Against all odds, the iPad lives! The restore certainly took its sweet time. iTunes had to download a huge binary file... the restore had to contend with a battery so low on charge that it couldn't keep the screen lit, even with 3.5A of supplied USB power... Touch and go for a while there...
The battery charged so slowly I feared it was damaged, only about 7% per hour, but it did finally charge up to 100% after 14 hours (the USB cable was warm to the touch). I left the iPad on, unplugged overnight, and it still says 100% this morning. Everything seems to be working normally again! Hurrah! Thanks for all the helpful urgings and suggestions. At one point I was an inch away from pitching it! Moral of the story is to not leave these things sitting in a closet for so long that the battery gets so low it (almost) can't be recharged. -Carl > On Jan 22, 2020, at 8:21 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. > > ---- > Andy Ringsmuth > [email protected] > >> 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 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support >> in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. >> http://macsrwe.com >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
