Completely dead ipad - will not charge

I have exactly the same problem as you. Mine occured after accidentally dropping my ipad from about 80 cm as I was bending over. It hit the corner opposite the charging bay.

Did you ever find a solution to the "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" ?

Holding on the start and home buttons doesn't do anything, unfortunately and itunes won't recognise my ipad either.

I even opened up my ipad to see if any cables were loose.. and they aren't.

Strangely mine was working fine after dropping it.. it was only when it ran out of battery and i went to recharge it, that it wouldn't charge at all.. and keeps showing the apple logo.

Please help! i simply can't afford to pay money for fixing it and my guarantee is already over.

chaolan77 @ daum . net

please let me know what you did?

i have the same red battery .. and apple logo repeatedly showing problem.

chaolan77 @ daum . net

I confiscated my daughter's iPad for a couple of weeks (so she could concentrate on her studies) and as a result the battery died. I tried to recharge it but, left overnight, it still showed the empty battery sign and wouldn't fire up. Fortunately I found this page - and I persevered. It took about 20 attempts to restart pressing both the home and shutdown buttons and eventually the Apple logo appeared. It now seems to be charging normally. So, thanks to whoever discovered this trick - and to those who don't believe it works … keep trying!

Thanks ,worked perfectly

Guys,

Don't try anything, just be patient and allow it to charge for enough time around 30 minutes.

It will automatically start your iPad.

Regards,

Paresh

🙂 Thanks for this we have had our Ipad dead over the weekend and this is the solution, many thanks it works like a dream!

Christopher4780

My ipad 2 when plugged in will just light up, but screen still black. i cant get it to turn on or nothing more than that. How do i fix this problem?

Many thanks Rizk thought i'd lost my ipad this morning your tip worked phew!!!

Holding Sleep/Wake and Home at the same time did the trick for me.

However, in my case, the Apple logo showed for almost 10 minutes before the regular home screen came back on. So be patient when you do this, your iPad might take a while to recover.

my ipad also just died with no warning last week. The screen froze and would not respond to anything. I've tried the 2 buttons and it did bring up the apple logo but then it went away in 5 sec. No reboot, no nothing! Just a dead ipad! I did the same thing 20 times and the result were all the same. Finally, I've managed to conect to itune and then did the 2 buttons for 15 sec. itune recognize the ipad and then I went through the complete recovery procedure to bring my ipad back (about 2 hours). Now I have a very interesting problem! whenever i go to settings -> general -> usage, the ipad will reboot itself. Anybody have any clue of how to deal with this problem? Will there be other apps that will trigger the reboot? I'm on ios 6! Thanks for your help!

Yes, the iPad completely dying is the REAL issue here. For those who are posting that they are able to turn their iPads back on after going into recovery mode, you clearly donʻt understand the larger issue. The iPad actually can die even after attempting recovery mode and trying to restore your system. Iʻve been reading on other forums as well where people are getting various error messages that prevent the iPad from ever coming back to life. Since I tried everything I possibly can troubleshooting wise, short of taking the **** thing apart, I took it to Apple and even they told me it was a lost cause. They said either replace it or buy a new one. My faith in Apple products has never been shaken until today when I found out I can spend over $400 on a device that lasted me only a year and 7 months and not even the company that manufactured it can do anything about it. I took very good care of my iPad and everything about it is still near to brand new condition. Unfortunately when you have software/firmware issues, a dead iPad is just that. No coming back to life after that.

Thanks for good tip ! Sleep home press it warks

Wow i was panic my ipad wi fi 64 is very dear to me

Suddinly !!!! Dead but seen on screen only time , wifi signal indicator !!

Tried pressing ,home :sleep ! Only take screen photo but

Returned black after flashing , though press was just for a second

After period searching google find this site logged in ist time

I am grateful thanks my lovely ipad resuscitated again .

Thanks for the Home/Sleep advice. Was seriously worried until I found this thread.

My two week old iPad4 had been charging okay both via USB and mains charger. However, I have been having problems with the wi-fi synch which I have been attempting to try and resolve. This involved many resets, rebuilds and reboots of both this iPad4 and my original iPad 1. Having finally decided to bin wi-fi synch until the release of iTunes 11, I decided to rebuild the new iPad from scratch so at least I could use it - only I found that it would NO LONGER CHARGE!!

After some grunt work, I resolved the problem by connecting the iPad to the mains charger and giving it the aforementioned "two-finger salute", but I kept holding the buttons until the apple logo disappeared again. I then unplugged, then replugged in the connector. Voila! The iPad switched itself on and started charging as normal. Obviously, I don't know if this will work for anyone else but I thought I'd throw it into the mix.

As for my case, we left our iPad2 70% charged before going out and when we came home after going out in the mall, we found it dead (red battery screen). My wife put on the charger (10W box charger) thinking the battery just drained like normal. But after 1 hour of charging, it didn't started as normal (usually it boots up automatically after it gained enough level of charge) and the battery status is still showing drained status (red battery screen). I told her maybe it just need more time to charge so I instructed her to keep it charging overnight. But when we woke up, the status didn't changed (iPad2 is still in a dead state - red battery screen). My wife started to worry about her data and pics in the iPad2 (she didn't backed it up for months). I tried pressing the HOME/POWER button for 15 secs (several times) but it didn't responded (it didn't boot up). Then I felt the iPad2 was very cold (touched the back side of the iPad2) as it was left in a cold room, so I thought of having it sit on my laptop's warm keyboard for a couple of minutes (it made the back side of iPad warm). I thought right, it booted afterwards when I pressed the power button with 100% charged.

I don't know how and why it happened but my lucky guess worked and solved my problem. It may happen to you guys and maybe you can give it a try.