IPad 2 will not start

My iPad 2 will not start.  I get the apple logo, then the rotating wheel and then it goes back to the apple logo and starts the process all over again.  I have held down both the sleep button and the home button for over 10 seconds at a time, even going up to 1 minute, but no change.  Battery is charged.  There is no slide to off screen available.  I have tried to plug it into iTunes, but iTunes will not do anything without me entering the pass code on the iPad.  I cannot get to the pass code screen?  Any suggestions?  I was uploading to the cloud, but I can't find that available to me either!

Unfortunately, this may be the only way that you can bypass this whole loop that you are in - by connecting to a computer that is running iTunes so that you can restore the iPad using recovery mode.
You can use any computer to do this, but you will lose all of the content on the iPad. On the bright side - since you are using iCloud, this should not affect your backup. After you restore the iPad, you can restore from your iCloud backup and you should be OK.
An Apple Store should probably be able to do this for you. Make an appointment at a Genuis Bar. Or if you know somebody else with a computer running iTunes, you can restore the iPad on their computer.

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