IPad No Display - Goes to DFU if left ON - iTunes detects in Recovery

Hello World,
I have an iPad2 WiFi 16GB that has gone dead. I was perfectly working a few weeks back but now it’s almost dead.
The problem was first observed on a morning when I tried to press the home button and the screen wouldn’t come on. I thought the battery was down and tried to charge it. Having connected it to a charger, there were no charge indications displayed on its LCD. Usually I see the red battery charge icon when connected to a power source. In the evening when I came back from office, it was still stuck on the blank screen with zero display no backlight either. I swapped with another charger but still the same story. Then I tried to hard reset it, and viola, the screen powered up and booted back again. No issues for 2 days. Then the same problem on 3rd day and so I hard reset it again and when it booted back I noticed that the charge was about 70%. So I knew the problem was not due to low charge. This started going on for a month. As time passed I couldn’t hard reset it straight away and it was getting tougher to get the iPad working. I would have to keep pressing the home button and power button for more than 20 seconds for the screen to come back up. My chances of waking the iPad was better if I connected it to a charger and if the battery was charged above 90%. It became harder and harder to get the iPad working. I observed that if the iPad is always connected to the charger this problem never happens. You can leave it for a week and no issues at all. It is when there is no charger connected to it and if the iPad blanks the screen due to inactivity and within 10 minutes of standby the problem starts to appear.
Since this was happening quite often I thought it could be a problem with the recently updated 7.0.4. So I thought I would upgrade it to 7.0.6 and see how it goes. With the blank screen iPad I connected to its USB cable and to my surprise iTunes detects it in DFU mode. This is the DFU with blank screen not the recovery screen that shows up with "Connect to iTunes picture" on the screen. But, if I try to update the iOS it would get stuck at the progress bar forever. No activity is observed at this point. The only way to reinstall the OS is try to hard reset the iPad by pressing the home + power buttons for more than 20 (if you are lucky) seconds and see if it comes out from DFU with a boot logo of Apple. During power up keep pressing the home button so that it enters into the recovery mode ("Connect to iTunes picture"). Then iTunes can reinstall it. But when it reboots same problem. So I know it’s not the iOS issue. Something else would have gone wrong. As time passed by the iPad wouldn’t wake up at all. It wants to be in DFU all the time. The 20 second hard reset work around too failed and it was impossible to get the iPad working. I thought it could be the battery playing up. So I purchased the iPad2 battery off ebay for $13 and replaced it. The multi-meter showed it had about 3.4v before replacing (the one in it showed about 2.8v). But, still the same issue. There is no way the iPad displays anything except if I connect to iTunes and try to reinstall the iOS. In that case it would get stuck in the progress bar at 0% with the Apple logo on top.
I need some expert opinion here. Taking it to apple for repair is not an option and the iPad is out of warranty. I would like to repair this myself and would like to know the cause of such an issue. I am an advanced user so any wise observation, expert opinions are welcome. Appreciate your time in advance.
Thanks
Sinu Chacko

