Ipad turns on and off in a loop during charging, and won't turn on at all off charge?

WIldchild7778 I tried exactly what you did. All I get is the iPad goes to the plug into iTunes screen. When I unplug from the wall charger it turns off then doesn't turn back on when I plug it into my computer. Any one know how to get past this stage?

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try this http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Troubleshooting/ss/What-To-Do-When-Your-Ipad-Wo-No t-Turn-On.htm

If not the battery could have brocken.

I tried for over and hour but it did not help. Ipad screen goes from Apple icon to battery life icon. I press and hold the sleep and home button over and over and over and just doesn't help. I've tried several different chargers.

I actually created an account for this forum today because I was so happy with wildchild7778's response. It worked for me! However, I also wanted to add that I had to repeat step 3 about 100 times before it finally kicked in. I think my battery was just so low because it had been stuck in the loop overnight. I tried it after 40 times, and I finally got to see my home screen for a fleeting second. However it quickly went to the battery icon. I didn't even have time to hold down the sleep button to get the red slider for a proper shutdown. However, I knew I was on the right track after repeating step 3 40 times because that was the first time I got to see my home screen at all! I knew it was a good sign, and I just had to keep doing it to get more charge to the battery. As I said, I bet I repeated step 3 100 times.

wildchild7778, I can't thank you enough. My family and I had just gotten back from a vacation to Alaska, and I had many of my treasured photos in my iPad. I was so sad to think that they might be lost for good. Your advice is so appreciated!

It worked for me by waiting 10 seconds each time when the apple logo has LIT UP and press the sleep and home button at this point (not when the apple logo first appears and the screen is darker). I did this about 10 times and then it got to 4% and it let me move the slider to switch it off. At 3% I couldn't use the slider. Hope this helps anyone else stuck.

I'm not sure why there are so many steps to the original solution. The solution I have for my iPad is simple. My problem seemed to be caused by using my laptop to charge. So when the loop occurs:

1) unplug it from your laptop

2) wait and let it power down, the looping should stop at some point when the battery is drained (You can try an power it on and it should tell you to plug it in)

3) plug your charger into a WALL SOCKET.

The iPad should power up normally and start charging.

Have you ever notice the iPad turns itself off and goes to "no battery" mode before it even reaches 0%? I've noticed this with my iPad, it shuts off at around 20% and I never get the 5% warning. Sometimes this is caused by the battery display calibration error.

Either way, the one thing I could think of is maybe leave the iPad for awhile to try and drain the battery completely. Maybe for a day? And try plugging it into a wall socket and see what happens? If it does work leave your iPad charging until 100%. This action will reset the battery calibration (if that is the cause of the problem)

None of the solutions here seem to be working for me. i have iPad air (first generation) slightly more than a year old (conveniently just out of warranty)

for the last few weeks or so, I've been having trouble charging the iPad. sometimes it would charge normally, other times you would plug it in and it would show that it wasn't. I tested with different power supplies, cables, and outlets, so i know they weren't the issue. The only way i was able to get it charging again (and it was trial and error, no one way always worked reliably) was by, switching from the outlet to my computers USB port, (and then sometimes back again to the charger when that didn't work), and rebooting and then switching outlet. But it was very random.

At no point did I ever let the battery run all the way down... However, this morning it did before i realized and the iPad automatically powered down, and now I cannot get it to start without powering down again. Whether plugged into an outlet or my USB port, I am stuck in a 'loop' - where i reboot the iPad (which used to work), it goes to the bright apple screen, then starts up to the home screen and shows 1% charge in the upper right - but doesn't indicate that its charging. Then i immediately get a message of "Low battery - 5% of battery remaining". Then the iPad automatically powers down after 30 seconds or so (or as soon as i try to do something with it). I get the screen showing the big battery with a little red, but it never charges to the point where it reboots on its own. Then i reboot myself, and the cycle starts all over again.

I have tried the suggested method here of "repeatedly rebooting" until i get a higher percentage of battery charge showing -- which hast worked so far. But even if i did, how do i get the thing to start charging normally? It doesn't charge when its plugged in... ??

i have tried that method 60x and left it to charge and it got to 98% after 2hrs when i checked. i plugged it back and it displayed 93% before i shut it down to see if it would get to 100%. anyone having this problem too? seems it doesn't charge when turned off normal.

I need to add that the main problem is that it refuses to charge when turned off! why?

Thank you very much. Your response helped. My problem was, ipad2 was cycling between Apple logo & black screen/"no battery" sign. It was not charging, nor was it switching on/off or getting a hard resetted. This happened after it went off when battery was around 12%.

I did your steps 3-5 after plugging to wall socket, but the home screen appears only very briefly & not enough time even to press reset button. It kept going back to cycling. Kept doing steps 3-5 several times & then finally "no battery" sign appeared & stayed on.

Kept plugged on for charging overnight & it's back!!

thank you once again.

Hey! Mine kept on cycling between Apple logo, black screen, and no battery sign as well! Then the home screen appears then quickly reboots. When you charged yours, did you charge it like that? 🙂 I have school tomorrow so I have to sleep early and I can't do the manual process tonight. I already plugged in my iPad now and it's still on the AL/BS/NBS cycle. I hope it would charge!

And thanks to WildChild!!! I followed your steps and just like everybody else, I had to make an account here to thank you!!!

Yes, I did that until the no battery sign stayed on & then plugged overnight. I think you need to power down to get it charging which won't happen as long as its cycling.

HOpe me it works for you too.

GOod luck.

Hey! My iPad finally charged! Thank God! I switched it on after following WildChild's procedure and it reached 16% of battery life and that's already freaking amazing! Now I do not have to worry about going over the steps again (I think)!

I came back to say thank you and God bless you all especially WildChild. I know I may be overreacting but no one can blame me! My iPad was dead - literally dead for 48 hours!!! I can finally use it again now without having to worry about losing all my important files! Yeah, it took a lot of patience (and two episodes of Case Closed and another two episodes of Adventure Time), but it was all worth it!!!

Moral of the story: DO NOT FORGET TO CHARGE YOUR IPAD!

Best fix for this problem:

(This worked for me)

- simply leave your iPad/iPod/iPhone for a few days ( I left it for about 2 weeks)

then the battery is so empty it will take about 30-60 minutes to turn on.

- Issue should be fixed.

good luck!!

replying to my own post, i have found that turning it back on after an hour (10-20% step) made it drain the battery to 0 again, and force a loop even after i turned it off again, i found that after the first slide off (holding lock button after rebooting 30-40 times) let it charge over night after this step. that worked for me, i hope this helps