sometime in the last weeks. I had left it alone in my garage for a quite a while. I figure it had discharged completely, so I charged it up. It was dead, so I tried the 2-button trick to no avail. It was working fine some weeks before and all that had happened was discharge in a cool environment.