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I am not sure if this makes sense or not. No image is display , but light is present. I am not sure if this is backlight. I have never opened it up. This or may not be relevant, but this ipad mini 3 hasn’t been used in a while. Is it a possible a reseat of LCD is needed? Troubleshooting 1.) I held the home button + power while connected to PC. I updated IOS first. The apple logo was never visible. 2.) Repeated same process except did a restore/factory reset while connected to PC. Apple logo was never visible. *Once done PC / itunes detects it as new device. Thanks in advance for your help.
The screen issue is not software/iOS related as you have done the troubleshooting to rule that out, you will need to open it up and check if LCD cable is dislodged.
