#105362 - Smashed_187 - Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:26 am
Ok, I'll list the DS's and then what's happening, hopefully someone can help.
All 3 DS's flashed with flashme7, I can't remember what original firmware they had, but I used them for months and they worked fine.
Symptom 1: Now, they don't turn on. At all. The green light doesn't even flicker.
Symptom2: When plugged into the wall, the orange charge light switches on briefly, no more than 2 seconds, then switches off.
What I've eliminated: The batteries are all fine, when tried in a friends ds they all charged up and held their charge fine. As a side note, the charged batteries, when going back into the now dead ds's, still won't turn it on. I hope this can be fixed, and whats the chance of it happening to all 3?
#105365 - Mr. Picklesworth - Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:05 am
Are these fresh DSs, or is this after flashing all 3 at once, or what?
We'll probably need to know a bit more about how they came to be bricked...
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#105366 - Smashed_187 - Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:08 am
Ok, first off, as far as I can tell, they're not bricked. Just not getting power and/or charging.
All 3 have worked previously, I just got a little bored with them and they ended up in the cupboard collecting dust. They all went in working 100%, and all came out with the same symptoms.
All 3 we're flashed at different times, all with v7 flashme and I checked the md5 hash to make sure it was legit.
So here's how it went: Bought DS, DS worked. Flashed DS with Flashme v7, DS worked for months. Put them in the cupboard, no one touched them for about 2 months, took them out, and dead :-(
#105375 - MaHe - Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:15 am
Hmmm, probably batteries died. You should charge them for 24h, that helped with my mobile phone(s). :)
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#105385 - Devil_Spawn - Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:58 am
the battery is not being detected as existing to the ds, chances are you didnt use them for quite a while (correct?)
so the batteries have been fully drained, and the technology that the ds's batteries use die if they are not used for long periods of time,
they are cheap, but chances are you beed some new ones
EDIT: misread your post, didnt read the last line
ok, chances are that the fuses inside the ds's have blown, send them to nintendo if you do not want to replace the motherboard/solder it yourself
#105512 - Smashed_187 - Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:12 am
Know of any good tuts that could show me how to do that? I'm not sending anything back to nintendo :-P. If not, the general location and type of fuse would help. Cheers.
#105515 - Sektor - Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:56 am
If they are less than 12 months old, Nintendo would replace them for free, so that would be the best option.
Are you positive you installed flashme v7? If they had v4 or lower then they would be bricked by any WFC (wi-fi game) like Mario Kart since those games overwrote a small part of the firmware that contained v4 flashme.
It seems unlikely that 3 DS would stop working at the same time but if there was a short in one of the carts that you plugged into all 3 of them then that could blow a fuse.
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#105523 - Devil_Spawn - Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:54 am
no these are the classic simptoms of a ds that cant detect its battery, and i dont know if anybody knows what type of fuse, you will simple have to bridge it with solder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dT_hyOCS2Q&eurl=
you only need to do the bottom half, and then solder over F1, its slightly above and to the left of the battery thing(on a ds phat)