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Can an iPhone charger keep a iPad from running down?
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That's a hard restart, it doesn't turn off the iPad.
If you have the brightness set way up or you're playing a 3d game, the battery on the 3rd gen iPad will still slowly discharge. It's better than nothing though.
lol no. Hold Power button alone 3-5 seconds get slide to power off. Do you actually own an iPad?
or an iPhone for that matter.
lol no. Hold Power button alone 3-5 seconds get slide to power off. Do you actually own an iPad?
He is right.
Also my ipad3 was hooked up all day Monday streaming music with the screen on and a iPhone charger. Never lost any charge.
It depends on what the iPad is doing. Some activities (playing a game, displaying a movie) will take more power than others (sleeping, streaming audio with the screen off).
lol no. Hold Power button alone 3-5 seconds get slide to power off. Do you actually own an iPad?
LOL, your right. Don't need to hold both. Learned something. (don't know how I learned you to use both).
Least you DO get shutdown message holding both, BEFORE it does a hard reset, so it will also work.
You can charge the newest iPad with the iPhone's charger, but it will be much slower. And while this will obviously keep it from depleting its charge, if you use the iPad while you do this it will still continue to run down.
So, yes, the iPhone charger will keep the charge from depleting and recharge it very slowly, unless it is in use, where it will merely slow the rate of charge loss.
It depends on the use as well. My iPad does not drain if connected to the iPod charger(the 29 optional) as long as I'm surfing the web, I think if I'd played a game or a video it will continue to drain
I haven't had any problems with my iPad charging while using it, but I imagine it depends on what you are doing at the time.
For that matter...I can get the 3rd Gen iPad going so hard that it drains a bit even with the iPad charger. I'd say using an iPhone charger with the new iPad would be quite the losing proposition.
THE worst thing you can do to these battery packs is have them plugged in and have them in use at the same time, discharging and charging at the same time equals double the heat which is a big problem for the battery pack, depending on use, a quick browse through emails and maybe a website is OK, i certainly wouldnt go playing a game of Texas Poker or Infinity Blade.
Charge up, unplug and use, if your desperate plug it in and leave it for 10 mins, you will get a fair chunk of charge restored in this time
Charge up, unplug and use, if your desperate plug it in and leave it for 10 mins, you will get a fair chunk of charge restored in this time