old iPad - display gone, any ideas?

John_P

I suspect it's time to put it in the bin but my old ipad1 has finally stopped working - the screen is blank.
I've tried holding the buttons, and doing a restore via iTunes but no difference.     It still beeps when an email arrives so appears to be working but just a black screen.
Any more ideas before I declare it a write off?

SRich

Yay.........iPad Frisbee........

Hertz32

Do you need a new chopping board? 
See if Apple will give you a trade in value for it? 

Danny1969

LCD gone duff I suspect with no backlight, seen that a few times. Repair means removing digitizer with hot air, undoing the 4 screws that hold the LCD down and carefully unclip the cable
An LCD would be about £20 I would have thought, so not a lot

Roland

£20 is a bit optimistic. There are at least two qualities of LCD, plus some people are a lot better at doing this than others. Last time Mrs R trod on her iPad I got someone to put a new screen in for £60

musteatbrain

You can get them on eBay for about £60 depending on the model which makes repairs not very economical. I have an iPad 2 with a cracked screen and a suspected duff back light. I'd like to repair it but it's cheaper to get a 2nd one from eBay. I can't do a factory reset as I have no MacBook to connect with either so if I sold it for spares or repairs I'd be sending it to some random who could access all my emails.
i might just have to eat it or put it in the furnace. Both more preferable than a trip to an apple genius at the Trafford Centre

octatonic

Sharpen the edges and use it as a rectangular shuriken.

Danny1969

Roland said:

£20 is a bit optimistic. There are at least two qualities of LCD, plus some people are a lot better at doing this than others. Last time Mrs R trod on her iPad I got someone to put a new screen in for £60

£20 is the rough cost of an iPad gen 1 LCD ...... not the cost of doing it

The bit most people think is the screen is actually the digitizer, that's the bit you touch with your hands and that bit cost £12 ish for an early iPad, £18 for an iPad 3 etc. If you tread on an iPad you break the digitizer, not the LCD .... well you might break both if in heels I spose
The actual LCD screen lives below the digitizer, if there's no display on the ipad then chances are the backlight has gone in the screen.
If you shine some light into the thing you might just be able to see a faint image on the screen. 

grungebob

musteatbrain said:

You can get them on eBay for about £60 depending on the model which makes repairs not very economical. I have an iPad 2 with a cracked screen and a suspected duff back light. I'd like to repair it but it's cheaper to get a 2nd one from eBay. I can't do a factory reset as I have no MacBook to connect with either so if I sold it for spares or repairs I'd be sending it to some random who could access all my emails.
i might just have to eat it or put it in the furnace. Both more preferable than a trip to an apple genius at the Trafford Centre

do you have an icloud account accessible from a pc or an iphone?  if you do you can go into find my phone and delete/erase the data on the old iPad.

strtdv

An iPad 1 isn't worth repairing, even in full working order it's only worth about £50

musteatbrain

grungebob said:

musteatbrain said:

You can get them on eBay for about £60 depending on the model which makes repairs not very economical. I have an iPad 2 with a cracked screen and a suspected duff back light. I'd like to repair it but it's cheaper to get a 2nd one from eBay. I can't do a factory reset as I have no MacBook to connect with either so if I sold it for spares or repairs I'd be sending it to some random who could access all my emails.
i might just have to eat it or put it in the furnace. Both more preferable than a trip to an apple genius at the Trafford Centre

do you have an icloud account accessible from a pc or an iphone?  if you do you can go into find my phone and delete/erase the data on the old iPad.

Thanks. Now set to erase