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New Ipad battery not charging.

New Ipad battery not charging. used ipad Dock, laptop, and wall power outlet.

now battery level at 64%

any help please

iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1

Posted on Mar 17, 2012 9:43 PM

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Apr 5, 2012 2:09 PM in response to antoinemaz

There appears to have been a battery management problem introduced in iOS 5.1. My iPad 2's battery management quite suddenly deteriorated after installiong iOS 5.1, and I found two things:


(1) The contents of iOS 5.1 include "Addresses bugs affecting battery life"


(2) Other people reported the same problem after installing iOS 5.1. Try googling on "ipad slow battery charging" and you will find several threads, such as athttps://discussions.apple.com/thread/3789887?start=0&tstart=0


I do not understand how Apple could have made changes to battery management and not discovered in their testing that they had made matters worse.

Apr 23, 2012 5:17 PM in response to KRDHarris

I have an iPad2, received on xmas of 2011. Been working fine for a while.

Today, it was at 24%, so I plugged it into my desktop PC to charge. It charged for a while, but now it's at 30% and it won't charge anymore. It says "Not Charging" on the upper right by the batt indicator.


When I plug the USB cable in, it makes the chirp, the battery icon has the little lightning bolt, but then it immediately it says "Not Charging." I plug my iphone in with the same cable, and it charges no problem.


I've tried hard resetting twice, no change. I tried resetting all settings once, no change. This seems like a software issue, or an ipad charge circuit/power connector issue. I tried multiple USB cables and they all exhibit the same Not Charging issue.


Any idea how to fix this? Or should I just take this to the apple store?

New Ipad battery not charging.

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