• How do you charge an iPad that has been sitting dead for a long time?

    From Robin Goodfellow@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 21 19:43:56 2021
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    How do you charge an iPad that has been sitting dead for a long time?

    I have an iPad that the grandkids used to use while they lived with us.
    All it was ever good for is playing games or testing out nospam's bullshit.

    Recently, we cleaned the grandkids' spare bedrooms and found this iPad.
    We plugged it in a month or two ago on the charger, and left it there.

    No dice.
    Something killed this iPad that should _not_ have killed it.
    But what?

    Dunno.
    I didn't worry as I have plenty of iPads if I need to test the bullshit that all the apologists spew on this newsgroup (they make up imaginary
    functionality because they _hate_ that iOS can't do the simplest of things).

    Even so, Steve posted a thread today which implied that the iOS devices are
    so crappily designed that they _must_ be powered in order to be charged.

    Is that true?
    If so, that's a shitty design.

    How do you charge an iPad that has been sitting dead for a long time?
    --
    Is there any other operating system so crippled as iOS always appears to be?

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to Ancient-of-Days@Heaven.Net on Thu Oct 21 15:51:47 2021
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    In article <sksfts$3f9$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Robin Goodfellow <Ancient-of-Days@Heaven.Net> wrote:

    How do you charge an iPad that has been sitting dead for a long time?

    connect it to a charger. duh.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to Ancient-of-Days@Heaven.Net on Thu Oct 21 17:12:21 2021
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    In article <sksko3$d4v$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Robin Goodfellow <Ancient-of-Days@Heaven.Net> wrote:

    How do you charge an iPad that has been sitting dead for a long time?

    connect it to a charger. duh.

    Why isn't it charging then?

    it is. give it time.

    it needs to charge to a sufficient level to power on the device and
    display the red battery icon, at which point you can then monitor the
    charge progress.

    It was _definitely_ working when it was put away when the kids moved.

    that doesn't mean anything.

    batteries self-discharge when not being used.

    in your case, it discharged to the point where it's too low to power on
    the device.

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  • From Robin Goodfellow@21:1/5 to nospam on Thu Oct 21 21:06:11 2021
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    nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> asked
    How do you charge an iPad that has been sitting dead for a long time?

    connect it to a charger. duh.

    Why isn't it charging then?
    It was _definitely_ working when it was put away when the kids moved.

    Now it's dead.
    It hasn't been _touched_ in all that time.

    How do you wake up an iPad that won't wake up even on a charger?

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  • From Robin Goodfellow@21:1/5 to nospam on Fri Oct 22 23:35:16 2021
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    nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> asked
    in your case, it discharged to the point where it's too low to power on
    the device.

    For once you are right, which I appreciate since I had assumed it was the iPhone but in the end, it charged when I switched things from what the grandkids were using (it had been sitting in their bedroom since they left).

    I was dead wrong to wrongly assume it was the poor design of the iPad.
    Here's a screenshot after replacing the cable & waiting about an hour or so.
    <https://i.postimg.cc/g008YhxP/appleid02.jpg>

    In reality, since the iPad was merely an extra that only the grandkids used
    to play games, I had plugged it into a charger & cable that they were using.

    And then I left it in their now empty bedroom, to charge.
    When I recently checked on that iPad on the charger, it was _still_ dead.

    But it turns out the ten foot lightning cable they were using is bad.
    Mea culpa.

    My fault.
    I apologize for impugning the honor of the iPhone when, in this case, it
    wasn't the iPhone but the fact I didn't bother to check the charging cable.

    Now I have to figure out why it insists on a password when I have _never_
    used anything but a one-time login/password the first time I set up an iPad (because it insists on you having an account which for me is throwaway).
    <https://i.postimg.cc/g008YhxP/appleid02.jpg>

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