Awesome, keep us posted! ---- Andy Ringsmuth [email protected]
> On Jan 21, 2020, at 11:48 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
