iPad / iPad 2 / ipad 3 - how to unfreeze
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Presumably, if you are staying here, your favorite gadget that is iPad / iPad 2 or even new iPad 3 from Apple got completely frozen, it decided not to turn on or does not respond to your Home button push in its turn-on state. Your are completely sure that iPad's battery is full but gadget seems to be dead. Don't panic, the solution can come quickly and easily:

If IPad / iPad 2 / ipad 3 got frozen due to the failure of some application but his display in the turn-on state press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until a red-slider-image appears on the screen, then press and hold the Home button until the problematic application quits.

If that doesn’t work, turn iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 off, and then turn it on again. To do this press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until a red slider appears, then drag the slider. Then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.

If that doesn’t work, do the reset of iPad / iPad 2 that is press and hold both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

The last procedure is the only one to unfreeze iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 when it is in its turn-off state but does not respond to common turn-on procedure triggered by push-for-a-few-seconds of Sleep/Wake button.

If all above steps failed and your gadget continues to be frozen or repeatedly restarts but never stops on the Home screen or shows only the logo of Apple with no progress bar further, or is no longer recognized in iTunes put iPad into recovery mode

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