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

Bad iPad. You deserve a spanking.

Thought it was a joke at first. You might have to spank it pretty hard... I am serious. At first it only partially restored the display so I hit it harder and sure enough it's back to normal.

Thank you Alan!

Cant believe it! but this approach worked for me...a few gentle slaps to the back and wallah! it works...I had a wide grin seeing the almost dead come back alive!

Cheers to Alan!

Ours did the same thing, smacking the back works, that was my wife's first instinct!

Big Thank you Alan!!!!!!!!!

Even though your post is 2.5years old....worked miracles for me today!!!

Never thought i could work...but after the smack....my ipad works great!! Its aliveeeee...

Thank u Thank you Thank you !!

I have used these forums for answers for several years but have never created an account until now. I had to login just to say thank you. My 5 year old drop the iPad off the counter and we had the blue screen. Turned it over and lightly played the drums and it is back to normal. I have been working in IT for over 20 years and this is the one of simplest solutions I've run across that seems to work for a lot of people. It reminds me of the days when I would take a hard drive out and smack it on the ground to get it working long enough to pull information off of it. Thank you for the solution.

I just created an account so I could say thank you to

alanfromnewtonards! My kids dropped my iPad today and I really thought it was a goner. Thank you so much!!!!

I Was about to write that this was bs in my case, because I have friggin slamdunked my iPad with my hand - and no cigar. But I left it like a disappoininting child for 3-4 hours while going out to dinner, so it could think about what it had done. When I came back, I thought "to **** with it", and decided to drop it from about thigh-height onto a rug, and on the third try my baby returned to me. I'm so grateful I tried again - because i had just about given up. I hit the sucker so hard and SO many time - my hand hurt like crazy after 30 minutes of exasperatingly beating the living daylights out of my ipad. But I'm currently writing this from the culprit itself, so what can I say - it friggin worked.

Same problem! Spent an hour smacking my Ipad and whining! No result!

Ready to call my husband and confess I broke it!

*** THEN I decided to take the case off... duh!!!

Gave it a few very hard smacks WITHOUT the case....BINGO!!!

Got my little ipad buddy back in my sweet palms and can't stop laughing!

THANKS ALAN!!!!  I LOVE YOU!! seriously, if I wasn't married....

This worked! I'm ecstatic. It took A while Though so keep trying. Thank you!!

Okay so is this what everyone elses looked like? I've been doing this for a solid 30 minutes with only the little bit of luck of the actual screen turning back on. Do I keep going or hit harder?

edit: so my screen just reverted to blackness :/

what am i doing wrong?

edit #2: HOLY JESUS IT WORKED!!!!!!!! IM SO HAPPY

When I first read this I thought NO WAY!!! But IT WORKED!!! Thanks so much for the useful advice

It does work!!

I dropped my Ipad2 on its vertical edge (from my chair) and I was really concerned when I noticed parallel silver/grey lines moving all along the screen, and that's it. I even tried recharging, switching off (nothing worked, and then I read the posts above,  tried and in 4 shakes /jolts it started working back as normal.

Thanks Guys!!

I tried it but it didn't do anything, please help

What happens if i Dropped my iphone 4s and then blue screen with black vertical lines pop up

Lol i used this idea before i even saw it on this post excepted i dropped my ipad at a certain corner which generally works.