Black screen on ipad 2?

It worked for us! My fiancee and I have had this ipad for 2 years, after a year of having it we were experiencing the same issue. We put it away with anticipation of going to the apple store "one of these days." Befor going, we looked on the forum to see if there were any solutions before breaking the bank on the repair. As we were reading are jaws dropped!

First we tried it with the screen up dropping it from about 1 foot a couple of times softly. Nothing.. We tried hitting it on the couch arm.. Nothing.. We finally tried dropping it about 2 feet off the ground on its back again a little harder and Voila! the screen turned right back on! I can't believe it worked but it did! 😁

So I kept trying this, dropping and slapping thing for a few days, it never worked for me. And believe me we smacked the crap out of it and dropped it about 100 times....I finally got it working by resetting or restoring it to factory settings. The only bad thing for that is I lost everything on it. The nice thing is that you can get all your apps back if you paid for them, but you have to search for the free apps that you had. doing this you do lose all notes and info that you have stored on there.

You are a life saver. I gave a couple of tight wacks to the back of my ipad and display flickered. Then did the reset using home and lock button!! there came my screen back to life!!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot JohnofScott.

Fonzie lives! Banging it worked for me too, at least for 3 weeks, then while I was using it it reverted back to 2/3 of the screen in horizontal lines. I've tried tapping it, dropping it, pushing on the back, etc., etc. My advise don't depend on it. Steve Jobs genius was only in making $. Quality control is greatly lacking at Apple. The Genius' at the Apple stores couldn't Fix anything, but they'll sell you a new one at a "discount".

Fool me once, shame on you!

Fool me twice, shame on me!

Never again!

This is crazy! After trying to restore my Ipad for the last 2 hrs, came across this post and thought what do I have to lose.

I picked up my Ipad and dropped it flat on the kitchen table from about 6 inches and it came back to life!

Thanks!

Like the rest of the posters in this thread, the screen on my Ipad 2 remained stubbornly blank even after a hard reboot and multiple restores from within Itunes. When I pressed the Home button, the backlight would turn on and I could hear audio but the display would not work.

And like the rest of the posters in this thread, whacking the Ipad fixed it. I had to turn it upside-down and slap the top edge on my knee hard enough for it to hurt.

I'm stunned but joyous.

Amazing! Glad I found this. I gave it a good tap about 4 times with my hand and the display was back. Saved me a 50 mile trip to the apple store. I can't believe the quirks with these devices. I was sure it was a hardware issue and the screen would have to be replaced. Thanks for the invaluable info.

OMG, I thought it was a joke too, but it does work! I fixed my sons Gen 1 IPad by dropping it on the carpet a few times. The first time the screen came on but everything had a red tint. I dropped it again and it is back to normal.

Thanks for the post to do this...... Save my son.

Awesome. . .The Drop Fix who would have guessed. . .I tried everything else but am glad I couldn't wipe our IPad2 clean. I sure hope it lasts a while. . .we have ours in griffin survivor cases and I think my son just tripped and bumped it. . .wasn't even a hard drop.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

I've had my Ipad for 13 months and was freaking out that I was not going to be able to get my husband a valentines gift because I was going to be paying to repair this thing instead. Dropped it onto the living room carpet from about waist height (with the case on and closed just like when it fell last night) and viola! Good as new!

YOU SAVED MY IPAD!!! dropping it 1-2 feet on a carpeted floor was not bad after all. I thought we need to buy a new one but your suggestion helped us save money. Thank you so much! Hope this will help others too. 🙂

It's hilarious, but it works! Nothing to lose (mine's an older iPad so I was gearing up to replace it) and I did the drop on a carpet, 3 times from increasing height, pressing and holding the power button after each. 3rd time was the charm. Still laughing about it. Thank you, JohnofScott!

I was reading how people were dropping their iPads and I was shaking my head in disabelief, but then I tried it because I had nothing to lose and it's back up and working perfect. Thank you to the person who originally made the suggestion. You're awesome!!!

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Yes, it works! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had to drop it several times at different angles. I tried a firm bed at first because I was afraid of further damaging it. That didn't work, and neither did my husband smacking it on his knee and tapping it. Desperate, and growing increasingly pessimistic and skeptical, I went for it: dropped it on the carpet (from about a foot and a half or so) and voila!

Good Stuff!

JohnofScott,

Thank you! I was ready to give up completely on my iPad2 32GB after my son lightly droppped in on carpet two days ago and the screen died. The backlight would turnon but the screen would stay black. Hard resets didn't work. Nothing worked and I could not really do anything with it. I tried banging it too but it didn't work.

Then I read what you wrote...ceremoniously walked into the middle of my living room...told my family to watch this magic trick... and said "iPad AWAKEN!"... and dropped it from about three feet on the carpet. BOOM. It works.

You're a legend!