iPad won't turn on...

[iPad 2] For the last few weeks after plugging in the charger prior to the battery being fully drained (i.e., plugged in with 50% charge left) I've encountered the below issue:

While still plugged in, I tried to start the iPad. The battery icon appeared with the thin red line indicating that I needed to recharge the iPad despite the fact that it should have been fully charged. Since I already knew about the hard boot -- holding both the home and start buttons -- I tried that. It worked.

If I uplugged the charger, the icon showing the USB cable appeared indicating that I need to plug it in. Again, the hard boot worked.

After each of the above described times, the iPad rebooted showing 100% charge. During the last several weeks, I've done this around 5-10 times and was successful. Great...

However, both last night and this morning I tried doing the hard boot to no avail -- stuck with the battery icon showing the red line indicating no charge.

I'll try to boot it again and will do a reset if I get lucky.

My question is whether or not my iPad is shot.

I set up an appointment at the local Apple "Genius Bar" for this afternoon. Hopefully they'll have an answer.

Fortunately, every thing is backed up as of yesterday (I back up several times per week).

Any input regarding other solutions will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi I have a problem with my ipad4. Last 2 months ago I broke my charger and my dad promised he'll buy me a new one but instead of buying me a new charger asap I received it last week so I haven't really charged my ipad for the past two months and now it won't turn on I tried the wake/sleep and home button but it didn't work I also charged my ipad for 3 days expecting that it would turn on but it didn't happen:'( I don't know what to do:'(

so i dropped my ipad but it wasnt that bad of a drop and then i tried to turn it on and its not working and it also had low battery. I di everything you could possibly imgagine i plugged it in to my computer, i tried to charge it, i restarted it and still nothing. and my whole life is on my ipad and i really need to know how to turn it back on. i dont want to take it to the store just yet because i just got a new iphone and my dad will be very mad. is there anyway that i could turn it on? 😠 plz help im really upset

This happened to me also. Thank you so much for your help!!!

If this happens again put iPad in recovery mode and wipe data then turn it on with power botton and home screen botton

It worked on the first try! Thanks!

Thank you so much.. Your solution helped me. i was very much worried since my iPad didnt turn on even after 6 hours charging and after trying out other solutions.

Hi my Ipad wont turn on, I did what this forum told me to do, but with no luck. When i connect my Ipad the computer say One of the USB Device not recognized

something like that but when i put my IPhone it connect right away,. and its on the same USB plug with the same cable but the computer wont detect the IPad

I had the SAME problem, I thought my IPad was "DEAD"!!!! 😮 I've had it for about 4 years now (it's an Ipad2) and I thought it was beyong fixing. 😢

But I found your question and their solution and WHOLLA!!! It came right on! The "Apple" stayed lit with no status bar but I followed the "other directions" below and it explained to connect your Ipad to a computer and sign in to Itunes and suddenly my IPad came BACK TO LIFE!!!!! OMG I am SOOO happy! And it still has ALL it's data (thank God cause I have tons of stuff on there and game data too!) and I am glad that I am not the only one this happened to. *It must be a common problem or 'default' with Ipads??* Anyway, thanks for your question and thanks whoever posted the answer! Now I know what to do when/if it happens again. 🙂

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I have a fairly new iPad 4. Less than a year old. Updated the OS last week after the new security update was released only to have my battery draining ridiculously fast after whether I used the iPad or not. Battery died Sunday and I've been charging but the iPad refuses to come on. Tried the home and Power button thing for 2 minutes and still nothing. Plugged it into a pc with iTunes and the pc doesn't even recognize it. HELP PLEASE!!

i want to ask about my ipad 1

before i want to update her version 7.5.0