itunes won't detect ipad 2

Ok, I was having the same issues with both the iPhone but worse with the iPad. My fix was this: I unplugged all of my USB storage drives (3) and rebooted the PC without them & boom! Both iPhone & iPad sync faster than ever, almost immediately after being connected. I had tried most of the other fixes listed on this thread woithout any results...hope this helps!🙂

hello- I found this forum when I had the same problem as described, and it looks as though I've got it all working now. Got a brand new Ipad2 and was using the same netbook and Itunes I use for an Iphone 4 and Ipad 1.

What worked for me is to go into Device Manager, and find the Ipad under other devices. Click on it- if you see it, it will likely have a little question mark on it. I then clicked on update driver, clicked on search automatically for driver updates- update was found and installed- and then my Ipad2 was recognized by Itunes, and setup is proceeding thusly without issue.

I also changed the power management of the USB ports to not hibernate, but I don't think that had anything to do with what worked for me.

I have now managed to get the iPad to connect to my main pc as well as my netbook. What I did was to delete all the apple connectivity cable drivers and then to re install iTunes and the drivers from scratch. This seems to have done the trick. It appears that there were several versions of the drivers and software on my pc and it only wanted one fresh new set of programs to work from.

hi guys,

I have a laptop running opensuse 11.4. Of course there's no app for connecting my ipad to linux by now but i have Virtual Machine running Windows XP 32-bit. Same problem about connectivity.

Now it works. First time i connected the ipad the VM detected it as a Camera Device. So i did the following

1.- uninstall it from control panel under system menu.

2.- connected and disconnected the ipad 3 times and suddenly itunes recognized it.

Before this i updated itunes to the latest version

Have good luck guys!

I had the same issue on my work laptop XP Pro, here is how I fixed it.

1) go to device manager (right click on my computer and select manage)

2) select device manager

3) right click on imaging devices

4) select APPLE IPAD or APPLE IPHONE and then right click

5) update driver

6) select choose from a specific location (advanced)

7) tick the first option its called (search of the best driver in these locations)

8) make sure you tick this box (include this location in the search)

9) put this path C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers

10) press next then finish

hopefully this would sort out your problem, I looked everywhere for a fix and tried every single suggestion on apple support pages and none of them worked for me.

Thanks,

Ali

I was having a similar issue where itunes would not synch with my ipad. I tried all the Apple solutions to no avail. I read on some thread somewhere (maybe this one, they all run together at this point), to update the BIOS, and that worked like a charm. I am running a Gigabyte MB on the Intel P55 chipset. The Gigabyte @BIOS program did all the work. Hope this helps others out there. Good luck

Me too - for what it's worth. Followed all the troubleshooting tips on here. Uninstalled iTunes. Uninstalled anti-virus software. Reinstalled anti-virus software. Still no luck. It worked before I updated to iTunes 10.4.

Okay I found the fix that actually does work and is on the apple support page. Here it is:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1567

That being said, itunes does recognize and update, but I'm still getting the the not charging message. Hopefully that will go away with future updates.

I tried every single suggestion in this forum and read so many articles and still no luck. The issue is caused by a non compatible windows drivers that are being used by default. The only solution that works and fixes this problem is installing manually Mobile Device Support driver provided by Apple as Ali Alkadhi described in his post above. That method works for sure, thanks Ali!

I couldn't connect my ipad using Window XP. Turns out I needed to update to iTunes 10. Found this link for the information:

http://blog.smalldog.com/article/ipad-2-setup-issues/

This is the 1st time I have an Apple product and I have the same issue with iTunes and iPad2 32Gb.

I am going to wait for an upgrade for iTunes or for the iPad to solve this issue, but I am really surprised and dissapointed: Apple produces the same problems as Microsoft does.

This issue is very annoying and I am thinking about buying the iPad was not a good idea.

Hi!,

Has someone tried to rollback iTunes to a previous version?

I will try this evening with 10.3.1:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1047

It did not work... some information is kept in the Register and the older iTunes version is not working.

However, in my olde laptop with Windows XP is working fine...

How frustrating!

it is a usb driver issue. Apple Mobile Device USB driver must be installed for ipad2 to work with windows7. in my case anyway.

Thanks Ali, this worked for me, after itunes stopped recognizing devices when I cleared my cache trying to get ios 5 working on the phones.