i dropped my Ipad sideways, the screen is only black and it wont turn on

Okay, when I saw your suggestion, I thought you were being sarcastic and was going to give you a blunt reply for being a sarcastic so-and-so....

....but after reading further replies, I thought "Why not".

And lo and behold....it actually works!!

I do have to clarify that I had briefly seen a tint of red before it went completely dark, so I tried the "Red screen solution" first (yes, it involves a hammer...and it worked for me before).....then I tried the "Slap it while it's upside down" suggestion. At first it didnt seem succesful, but I gave it a few seconds and there it was, working perfectly.

Credit and apologies Alan.

Thank you, thank you, Alan. My 18 money hold grandson LOVES my iPad and is quite proficient at using it especially when it comes to music. We'll today he had it and dropped it from about a foot up and the screen went a blue color. I tried the burp your iPad and IT WORKED!!!! Thanks so much from me AND my grandson!

Dropped my pad 2 while on holiday in Morocco,devastating ,particularly as lots of things were going wrong with trip and needed to be able to communicate with various people.only time I have cried on holiday!!

came home,tried various technical things,visited apple shop,it was recommended to trade in old for new .i love my little pad and dreaded setting another one up etc?this morning as a very last resort,I read this blog,not sure how I missed it the first time!would have saved myself weeks of heartache .

Thought, what the heck,nothing to lose,it's going anyway.Well I was like a child at Christmas when my screen came back on.Shame I had cleared stuff out but that is a small price to pay.

thank you so much,I knew for whatever reason the injury was not terminal,it was almost a copycat accident of a previous blogger.

one happy ,happy person this pm.i have had a smile on my face all day. Now,what can I spend that money on???

Hi Guys,

I dropped my ipad some minutes ago face down on marble tiles from about 2 feet and to my total dismay I could hear the sounds from my ipad but the screen was black...nothing whatsoever.

In desperation I saw this post in the community and I placed my Ipad face down on my knee and patted the back for about 12 mins until my palm was sore but nothing happened 😟. Then I kept on reading other post and what worked for me was I held down the home button and the on/off button for about 15econds, placed the ipad face down on the bed and gave the ipad logo at the back a good smack and I held down the home and off/on button again and 'Tan---dan' it came on.

I love apple products 🙂. I am a loyal fan.

I don't know why this worked but it really did for my iPad. Dropped off the sofa while I was napping and had the blue screen of death with white lines running vertically across the screen. I had to give it about a dozen gentle spanks before it was back to normal. Thanks!

Thankyou so much alan, i nearly cried when the screen went blue, me and my sister tried everything but then i found this and looked through, i tried it about 5 times and holy **** mate, you are a genius, i literally ran around my house screaming ALAN YOU LEGENG CAN I PLEASE MARRY YOU, seriously alan thank you so much XD

When you dropped it some component near the accelerometer gets dislodged then when you smack it in the back the component kinda moves back into place. This of course depends on how bad the fall was and how hard you hit it on the back to jam it back into place. These iDevices are surprisingly strong for all glass devices. I dropped my previous iPhone no less than 10 times on hard surfaces (not intentionally of course!), it got dinged up around the edges but never broke. My little niece once threw it so hard on the floor I was amazed it was still working after that. She's only 3 and my bad. I gave in to her screaming gave it to her to play with never anticipating she'd throw it as if it was a ball. She was amuse at my horrified reaction too! **** naughty kid.

worked for me too. Recommend sync to computer first. Then did the hitting the back and did the manual restart (I might have turned it off trying to get the screen to come back on). Couldn't believe it work but it did. Thanks Alan

Hi Jenny,

I had almost had the same problem, my daughter screen went redish after my grandson dropped the ipad a little bit. I looked on google and saw the possible solution, give pad slap or drop it on it's back from a few inches which I did and to my horror the screen went black ! Feeling mortified I sulked of to my computer and connected the iPad, it was still alive, I did a software update to iso 7 and the screen flickered a few times, I could see there was stilll life..After the back up I unplugged the cable and the screen was still black..Out of sheer desperation i slapped the iPad on the sides a few times and low and behold the screen came back on and all is perfect, I was doing cartwheels and my daughter is so pleased, funny how this appears to be so common..I told my daughter to be gentle..it's a touchy iPad..😁

William

Hello,

My wife dropped her IPad and the screen became full of moving colour bars, full of snow.....just like an old TV with no cable.

I used this trick, and it just came back as original !

Incredible !

Thank you very much for posting this, it saves us many many dollars !

The first time this happened, my friends daughter dropped the iPad on a hard wooden floor from about a meter off the ground. The screen went black with a knee weakening, sick looking slow moving thick gray bar going from top to about halfway and disappearing. After some awkward "I will pay .... no you don't have to pay ...." conversations, the slapping method brought it back to life.

Then yesterday my 2 year old son dropped it, screen down, from barely any height at all onto the same wooden floor. And the same thing happened. But slapping it didn't work. Fruitless I thought, but I plugged it in to itunes and restored it, and no joy. I tapped around the edges with a hammer like object. Nothing.

So I put a thin blanket down on the floor and started dropping it on its back (ie screen up) from progressively higher heights. At about 80 cm the screen changed and a strip of colored lines appeared at one edge of the screen and didn't scroll, then a few seconds later the whole screen came back. Gasp. Talk about relief.

My son will be disappointed but toddlers and iPads just don't mix.

Oh my god!!! We had lost all hope as soon as we realised our ipad had been dropped 4 days ago and then only had a faint blue screen that it would ever work again, we wasn't even going to bother trying to get it fixed IF it was fixable. For some reason this evening I googled quickly "dropped ipad on floor" and yours was the first link I found. After reading a couple of comments I read it to my husband and he done what was suggested although he kept saying it was a waste of time, after the first couple of bashes we got a fuzzy screen, then after a couple more he turned it right wAy up to a perfect screen and perfect working ipad!!!! He is gob smacked as am I. Thank you very much, we and our small children were gutted when thought that was it. Actually can't believe it has worked

I was searching the net and came across this forum because my kids dropped my iPad (for the second time) and hid the fact they did. i use it for business and was appalled that it was just useless. I thought, 'Hey, if this worked for all these people it just might work for me'.... AND IT DID!!! Thanks a lot for your brilliant idea. It was a lifesaver

I gotta say, the same thing happened to me yesterday --- black screen but still able to sync to iTunes. What worked for me was the drop method. I put a blanket on the floor then dropped it face up and down several times, then held down power and home buttons simultaneously and voila! It booted back up and is smooth sailing now!

I can honestly say this tip absolutely works!!

OMG!!! We JUST bought my daughter an ipad for christmas, she's had for ONE DAY!! well she dropped it this morning and same thing happen. i tried your trick and it worked!!!!! you're amazing! Thank you!!!