See image, it is showing the charging symbol, but not charging... What is going on?

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I find myself searching "how to clean adhesive off ipad" far too often, in the hope that I'll stumble across some "magic bullet" in the form of a new chemical cleaner or updated guide to help speed the process along.

The technician I've emailed has done literally hundreds of them, so I figure he's got the removal of old adhesive down to an art form at this point. I'm approaching my 20th iPad repair, and it's still taking much longer to completely remove old adhesive that I'd prefer.

Here's my current technique, which I hope you can weigh in on and help me improve, as I don't feel it to be particularly efficient:

1. I completely remove the old glass assembly and LCD.
2. I remove any and all of the actual 'tape' I can find using the flat end of a plastic spudger.
3. I pour a small amount of WM Barr's "Goof Off!" into a spray bottle's protective cap.
4. I dip a cotton swab in the GO and use it to saturate an area on the iPad's metal border, and leave it for 2 minutes.
5. I use a combination of dry cotton swabs and the flat end of the plastic spudger to wipe up as much of the glue as possible.
6. I wipe the area clean using a bit of tissue paper.
7. Rinse and repeat - saturate, leave for 2 minutes, wipe up, tissue paper - until all of the residue is gone in that area. To try and speed things up, I tend to have one side saturating while I'm working on the opposite side.
8. I give the areas a clean down after all of the residue is removed using 99% isopropyl and cotton swabs.

The technique works, but it's taking me maybe an hour per iPad, and I'm convinced there has to be a better way to do it. A better adhesive remover, or that I'm missing some important element that I should be taking into account.

Goof Off! was recommended by one of the other fixers on this forum, but to be honest I'm not particularly impressed with it. I was expecting the glue to be completely dissolved after a couple of minutes contact with it, and that it'd just wipe up with the residue GO after.

Cheers,

Craig J.

⟐ Answered September 25, 2018 at 17:37 MST

I bought the screen/digitizer/home button ifixit part and replaced it last night. Thankfully the power & home buttons and screen still work after the replacement.

Unfortunately, the iPad still does not respond to any touches and I cannot slide to unlock. I tried a DFU restore this morning, and that did nothing either.

It didn't look like anything was wrong with my original screen/digitizer and it doesn't look like anything is wrong with the replacement.

Are there are other things that could be preventing the iPad from receiving touch input? Anything that I can try fixing?

(before I tried these repairs, the genius bar only was willing to replace it for $300).

I'd love any suggestions. Thanks.

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⟐ Answered August 31, 2020 at 14:28 MST

Here is a picture:

I get this even when it is plugged which is weird because it should only show the battery and not the cable. Also, the screen flash every 5 sec before going back to the battery/lightning cable icon.

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⟐ Answered May 04, 2019 at 9:54 MST

So my aunt got a new iPad Mini 4 to replace her old iPad 4th gen. She told me if I could fix her old iPad she'd think about handing it down to me (glad iOS 10 will support it haha). She took it to the Apple Store and they said it would be a $300 fix due to a hardware issue. But I am certain that it's a software problem. The screen lights up but no further progress is made. So, I put it in DFU mode and tried to restore it. But I got error 4005. I'm so frustrated right now. I really want to fix it because of her promise to consider handing it down to me. Any help is appreciated.

UPDATE: Battery was dead - that was cause for error, I think. Now I have it plugged into wall outlet, and as of 7:41 ET it has the black screen with battery icon (4 horizontal red bars in the icon) and has been this way for half an hour. How long will I have to wait for it to charge enough to power on? The 4005 is currently not a problem and I don't think it will be in the future.

UPDATE 2: It powered up, now wants me to "Connect to iTunes" (the screen with the iTunes logo and Lightning cable illustration). So I will - it's probably to restore it.

UPDATE 3: It is now charged enough to boot but it displayed the connect to iTunes screen. I have connected it to iTunes and am performing a restore with an IPSW file for iOS 9.3.2. The extraction worked, now the iPad is showing a progress bar under the Apple logo. Progress bar currently empty. Will update. EDIT: screen went black, stuck at Waiting for iPad, so I quit iTunes (I'm on a Mac) and plugged the iPad back into the wall outlet - I think it ran out of battery again because I didn't let it charge long enough.

Thanks,

Royce

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⟐ Commented January 02, 2016 at 20:00 MST

Identifers: iPad 4th Gen (Wi-Fi + Cellular) - MD516LL/A* - A1459 - 2605* - iPad3,5

I got this one in with a battery icon I don't know. The battery appears dead. While in the charger I can press the power button and very quickly get a battery icon (on its side) with what looks like three or four vertical red lines at the base of the battery. Is this a dead battery or does the icon tell something else?

⟐ Commented February 02, 2016 at 15:49 MST

I am not sure what the issue could be! I have not put the known good working LCDs back into other ipads to see if something happened to them but either way its just not right.

I have spoken with other technicians who have had the same issue and do not have an answer.

Please help

⟐ Answered October 17, 2015 at 15:03 MST

I have an iPad 4 wifi +3G which i'm refurbing.

I have transferred the Motherboard battery & other parts across to a different casing which is in excellent condition.

The casing from original was pretty beat up & very badly damaged in one of the corners but everything on it worked fine including both camera's.

This is something i have done many times before without any issues so i'm not someone who is attempting this for the first time.

Everything is working fine except for the main camera when i try to use the camera app it just stays black & i can't switch cameras to the front facing one.

Also i cannot get a camera to work with photo booth BUT both camera's work fine when using FaceTime !!!!???

I have tried different headphone jack logic boards both brand new & from known working iPads I've also tried different camera's again new & from working iPads yes they work fine when put back into the iPads they came from.

I have DFU restored & updated to IOS 8.1.1.

Any ideas guys any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

⟐ Answer edited October 09, 2015 at 17:43 MST

Are those both same?

Thanks

⟐ Answered April 13, 2021 at 12:10 MST

⟐ Commented January 01, 2023 at 4:47 MST

I have a small problem with repairing the Ipad 4, model A1458 and I hope one of you can support me.

First of all, my customer told me it was an ipad 3 version, so I take of the glass/digitizer as usual. By heating up the glue and pulling the digitizer out of his frame I saw an broken flex cable. So my that is why I thought ( this isn't the iPad 3 but 4 version ).

So after the digitizer was off, I saw an flex cable between the mainbord and "I guess home button or bracket". This cable is broken, so I believe the home button will not work anymore.

I'm searching now for an solution but I can't find an supplier who can deliver such cable including home button.

Does someone has experience with this or can someone tell me how to solve this problem?

Many thanks for the efforts in advance.

Kind Regards,

Tim Grootveld

⟐ Commented September 29, 2015 at 11:28 MST

Got a 7 months old iPad 4, and its dead as a dodo, battery ran out while using it, connected it to the charger the next day, and it never came back on, no apple logo, no charging symbol, does not respond to any reset procedure, two chargers (12 and 10 watt) was tried, and 3 cables, also tried connecting it to different computers, both mac and pc, no reaction.

And yes, its still under apples 1 year warranty, but since it was sold in Latin America, and i'm in Europe they don't want anything to do with it.

Its been left on the charger for 3 days, and no change.

Did the battery simply just pack up and died totally, or should i expect a logic board failure since the screen just stays black.

iPad was never dropped, never exposed to water, and is in pristine condition, except being a paper weight. :D

Any suggestions ?

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