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

Thank you so much for your help. This worked excellently for me. I had to do your 'trick' x80 though, until the battery no longer appeared in the cycle. And was able to power down at 3%. Thanks again!

Amazing! I called Apple with my problem and they told me I have to change the battery which costs $99. Gave Wildchild's recommendation a try and after maybe an hour and a half of doing Step 3, I had 3% and just barely enough time to power down. And now it's been an hour of it being off and I tried turning it on and it's working at 17% so far! No more loop!!

Thanks for the tip! And if it doesn't work for some people, just keep doing Step 3 for as long as physically possible.. For me it was about 1.5 hours!

My daughter is autistic the ipad stuck in the boot loop of dooms was hers and I can not tell you how beyond grateful I am to you for being able to find this. I am also surprised by Apple. I love Apple, they make great products but so many people have had problems with this and their own battery life encourages letting the battery completely discharge once a month . Yet they have not addressed this issue. I am disappointed in this. I own the latest ipad mini, three ipods , three iphones and and an ipad 4, add into thr mac book pro and desktop. I worry every device will go through this and with kids try telling them not to drin a battery! Either way i am beyind grateful to you and to anyone reading this , it does work but it takes ages ! Almost an hr doing this and finally I got it switched off and workign this morning 😀 To anyone going through the process this is how it worked for me , everytime the battery bar came up and then through to the apple logo i reset on the apple logo and then it at times got to the point where the apple logo would come up again as soon as reset , sometimes this makes you think it is ready ( and i think this is the mistake that makes it take so long ) so you think ok it has charge but it doesnt! Took me ages to realise that sometimes after the reset it went to the battery bar and other times back to the apple logo , but if i tried then I lost whatever charge i had worked for. For me i had to do this reset process for almost an hr and I have read others have needed to do it that long too. Get comfy , watch your shows ( whatever lol ) it goes faster and then you have an idea of how long you have been doing for . Resist tempation to " check " if there is battery eary because you start again and this is where frustration , mabe tears and curse words enter but you will get there.

Bit late but this genuinely works. So pleased. for anyone saying your iPad won't turn on without he charge in already.. that out the charger once the apple logo comes up.. It will continue to turn on.. then plug back it when the spinning symbol comes up.

I tried everything then this!!!! TRY THIS!!! Okay, so I solved this myself. I tried everything here and none of it worked for me. My iPad was doing the reboot loop and had only 1%. I did the quick resetting at the Apple icon 30, 40 and even more than 100 times in a row and nothing. It never even got to 2% this way. I tried to connect to iTunes when I would get the iTunes symbol occasionally, nothing. I took it to the Genius Bar where they told me I needed a new one. They were wrong. I'm on it now it works great now!! I didn't lose ANYTHiNG. iPad is just as it was Before.

Here's what I did.

I Put the iPad in DFU mode. Here is a video which shows very well how to out it in and out of this mode. the video is showing an iPhone but it works the same for iPad. Please note that I did NOT plug it into the computer when I did it. It was plugged into a wall socket. http://youtu.be/U_dbzL0EHWE Ok, so when you see the Apple during reboot hold on/off button and home button together for EXACTlY 10 seconds, the Apple will turn off then release only the on/off button. Continue holding the home button. It will stay black now. This is a good thing. Finally, right? Now your iPad is in DFU mode. The first time I did this I was so jhappy and nervous. Happy because it stopped the annoying cycle finally. Nervous because I was afraid my iPad wouldn't start up or that I would lose everything. I figured it would charge up finally. Well not exactly. I was impatient and waited only an hour to turn it on. This is how you turn it on. Hold both the on/off button and home button until the Apple lights up again. Then release. It takes a little longer than usual but it will come on and you won't lose data. However after one hour of being plugged in this way it only charged to 2%. So It stayed on the home screen for only a fraction of a second more than it did before. Still not long enough to turn it off and put in charge Mode. So, I did it again and this time waited all night, about 12 hours. Then turned it on again using both buttons as I just described. And yay, it was up to 7%!!, I turned it off and charged that sucker up to 100% so, the thing about DFU mode is it charges EXTREMELY slow. But if you're patient it may work for you. Then you can charge it normally after you see your home screen for more that a millisecond! Good luck! Just wanted to share another solution in cask you weren't having any luck with these like me. 🙂

i have tried it 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 tried this, then gave up and left my iPad unplugged for a few days. Then I tried recharging it last night at it charged normally. I'm guessing the battery was "mostly dead", not "all dead", and once it got to be all dead it forgot it was in a restart loop. Anyway I'm typing this from the offending iPad so it's working now.

