I want to buy a used 1st gen ipad,

will the new apps and OS be supported?? I don't want to buy it and can't use it!

The original iPad can only run iOS 5.1.1 or earlier. Consequently, quite a few apps will not run on it.
You don't mention the source you intent to use, but IMHO you would be much better off buying a refurbished iPad from Apple than one on the open market.

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I bought a used 1st gen Ipad on Ebay. It is froze on a screen that says plug into Itunes. I can't get it to do anything?

I pad froze on Itunes symbol with cord image under. Will do nothing but turn off. Please help! I finally brake down and by a used Ipad for this?!!?!

If you recently bought it, can you return it? If you can, do that as soon as possible! It's possible thte seller new they were selling you a non-working ipad, or one with problems. I'd keep at e-bay until they refund your money.
You might not get as great a $ deal, but if you buy one in the Apple refurb store on the Apple website (scroll down on left of screen) you can consider one of those. This morning I ordered our third ipad 2 (16 gb for a senior who wants it for limited use.)
(Given the reported problems with ipad 3 (discontinued after only months) we went with the ipad 2, but could not find any new ones at 32 gb. So we bought two last Summer (at a great price, we went with 64 gbs.)
Each comes with a new outer front and back cover, a brand new battery, and a full one year warranty. We have never had overheating problems, and the batteries last about ten hours per charge.
Google questions about the old new discontinued ipad 3.
Hope this helps.

I just bought a used 1st gen iPad and I want to know if I can read books on it

I tried to download the I book app available but it only runs with iOS 7. I have ios5. Is there an older iBook app available to download or will ios6 or 7 work?

If you can't locate a compatible iBooks then the Nook App from Barnes and Noble will run on iOS 5.
Check the App Store App for Nook.

Can't use Photoshop Touch on 1st Gen iPad?

App store won't let me download and install it on my 1st gen iPad 'cause it doesn't have a camera. It doesn't NEED a camera, does it? I've got tons of photos in iphoto on my ipad and I receive photos in my email and via wifi. Does anyone know how I can use Photoshop touch on an ipad without having to buy a NEW iPad?

Are you selecting the albums to sync correctly? ...
Put Checkmark in "Sync Photos from iPhoto" ...
Click button next to "All Photos" or next to "Selected albums .... include ..."
Select the albums, events and so on that you want to sync - with a checkmark next to each ....
Then click apply in the lower right corner of the iTunes window

Using 1 password with 1st gen iPad. How?

can't fine 1password 3 for 1st gen ipad. Itunes store only has ver 4 which will only work with IOS 6 and my aging Ipad won't work with IOS 6. Being abandoned with a 2 year old product is no fun. Thanks, Jerry

If the version that you want to use is no longer available, there is nothing that you can do about it.
I'm not familiar with the app, but if the developer updated it to work with iOS 6 only, then there is nothing that you or Apple can do about it. It would be up to the developer to make sure that the app will work in a lesser iOS.
If this is the app that you want, unfortunately, it only works in iOS 6.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1password/id568903335?mt=8

I received a 1st Gen IPad from a supplier as a gift to promote their products. They used their Apple account to load the apps. I am not able to load my own apps because their apple user is the one that pops up. How can I change it to mine?

I received a 1st Gen IPad from a supplier as a gift to promote their products. They used their Apple account to load the apps. I am not able to load my own apps because their apple user is the one that pops up. How can I change it to mine?

Set it up as new device, explained in this article, without using the backup afterwards:
How to back up your data and set up as a new device

How to improve use for 1st Gen iPad

I love this app. I have other pdf readers but I love this app the most. The only problem is, it lags on me most of the time. It slows down every now and then. Please give me some advice on how I can improve the performance of the Adobe Reader on my 1st Gen iPad. Thank you very much!

The lagging problem might be the reason of memory. You can try using Adobe Reader after freeing up memory by removing stuff from your device which is not necessary.
Thanks,
Ankit
Adobe Reader Team

HT3702 i want to buy apps using my debit card. is it possible?

i want to buy apps using my debit card??? is it possible??

