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Hello, Recently I got a 3ds - The small first version. When I plugged it into the charger, I noticed the light turn on, but when I try to turn the device on - nothing! The lights turn off when I press the power buttom and after a few secounds - turn on again without the decive coming to life. theres no crack on the screen. Thanks you.

Could be a bad battery.. You can get them from Ebay

Take the sd card out and put it back in again

Check the F2 fuse next to the battery contacts (for the 3ds it located underneath, other side of the logic/mother board). If the fuse is blown, then then system will charge for 10 sec and then stop.

Hi these units get dropped from time to time, remove the back plate the battery and then the back casing. Look up towards the left trigger there is a small ribbon cable that can come loose if dropped. Lift up the small tab (carefully) remove and replace ribbon cable. Also there is a small square adapter in the center of the unit directly below the cartridge slot this is your wifi card once again gently pry up on it and it will come loose then reattach it. If these things don’t work you more then likely have a tear in the ribbon cable that connects the screen to the motherboard. I have also on occasion seen this happen on a console that some one tried to hack and failed resulting in a hard brick of the motherboard, if that’s the case you can try to find another mother board or sell it for parts.

You need to charge it longer. If no response continues, try replacing the battery.

This just happened to me!! I recommend: Take SD card, dust that and blow into the SD slot then replace the cardIf you use the charging cradle (like I do!) put your DS in it tip it about a bit. Until the light comes on… I just have a loose connection Edit: I have a 3Ds

My 3ds shows the charging light but after a while it doesnt turn on still plz help me!

Try doing whatever everybody else says and if that doesn’t work, try putting the ds back together and take out the game card and sd card and squish the system around, not too hard but hard enough that it will put anything in place that might be loose. I did that out of frustration and to my surprise it worked!

I bought mine on OLX, but 2 days ago it stopped working, black screen and can’t update because it is already on 11.9, and my SD card don’t read, I formated my SD and 3ds don’t created a folder. HELP :/

When i turn on my 3ds it tries to for a few seconds, makes a snapping noise then shuts off

I am really frustrated at this point…I would replace the ribbon..BUT HOW DO YOU DO THAT!??!

Take out the SD Card and Game Cartridge. Clean the connectors on both. Blue into the open slots really well a few times. But the card and cartridge back in. Turn it on!

None of this $@$* is working!!!

Just go somewhere and get it examined if none of this works.

“Thank you” not “thanks you”

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The charging light on mine lights up but the blue light wont light up and it wont turn

Excuse me? I changed my 3d slider module (it didn’t regulate 3D) and when I finished, it was doing the one second and popping (and charging led turned off for a while) after pressing power button. Then I moved a little bit more the connections and now 3D led indicator turns out when I press power button (with an inmediate very soft click on the speakers), and then inmediately turns off. Charging led stays all the time. Is there anybody who has experienced this last thing?

Just in case anyone is having a problem with the 3DS charging but not turning on after removing and reseating the Gamecard Reader (as in Steps 12 and 13 of the iFixit Guide), it might be due to the conductive material that connects the Gamecard Reader board to the Motherboard not making contact. Underneath the mobo, there is a little strip of conductive material that connects it to the Gamecard board, and when reseating the Gamecard board, that strip can get pushed to the side and not make contact. This will cause the 3DS to not turn on via the power button, but when plugged in the charging light will still turn on and stay lit while the battery charges. To solve this: make sure the conductive strip is flat when reseating the mobo and make sure that the mobo sits right on top of the connecting point on the Gamecard board when the Gamecard board is reseated. Then the unit can be powered on like normal.