Ipad Pro shuts off while charging and requires a hard reset to turn on

Hello,


I got my iPad Wednesday, spent the evening getting it all setup. Restored from back up, ensured everything was there, wiped my iPad air 2 (sold it), deleted it's back up and went on with my normal routine.


At night it was down to 40% so I charged it and went to bed. When I woke up it was "dead". It wouldn't wake up. I needed to perform a hard reset to get it to come to life. Worked on it for a couple of hours and had to run an errand. Plugged it back in as I was going to need a full charge later that day. Came back to it, same thing. Dead. I needed to perform a hard reset to get it to turn on.


Used it more, then last night plugged it in and this morning, same thing. I am thinking that there is an issue with this iPad.


I am now restoring it, since that it what online support recommended I try. Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue?


Thanks.

iPad, iOS 9.1, This is an iPad Pro

Posted on Nov 13, 2015 6:25 AM

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Posted on Nov 15, 2015 8:17 AM

FIX: Apple support had me restore Ipad via iTunes and set up as new not with any back up. This fixed the issue. I would say there still needs to be a software

update but they found that when they had me run a diagnostic there was a corruption in the back up..


So basically restore ipad and redownload iOS 9.1 with iTunes, and set up as new. Took about an hour.

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Nov 15, 2015 12:01 AM in response to milleron

So far I do not have this issue. I purchased mine directly from Apple online on Wednesday (in the UK), after unpacking it and before starting it up, I plugged it into the mains charger and left to charge for several hours.


I then opened up the Pro and set it up as new. Have since put on charge using both mains and from Mac and still no issues. I shall post back here as and when any issue develops when I give it harder usage. My model is the 128Gb Slate Grey with Wi-Fi.


Hope this is helpful.

Mike.

Nov 15, 2015 10:26 AM in response to darkfire.shadows

I Have the same issue. I have had it from day 1. I could not find anyone else posting about it at first so I waited. I got really busy with other stuff and finally got to look for posts. Seems to be everywhere now. I hate crap like this and really hope we don't need to do an exchange. They usually end up being an endless cycle of trips to the Apple Store.

Nov 15, 2015 6:04 PM in response to sakanugaa

The genius store, not so genius afterall huh?

I'm so disappointed in this product that I want to ash it to smitherines. To add to the disappointment the genius store here(Bangalore, India) sent me a quotation which costs me more than the device itself. I took this up with apple California and a guy from Ireland calls up and says, "There's nothing that could be done".

After seeing all these discussion forums here I'm convinced that Apple Inc was well aware of these issues as some of the threads that I am following dates back to 2011-2012.

Nov 16, 2015 1:28 AM in response to darkfire.shadows

Overnight Airplane mode makes no difference, still hard reset needed to wake up the iPad.

THis is is ridiculous Apple, on a premium product you should have picked this up before shipping. It's not as if recharging the product was some obscure action, at least give us some official notice that you're aware of this and Working on a solutiom.

Not pleased about this at all.

Nov 16, 2015 6:13 AM in response to kennethfromcaledon

I tried airplane mode and still had to hard reset this morning.


I dont have an Apple TV charging cable to try and really don't feel like putting beta software on my new iPad.


Also setting up as a new device didn't work for me, nor should it be a solution that is acceptable. Would you think formatting a macbook to solve an issue and losing all your data and starting over is acceptable?

Nov 16, 2015 10:06 AM in response to kennethfromcaledon

I agree. I see the potential, and actually have been using my ipad pro more than any other device / computer in my household. I just don't like the fact that I was having to hard reset it, and I'm sure it's upsetting to people that don't know how to hard reset it, nor making people who are having the issue feel in love with the device. I've changed eco-systems in the past for such reasons like that. Who wants to have to deal with resetting devices to work with them? Not I. Part of the reason why I'm trying to track down what exactly causes it and see if I can replicate the problem consistently and replicate a solution consistently. Especially since there seems to be no word coming out of Cupertino. (I don't think people should expect it, but it's disconcerting nonetheless).


Also, for the record, people who may think why not jump ship then? Well, we're talking about a device that saves everything in the state it's in, and if my ipad locks up and I have to do a reset once a day, that's 15 seconds of my life once a day. My windows laptop that was rebooting itself or crashing every 40 minutes was not 15 seconds of my life once a day.


Of course, if my apple pencil had shipped at the same time as my iPad Pro I would only be slightly annoyed. As it is, 60% of the reason I bought this isn't here, so that means the annoyance at the current issue is consuming a large portion of that other 40% of my reasoning, thus right now, making me pretty grumpy about it. Once I get the pencil I'm sure my grumpiness will turn back into small annoyance till it's fixed, and then when it's fixed become pretty indispensable.


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Nov 16, 2015 12:18 PM in response to darkfire.shadows

I Posted before and I too have the problem. 2 things. I've used different cables to charge and it happened with each. I do notice that everyone posting seems to have a 128gb with cellular. is anyone having this problem with 32 gb and if you have cellular did you take the SIM card from the other divice or is it a new sim.. I took mine from old iPad air2. Wondering if there is a connection..... Apple lets go some answers?????

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