IPad cycling between Apple logo and Grinding icon endlessly

I was tooling along using my iPad when a notice for updating to IOS 8.02 came up. Then without touching any buttons my iPad started rebooting. I am cycling between the Apple logo and the working or grinding icon grinding then freezing. I cannot turn the iPad off and the battery is almost totally depleted. I tried to charge the battery overnight, but it is not charging. Any solutions? I went to iTunes to back up. When the Apple logo is showing iTunes says it cannot back up because the iPad is locked. it only recognizes the iPad when the Apple logo is showing

If you can't get in any other way, you can try restoring using recovery mode first. If that won't work, maybe you can erase it and start over using find my iPhone.
If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
iCloud: Erase your device

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