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

My Ipad has been in a constant loop of turning on and off on charge for the past few hours, I really don't know what to do. I've had a few charging problems before (taking forever to charge, the computer not recognising it, saying "Not charging" for numerous wall chargers and generally messing up.) But today it won't turn on at all. I've got through at least ten chargers over the months, and I've had this Ipad since Christmas, so not even a year.

Basically, when it's charging (I've tried wall and desktop computer.) it shows the Apple logo, then boots up, shows the lock screen for a second, then dies, then repeats this process over and over until I take it out, then it does the "No battery" sign.

I updated to IOS7 a while ago too, about a week after IOS7 came out. Please help?

Thanks,

Georgia.

iPad 2, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Oct 15, 2013 12:42 PM

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WildChild7778

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Posted on Apr 12, 2014 4:47 AM

Ok, after having my ipad 2 3rd Generation for about a year, its bombed out on me, similar problem, playing on it until battery died. Didn’t think anything of it, plugged into charge thinking it would be charged by the morning. This didn’t happen.

It was stuck on the apple sign, booted to home screen and switched off again due to low battery. Continued on this loop for the whole day……

I searched the internet and it seemed all doom and gloom that I would need to by another one. Then I stumbled upon a forum where the advice so far has worked for me.

The reason why it gets stuck in a loop is because the IPad was not shut down so therefore keeps trying to boot up soon as it has some battery power. Problem is, its gone beyond a point and now there isn’t enough battery life to boot to main or home screen after apple logo.

The remedy is quiet simple, follow these steps to get the ipad to home screen to power it down so it has sufficient time to charge up and boot normally and get off the endless loop.

Plug into wall socket to get it charging.
Wait until the apple logo appears
QUICKLY hold down home button and reset/ sleep button at the same time until it reboots.
Release buttons now.
Repeat step 3 for at least 30 to 40 times which is about 10 minutes in duration everytime you see the logo on the screen.
Now Let IPad boot up fully, should see home screen with about 2% battery life
QUICKLY hit the rest/ sleep button down for about 2 to 5 seconds.
Swipe the screen to when slider appears to switch off the ipad.
This will power down the IPad which now will not reboot by itself so it can now charge without any interruption’s.
Allow battery to charge for a least an hour or two without trying to put it on.
Switch the IPad on
You should now have about 10 to 20% battery Life
Power it down again by holding the reset/ Sleep button down again and swipe the screen to power down, let it charge fully to 100% now which will take few hours
Enjoy your IPad again 🙂 🙂

Lesson learnt. When your battery power is low, dont wait for it drain completely, rather power the pad down and let it charge when there is only about 2 to 4% battery life left.

Hope this guide helps people with the same problem as I had. Took me about 2 days of research and searching until I found a solution that worked.

Cheers,

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CCM101

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Jun 28, 2014 8:19 AM in response to Geesmine

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?

CCM101

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Jun 28, 2014 8:20 AM in response to WildChild7778

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Jul 4, 2014 5:16 PM in response to rodneypwns

I had the same problem and this suggestion actually worked! When I saw the loop thing i Quickly plugged it into my charger and then my ipad went black and stopped trying to turn on. Thanks so much rodneypwns

saleh426

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Jul 6, 2014 1:55 PM in response to WildChild7778

O MAN! Thank you so very much. This method definitely worked for me. Follow Wildchild's exact steps. I logged in to my account just to thank you! THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Aug 2, 2014 4:06 AM in response to saleh426

I am trying the suggestion from WildChild7778. There is not mention if the low battery indicator is displayed. I've gotten the plug into itunes a couple of times. Still trying.

Aug 3, 2014 4:36 AM in response to krissrush

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.

Aug 26, 2014 2:40 AM in response to Geesmine

I had the same problem on my iPhone... I followed the steps here... it could work for you to.

[Fixed]iPhone stuck at Apple Logo while charging, blanks out when taken off

smaykl

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Sep 12, 2014 8:17 AM in response to WildChild7778

heey there ! i have the same problem , the thing is my ipad goes directly to recovery mode :/

what can i do please i'm stuck here 😟

Sep 21, 2014 6:12 AM in response to WildChild7778

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!

Sep 22, 2014 10:45 PM in response to rodneypwns

Thanks heaps man! Your solution worked and was soooo simple. Champion!

pturk

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Sep 23, 2014 2:10 PM in response to Geesmine

I had to modify the solution as home screen would never show up and restore mode didn't work.

Whenever I was trying to restore from iTunes (in few times I could put it into the restore mode) iPad would start another reboot loop and iTunes would loose iPad again, terminating restore.

1. I unplugged iPad from computer.

2. iTunes still could see it, so I unchecked wi-fi sync as well. (I'm not sure if this is necessary)

3. I did steps 2 and 3 as WildChild7778 did, that is to say I held down home button and reset/ sleep button at the same time, immediately after each time Apple logo showed up.

4. After 6-7 times iPad stopped the continuous boot up loop and the apple logo got stuck up on the screen forever.

5. This allowed me to do a restore from iTunes. I plugged it to computer again and started restore, this time it went uninterupted.

6. I backed up from an old backup.

This made me loose data I had since the last backup, but I got my iPad back...

(I got into this situation when I was trying to do too many updates at the same time. Do them one at a time.)

Pjfin

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Sep 27, 2014 5:06 AM in response to Geesmine

Try plugging it into an outlet with more power, for example a newer outlet.

Sep 28, 2014 12:36 AM in response to WildChild7778

Hi. Tried your method and it works. But the Ipad seems not to charge anymore beyond 23%. All this happened after upgrading to OS8 ... Am I the only one?

Bazoioi

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Sep 29, 2014 12:55 PM in response to Geesmine

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.

Nov 23, 2014 11:46 PM in response to Geesmine

Brilliant Pturk ! Worked perfectly! Thank you.

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