Completely dead ipad - will not charge

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.

Mine did this too... ipad 2 with recent upgrade to 6

took about 20 seconds holding both power and home button before logo came on screen

after all my other problems with it... i thought it was a gonner!

64gb ipad 1 3g wifi - , my battery was low , plugged in 10w charger as usual , message on screen , "charging not supported by this device" battery was at 11% , went online for info and gathered that even though the battery says its not charging it actually is charging so I left it a while to see , Next check battery was saying 2% the the red battery symbol appeared and then screen went black. Unplugged charger and plugged it back in again and battery symbol appeared again only to go again and not reappear since , 3 days 3 different chargers and USB .Tried the 2 button reset loads of times often holding the buttons in for over a minute but nothing.. The ipad was fine untill the battery died so im not understanding whats going on here, but it seems that the people whos ipad was charged before can do a 2 button reset and the ipad comes back with power left in it ., and the ipads where the batterys run flat first seem not to want to respond to 2 button reset charging or anything.

It's not working for me. I tired holding it for mre than 15 seconds It still didnt work! It wont charge either. I plugged it into the computer and its been ages and its still showing that empty battery with a thunderbolt underneath it. It wont turn on! HELP 😟

My Ipad 2 died 4 weeks ago. All of a sudden, the device showed a red screen with a battery logo (and flash). Charged it a whole night; nothing happened. Brought it to a Mac-store, where they tried a DFU reset. This seemed to work, but the battery died again in one minute. The guy in the store condoled me with the dead of my Ipad. Because of lack of garanty (2years) I bought a new one (Ipad 4). I took the dead Ipad 2 with me.

3 days ago I found my old Ipad again. Without really expecting anything I plugged the Ipad in the wall-charger and left it there for 2 days. Yesterday I checked, and as a miracle the abttery was at 100% and the device was running (setup-screen). The last 24 hours everythins seems to be working properly (2,5 hours usage/ 84% battery).

Strange that people at Mac-store couldnt do anything, and now the device seems to have come to life automatically. Only Apple did benefit, cause I paid € 500 for a new Ipad i did not need at the end.

Hope someone can explain what happened......

Did you get any solution to your problem? I have got exact problem like yours. Dropped from a very low height, works fine, syncs to VGA to play on TV, but doesn't charge, doesn't sync to PC. Exchange charge is quite high 😟 Please let me know if you have found a solution or workaround.

Hi. Have the same problem with mine.turns on and off like crazy.like it won't accept the charge. Found a solution, hope it works for you as we'll. try changing ur adapter/ charger to one of a higher wattage.like a 5.5 or 6 watts.it worked like a boost- kinda... Hope this helps

Hello chielepiel

I also have had the same problem, although it has lasted over about 1 1/2 years with an iPad 1st gen. I bought it from a friend at work who said it had been dying, so got it for cheap. Left it plugged in for days, and suddenly it was back to normal!

Since then, every time I have inadvertently let its battery really die (below 5% or so - basically when I just have left it sitting somewhere for days) it has the same problem. But this is after having worked perfectly fine for months.

I am now dealing with it being dead again. It has been plugged into a wall socket for about 2 days now, and I have it now plugged into the computer but constantly have the "plug into iTunes" logo.

It wants me to restore, but when I try it gives me error 21, which means nothing to me.

I took it to the Apple store the other day, and after 3 people checked it, they just came back with "hardware issue". I don't think they try hard enough. They just want you to buy a new one.

I sware if I leave this thing plugged in long enough, it will come back again, like it has at least twice before. Then it will last for months again, if I don't forget to keep it charged. Problem is, does anyone want to deal with this?

There are other better less expensive products on the market that don't do this sort of thing. Sure Apple is great for having made the first one, but they need to get with the picture!

I hate it when the charge malfunction happened, because i do not think it is the ballery itself, i think it is the operating system, because i was having the same problems with my ipad, and apperantly carol70 and rizk's trick to fix it worked, and wow am i amazed. Now i can enjoy a full charge without a battery drainage! ( i cant wait 'till ios 7 comes out this fall )

But mine went dead while being charged! Fortunately, I found this forum and tried holding both buttons and got it alive again--100% charge, but dead as a door knob when I tried to use it tonight. I'm so scared that quality control has suffered--will suffer--with Steve Jobs no longer on the scene. I rely on Apple products, have "sold" them far and wide--and I could be WRONG.

I want Steve Jobs to come back and wave his magic wand over my iPad, because I don't think it is ever coming back again.

It has been plugged into alternating wall/computer now for weeks, along with the occasional "2 button hand job" but still nothing.

The screen does still work, and shows a nice picture of a white USB cord pointing to a happy Apple iTunes music logo.

Guess I am going to have to sell this giant paper weight on Ebay now for parts.

Thank God I didn't put anything important on it!

its work to me too.. when i put out my cover n touch my ipad its very cool. den i left it at my room n close all window for a afternoon with charging my ipad. when nite i back to my room n see my iPad really on n i touch my ipad is warming like human body.. haha. its so funny but amazing rite.

I'm so glad I found this tonight as hubby's iPad 5 just shut down for no reason but the home + wake/sleep button trick worked after a couple of goes :-)

Thinking about it, i seem to recall having to do something similar a few years ago with my iPod

thank you

Hopeful someone can help. We bought a used Ipad 1 for our elderly Mom. She only uses it to play solitaire and thats it. So, received ipad-great condition, looked 9/10 cosmetically. The ebay 45 day seller protection has passed (by only 5 days). Anyway, this ipad is now a black screen, won't turn on, charge, nothing. I connected it to itunes and it promted me with Itunes has detected your ipad is in recovery mode. You must restore this ipad before it can be used with itunes. I click OK, and restore/update. It then extracts software and begins to restore ipad. Problem is, after leaving it connected to my PC overnight it still reads

Preparing ipad software for restore..... In other words, just a continuous loop with no results. Pressing home, sleep, etc provides no results either. Is there anything else I can try before just tossing it in the trash? It's not worth taking it to Apple.

Thank you!

I have a similar situation.... my iPad died, but when I went to charge it again, it won't turn on. It has the battery symbol to indicate that it's charging, but it won't start up! I tried the home button/ sleep button trick like 20 times and nothing happened.... PLEASE help!