Black iPad Screen, just the backlight on...

Same thing happened to my kids iPad 2 ...... tried the mentioned "technique" by gently tapping the headphone corner & gently dropping on the carpet..... to more aggressive tapping & dropping. Needless to say now the backlight is gone & screen is completely black. I still hear notifications pinging, but no video. There is definitely a corrilation between the headphone corner & the light, unfortunately for me, IT'S WORSE NOW.

This seems like a very elementary thing to consider, but does the iPad's battery have a decent charge? Can you plug it into the wall socket with the power adapter for a while and see what happens?

Did you get this resolved? My screen turned black too. still can sync and back up but cannot see anything. I tried doing a hard reset (sleep+home button together) but nothing happened.

Same problem here !!!! Dont know wht to do !!!!!

I'm in the middle of fantasy football, opening day and half way through the games it just turns off and the backlight won't come back on. I can sync, unlock...but can't type or see anything, the screen is black. I can notice the screen does turn on though. Any body have any idea? Is this covered by Apple? LAME

I have exactly the same issue. The iPad made through a full recovery, but the screen continues to be just black. Backlight works, though unlocking doesn't.

I am having the same problem with my ipad.

Has anyone had any luck finding a solution?

Just try to keep the iPad on and try to make the battery drown 0% .... It worked for me this way ... N (if i hv) remove jailbreak n update to latest iOS ....

Questions:

1) yours a 64GB unit?

2) what did you do after draining the battery? plug onto the wallplug to charge and few minutes later, it switch ON by itself? and the screen came back ON?

You could try giving it a little bump against the top left corner (near the headphone connector). This resolved the issue for me, so I guess it's a loose contact. Ocasionally it needs a new bump to fix it again.

This worked for me.

Exact same issue as described above.

iPad 1 with black backlit screen.

The tip to "give it a tap" totally worked and saved me the trouble of trying to restore.

Thanks $v3n!

please help! have the same problem but all the solutions above dont work ... any other suggestions other than taking it to the apple store or restoring it?

Had the same problem as Bruno. Turned the iPad off and let it sit for approximate 10 minutes. I tapped it lightly on the concrete floor, turned it on, and it came on. worked like new. Not sure if it was the turning it off for a while or the technical tap on the floor that fixed it.

This worked for me too. i gave it a little bump and dropped it on the floor, gently of couse and voila!!!!! thank you !!!!!!!!