I have an old iPad and want to give it to a friend.
I plugged it in with a new lead that charges another 1st gen iPad I have, but it's not coming on.
It's not been used for about a year. It's been plugged in now for 20 minutes.
Any ideas?
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Best Answer
If it won't wake after several hours of charging, try another charger and let it sit there for up to 8 hours.
You have likely let the battery self discharge to a permanently harmful level, but in most cases you can get it to trickle charge enough so that it will boot again and be of limited use depending on how long the battery was in a harmfully low voltage situation.
It may never boot again, but that depends more on how healthy the battery was when it entered storage since a year usually won't kill a new battery but will put a huge dent into it's usability.