Re: Possible to revive older iPad?

As a data point, I recently came across my 1st-gen iPad and it took over 2 hours of being plugged in for it to even show the screen with the drained battery icon. Prior to this point, it was totally unresponsive. It was almost 3 hours before it started up and reported a 2% charge,

Judging from the date stamps on the emails it had on it, I had not powered it on in over 6 years. The battery was dead as a doornail. But once it powered on, I was able to restore it and it behaved normally.

These devices behave a bit oddly when the battery is extremely drained. My advice is to just give them (a lot of) time and they might eventually come back to life.

	Matt


> On Jan 22, 2020, at 1:51 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 20 minutes to "perform" a restore is one thing. 20 minutes before you get the very first screen that says "plug me into the Mac" is quite unreasonable. 
> 
>> On Jan 22, 2020, at 8:22 AM, Andy Ringsmuth <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Oh no, that’s a very typical restore time. I’ve done countless factory resets/factory restores on all manner of iOS devices and it can take up to an hour sometimes. iTunes has to download a device-specific multi-gigabyte image, process it internally, install it on the device, etc.
>> 
>> It’s not a quick process.
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>>> On Jan 21, 2020, at 6:57 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If the Restore screen took 20 minutes, I'm thinking your hardware is beyond hope. It should be ROM-level quick.
>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 21, 2020, at 10:48 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, I'm now following the directions given in HT204306 (hold down Home button; connect to Mac; wait for Recovery screen).
>>>> 
>>>> It took about 20 minutes of holding down the Home button before the Restore screen appeared, but it did! And now, after clicking about half a dozen Restore buttons, iTunes actually seems to be working on the restore...
>>>> 
>>>> Wish me luck!
>>>> 
>>>> -Carl
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 21, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> At this point, I think your only hope is to go through the reinitialization steps and try to reload the OS. If that fails, the unit is toast.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 21, 2020, at 10:09 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Jan 21, 2020, at 7:50 AM, Andy Ringsmuth <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Jan 20, 2020, at 10:58 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the feedback, guys. If it's just a battery issue, I'll likely give it a go. But really, shouldn't it be able to boot up without hanging when connected to power (5V 3.5A)? If so, it's more than the battery and probably not worth it.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -Carl
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Carl,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Did you try plugging it directly into a Mac and see if it’ll show up in iTunes? Or see if anything at all happens? Perhaps it needs to be factory reset with a fresh iOS installed on it, which you can do via computer.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Andy,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Okay, when I connect the iPad directly into a Mac USB port, the iPad icon does not show up on the iTunes GUI, but (eventually) an alert panel pops up telling me to unlock the iPad with a passcode. The passcode panel never shows up on the iPad, just the Apple logo with a frozen circular activity icon, so there's no way I can unlock it, nor would it likely stay up long enough to do anything with it in iTunes because after a minute or so the iPad reboots itself. In this state is there a way to reset it? 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I guess this means the iPad itself is toast, and it's not just a battery issue?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Carl
>>>>>> 
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