Ipad2 with blacked out screen fix by spanking

Hi All
Just found out from the forum that if your Apple IPad2 goes into a black out screen mode, you may be able to fix it by spanking it.
I had taken it to the Genius Bar and they would have replaced it but was out of warranty.
So taking it out of its case I gave it 5 slaps to the back of the unit with my open hand.
Supprise the when I turned it over and pressed the power button the Apple logo appeared.
Thanks to the support community.
Ozyowee

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Does your hard drive spin up? And do you have access to another MAC?
If so, you could see if you could mount your Mac's hard drive on the other Mac's desktop using FireWire Target Disk mode:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
Also mount an external drive equal or larger than your internal drive on the host Mac. Then use a cloning utility like Super Duper on the host Mac to clone your internal drive onto the external drive. This will give you a backup of everything that is on your internal drive--it will be an exact copy. This would take some time, but would likely be the best way to back up everything on your drive.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
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