My iPad 2 is in a state of constant reboot! Help!

My iPad 2 is currently in a state of constant reboot - cycling continually between the Apple icon and the "waiting" icon (wheel of death, as I've seen it referred to). It cannot be interrupted, and keeps going for hours until it runs out of battery.
I've tried the hardware reset a few times, which interrupts the cycle, and brings up the Apple icon, but then it just immediately retuns to it's previous state of constant reboot.
I've tried connecting it to iTunes. iTunes recognises it but says I have to unlock it with my unlock key. I cannot do this because it is not possible to interrupt the reboot sequence to get the input panel.
It is not jailbroken, and I'm happy to have it restored from scratch.
I am in China temporarily, and my iPad has become quite a lifeline for me, and am devastated that it's stopped working.
I can take it to the Apple Store here, but would prefer to fix this from home. However, I also don't want to mess this up such that the Apple store folks think I've tried to Jailbreak the iPad, because that definitely is not my intention!
Any thoughts/hints/tips?
Thanks.

sianj wrote:
My iPad 2 is currently in a state of constant reboot - cycling continually between the Apple icon and the "waiting" icon (wheel of death, as I've seen it referred to). It cannot be interrupted, and keeps going for hours until it runs out of battery.
I've tried the hardware reset a few times, which interrupts the cycle, and brings up the Apple icon, but then it just immediately retuns to it's previous state of constant reboot.
I've tried connecting it to iTunes. iTunes recognises it but says I have to unlock it with my unlock key. I cannot do this because it is not possible to interrupt the reboot sequence to get the input panel.
It is not jailbroken, and I'm happy to have it restored from scratch.
I am in China temporarily, and my iPad has become quite a lifeline for me, and am devastated that it's stopped working.
I can take it to the Apple Store here, but would prefer to fix this from home. However, I also don't want to mess this up such that the Apple store folks think I've tried to Jailbreak the iPad, because that definitely is not my intention!
Any thoughts/hints/tips?
Thanks.
Restore seems to be the best option. Have you tried a hard reset ?

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