I have an original iPad that won't boot as it is showing the Apple logo and restarting then showing it again, and when I enter DFU mode and try to restore it with iTunes, I get an error code 2015.
Any ideas?
Yes,
If you have no backups of BOTH the data AND its apps for this almost 12-year old, 2010 iPad, 1st generation, then forget it now.
Any type of full reset of this device will render this iPad almost useless.
Also, Sometime in mid 2021, Apple made changes to its activation servers that now check device activation validation through the Safari Web browser, now.
If you had been using that over 5-year old Safari Web browser to accesss the Internet, I suspect that this was the reason your old, almost 12-year old iPad, probably went into DFU mose.
That Safari Web browser is now, most 9-years old and is NOT safe and secure to use to accesss the Internet, any longer
ANY other third party Web browser was, at least, over 5-years old, as well.
I, also, suspect with this new device activation method, that old Safari Web browser may no longer be able to negotiate getting by Apple's new activation authentication server processes/protocols and allowing that old iPad to be re-activated.
I, also, suspect that Apple didi this to silently and permanently end use of these over 9-10-year old iPad models on their networks, pretty much completely ending the use of these very old iOS devices.
Apple's own older proceedures, my own procedures, as well as those from others, may no longer be effective to re-activate these very old iPad models, any longer.
If this is your ONLY iPad model, then it is time for something new or much, MUCH newer.
NO third party apps exist, any longer, for any old 9-12-year old iPad models.
These iPads have been obsolete, for, at least, the past 3 years.
I am sorry that you had to learn all of this, but this does not change any of the facts regarding these very old iOS devices.
Please recycle this old Apple device properly and responsibly.
Sorry & Best of Luck to You!
Yes,
If you have no backups of BOTH the data AND its apps for this almost 12-year old, 2010 iPad, 1st generation, then forget it now.
Any type of full reset of this device will render this iPad almost useless.
Also, Sometime in mid 2021, Apple made changes to its activation servers that now check device activation validation through the Safari Web browser, now.
If you had been using that over 5-year old Safari Web browser to accesss the Internet, I suspect that this was the reason your old, almost 12-year old iPad, probably went into DFU mose.
That Safari Web browser is now, most 9-years old and is NOT safe and secure to use to accesss the Internet, any longer
ANY other third party Web browser was, at least, over 5-years old, as well.
I, also, suspect with this new device activation method, that old Safari Web browser may no longer be able to negotiate getting by Apple's new activation authentication server processes/protocols and allowing that old iPad to be re-activated.
I, also, suspect that Apple didi this to silently and permanently end use of these over 9-10-year old iPad models on their networks, pretty much completely ending the use of these very old iOS devices.
Apple's own older proceedures, my own procedures, as well as those from others, may no longer be effective to re-activate these very old iPad models, any longer.
If this is your ONLY iPad model, then it is time for something new or much, MUCH newer.
NO third party apps exist, any longer, for any old 9-12-year old iPad models.
These iPads have been obsolete, for, at least, the past 3 years.
I am sorry that you had to learn all of this, but this does not change any of the facts regarding these very old iOS devices.
Please recycle this old Apple device properly and responsibly.
Sorry & Best of Luck to You!
Sorry, just saw the other post.
iPad 1st generation boot-looping and cannot restore
