IPad 3 charging issue... not your normal USB complaint.

So I took the plunge into iPad world and got the 64 gig Verizon 4g version. The night I got it ( Tuesday ) after playing with it for a while, I tried to plug it in overnight to charge it with the AC adapter. It wouldn't give me the charging acknowledgment on screen in the first two wall outlets I tried, finally plugged it into a surge protector and it worked. This being my first iPad I thought maybe it was being finicky about the power. Faster forward to this morning, I forgot to plug it in overnight, and tried every outlet and surge protector in the house, to no avail. I plugged it in using the same cord minus the AC adapter to my PC and got the "Not charging " Message. ONLY after doing this was I able to get this thing to start charging using the AC adapter.
So my question is this.... Is this normal? I really don't want to have some modified OCD dance everytime I need to charge this **** thing.
Is it the iPad itself acting up, which I suspect, or the USB to AC 10w adapter?
Again, first time owner so be gentle.

Sometime the iPad will not indicate it's charging, when using the AC adapter, for the first 15-20 minutes.
The quickest way (and really the only way) to charge your iPad is with the included 10W USB Power Adapter. iPad will also charge, although more slowly, when attached to a computer with a high-power USB port (many recent Mac computers) or with an iPhone Power Adapter (5W). When attached to a computer via a standard USB port (most PCs or older Mac computers) iPad will charge very slowly (but iPad indicates not charging). Make sure your computer is on while charging iPad via USB. If iPad is connected to a computer that’s turned off or is in sleep or standby mode, the iPad battery will continue to drain.
Apple recommends that once a month you let the iPad fully discharge & then recharge to 100%.
At this link http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/galaxy-tab-android-tablet,3014-11.html , tests show that the iPad 2 battery (25 watt-hours) will charge to 90% in 3 hours 1 minute. It will charge to 100% in 4 hours 2 minutes. The new iPad has a larger capacity battery (42 watt-hours), so using the 10W charger will obviously take longer. If you are using your iPad while charging, it will take even longer. It's best to turn your new iPad OFF and charge over night. Also look at The iPad's charging challenge explained http://www.macworld.com/article/1150356/ipadcharging.html
Also, if you have a 3rd generation iPad, look at Apple: iPad Battery Nothing to Get Charged Up About
http://allthingsd.com/20120327/apple-ipad-battery-nothing-to-get-charged-up-abou t/
Apple Explains New iPad's Continued Charging Beyond 100% Battery Level
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/27/apple-explains-new-ipads-continued-charging- beyond-100-battery-level/
 Cheers, Tom

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Will it charge using the iPhone charger. It's only 5W, so it will charge more slowly.
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 Cheers, Tom

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Message was edited by: malcolm payne

Hi hatter – thanks for your input
A corrupt hard disk can prevent booting from CDs and DVDs.
So I took the boot drive out and tried booting from my snow Leopard DVd – no go.
You say "boot from Disk Warrior." I never boot from a DW CD.
Well, it is the recommended way of repairing a directory using disk warrior. One absolutely can boot from a DW DVD. But at this point i don't think it's a directory problem.
You saying that you don't have clones of your drives?
You don't have a small emergency system drive / volume used justfor maintenance?
I didn’t actually say, but I have time machine backups of everything, and a less than totally current clone. No I don’t have a small system drive. Whenever I’ve had system issues in the past I’ve always been able to boot from the OS DVD.
UPS? they help in many ways. Not sure what or why it froze outof the blue, but when that happens even though you said "minorrepairs" I do NOT TRUST Apple's Disk Utility in such situations.
Actually I didn’t mention anything about a UPS either, but for the record, yes, I do use one.
Keep the OS only on the boot drive. Have spares and backups youcan boot from and use.
Boot with only a new drive or none and see if 10.6.x DVD worksthen.
See above
Get out your OEM DVD and run Apple Hardware Test (it is on thelabel, hold down "d" on startup)
Well, I found “a” version of AHT dated 2007, which is before my Mac Pro, but it did work, give an accurate profile, and returned Test Results –“No trouble found”
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Start using CCC or SuperDuper and plan on investing in a coupledrives unless you actually have some good drives you can rely on and put intoservice. Fresly zeroed preferrably.
Pretty sure at this point that the drive is not at fault, but I do need to use CCC more often. I have backup drives for everything - 8 drives in all . .
thanks for your help . . hatter . .

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HT4060 Can you charge IPad on universal USB charger with USB to iPad charging wire? Seems to work. Very slowly however

iPad charges very slowly with universal USB adapter and iPad wire. Is this normal?
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tak9 wrote:
Ahh thats a shame, I knew it seemed to easy.
So does that mean you can simply transfer videos from the external hard drive to ipad? Do you need a wifi connection for that or can the ipad sync straight to the hard drive without that?
No first hand experience with them, but my understanding is that the HDs have a WiFi transmitter built in. You stream the content directly from it, probably using an app.

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I had gone to Europe with a full charge on all of my devices, and on the long flight I used both the iPad and the iPod. Once in Spain, I left the iPod in the hotel safe; the phone and iPad were used throughout my vacation, receiving a charge every day via the 10w charger and European duckhead. The night before I left, I plugged in the iPod, knowing that I would need it for the return flight. Imagine my surprise the next day at the airport when I discovered that the iPod was practically dead. Before boarding, I verified that the charger itself (with the European connector) was still working on both the iPad and iPhone, and it was; but as soon as I connected it to the iPod...nothing.
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