Tech Brought a Dead Ipad to life over a gas stove.

[BJ]

As crazy as it sounds, if you heat a dead Ipad (Air 2 in my case) over the stove until it is hot to the touch, it will begin to charge a completely dead battery.

First, I got a sustained 2% charge and left it overnight only to find it was stuck at 2%.

Heated again, then 12% and stuck there.

So continued the process up to 100% (heating every 30 minutes) and now the ipad is fully recovered and can drain and recharge as normal.

[HugeWood]

[Mr Pheer]

I'm not heating a fucking Lithium battery.

[johnnyloadproductions]

Originally Posted by Mr Pheer

I'm not heating a fucking Lithium battery.

They can take a lot of heat, usually over 200 and still be fine. Problem is when you puncture them, they can rupture into flames.

[johnnyloadproductions]

You might get lucky (like OP) but unless you don't mind opening up and fixing iPads I would never buy one with problems.

Apple did the iPad Air 2 what they did with the iPhone 4, the LCD and glass digitizer are one piece now to make it thinner. Don't cracked that, the replacement part alone is over $200

[Joshua G]

Originally Posted by BJ

As crazy as it sounds...the ipad is fully recovered and can drain and recharge as normal.

if you throw it into a fireplace, it will fix dead pixels in the display. its true, its true.

[SilentKnight]

I'm still procrastinating on putting my old, dead WesternDigital external drive in the freezer to try and get one more boot from it.

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by BJ

As crazy as it sounds, if you heat a dead Ipad (Air 2 in my case) over the stove until it is hot to the touch, it will begin to charge a completely dead battery.

This is crazy and here's why.

Very cold Lithium Ion batteries don't work, often a small heating component is added to Lithium Ion to bring it to a slightly warm temperature so that the battery will work.

However when applying excessive heat to the battery you can trigger minor thermal runaways within the battery and these are what you were seeing happen when the battery recovered slightly.

Now what you have is a working iPad which is actually a time bomb without a set time. It could be days or it could be weeks or it could be a year - but at some time from now that battery will fail in spectacular fashion.

You NEVER apply excessive heat to a Lithium Ion battery, there are complex formulas to apply to work out safe levels of heating for very cold batteries (such as those used in outdoor applications) however what you have done is very very dangerous.

[LatinaCamChat]

Avatar is not surprising

[2MuchMark]

not since charging a phone in the microwave..