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Hi, I’d appreciate any advice… My nephew threw the iPad like a frisbee, shattered the glass and bent up the top right corner where the power button is. Amazingly the iPad still worked, so I thought it worth, replacing the back metal housing, the screen and the power button (as this was also bent). Basically, I was going to move the entire innards into a new housing - the lcd by the way was fine. On taking out the battery, I damaged the back of it due to the amount of adhesive there was. I also found that the tiny bracket that holds the power button and ribbon to the inside of the plastic power button that is visible externally, was bend and snapped when taking it out. So I bought a new digitiser, a new battery and a new volume and power ribbon (with the brackets attached). All fitted with out issues, all ribbons undamaged and all correctly plugged into their appropriate sockets. I’m now left with a new looking iPad 4!….but I can’t get it working. Plugged into the mains, the apple logo appears for a few seconds, then it turns off….and a second letter, it repeats. and this goes on. I’ve tried dfu/recovery and I’ve tried plugging it into iTunes but nothing seems to work. Following some other advice on one of the forums, I opened it back up and disconnected the board from the battery, left it for 30 mins and then reconnected and put it all back together, checking the ribbons and plugs again. The issue is still there and the iPad unusable. I’d be very grateful for any advice on what I can consider next….I’m not really keen on buying any further parts as I simply don’t know what the issue is? Many thanks in anticipation…
Hi Antony, Is it a WIFI/Cellular one or a WIFI only one? Also , did you ensure that you screwed back the motherboard to the battery? I suppose that if you start your Ipad and left it starting without touching/moving it you have the same issue? Are the formers batteries really unusable? if not , it should be nice to try to start your device with them. Thanks for your answer
