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Completely dead ipad - will not charge

Hope someone can offer suggestions

this is a 64MB wifi ipad I have had since 30th April. I love it and it has been excellent until today.

I had used it yesterday evening and it still had 55% showing on the battery - so it was just switched off overnight and left (no wifi running there is no signal where I am as we are away from home in our motorhome and I only charge it when it drops to 20%). Now it has been being charged bias it's mains lead via an inverter

When I looked this morning it was dead - I thought it odd but plugged it in to charge - only there was not the usual start up just nothing. And nothing still later

as I not home I do not have access to a mains socket or my computer

any thoughts would be appreciated

carol

Ipad 64 wifi and ipone 3g, Windows main comp and windows 7 netbook

Posted on Jun 15, 2010 3:28 PM

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Posted on Jul 20, 2010 10:09 AM

Same issue. Holding down the two buttons worked for me as well, but had to keep them down for 15 seconds.

I really want to know what happened.
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Aug 24, 2011 2:43 PM in response to carolweavee

Same issue found this post here on Google search for dead ipad battery, what really bothers me is that my Ipad was completly shut down, I went on Vacation for one week, came back and the ipad that was turned off, was completly dead, now that bothers me because there is no reason for this behavior, plugged up the ipad via the supplied usb port, (nothing) no charge, get the red battery of death,😠


Dug around until I found my un-used AC charger, (took an hour to find it)


And it started up right away, no problems, at all;, showed a 2 percent charge, so regardless of a manual or not, what bothers me is that I have had this ipad for one year, and never had any problems at all out of it, so why a dead battery issue, what is the cause of this behavior, that is what I am interested in learning more about.

Oct 10, 2017 12:02 AM in response to Sheepdog007

My 1st Gen iPad Mini has a habit of not charging recently. It’s been dead for 3 days now. Tried every trick even the hard reset to no avail. I just plugged it into a PC with iTunes now and its back to life now. It’s charging as we speak. I don’t think it’s the battery because it drains normally and it’s still giving me 10hours.

Jul 14, 2010 3:54 PM in response to carolweavee

Good tip on holding down home button and sleep/wake button for about 10 seconds.

This fixed my dead iPad problem. When it came back on it was 84% battery so the issue with it going dead was not a weak battery.

The iPad was working for me about noon today and then around 3:30pm, I went to use it again and it was completely dead. I pressed and help the sleep/wake button and no luck.

Did not drop it or be rough with it, it was just DEAD.

Came online to see if others were having the same issue and found this tip. Hurray!!!!

Anyway this is a very good tip and I bet it fixes most DEAD IPAD issues.

Completely dead ipad - will not charge

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