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

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.

THIS WORKED!!! I 🙂Thank you!

I'm having trouble with step 6/7 my iPad won't stay on long enough to hold the power button to get the slide to power off button. 😟 What should I do?!

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!

Thank you so much, worked on my ipad3. Thought I was going to have to trash it. Excellent post, thanks for sharing.

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.

worked thanks Rodneypwns . I just want to add however that I had to try a few times to get the timing right.

I started with the ipad plugged in.

when the it starts to come to life (apple sign) then I unplugged it and held it close to the charging port so as not to miss the timing when it circle thing starts to spin.

I had about 1 sec to insert the charger otherwise it would go back to same error.

when I did get the timing right the ipad made a singular click sound and went blank.

At this point don't touch it because if you depress the home button it will begin the error cycle again.

so leave it don't touch it, come back in few hours and voila, back to business.

thanks again

Yes listen to wildchild. Nothing else was working for me until I let it charge in recovery mode for 2 hours . Then I restoured it and it is working!!! I am typing from my iPad as we speak. Also if it doesnt work the first time keep trying and if not let it charge for longer , I only got 2% battery but it was enough for it to turn on and fully restore!!!! Also it doesn't have to be a mac book computer because I used a windows 8

Thank you. It worked for me :-)