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iPad (1st generation)
iPad 2
iPad (3rd generation)
iPad (4th generation)
iPad Air
Model Number [110]
A1219 (WiFi)
A1337 (WiFi + Cellular)
A1395 (WiFi)
A1397 (WiFi + CDMA)
A1396 (WiFi + GSM)
A1416 (WiFi)
A1403 (WiFi + Cellular VZ)
A1430 (WiFi + Cellular)
A1458 (WiFi)
A1459 (WiFi + Cellular)
A1460 (WiFi + Cellular MM)
Status
Discontinued
Available
Discontinued
Discontinued
Available
Announcement date
January 27, 2010[20]
March 2, 2011[44]
March 7, 2012
16, 32, 64 GB: October 23, 2012
128 GB: January 29, 2013
October 22, 2013
Release date
April 3, 2010[3]
March 11, 2011[111]
March 16, 2012
16, 32, 64 GB: November 2, 2012
128 GB: February 5, 2013
November 1, 2013
Discontinued
March 2, 2011[44]
32, 64 GB: March 7, 2012
16 GB: In production
October 23, 2012
October 22, 2013
In production
Launch Price
Wi-Fi 16GB 499$
Wi-Fi 16GB 499$
Wi-Fi 16GB 499$, Wi-Fi 32GB 599$, Wi-Fi 64GB 699$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 16GB 629$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 32GB 729$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 64GB 829$
Wi-Fi 16GB 499$, Wi-Fi 32GB 599$, Wi-Fi 64GB 699$, Wi-Fi 128GB 799$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 16GB 629$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 32GB 729$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 64GB 829$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 128GB 929$
Wi-Fi 16GB 499$, Wi-Fi 32GB 599$, Wi-Fi 64GB 699$, Wi-Fi 128GB 799$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 16GB 629$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 32GB 729$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 64GB 829$, Wi-Fi + Celluar 128GB 929$
SoC
Apple A4[7]
Apple A5
Apple A5X[112]
Apple A6X
Apple A7
CPU
1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8
1 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9
1 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9
1.4 GHz dual-core Apple Swift
GPU
PowerVR SGX535
Dual-core PowerVR SGX543MP2
Quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4
Quad-core PowerVR SGX554MP4
PowerVR G6430
Memory
256 MB DDR RAM built into Apple A4 package[9]
512 MB DDR2 RAM (1066 Mbit/s data rate) built into Apple A5 package[10]
1024 MB DDR2 RAM
1024 MB DDR3 RAM
Storage
16, 32, or 64 GB[6]
16, 32, 64, or 128 GB[6][8]
Display
9.7 inches (250 mm) multi-touch display with LED backlighting and a fingerprint and scratch-resistant coating[6]
1,024 × 768 pixels at 132 ppi
2,048 × 1,536 pixels at 264 ppi (Retina Display)
Camera
Back
N/A
720 p HD still and video camera
0.7 MP, 30fps and 5× digital zoom
1080p HD still and video camera
5 MP, 30fps and 5× digital zoom
Front
N/A
VGA-quality still and videocamera, 0.3 MP
1.2 MP still, 720p video
Wireless
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR[6]
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0
Wi-Fi+3G/4G
In addition to above:
3G cellular HSDPA, 2G cellular EDGE on 3G models[6]
In addition to above and left:
3G transitional LTE on 4G model
Geolocation
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi,[6] Apple location databases[113]
Wi-Fi+3G/4G
Assisted GPS, Apple databases,[113]Cellular network[6]
Additionally: GLONASS
Environmentalsensors
Accelerometer, ambient light sensor,magnetometer[6]
Additionally: gyroscope
Battery
Built-in lithium-ion polymer battery.
browsing: 10 hours (Wi-Fi model), 9 hours (3G or 4G (LTE) model); video: 10 hours;[6] audio: 140 hours;[114] standby: 1 month[115]
Operating system
iOS 5.1.1
iOS 7.0.3
Dimensions
9.56×7.47×0.528 in (243×190×13.4 mm)[6][116]
9.5×7.31×0.346 in (241×186×9 mm)[116]
9.5×7.31×0.37 in (241×186×9 mm)
9.4×6.6×0.295 in (240×170×7.5 mm)
Weight
Wi-Fi model: 1.5 lb (680 g)
3G model: 1.6 lb (730 g)
Wi-Fi model: 1.325 lb (601 g)
GSM 3G (AT&T/global) model: 1.351 lb (613 g)
CDMA 3G (Verizon) model: 1.338 lb (607 g)
Wi-Fi model: 1.44 lb (650 g)
4G (LTE) model: 1.46 lb (660 g)
Wi-Fi model: 1 lb (450 g)
4G (LTE) model: 1.05 lb (480 g)
Mechanical keys
Home, sleep, volume rocker, variable function switch (originally screen rotation lock, mute in iOS 4.2, either in 4.3 and later)[6]
Connector
30-pin
Lightning
Greenhouse gas emissions
130 kg CO2e[117]
105 kg CO2e[118]
180 kg CO2e[119]
170 kg CO2e[120]
Model
iPad (1st generation)
iPad 2
iPad (3rd generation)
iPad (4th generation)
iPad Air

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