Cchecking Battery usage on iPad

bloodhunter · 21 Dec 2014 at 12:46

I have just bought a brand new iPad 1 and put it on charge for about 18 hours before using it.

When I click on settings-general-usage-battery usage, it displays two fields, Usage and Standby.

Under that it shows Usage times will be shown after iPad is fully charged.

Should these two fields show info or is it me doing something wrong.

Thanks.

Baldrick1001 · 21 Dec 2014 at 20:36

Best thing to do is have the ipad on whilst still plugged in and then remove it from the power - I had the same issuette - it was as though the battery had lost a little power prior to being turned on and the software didn't recognise that the ipad had actually been fully charged - even though the battery still stated 100%.

bloodhunter · 22 Dec 2014 at 20:21

I tried that but it makes no difference. I have no trouble with this displaying this info on my iPhone 4

bloodhunter · 24 Dec 2014 at 11:10

I just spoke to AppleCare regarding this. It appears that I need to let the battery go flat before the figures will appear. According the diagnostic check I have only let the battery go as low as 46% before I charged it again. I will see if this works and report back.

Chives · 24 Dec 2014 at 11:38

May I ask why you've just bought a brand new iPad 1?

bloodhunter · 24 Dec 2014 at 16:54

Black Friday deal at a good price and it does what I need it to do so I saw no point in the newer model at a higher price.

Chives · 24 Dec 2014 at 23:19

bloodhunter said:
Black Friday deal at a good price and it does what I need it to do so I saw no point in the newer model at a higher price.

Are you sure its not the iPad Air 1 rather than the very first iPad released?

bloodhunter · 25 Dec 2014 at 10:33

It is indeed the iPad air 1.

Sorry for any confusion.

bloodhunter · 27 Dec 2014 at 09:04

Just an update, I have let the battery go flat and charged it again a few times. The display still shows nothing.

Resistance · 28 Dec 2014 at 09:44

Bring it back to the place you got it let them have a look might be a fault with it. I have the same one and it should not do that

bloodhunter · 28 Dec 2014 at 10:52

Well I don't believe it. After several full charges followed by letting it go totally flat each time it has finally worked.

Thanks for all your help everyone.