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

⟐ Commented February 08, 2023 at 19:29 MST

⟐ Commented July 11, 2025 at 9:54 MST

⟐ 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.

⟐ Answered December 24, 2018 at 2:18 MST

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⟐ Answered April 29, 2018 at 16:22 MST

⟐ 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

Are those both same?

Thanks

⟐ Answered April 13, 2021 at 12:10 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

when I try to restore my ipad on iTunes its give me error 9

I try all the methods

its not helps

please help me

⟐ Answer deleted April 06, 2022 at 15:04 MST

I do microsoldering repairs and have always wondered how the headphone detect actually works, as iv seen this issue on an ipod before too.

On the heaphone line coming out of the audio ic there is the CODEC_HP_DET line, it then gets to a resistor which I presume is to prevent over current, and then a ferrite, which I presume is to prevent emi / smooth the signal.

Then from there it goes to the flex connector, but from there its a mystery......

Is there a line that connects to here to push it high or is it pulled to ground when the headphones are plugged in ?.

Im just wondering as they dont care about the heaphone socket, as they just use the speaker on it, so wasnt sure if I pulled that line down or if I can solder it to another line to pull it high to turn off the heaphones.

The only other option is changing the audio ic and that is caked in underfill and has the touch ic on the other side of the board so is a bit of a risky one.

Id just really like to know how the circuit itself works really.

EDIT >>

Another odd thing is, that when playing system sounds it plays through the speakers just fine, and if I click on the volume buttons when not on youtube it says 'volume', yet when I go into youtube on safari it says 'headphones'., also if I record with the camera it says headphones too.

⟐ Answer deleted April 08, 2021 at 2:00 MST

⟐ Commented October 20, 2020 at 7:50 MST

• Touch screen was flakey (ribbon cable was sheared)
• Sleep by pressing the power button is not working, not even from assistive touch. Hold to power down ís working
• Screen rotation: not working, does work from assistive touch. Screen lock switch is working, so are the volume buttons
• Headphone jack: only some loud pops and light noise
• Microphone: no input (Siri cannot hear me)
• Cameras: both front and back camera show only black
• Apps from the app store cannot be installed: after pressing “Install”, spinner keeps on spinning without any popup
• Apps cannot be deleted: long press does bring up wobbly icons and the ‘X’, but pressing the X does nothing
• After the first boot, the screen stays black. You can tell it is on because when initiating Siri (home long-press) or taking a screenshot, you can hear the corresponding sounds. After a reset (home + power long press), you can get to the home screen by pressing the home button (the home screen does not show itself automatically)

I already replace the touch screen (working OK now), home button and WiFi cable. I can see no damage to the logic board, and judging by the screws, it has not been removed.

I was thinking about replacing the headphone jack assembly, since this connects all the components which are (partly) failing: iPad 3/4 Wi-Fi Headphone Jack

The hardware issues seem logically connected to this part, but I have no clue about the seemingly software-related issues.

Any ideas that replacing this part will fix my hardware and/or software issues? Thanks for any input.

Edit: FIXED

Everything is fixed after I replaced the headphone jack assembly! As you can see below, this part was torn by the previous owner. Thanks for the hints.

⟐ Commented December 14, 2018 at 17:30 MST

⟐ Answer deleted April 06, 2022 at 15:05 MST

I did a Ipad 4 screen repair for a customer of mine a week ago and he said that his screen wouldnt rotate. Anybody know what component has the gyro sensor on it so I can replace it for him. Thanks

⟐ Answer accepted May 10, 2019 at 15:18 MST

iTunes is never able to restore these iPads as they keep getting stuck on "Preparing iPad for restore" or "Waiting for iPad", and when I try to use ipsw files I get an error 3194 or 4014. I already looked at my hosts file and nothing unusual is there. I tried 2 different computers (both Windows) and new cords as well.

Has anyone encountered something like this before? Could this indicate the iPads were previously jailbroken? Is there a way to "flash" software onto the iPad, or force the software back onto the iPad not through iTunes? Sorry if these questions don't make sense- I don't know much about jailbreaking whatsoever.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you

⟐ Answered July 15, 2016 at 11:44 MST

Any ideas?

⟐ Commented June 12, 2016 at 12:12 MST