Nothing. I'm using a Nintendo official DS charger, I have a six month old n3DS, and a light that doesn't operate normally apparently. I know I've fully charged the thing because I usually leave it on the charger overnight, every night. But always, that light is on.
I see your disappointment, but it's not that bad. Here's the stock battery and here's cooler upgraded battery.
The light doesn't bother me enough to replace a six month old battery that lasts about 4+ hours. I just want to understand what is causing it. Is it specifically the battery, or is it my console?
I don't know, but if the charger really is continuing to charge the battery even when fully charged, it might overcharge the battery and you'll have a bad time (lots of smoke and fire)
This is true for old nickel alkaline and nickel cadmium batteries. Lithium Ion batteries like a cell phone and the 3DS battery are batteries that can resist power and cool towards the max of there charge, hence the slow down after 80%. The power controller in your phone and 3DS will stop feeding your battery when it senses a lack of resistance and at anything under 50mah it shuts off the smart charger, the brick on the wall for 3DS and the usb port for wallchargers. Your "Li-on" battery should be fine over night but the fact it's "charging" means power is flowing through your battery which wears it out. For example a laptop plugged in from day one will still have a battery that doesn't charge after a few years. The battery spends it's life charged but discharging while on life support from the wall.
That slowdown is caused by the charging circuit, not the battery itself. All of the protection is in the charging circuit, so if the charging circuit is somehow faulty and continuing to charge the battery, it's very possible for it to overcharge the battery. There could be some basic protection inside the battery itself as well, but you'd have to open the battery up and be an electronics engineer to find out.
I charge shit cowboy style all the time, like phones with bad charger ports can be charged with my 3DS cord a few pages back if you link up the battery outside of the phone. It's the battery for sure, that's why I linked him replacements.
No way. If you have two that do it, the battery could be it. The factory charger is a 4.6v@900mah, USB chargers are 5v@500mah. That small difference is twice the resistance, which is heat. The wall-charger is the hotter one and may have taken it's tole over time because heat wears out Li-ons. Do you play while you charge, because that's murder to a battery.
I'm not OP, so I don't have two. Only an Old 3DS and a New 3DS. I don't normally play while I charge, which is why I leave it on charger over night. In the morning, I usually remove it from the charger because I figure it is fully charged. Even if I don't, when I come home from work... The light is still on. Almost 18 hours later.
As a matter of fact, I DO see that on the home screen with the charger still connected. However, I also see the red "charging" light on the front of the console.
DERRRP! You aren't the OP lol. Yeah, that light be a blight but ignore it if you get 4+ hours of battery life.
Sweet! I got an ultra-rare 3DS with a "charging light mod"!
You know what, they can't NOT send it back so if the price of shipping to N is less than the price of a new battery then either way you get an answer.
I seriously doubt the console is flawed, as long as the battery behaves appropriately I can only hope a replacement would solve the problem. 3DS batteries are all the same model so maybe swapping them could change something.