Try this discussion...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19333298#19333298

My 83 yo dad has a 1st gen iPad. He has so many photos he would like to view on his HD TV; so I purchased Apple TV for him. But I am having a hard time setting this up. I have been able to get his music on Apple TV, but he really wants the photos. Help

My dad has a 1st gen iPad. He is 83 yo. I recently purchased an Apple TV for him because he loves Netflix and I told him that he could view his photos via the television. BUT, I'm not having success with Photostream. Help me.....I've been researching and trying everything I can and so far, no luck. He keeps asking about the photos, and I'm losing patience with myself and Apple TV. Can anyone help???? Thank you.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5209
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4437
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4215
 Cheers, Tom
Oops!!!!!! Just realized Airplay & Apple TV requires iPad 2 (or later).
Message was edited by: Texas Mac Man
But there may be a way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_586623&feature=iv&src_vid= urjjHjJ0pdc&v=sSKQVxucnLY

1st Gen iPad won't connect to my home router. EVER. Refuses to connect to my wifi.

HELP ME PLEASE WITH THIS 1st GEN IPAD refusing to connect to Wi-Fi ISSUE
It shows up as having full signal, and shows the name of our network. But go to Safari and try to go do anything and it spins and spins then tells me "Cannot Open Page...Safari could not open the page because the server stopped responding." Well...it never responded in the first place, so....
Apple says it works fine on their in-house system when we took it in. Told us to call Comcast. More than once, Comcast walked me through 20 mins of reconfiguring the router and the iPad and multiple phone calls and a trip to Comcast later...no go.They say it's Apple's problem now or that I have to buy a special Comcast technical support account for further help --- which doesn't guarantee anything....
This is rather BS to have this unusable thing for so long and now be expected to pay MORE money to get something like this working....and why won't anyone take responsibility? It cannot be that big a deal.
We now have been unable to use our expensive iPad for about 4 months or more. What the heck am I supposed to do? Throw it in the trash take the huge loss as a life lesson to not bother paying Apple prices for stuff that only works for a few months before some glitch or software issue makes it unusable without having to buy a new unit or pay someone to keep trying only to hear '...sorry, call someone else...'*
*Same thing happened with my perfecctly perfect dual G5 tower...motherboard burned out for no reason. Paid 1200 to replace that...then a year later the other main board fries...on a computer that barely ever got used...ended up having to literally give it away on Craigslist and buy a new iMac...which then made all my expensive music software and projects unusable. So I have about three years of special music project files sitting on a harddrive that will never be able to be used.
...I'm beyond frustrated since all we wanted the iPad for in the first place was to be able to check some websites and emails...help me help me.

If the iPad works on other Wi-Fi systems then I'd have to agree that it is your own router causing the problem. To be sure take your iPad to a Starbucks or your library and a few other places than have Wi-Fi and test it out. If it works in those locations you'll need to talk to Comcast some more and be assertive. Something could have failed in your router.
Regarding your hard disk full of music. Put it in an enclosure and connect it to your Mac. Other World Computing sells all sorts of hard drive enclosures that you can install your drive in.
Computers can be frustrating but solutions are sometimes just around the corner.

How can I move music from my 1st gen iPad to my new 3rd gen iPad

How can I move all the music on my 1st gen iPad to my new 3rd gen ipad?

Transfer the music into iTunes on your computer and then sync the new iPad with iTunes.
Or download all of the purchased music on the new iPad. You can download the songs again for free in the Purchased Tab of the iTunes App as long as you use the same Apple ID that you used to buy the songs with originally.

1st Gen iPad problems with Pages

I have a 1st Gen iPad and have the Pages app, but now that the new Pages app has been issued for iOS7 I can no longer open docs from the cloud in the older app. I saved the docs from my mac as a pages09 file and still can't get them to open. What now?

