Black screen on ipad 2?

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

You just saved me $260.00 or a new iPad. I just went to the Apple store today and they quickly said it was the display and to repair it would be $260.00. I had lost all hope and then read this forum. I did what you said and dropped it gently on the counter and it absolutely worked!! It took a few times and I thought there was no way it would work. But it did! Thank you!

That is insane, and makes no sense JohnofScott, BUT IT WORKED! Why? This is a work iPad2 and I didn't want to hand in a broken iPad2 to my IT team. Thanks John

I thought it was stupid too. Guess what, its really work!! I just slightly bang the edge of my ipad on the carpeted floor and then the whole screen reappear. Lucky is that i saw your post before bringing it to service center.

Thank you so much!! God bless you

this worked for me as well! amazing. took a few slaps and drops but it eventually worked. thanks for the suggestion. at first, it displayed a glitch but i was able to input my passcode. dropped it and slapped it some more and it looked normal again. happy camper here

it's works!!!! Thanks

It works!!!! Thanks

After having my daughter's iPad dead with black screen (just few green flashes when it goes on) for couple months, now it is back again!!!!

Hurray! Now my daughter will jump to the ceiling… me too

It seems scary and risky to try slapе and drop the device in purpose.

But as most of you know already: It works….

I started first with few slaps on the back side of the iPad, …. Nothing happened.

But once I hit the frame of the iPad in the middle between down left corner and dock connector… boom.

It turns that was my lucky strike.

Let hope it is gonna last long.

Thanks for all encouraging posts.

My screen is a bit different then what I have read on here, I hope that someone out there can help me. My screen is going from a lit black then to the apple icon then goes completely black, but it never shuts down or turns off just keeps flashing to those screens by it self. I have tried to reset this to smacking it and also dropping it, which I was scared to do, but I did it and still the same nothing happened for me.

I am so upset because I use this for everything and alot of info is stored on here.

Mine is about a yr. and a half old and I cant afford to take this in to apple.

any suggestions would be SO appreciated.

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! 😁

Awesome!! This worked for my husband's 1st generation iPad. Can some of you please post a follow up post advising if the 'drop-fix" was a short, medium or long term fix? Thanks!

Longtime fix, because the iPad I cured this way is still working as nothing happpened to it!

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!

Short - my fix was 3 weeks

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!