iPad™ Portable Genius

Chapter 14. How Do I Fix My iPad?

Your iPad may look like an iPod touch on steroids, but the iPad's sophisticated innards tell a different story: This is one fancy device that's on an order of magnitude more complex than an iPod touch. The good news about this is that the iPad is a full-blown computer, and given the iPad's fast processor, extra memory, and large solid state hard drive, you can use it to perform some pretty amazing tricks. The bad news about this is that the iPad is a full-blown computer, and most computers eventually have problems. So there's a good chance that someday your iPad will behave strangely or not at all. When that day comes, this chapter gives you some general troubleshooting techniques for iPad woes and also tackles a few specific problems.

General Techniques for Troubleshooting Your iPad 280

Taking Care of the iPad Battery 284

Solving Specific Problems 288

General Techniques for Troubleshooting Your iPad

If your iPad is behaving oddly or erratically, it's possible that a specific component inside the device is the cause, and in that case you don't have much choice but to ship your iPad back to Apple for repairs. Fortunately, however, most glitches are temporary and can often be fixed by using one or more of the following techniques:

• Restart your iPad. By far the most common solution to an iPad problem is to shut down and restart the device. By rebooting the ...