iPad Pro hardware failure cooling fixes it

A week ago my 2017 ipad pro repaired for $1000 to replace battery in 2021 started to reboot if playing a graphically intensive game, after a couple of reboots it went into a reboot loop.


Apple store ran some diagnostics, returned it to me as broken beyond repair.


Thinking running it's battery down may clear some cmos fault I let it keep rebooting for 14 hours, no change.


Thinking the unit has a failing capacitor or some silicon or even the battery faulting I put it into the fridge.


Voila, unit functions, if used for say browsing it will run fine for 30 minutes or for gaming about 10 minutes.


I am thinking rather than send it to "recycling" - i.e. burnt and inhaled by poor children in the global south I might try sticking a peltier cooler on the back of it with a stuck on external battery.


Anyone with knowledge of ipad hardware care to comment on:

1: where should a 40mm peltier cooler be placed

2: it won't just crack the screen having a temperature differential will it?


Finally is there any online petitions to plead Apple to make devices more servicable?

I have a 2011 Macbook Air I still use because having a few discrete components and a screwed together chassis is end user maintainable.

I would totally buy an iPad Pro that was twice the thickness which had a battery compartment and discrete graphics given that it would not need to weigh more.


Posted on my chilled 2017 iPad Pro which is deemed "unfixable" by the Apple service center.

Posted on Sep 2, 2023 3:02 PM

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Sep 2, 2023 3:19 PM in response to SparAu

Another question comes to mind, I changed the battery setting to low power mode which seems to have extended the time before a reboot occurs, since I assume it moderately underclocks the cpu / ram.

Is there any way of controlling frequencies so I could underclock it further?

That ?may? fix it enough to not need the cooling.

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