⟐ Commented April 07, 2026 at 4:00 MST

⟐ Commented March 30, 2026 at 21:25 MST

I did a hard restart, and the iPad loaded to recovery mode with the plug into iTunes information. I plugged it in and iTunes prompted me to restore or update. I tried updating again, which returned with an error 9, and the iPad just restarted to recovery. I tried restoring from a Windows computer with the newest version of iTunes with the same error. Created a new user on my laptop and tried... same error.

Then came DFU mode. iTunes recognizes the iPad, restore starts. The iPad restarts and gives the Apple log and an empty progress bar. iTunes says verifying update, then the iPad restarts, and I get error 9 in iTunes.

At this point I've gone through everything I can find in forums for suggestions, and have even tried some of the apps that claim they can fix these issues. All with no success.

The iPad is cared for pristinely, and has been working flawlessly until this update. Is it bricked for good at this point? Hoping not... can't really afford to replace a perfectly good device.

⟐ Commented March 29, 2026 at 15:39 MST

after that incident I tried to replace the screen and clean the water or corrosion inside my ipad, I looked at the logic board there was no corrosion (but don't know about the condition of the other parts), after I replaced the screen, the case remained the same, namely restarting every 2-3 minutes, and my ipad before turning off to restart, my ipad screen seemed to freeze in place for a few seconds then displayed a pink screen then turned off, does anyone know this problem? this is my full panic, thank you

For example, if the flexible sensor on my iPad Air 6 m2 11 inch WiFi is damaged or torn, can I use a spare part from the iPad Air 5 m1 WiFi to install it on my iPad Air 6 m2 11 WiFi? Is that suitable?

我的iPad冷的时候屏幕会闪 严重点会白屏

The screen of my iPad will flash when it's cold, and the screen will be white when it's serious.

⟐ Commented March 26, 2026 at 20:46 MST

⟐ Answered March 25, 2026 at 20:21 MST

⟐ Commented March 23, 2026 at 18:53 MST

⟐ Answered March 16, 2026 at 19:59 MST

Any tips on which connectors to test, common faults? Or any guidance!?

⟐ Answered March 09, 2026 at 12:49 MST

what can i do now?

⟐ Commented March 05, 2026 at 20:49 MST

I have a small faint dark spot on my iPad Air 2 screen. That was unfortunately caused by me accidentally tearing a tiny bit of a cable coating open. A cable like this:

This open cable then burnt/heated up a small spot on the aluminium back panel of the LCD. Which now resulted into this faint dark, barely visible, spot on the screen.

I now covered that open spot up, so it won’t cause any more damage.

It’s hard to capture this on camera, but you can still see it.

My question now is simple:

Can I do anything to fix/smooth out this spot, so it disappears? Without having to replace the whole LCD?

Appreciate all the help, thanks in advance. :-)

New images:

⟐ Commented March 01, 2026 at 9:05 MST

so a few months back (like 2-3 months) my dad got very mad (unexpected) and my ipad was on the table. he threw my ipad very hard into the floor (and the floor cracked along with my ipad). the corners of one half of the ipad was cracked (the other half wasn’t cracked as badly). and surprisingly and fortunately it still works (everything was normal except my microphone doesn’t work and the camera was blurry bc my mom had to tape near it and it sorta covered it).

so a day or two before, it started acting up. like i tried to unlock my ipad and i pressed one number (passcode) and the ipad itself just started spamming the passcode and i was forced to close it. i tried again and once again the ipad started spamming the passcode numbers and the try again after 1 minute lock came on. so i left it alone cuz i thought it would fix itself after a night. so yesterday morning i opened it, thinking it fixed itself because the passcode part had no problems. then after a few minutes, it started acting up. i went into safari— the search bar just went up and down and up and down (it wasn’t spamming letters it was just the screen). i tried roblox, went into adopt me, the starting screen kept on spamming me, every time i would press no the same question/sign would pop right back up (it’s not supposed to). for ex: it would say do u want to teleport to the hat shop yes or no and i would press no but the same sign kept on popping up so i couldn’t even play. the screen was moving itself. (spamming letters on my keyboard only happened once, just the passcode.)

help me is it just broken? yes i’ve tried shutting it down.

⟐ Commented January 16, 2026 at 7:44 MST

⟐ Commented January 10, 2026 at 19:51 MST

Don't see one specific to 4th gen model. Are these parts compatible ? Thanks.

⟐ Answer edited December 30, 2025 at 7:29 MST

⟐ Answer accepted December 15, 2025 at 15:46 MST

⟐ Commented November 26, 2025 at 10:15 MST

I think I may have bent the pins on the ribbon connector (although I couldn't see any damage with my naked eye, on either the board or the ribbon connector). My question is, should I buy a new screen and give that a try, or should I just cut my losses and take it as a learning experience? Or is there something else I may have done wrong that I could fix?

⟐ Commented November 11, 2025 at 11:43 MST

Surprisingly, the package label does not specify the "version" like the website does. I also noted that Aliexpress screens seemed to infer the screens for wifi (A2898) and wifi+cellular (A2899) were the same. So, unless somebody for sure knows differently, I think I'm going to take a stab at doing this screen repair with this screen.

⟐ Answered November 07, 2025 at 11:18 MST

⟐ Commented October 21, 2025 at 8:05 MST