Ipad screen has a massive grey bar through it??

For a follow-up on this....it was my LCD screen. I bought a replacement on eBay for ~$70 then had to pull the thing apart. PITA install but not too hard...if your iPad is busted what do you have to lose? I woudln't spend more than $100 to fix it but it is nice to have a spare with 3G for trips and such.

Word of advice, buy a screen with GOOD tools, my tools all broke (cheap plastic) and I had to buy a Torx screwdriver since I was sent a philips head. duhh?

Second, amazingly enough a guitar pick is a really good tool to open this thing up. Buy spare clips, they will break...and if you really want a clean new look, buy a new bezel (rubber grommit around the screen and case).

Took me about 30 minutes after watching some videos online...not all videos are the same, look at a couple of them...everyone has a few good tips the others leave out.

I also have the iPad 1 that was bought for me as a Christmas gift. Then this year I bought a Ipad2 , my grandson bought my old ipad an after 3 months same thing happened gray bar. I agree 100 % anyone that has this problem should start class action lawsuit. It's a crying shame that us consumers pay big bucks for something like this, and now it's unusable . Apple needs to give all of new iPad

Looks like apple didn't like my last post inquiring about anyone knowing a lawyer to take on this class action. They deleted it within minutes.

I think it is so despicable that they aren't doing anything about it. There is obvious a huge flaw with the display in the 1st generation iPad and their answer is to have you basically buys a new one?

How ridiculous is that?

Add another to the list. Mine was a Christmas Present, you guessed it, Dec 2010. I loaded a bunch of pictures onto it so that I could upload them to Facebook, I put it down to take my son to the bathroom, and when I came back it had the grey bar of death. I tried all the restart fixes, and nothing worked, so I'm going to take to the Apple Store to see what they say. I've had my eye on a Galaxy Note anyway. This is probably just the instigator. So sad that I'm losing all my kids' little "projects" that they saved to the hard drive.

The gray horizontal bar showed up a few days ago. No probelm since buying the orginal iPad until now. Apple will not do anything. I did back it up and reset it to factory settings but same bar appears. Quite frustrating.

I have two original ipad one of the had the gray bar... And being the crazy guy I am I decided to take off the screen of both of them and switched them ... This concluded my annoying investigation that I searched all over the Internet with no answer that the lcd is the problem ... The one that worked correctly before the switched had a gray bar after switching the screens ... Easy fix and ordering the lcd on eBay since I don't want to buy new ipad for my 8 year old lol ... Hope this answers everyone's question :)

You dont have to be a techie but you do need nimble hands and the right tools...read my previous post. Buy the right screwdriver and replacement clips. Watch at least 3 videos, for whatever reason every video I watched had some unique clue how to do this best. Guitar pick (medium) worked best to pry this sucker apart....thats the hard part.

If u can't be careful or have patience to take off the screen and change the lcd then u shouldn't do it yourself .. I have some experience repairing iPhones so i somewhat know what to do and with help of a video to take off the screen I was able to do so ... It's around 70 dollars for the lcd on eBay and my local ipad repair store charges 120 to repair it with the screen .... If U don't trust yourself repairing this I recommend u have someone else do it :)

Hi.. guess I'm not alone..but beleive it or not after being frustrated with the fact it cannot be repaired by any Apple service centre.. I opened my pad today after over 2 weeks and WOW.. Its up and runing like before!!.. no idea how it happened.. letss ee if its a permanent repair or just a matter of time..

Another one to add to the ever growing list of iPads with thick white/grey and coloured lines!!

Have an appointment in Apple store so will find out then the final outcome although already been have been advised the cost will be £206 for repair.

One minute working perfectly next minute nothing at all!!!

Guess what?? Add me to the list!! I got my Ipad 1 as a gift for Christmas 2010. Grey Strip of Death!! Did factory restore to no avail... Wifey asked me if I wanted another Ipad this year... I was like "Are you nuttz... I'm getting the new Galaxy Note 10.1" (2014 version)... This expensive of a gadget should not fail after only 2 years.

Update on iPad fault!! Attended appointment at Genius Bar at Apple store in Glasgow Buchanan Street branch where

iPad was diagnosed with hardware fault.

Extremely helpful staff throughout and was issued with a replacement!!

Great service!

This worked for me, thanks

dustinrwh

Re: iPad Mini Safari scrolling problem

Jan 1, 2013 11:15 AM (in response to amirfromcupertino)

I was dealing with this same issue an my iPad Mini. Here's what I did yesterday and I haven't seen the problem since:

1) Go to Settings >> Safari

2) Turn on Private Browsing

3) Clear Cookies & Data

I cannot guarantee this will always solve the problem, but it has worked for me.

Let me know if that works for anyone else :)

P.S. I'm a developer myself and I would give the software developers a little slack. Programming is more crazy than people think. Most likely they expected the iPad Mini to work exactly like the full-size iPad, but bugs always pop up. It will get fixed :) Chrome is always an alternative if Safari is struggling.

12/22, after listening to a Podcast, my iPAD 1 from August 2010 hits the skids with the gray/black bar plus colored lines to the right. Really ***** because I love that little thing. I will try the Apple Store this weekend. Merry Christmas!!!

Hello 12/31/13 woke up to the Grey/Black bar across the center of screen again if you can guess where the icons are they still function.

So I am going to purchase a new LCD screen and try to replace it. I will get back in a week or so and let ever one know if it works.