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Smart Keyboard: Not recognizing my keyboard. Will recognize another.

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 07:44:08 -0700

Any ideas as to why my smart keyboard isn’t being recognized all the time? I borrowed a friends and it works just fine. Not the iPad pro 10.5 issue. Possibly a problem with the magnets in the keyboard? It works sporadicly. Don’t want to replace if I don’t have to spend the money. Any advice would be great.

⟐ Answered January 25, 2023 at 7:44 MST

Smart Keyboard: How can you tell if Caps Lock is on? No light seen.

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:28:14 -0700

My dad uses the model A1636 and the Caps Lock button works, but you have no idea if it is on or not….no light. Is that the way it was designed? Thank you.

Smart Keyboard: Which pin connects with which part of the fabric?

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:38:30 -0700

When viewing the tear down I saw that the repairability is 0/10.

My Smart Keyboard is acting up (it shows the device is being charged when I connect the keyboard to the iPad) and thus lead to poor keyboard performance (repeated keystrokes and malfunction).

After some research I believe that their might have been something wrong with the “conductive fabric” which causes poor connectivity. So, I’m planing to wire the contact pin to the deeper part of the fabric to remedy the wear and tear on the hinge part.

Problem is I have no idea which part of the fabric is connect to which pin, and I have no x-ray image to reference to.

If I can get this information, I may be able to salvage the keyboard in some way.

Thanks!

⟐ Commented January 01, 2020 at 18:38 MST

Smart Keyboard: Make a hole in a Smart Keyboard Folio

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:34:57 -0700

Hi,,

I would like to put a physical lock on my Ipad Pro. To do this, I need to stick a small iron plate at the back of my Ipad. If I do that, I cannot anymore use the smart keyboard folio because the iron plate is a little bit to thick. In order to resolve this issue, I would like to make a hole in the cover part in order to put the iron plate at this location. Do you know if it may damaged my smart keyboard folio to do that ? Is there is a recommended location to do the Hole in the folio cover

Here is an exemple of the plate I want to stuck at the back of my Ipad.

Thank you for your help

⟐ Commented December 23, 2019 at 8:34 MST

Smart Keyboard: Take the back off the case inside micro fibre

Tue, 01 May 2018 22:25:15 -0700

Hi my iPad keyboard stopped working out of warrenty, going to try and fix it as it could be the amount of times I’ve folders it the conductive paint going slightly damaged and a little repair will work. See it on YouTube.

Did you use the iopener to take the full cover off or did you use any other tools I will buy the iopener if this is what you used I already have the pro tool set.

⟐ Commented May 01, 2018 at 22:25 MST

Smart Keyboard: will the onscreen keyboard show up if the keyboard is folded up?

Fri, 03 Feb 2017 12:58:54 -0700

OK so I am looking to buy one of these but the only thing holding me back is will the onscreen keyboard show up if the keyboard is folded up and still connected behind the iPad like if you are standing up or something?

⟐ Answered February 03, 2017 at 12:58 MST