Last night I had my gamepad hooked up to the charger for a while, not very long charged, and when I unplugged it and tried to turn it on, I noticed it wouldn't respond to me holding down the power button, or pressing any of the buttons, and that the orange light it shows when it's hooked up to the charger was still on. It also wasn't affected when I turned on the Wii U manually. I was thinking about taking out the battery and seeing if that made a difference, like when I've had that problem with a laptop that wouldn't turn off, but I wasn't sure if I had a screwdriver that would open it and I was a little reluctant to mess around with it since I don't know how complicated the gamepad's battery is, and I decided I'd rather just wait until the gamepad's battery eventually runs out, since it seems to have a pretty terrible charge time. But more than 12 hours later, it still has the orange light on, I guess the little light being on isn't using much of the power. The worst part about this is I can't even play stuff with my cheap 3rd party Wiimote, because it says I need to use the gamepad to open up Homebrew (or at least the forwarder cfw which I have as the default when clicking on the Haxchi icon).
I couldn't find anything online about someone having a problem like this, is there a simple solution or is my gamepad screwed for some reason?
I couldn't find anything online about someone having a problem like this, is there a simple solution or is my gamepad screwed for some reason?
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