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Hi, I’ve an iPad 1st Gen which doesn’t charge at all. Of course I’ve tried different cables and chargers. When I connect it to power, the iPad “knows” that iit should charge, because the empty battery screen changes the icon below. (if I remember correctly, it goes from “Plug-arrow-lightning” to only a lightning icon). I left it charging more than a night (I know it requires at least 10 miinutes) on a 10W charger, but nothing changed. Can this issue be caused by something different than a dead battery?
It could be due to a dirty, corroded dock connector, broken pins on the dock connector, or a bad power management IC as well as multiple other issues. I would suggest you try one thing at a time. The toughest part of these repairs is the trouble shooting. You also want to plug it into your computer and see if your computer recognizes it etc. Best place to start for a decent trouble shooting is a new battery. It will provide you with a known good point, and go on from there. Hope this helps, good luck.
horace, exactly which tiny pin are u talking about, i have an ipad saying not charging, and im stuck in searching for the fix, hope u can help
Dont need the repair centre for that! Connect the ipad into your computer, then you get only one symbol (the charging lighting), you can wait a little bit and your ipad wille be recharged through the computer, this is what happened to me
On our iPad it doesn’t matter the method that you connect it, it still fails to actually charge (still shows charging). Only way we have gotten ours to charge to 100% is to plug it into a charger and turn it off. After about 10-15hrs the iPad can be turned on again and you are greeted with 100% battery life. Any sooner than that and it will show less than 100%.
where is the pin that you refer to inside the ipad that causes it not to charge? I have same problem.
