Black iPad Screen, just the backlight on...

Worked for me too; great fix!

I dropped it gently on the carpet from about a foot hight on the top left corner and the screen came back on.

Thanks a lot!! REALLY HELPED

I thought my iPad 2 was toast; I tried this with some trepidation. Surprisingly, it worked.

if this happened again and hard reset doesn't work , try to do hard reset but don't release the home button and the device will erase every thing and will be in the restore mode connect it to the iTunes and restore your backup on it

This worked! It actually came on and off a few times, but it finally stayed on! Nice work!

DId you drop it does it have a case some one i worked with said that her ipad got dropted by her 2 year old son and it did the same thing if you have apple care or any thing like that bring it to the apple store or call your warntee cmpney

HI everyone, I understand this is an old post but I just wanted to say that the backlight went out on my iPad 2nd gen about 8 months ago, was literally about to buy another one but decided to see if I could fix it. The bump on the corner worked for about 5 seconds then I dropped it (corner first) onto a carpeted area and my backlight came back. I'm so happy I don't have to waste my money. this thread was great and 100% helpful!!! Good luck to the next ones who read with who have the same problem.

Hi Everyone, I know this is an old post but had to put my dime on this too. i will admit that as i read this and found that people were "tapping", "Smacking" and "carefully dropping" their iPads, i thought i had truly crossed the line of silliness. But i gotta tell you honestly that i had tried EVERYTHING else, with no luck, so thought what the heck....

THE IPAD CAME BACK ON AND WORKS PERFECTLY!!!!!! i tapped the headphone corner of my wife iPad Air2 against my knee a couple times. (Ok, tap is generous. I smacked it good enough to make me wince a bit) and lo and behold suddenly the device came up with the Apple logo and rebooted as if nothing had happened.

Gotta hand it to $v3n.....hit a home run with this one. Thanks for that!!!!$v3n

Thanks $v3n

So my daughter tells me her ipad is not working anymore and is nearly in tears. So like the good dad I am, I begin to surf the web for any advice on the black light issue.

After 20 minutes of searching for a solution and I came across this ridiculous method of hitting, dropping, smacking, and punching the ipad near the jack. I said what the heck and began to hit and smack the device but had no luck! As I was getting ready to tell my daughter it was shot I decided to try one last time. I gave it a firm strike with the palm of my hand on the jack and the apple popped up on the screen.

It freaken worked!

My daughter thinks I am the greatest!

Thank you, Thank you and Thank you!