iPad not charging?

[Peerzy]

I've been given an iPad (I believe 2 - it's white and model A1430) that appears to not charge. It recognises a USB cable has been plugged in but I can't seem to get anything other than an empty battery icon with a tiny bit of red to show.



With the USB cable plugged in I get a blank screen and pushing the sleep button gets the empty battery icon to show for a second before it disappears.

I've tried holding the sleep and home button to force it into recovery mode but with no luck.

Any ideas? It must be well out of warranty.

 

[Peerzy]

My sons kept doing this, I used my Apple Mains Socket (the big one) and a genuine Apple Charge lead left it for around 24h on mains charge and it sprang back to life.

I've got both of those so will give it a go, the person who gave it to me said they'd tried to charge it but could easily have been with a dodgy third party charger and I was just having a play plugging it into my MBA.