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Got an iPad in for a client, she smashed the digitizer a while ago and muddled on for a bit, but she said it wasnt coming on all the time and she was having to do hard resets to switch it on until eventually it just stopped coming on. I have it today and have tried hard resets, DFU mode, itunes doesn’t see it. It shows up as an unknown device in device manager in win7, but nothing in xp. Nothing flashes on screen, nothing happens at all. I opened it and took the logic board connectors off the batteries, left it off for half an hour to see if that would do anything & nope, nothing. I cannot think of anything else to try at all. I dont really want to start ordering random parts at this stage, but I wondered if it could be the power button, but that wouldnt affect it showing up in itunes etc. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!
if the battery gives you problems, disconnect battery and give ipad power with dock connector. if ipad still doesn’t boot, check dock connector
Hi, I have the same problem. There is no display but if you connect to PC, iTune detects it and reports that the iPad is in recover mode. Reinstall / upgrade iOS will not help. But If the battery charged to 100% (you can ipad connected to the charger in DFU mode for more than 10 hours) and when the charger supplies the current, the iPad2 wont go to DFU mode. If the iPad is not connected to the charger, then if you leave the screen off for 10 minutes or more it goes to DFU mode and wont come up at all. The no. of reset trials (Power+Home button) to rbing up the display and boot are less if the battery power is higher than 90%. I am thinking this is a battery problem. Has anyone seen this issue? -Sinu
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