How could I tell if my iPad has been bent if by looking at it it does not look bent and it functions just fine. Would it not function fine if it was bent badly?
iPhone 5s, iOS 9.2.1
You mentioned using an Otterbox case with the iPad.
The problem I see with waterproof/water resistant cases for iPads is that iPads tend to generate more heat from the back than an iPhone or iPod Touch, partly due to the size of the rechargeable Lithium-ion battery and overall use of the iPad, especially when playing hardware/software resource intensive games or other computer resource intensive apps.
The battery, CPU and GPU can heat up similarly to how a laptop or desktop computer components can heat up more doing more computing intensive tasks.
So, using a a waterproof, sealed-up case is that it is also an “air-flow proof” case, with no way for any open air circulation/venting of heat from inside of the case, trapping in any heat that the iPad generates with no way to vent the heat out to cool down the iPad.
If you take the iPad out of the Otterbox case when it is, relatively, still warm/hot from being inside of the sealed case, I am going to state there is the chance the differential of temperatures from inside of the Otterbox case and the outside air temp of the external environment might be sufficient enough to cause the one-piece, thin, aluminum back case to kink or bend in any way or fashion.
One of the reasons that if you use a waterproof case for an iPad, that you always need to completely take the whole iPad out of the sealed-up case when charging the iPad..
Just make sure the temps inside and outside of the case are fairly close to the same ambient temperatures.
I have read of these types of similar scenarios happening right here in these iPad support communities.
This is why I prefer just regular types of iPad cases and if I am going to take my iPad outside or in a laptop/computer bag or backpack and there is any chance of rain, I carry an appropriate sized zip lock/slide lock freezer style bag and put my entire iPad ( case and all ) into the freezer bag and sealed it until I can get my iPad into a dry environment, then take it out of the plastic freezer bag.
Also, I keep the power block in a separate area away from direct contact of my iPad/s so the block isn’t banging around anywhere near my iPad/s.
I, also, do this, so not to have something small and bulky pushing against my iPad/s that could act as a fulcrum, inside of the bag, to push against my iPad and, possibly, be a cause to kink or bend my iPad/s.
If you look at your iPad from any side edges and it doesn't appear bent ( it is going to be obvious, if it is bent ), then the iPad is NOT bent
I am just passing on some sage advice to you to keep your iPad from ever getting bent.
Well, with that in mind, why do iPads get bent as there have been reports about iPads just, sort of, spontaneusly getting bent with seemingly no rhyme or reason.
Just for the record, this is something that happened to me, as well, with the very first 2010 iPad I owned.
Something went wrong with the internal battery and/or charge block.
The iPad case, if you remember was pretty bulky in size, then.
The heat generated from the defective/failed battery had been such that it bent my entire iPad 1 slightly inward toward/into itself.
The aluminum case, also, had a kink and had, also, put two large cracks into the screen.
This happened just with a regular style case on the iPad.
If it doesn't look bent and it functions properly, don't worry about it. iPhones don't actually bend that easily.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
Given the very high temperature that is required to make aluminum soften, this seems unlikely.
1140º F 😉
It was more likely that the expansion of the batter is what caused the case to bend. That is a not uncommon problem with older smart phones and tablets.
MichelPM wrote:
If you take the iPad out of the Otterbox case when it is, relatively, still warm/hot from being inside of the sealed case, I am going to state there is the chance the differential of temperatures from inside of the Otterbox case and the outside air temp of the external environment might be sufficient enough to cause the one-piece, thin, aluminum back case to kink or bend in any way or fashion.
Given the very high temperature that is required to make aluminum soften, this seems unlikely.
That was a pretty impressive amount of internal force to do that!
Especially so with the 1st gen iPad case and the the fact the case had actual been bent upward in a “V” shape.
No signs of any case bulging from the battery bulging outward from the inside though.
The aluminum backcase on that 2010, iPad 1 had a strange, super hard spot somewhere along the bottom of the aluminum, presumably where the battery failed. It was an area that was hard as rock or hard like a piece of concrete.
Weird that was.
You mean iPads?
so you think my iPad is Bent? How do I know what can I do the test this?
How could I tell if my iPad has been bent if by looking at it it does not look bent and it functions just fine
That a real question? If it does not look bent then it has not been bent.
michealie wrote:
You mean iPads?
Yes, I did. Apologies.
Exactly.
How could I tell if my iPad has been bent if by looking at it it does not look bent and it functions just fine. Would it not function fine if it was bent badly?