I spent about 4+ hours with Tech Support on this issue. There is no luck according to their Senior Technician. He spend time rummaging over the internet offering me solutions with 3rd party apps to get 'iCloud" back with pages, but none of them worked with an "Offline" mode. This was a big hinderance on myself as well. I am a Tech Writer and had a lot of documents that I needed to send to my Editor...he uses Pages as well... Once I edited my documents in the New Pages, he couldn't opened them...this is not good. I know newspapers all around are probably feeling this burn right now.
I have found a solution however, but it requires a previous purchase. I bought Pages 09 back on 10.6.3 Snow Leopard long before the Mac App Store was opened to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 What I did what continue using that program, denying the update to Pages in OSX Mavericks. Still though with all the documents I had to open each individual one and resave them as .DOC format then reimport them into iCloud after cleaning out the /Library/Mobile Documents/Pages section.
Now as I am a Tech Writer, I do NOT expect the average user to figure this out or even need to figure this out, this was an unacceptable move by Apple and after looking at the specs, there is NOTHING that would prevent them from making Pages 10 Backwardscompatible for Pages 09 users or add Pages 10 support to iPad. Since they ONLY allow it to run on iOS7 Devices, kind forces you to run out an buy a new iPad2 or higher.... since I am quite confortable with my 1st Generation, I will continue using Pages 09' and if worst comes to worse, I will roll back to Mountain Lion, there was no update feature on that one and never did it bother me about upgrading Pages 09....
Christopher
Staff Tech Writer / Journalist
Gallup City Limits Newspaper
Macbook Pro 6,2 OSX Mavericks

HT5457 New app upgrades put 1st gen Ipad users out in the cold - Recently DirecTV and The Blaze both upgraded their ipad apps so that only ios 6 and above were compatible - anyone who has a 1st gen ipad cannot upgrade to ios 6 - what is up with this Appl

So 1st gen ipad users are basiclly left out in the cold unless they go out an buy a new IPad - of course DTV and The Blaze are blaming Apple and Apple is blaming them - what is the deal Apple - I pay for my subscription to The Blaze in order to have it on my IPad and now I can't even use it - same with DTV - so is Apple now forcing people to buy upgraded devices thru their apps that will no longer support the older generations - what a joke this is and bad business.

Unfortunately software always moves faster than hardware.
Apple's not going to change things. You can try talking to those two app developers and have them make their older versions available.
Beyond that, if you wish to express yourself directly to Apple, http://www.apple.com/feedback/
This is just a user to user forum, so there's nothing anyone here can do for you I'm afraid.

Kindle on 1st Gen iPad

I have a 1st Gen iPad that I am giving to my husband. I cannot download the Kindle App because it does not, and cannot have, the 'latest and greatest' software update. Any suggestions?

Amazon and most other developers do allow you to get an older version of their app. First, download the app on itunes using the same ID you're using on the ipad. Then go back to your ipad, launch the appstore and go to 'purchased'. You should now see kindle in the list. Hit the install button and it will give you the option to download an older version of the app, usually the last one that supported your ios version ( for an ipad 1 you may want to upgrade to ios 5.1.1, the latest allowed).

Shared Library not sharing certain movies or tv shows to 1st Gen iPad

I purchased Blu-Ray's that included the digital copy feature for a couple of movies including The Lord of the Rings, as well as Transformers 2. I was successfully able to regiser the movies in iTunes, download them, and they play them fine directly on the Mac where I downloaded them to.
I use the Shared Libraries feature to allow my iPhone 4S as well as a 1st generation iPad, and a 13' Macbook Air to access content stored on the Mac where I downloaded the movies in question. The movies can be played fine via Shared Libraries on the iPhone 4s, the Macbook Air, but they are not even displayed in the Shared Libraries on the iPad. When I browse on the iPad, the movies do not appear in the library. However what is very odd is that other movies that I have purchased directly from iTunes do show up on the iPad - for example I bought Disney's Cars directly from the the iTunes store, and this one shows up fine on the iPad. I'm seeing this same content for several videos that shows up as "TV Shows" but don't display at all on the iPad.
A few technical details:
The movies were downloaded using iTunes version 10.6.1 (7) to a 2012 Mac Mini running the Intel Core i7 CPU.
OSX 10.7.4 is installed on the Mac
iOS 5.1.1 is installed on the 1st Gen iPad and on the iPhone 4s
I find it quite odd that the videos play on every Apple device I own, and even a PC that is using the Shared Library but not on the 1st Gen Ipad.
Any ideas?

Mmmm....OK, just deleted a movie that was already there, and the ones I imported suddenly appeared. And started to download a TV series from the iTunes store, and the imported ones appeared too....no idea what was going on, but all is how I want it now...iTunes must have got it's knickers in a twist!!

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