OK. thanks Crazyfeet. i am gonna try this ....again. i left it for a week and plugged it in and the apple logo came on and the loop started all over again. I then tried wild child's 40-100times home/sleep button reset and got a low battery charge symbol....and then looping again. Left it on and its blank now and doesn't come on when i press the power button.

Yes this is the problem!! BUT if you sit there and press the home and power buttons at the same time every time you see the apple (and then release), and do this about 40X as Wild Child said eventually the ipad comes to life for a second and you need to act quick and as soon as any sign of power comes on hit the power button only and slide off! DO THIS WHILE PLUGGED INTO AN OUTLET! Then let it sit charging like she said. With mine I was working on different things for hours; so once I got it to power off, I left it all night and in the morning 100% charged!

Now the other thing I tried (successfully but not on the first try) first was to restore the entire ipad back to factory settings through iTunes because while playing around with the buttons initially, the icon for iTunes came up with a picture of the plug and when I googled, I found instructions on how to restore through iTunes. THIS WAS EXTREMELY challenging as well because since I couldn;t charge (and battery was nearly dead), ipad kept disconnecting from computer. But I tried until it finally worked.

I am not sure if it was necessary to restore first in my case because I didn't see WildChild's post until after I had already been through the whole process of restoring. (and still couldn;t see what I had done until I used the instructions on charging it back up through this thread!)

Also remember that when you restore, YOU LOSE Everything initially. If you have ipad backed up in icloud, you can retrieve this once your ipad is fully charged and you set it up again.

SO I tried wildchild's method and it was so discouraging! I thought my iPad was done, and I was bummed because I got it for facetime for piano lessons! (obviously i use it for more 🙂) but i tried your method, and yours was the only one that worked!! Thanks so much!

Glad you were able to fix your ipad! One thing I learned through research is to try not to let the ipad/iphone get so low on battery (that was my problem anyway-it did, in fact get stuck because of this). Also use electric outlet vs. computer to charge when possible. All of these tricks are good to know!

What if the "spinny thing" doesnt appear after the apple logo disappears like in my iPad....?? and to make matters worse,my iPad 2 doesnt charge when you turn it off. the battery usage shows i have been unable to achieve a full charge since......?? Is this part of the problem-getting to 100% full charge?

Hello WildChild7778,

Since you helped others so well, I thought I would tell you what's going on with my IPAD ISO8. When I plug it in I may or may not see the battery charging indicator. If I do see the battery it has a tiny line of red on it... then it may or may not flash and goes to a back screen and at this point the battery doesn't show up anymore. I've tried pushing and holding the start and sleep buttons at the same time and just in case I, also, pushed and held them by themselves. I've plugged the device into several different wall sockets and several different computers. I took it to the Apple store and they said they couldn't help me because it won't turn on and gave me options to purchase a new one. This Ipad is only 2 years old and to treat it like it's a disposable item just doesn't seem logical to me. I would greatly appreciate your input on this subject. Thanks in advance for your time. Tina 🙂

Hi Tina. I agree this is very frustrating and I took me hours to rectify, BUT MY IPAD WORKS using Wildchild's method. You literally have to sit there with Ipad PLUGGED INTO WALL OUTLET and hold home and power buttons down, many many times and release each time you see the apple. Once you see the power off bar, you have to immediately power off and then charge all night.

Initially I restored ipad using iTunes because I was seeing the iTunes logo with a picture of power cord on the screen while trying the above method. This was even more challenging because my ipad died while updating the first two or three times, but eventually it worked and was restored to factory settings. YOU WILL LOSE EVERTHING this way; so if you don't have ipad backed up in icloud I would keep trying Wildchild's method alone. As long as you can get to the point where you can power off and then LEAVE IT CHARGING!!

I am not sure if restoring helped with this particular problem, and it was tough since ipad was not cooperating because of low battery!! But it finally restored (follow instructions while signed into iTunes at this point and only at this point you will have to plug ipad into computer). This is only an option when you see the iTunes logo on screen (it will be black screen with iTunes icon and a pic of your power cord). Anything is worth a try since the ipad won't work even if you don't have it backed up in the cloud.

I would still try following wildchild's steps over and over before trying anything else. Keep following the step to hold down both buttons and release and see what happens, until you see "slide to poweroff" button and power off immediately!! and then leave it charging all night! I know I did it more than 40 times and yes it seems crazy but it worked!

Try restoring it first to factory settings (you will lose all data apps,contacts unless you have it backed up in cloud) If you keep pressing the home and power buttons at the same time, you will eventually see an iTunes icon and a picture of a power cord. You need to have ipad plugged into a WALL OUTLET while trying this.. To restore, you'll have to plug into your computer and sign into Itunes and follow the instructions from iTunes.