iPad stuck on red battery

After quickly scrolling through your conversation, it seems like your battery's about ready to go kaput. Considering you have an iPad 1, I think this is your problem. Overtime, batteries lose the charge they can handle so, I'd recommend getting it replaced.

Try this: iPad Service Answer Center - Apple Support

or this: Repair - Official Apple Support

I've suffered this with an old and beloved i-pad a couple of times. Constant cycle of red battery, Apple logo and blackness. This time I thought it really was goodbye, tried all the cables, all the computers, all the restarts (including the multiple restart technique), warming with hairdryer and other desperate measures over several days. I-pad not recognised by i-Tunes, nothing.

Last try - based on scraps of advice from around the internet:

left it alone, uncharged and unplugged, for 18hrs or so

ordered a new cable from Apple

plugged cable into 2.5amp Apple block plug (rather than one of the 1amp Apple plugs that probably came with i-phones)

not sure which bit of magic did the trick but i-pad brought back to life!

hugely relieved, good luck to everyone out there trying to solve this issue.

I have never seen this answer before but here's what worked for me and I found it accidentally.

I have an iPhone and an iPad and I only had 1 charger (my only Apple cord didn't work anymore so I had thrown it out and I thought maybe that was the problem, except my iphone charged fine with my pink cord) by my bedside, so I would just hook up the one that needed it the most before I went to bed. Well one day I woke up to find that my iPad had a low battery, with the red battery picture. When I plugged it into the charger, it just kept recycling to the Apple logo and then the spinning wheel of death, and back again.

I did some research and couldn't figure it out. People who thought it was a dead battery still had the same problem after they sent it in and got a new battery My iPad is not jail broken and half the "solutions" were over my head. I have over 1300 apps on my iPad, not to mention thousands of pictures, that I was just feeling so bereft and sad that I might have lost everything. So I just let my iPad sit, and drained the whole battery down to the nubbin. It was 2-3 days without a charger that I just let it sit.

Then I put it on the charger again and I noticed I still got the red battery symbol, but the red was a thinner slice. I went to work and left it on the charger all day. When I returned, one of my FB notifications came on and bam, there it was, my sign on screen or whatever it's called, where you slide the thingy across. And it was back!!!!!!

So I was overjoyed. I'd also had a problem syncing with a warning that it overloaded my USB port. It was a separate problem, but I was able to sync it after that, and my iPhone too, so I was ecstatic.

Then the battery thing happened again about a week later. I thought I had been diligent about keeping it charged but it went down after only a day off the charger. Realized that I had FB and mail notifications notifying me in the startup screen, so that it was constantly turning itself on and off. I have almost 5000 FB friends and 10 email accounts, so that was a lot of steady activity that I wasn't really aware of. I have now turned off all notifications to every app, since they also come on my phone AND I bought a 2nd cord, a purple one, so now I'm set and don't expect to ever have that problem again.

Hope this helps everyone who thought they had a brick.

I Had the same issue stuck in red battery and it was solved by using the original cable as I had 2 non original cable. Hope this help

I think this might be the trick. My ipad showed as charged all day (after quite a heavy day's use - more than normal) but suddenly the battery died (no 10%, 5% warnings like normal). I plugged it in a just got the red battery, and after ages it was only at 3%; it was slow and the screen blacked out again after about a minute of use due to lack of power I suppose, and it would not go higher than 3%. I left it overnight and connected to power and again this morning and got the red battery. Doing the reset thing holding the buttons down didn't help - nothing would get it to start. Left it a bit longer (10 mins or so) and suddenly the apple logo appeared - I guess it needed a bit extra charge before it could power up. Haven't opened anything with it - am being very gentle! But now it's up to 6% and seems to be charging at the normal speed. I was so worried I'd lost everything on there and the ipad was broken, but I think it just got overwhelmed! It's slowly coming back to life and I'll perhaps put fewer demands on it in the future.

Thanks for your post - really encouraged me that it wasn't a terrible problem to fix and that it'd turn out ok!

I was able to perform a DFU and Restore/Update. Then it would "cack" and display the Dead Battery logo with 3 red bars.

The iPad seems to be stuck in a low battery mode in which it continued to cycle after a DFU has been performed connected to iTunes. I think it is saying to itself, "Ooops! Too low battery, shut things down to conserve." Then wham! Dead again.

Persistence! I then plugged it in with the AC adapter and cord provided by Apple for a few minutes and then it sparked to life waiting for my Hello screen input.

iPad has been restored and now charges and functions as usual.

What was on red battery? What

What was on red battery? What battery percentage was it at? What plug were you trying to use?