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.
>>
>> ----
>> 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
>>>>>>
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