

the whole reason I refuse to believe its the mother board is bad is because this started really gradually, first it was only sometimes when id plug it in I would have to take the pug out, flip it over and plug it in again, then when it finally stopped charging, if I got lucky, I could get it to connect and charge, then it would only charge really slowly and with no sign that it was even charging except the battery percentage would be higher after a few hours. I read someplace about the charge port going bad on these but they are hard to fix yourself unless you can solder really good.which I cant lol. i think the mother board is fine but who knows? do mother board fry like this in these things after only two years and if so would the ipad still know when i pug it in or press the power button yet just not charge? it ran excellent all during this process, in fact it only got down to 2% because i was using it but couldn't re charge it. I have tried all options from new chargers, wires, blowing air into the port, and doing all the button hold down, restart things.

my feeling is the charge port has failed. honestly I don't think they even opened it up. I took it too a shop who said they tried to fix it but the motherboard was shot. left plugged in for 8 hours it wont raise past the 2%. its now stuck on 2% battery and wont charge and when i plug it in to the wall charger i get a big battery icon center screen with a lightening bolt and charge plug icon and that's all. then it just stopped charging all together.

it started slowly with my having to take out the plug, turning it over and plugging it back in to get it to charge, then it got to the point of charging very very slowly and without the battery icon turning green and no sound to let you know its plugged in. My ipad air (first gen) has stopped taking a charge.
