I will be brief.
The iPad died on me yesterday. I opened
it and found the screen totally unresponsive – no
fingerprint, wouldn't let me type in the code, couldn't press Cancel.
Nada. I left it for awhile to think about things, and when I looked
again the screen was blank. Blackness.
I charged it (and it made that sweet
little responsive noise when I plugged it in), although I think the
battery was about 30% full. I looked up Apple's help pages and tried
to follow the instructions for Restarting and then for Rebooting, to
no avail. So I'm going up to John Lewis now before the Saturday
crowds get there and while I still have some puff.
Oh no....hope the problem is very quickly fixed!
ReplyDeleteHow enormously disappointing! Thank goodness you went to a place where you can slap it on the counter and say"Fix it!", rather than having to mess around with phone calls and posting.
ReplyDeleteCuriouser and curiouser.
ReplyDeleteI know my Nook and Kindle tablets would consider 30% critically low. Suspect you should form the habit of putting your Ipad on charge when you go to bed nightly. Hope that's your only problem!
ReplyDeleteHopefully it just needed a hard reset, where you hold down both the on/off button and the home buttons. My iPhone 6 did this to me after I had only had it a few days, I called Apple in a panic and they said to try this first. I had to hold the buttons down, together, for at least 15 seconds and even the Apple help guy was ready to give up when it finally responded. Fingers crossed that your iPad does the same!
ReplyDeleteMaureen in Fargo, you made my suggestion.
DeleteIt's the old first step of Turn Everything Off. Then back on. My television has started to require this...
As former tech support, yup, the first thing to try is always reboot. Programs can interact and hang each other up and honestly, rebooting fixes things a good bit of the time.
DeleteIt is the jealous ghost of the old iPad. Proof positive it is still somewhere in the house.
ReplyDeleteBeverly n NJ
Grr!
ReplyDeletehope you were able to restart or went back to John Lewis! thats so annoying for a new item! now here's hoping you come back home and find the original one!
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