Battery charging is tooooo slow

Are you sure you are using the iPad charger and not an iPhone or iPod charger? they are lower wattage and will be very slow. That sounds like the culprit you mention for extremely slow charging.

If it is the correct charger, it would be advisable at this time to take the unit to an Apple Retail store and have them check it out. The iPad should be taken to shutdown once a month and then recharged. That is Apple's recommendation for best battery life.

But taking it to shutdown does not go to 0% charge, the unit auto-shutsdown at 1% charge so it can maintain volatile setting information.

Restarting and forcing the battery charge to go lower than designed may have upset the iPad a bit. However, it should recharge. The very slow charging may be its way of displaying its view of what you did.

Anyway, without giving too much personality to the iPad, that deep discharge should not have done physical damage, but it may have lost some of its settings information in the process and not be sure of what to do. If it is charging, even slowly, charge it as fully as you can before using again. Even if the iPad has not been formally introduced in your country, it might be worth the effort to talk to the Apple Store and see if they can check the unit for you...they usually have the information to check and see there is not something actually wrong with the Apple products.

Is your charger compatible with the electricity where you are?

This sounds like you could have a faulty charger, or a bad battery in the iPad...can you get your hands on another iPad charger to try? You need to use an iPad charger and not one for an iPod or iPhone as they are lower wattage. The iPad will charge from them but at a very slow rate. The iPad charger is rated at 10 Watts, 100-240 volts at 50-60 Hertz.

So your line power in Dubai should not be an issue with the charger.

Dropping the charge from 60% to 59% with an hour of use is not bad since the battery life is quoted to be UP TO 10 hours...which would be 10% per hour.

The iPad goes into sleep mode automatically when you plug it in to charge so that is normal behavior.

But that it charges very slowly on another charger sounds like the problem is not your charger. It would be a good idea at this point to call Apple support and talk to them about the slow charging and see if they can do something even if the unit is not available officially in your country.

They may tell you to take it through a complete cycle again and see what happens.

Apple calls a complete discharge/charge cycle taking the iPad to the point that it shuts off...mine does that at 1% charge. Whatever I am doing, iPad goes to the home screen that shuts off. Plug it in and it says 1% charge and then goes to sleep and charges. That seems to to charge faster than normal when going from some mid-level charge.

There was another thread on here about the meaning of Apple's battery guidance,

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2645024&tstart=15

that talks about some of the different guidelines they give.

I think the difference is in that you took the charge to shutdown, then brought it back up and used in some more. Try taking it only to shutdown and then charge and see if that clears the problem.

Did some checking and here is a little more about the problems of completely discharging Lithium-Ion batteries:

+Most laptops will suspend operation if the battery drains too low. Even if your computer goes to sleep, though, most batteries that are in good working order will still have a reserve charge available. This reserve will hold the computer’s working memory in state for a little while. A deep discharge has occurred when even that percentage of reserve power is used up. The computer will have turned off completely, and sometimes you’ll notice that it will have lost track of the correct date and time. Deep discharges will strain your batteries, so try to charge them frequently.+

Take the time to do a complete charge and see how the battery behaves after that.

It may work ok, but the battery may have been damaged with the very deep discharge. Let us know what you find.

I think it would be a good time to take the iPad to an Apple retailer or talk to customer support about repair. Apple is very good about service. You can find the closest to your location through the apple.com website.

After hoping the unit would wake up after charging and behave normally, it does not sound like that is going to happen. Instead of getting more frustrated, talk with the Apple people and see about resolving the hardware issues.

Best of luck and hope this gets fixed.