Completely dead ipad - will not charge

I tried all the suggestions while reading this thread. Nothing worked. Got to the suggestion on warming the ipad under my MacBook - tried that while reading all the threads to the end. (hope you read the last first)

Pulled it out - warm - pushed both buttons - apple logo came up - turned on - battery at 100%. Thank you indeed.

My message to anyone who has this problem is to not give up. My Son's 15 month old 3rd generation iPad died a week ago, got down to about 3% then completely shut down, the red low battery just like everyone else. We kept it plugged in for a few days but only on the 5v charger. And still nothing so went to the apple genius bar who plugged it into a 12v charger which initially helped then back to nothing again. Told us was a major fault and said the only option was to buy a replacement for £250! Brought it home, plugged it into a 12v charger for a couple of days and went through the connect to itunes/restore process about 7 or 8 times until eventually it worked! Had to set it up as new, but now back up to 100% and working fine so all I can say is don't give up!!!!

Have to say thank the Lord for this thread! My iPad died last week, and after following the instruction to hold the sleep and help buttons together it worked.

Unfortunately, when I got in from work today my son said it's gone down again. I tried the above, no joy. I then placed it on a radiator shelf in the hallway. I left it there for an hour or so, plugged it in......and my son was jumping for joy! I don't know what happened, but I found it weird that applying heat would fix it.

Thank you all.

I just came here to find out why my iPad 2 seemed to die on my yesterday afternoon. I had just connected A DURO FACIO Wireless Keyboard and Folio to my iPad and followed the instructions to set it up and got it going and was able to type on it and so forth. I was pleased and then went out for the evening. When I got home several hours later I found the iPad seeming dead and it would not respond. I tried plugging it in to charge for three hours to no avail. I started reading the posts on this thread and then decided to go to the end, which I should have done in the first place. I tried the tip of holding both home and sleep buttons and began counting. It started back up after about 12 seconds and it still showed 100% charge. All I can figure is that I forgot to turn off the wireless keyboard and it caused the iPad to shut down completely.

Hope this helps others and I am certainly going to be careful to turn off the wireless keyboard from now on.

Dan in San Diego

My iPad was charged to around 50% and mysteriously shut off. I plugged it in, tried restarting, etc. Nothing worked until I found this thread. I had to hold down the 2 buttons for about 15 seconds and then the apple appeared. It seems ok now.

My iPad is 14 mos old. Completely dead, won't turn on. Took it to the Apple "Genius" bar today. They basically told me to go pound sand. Very rude service, felt totally disrespected. They said my option was to buy a new one or exchange it for a refurbished one for $300. I have purchased a lot of Apple products in the past but this was the last straw for me. If anyone in my company gave customer service like this, I would fire them. I think I am going to buy a laptop from a company that will stand behind their products.

Mine died at exactly 14 months too! And they told me the same thing about paying for a refurbished one. Ridiculous! I will never buy another ipad. I never dropped it or left it in a cold or hot place. It made no sense. It was also totally charged. I keep trying to hold the buttons down and left it charging to no avail. I'm pretty ****** at their customer service regarding this issue.

Mi iPad had 1% battery life left, kept shutting off, just appeared dead. I tried everything including holding the Home and Reset buttons together for the 10 seconds. Nothing. Then I remembered reading that by taking out the Sim Card you can bring it back to life. So, I used the end of a paperclip to push it out by pushing the tip into the little hole at the bottom of the side of the volume buttons. Be careful! My card and holder FLEW out! I replaced it within 10 seconds and immediately the Apple appeared. It is now charging properly again.

Also, I often forget to close all my applications and notice the battery dies faster if I don't hit the Home button twice and swipe the open apps up to close them. I've gotten so much help from you guys that I hope this helps somebody.

My iPad would not respond to the 2-button reset and to being connected to the charger all day. Then I read the suggestions of putting the iPad on the heater or under the MacBook to warm it up. Having no heater 'cause I live in the tropics, I decided to try warming it up with a hair dryer. Very carefully, always checkng with my hands that the iPad would not be toasted I warmed the backside for about 5-7 minutes. Frustrated that it did not work I left the iPad on the table with the charger connected. And suddenly a familiar beep surprised me. The iPad had come back to life with 100% battery. So resetting and warming the iPad does the trick. Thanks for the "warm" suggestion.

Thanks. Had the same deadly cycle of starting to charge then dying. Found because it has gone dead (maybe cold weather and low charge) and I was using a 5w (ipod) charger it wouldnt reboot it. Found a 10w charge and straight away come on with a 2% charge and now fully charging up.

Okay, I've also been having a lot of Difficulty with my ipad, my family and I bought it christmas of 2012, so that means that the warranty is up. The ipad was charging since roughly around 12 am at night up until 1pm, right now i have the Ipad sitting next to me, plugged into my Macbook Air. There is no response from the computer acknowleding that it is plugged in. The ipad has not responded either I have tried the power button + home button trick but nothing. i'm not sure what to do? Any suggestions?

For what its worth, mine was dropped (but had a cover on it), no obvious damage and despite plugging into power that night the battery was draining in the morning and went into death cycle.

By switching the charger from 5w to 10w and after 30mins of charging it fixed the problem. All the other attempts such as warming up ipad etc did not work.

Thanks guys for this post. It has saved me a great deal! My wife's I pad mini just went dead yesterday. We could not charge neither could we turn it on, so worked up!! Then I came across these instructions which I followed diligently. After pressing both Power and Home buttons for 20 seconds, it came back to life with 73% battery charge. Well, I'm happy but still seeking answers from Apple Inc, what is this characteristic problem? Can we officialize it's solution?

Put it in front of a heater to warm it up.

mine wouldnt start showed flat battery icon, tried pushing home and start button nothing would work.

I warmed it up and it started as soon as i pluged it in to the power.

I placed my Ipad on top of my laptop keyboard for 20 minutes or so and it woke up when I tried the reset. This was after nearly a week on vacation, trying all the other methods. Thanks for the tip, I would never have thought of it. Can't quite imagine why it does, either. But thanks again...