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iPad will not turn on

My iPad was charged when I left this morning and is now unable to turn on. I have plugged it in, but it will not recognize a charge. Any ideas on how to try and bring the iPad back on?

Posted on Apr 24, 2013 6:21 PM

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Posted on Apr 24, 2013 6:23 PM

Did you try this?


Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

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Apr 24, 2013 6:31 PM in response to Chabela

Its hard to say why it happened. Is your iPad the original iPad? If it is, the battery could be starting to go. Even if it isn't the original iPad, it might be the battery ...or it just might be a fluke occurrence.


If it starts happening with any frequency, I would take it to an Apple Store for evaluation. Lets hope it was just a one time flukey occurrence and resetting finally did the trick.

Jan 25, 2014 9:01 PM in response to Diavonex

Hi,

One more "Thank you" for the suggestion to hold down both buttons to reboot my IPAD AIR.

While my son was using my IPAD AIR, bought new in December 2013, it was down to about 20%. Later I plugged it in with its Apple provided cords. When I checked about one hour later, the screen was black. I tried pushing the sleep and home buttons, nothing, black screen. I left it plugged in for a couple of hours. It was still black. Just tried turning on and nothing again, so I googled the problem and held both home and sleep buttons for about 20 to 30 seconds, wala! Like magic, there appeared my apple logo! Crazy problem,.... my IPAD WAS AT 100% when it turned back on. Really had me worried since I had loaded over one thousand photos from a vacation onto the IPAD. Luckily, I had most of them still on memory cards and Shutterfly.

With this problem, however, we all need to constantly keep our IPADS backed up, I guess. I have an older IPAD and have never had this problem.

Jan 25, 2014 9:06 PM in response to MomCatt

Hi MomCatt,


You do need to keep your iPad backed up. This is not something new. Any device can fail at any time. If you don't keep it backed up, you are bound to lose something. We get posts every day about someone losing precious photos because they didn't bother to import them or back them up to iCloud.


However, I'm not sure I understand the part of your post concerning the photos you had loaded. A reset (holding down the Home and Power buttons) does not have any effect on the data on your device. If the photos were there before the reset, they should have been there after the reset. Are you saying they were not on the device once the reset was complete?


Cheers,


GB

Jan 26, 2014 6:18 AM in response to Chabela

Even if your iPad won't turn on you can back up your photos. I just did that last night when mine wouldn't, seeing if I could sync it with my desktop since I had forgotten about rebooting. It checked my photos and did most of the sync but got stuck on step 8. It gave me a message at each step, recognized the iPad, checked for photos and transferred etc. all during the time I could get nothing but a blank screen.


Then this morning I looked up what to do to reboot and read this. I think I have had to do this before. I thought maybe mine was not charged but it said 70% when it came on. I did have it on the charger for quite a long time and would think it should have been 100% but maybe it was down to 0 as I did let it get low last week. So I cannot tell if it was able to charge during the time I couldn't get it to power on.

Mar 4, 2014 12:00 PM in response to Chabela

I'm posting this just to add my experiences to the community. I've had this problem on my iPad 4 and I've brought it into the Apple store twice. Both times they have replaced it with a new iPad as it is still under warrantee. They believe there is something wrong with the home button. The last time was only 2 days ago and the problem has recurred on the new iPad. Something I've noticed is that it seems to happen when it's 100% charged (coincidence?). Also I use my iPad in a Targus case with a keyboard so I'm wondering now if somehow the case is interfering with it. I find it hard to believe that I've had 3 iPads with the same problem although I don't see how the case could interfere with it.

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