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iPad Air only charging to 2%...any ideas why?
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It's been plugged in for about 3-4 days now on the original charger with a genuine apple cable. I just did a manual power down (button then slide). I think I did this a couple of times but not positive (certainly did during the reset) but usually it has powered down by running out of battery then entering the restart cycle.

This whole thing didn't start at a dead battery though. My wife uses it a lot and had plugged it in at about 15% and noticed it wasn't charging. I immediately connected to my mac and did a local backup as well as iCloud backup. It then continued down to 0%/dead over a normal amount of time (i.e not a drastic drop). As stated, plugging it in now only goes to 2%

Fingers crossed that maybe the manual power down and uninterrupted charing will snap it out of this problem.

DRR wrote:
cbelt has it.

I ran into this with my iPad 3 recently, after letting the battery die out and not using it for a week. When I tried charging it again, it would only charge to a couple of percent, and then restarted itself.

Use the original charger, use an original cable. If you can get it turned on, manually turn it off so it doesn't try to enter the restart cycle again.

Plug it in for 2+ days, and then try again. Should be better.

The charging circuit that regulates how much juice/how much the battery can hold, needs to be reset/recalibrated. As far as I know just letting it charge is the only way to do this.
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#12
SUCCESS (for the most part)!

As Particleman and DRR suggested, manually powering it down and charging from being truly off seemed to have gotten it going. It charged up to 100% and seems to be powered fine.

The still strange things are that it wouldn't recognize an iCloud backup from last week nor an iTunes backup on my mac. I had to use an older backup that then sent it into a conniption fit of a flashing apple screen cycle that even a hard reset would not stop. After connecting and disconnecting it from my mac several times it stopped the cycle and insisted on going to a true recovery mode. Recovery mode worked and brought it back to life.

Now it shows the message "this accessory may not be supported" for any cords including a brand new iPhone 6 cord but it does still charge. Still seems like something's amiss but it is functioning.
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Now that it appears to be charging, maybe another Restore is order.

That and another trip to the Apple Store. Maybe now a more successful examination can be performed.
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