Hardware Switch Lite Not Charging - draws only 0.10A [Solved]

[Dokuta]

Hello !

A customer brought me 2 Nintendo Switch Lite with the exact same problem. The customer asked me to replace both Type-C ports because his kids damaged them.

After the USB replacement, both consoles didn't charge, drawing only 0.10A on the ampmeter. I thought BQ24193 was damaged as usual. The capacitor highlighted was indeed shorted so I removed the BQ24193 and the "shorted" cap from the board but even after this the short was still present.

After some testing I found that all pins on the battery connector were shorted to ground. At the back of the motherbord I found another capacitor shorted near a component with this label : +17050

I removed this component and all shorts on the motherboard disappeared. I was able to find the same component on a gen 1 Nintendo Switch board and after the replacement, the battery charged normally.

Since then I had this exact same problem on another Switch Lite and the same chip was damaged. I hope this could help someone !

 

[Ttm3]

17050 on the regular switch is the battery gauge I believe.

 

[jkyoho]

Kind of tricky when replacing usb port on Lite compared to normal NS. the battery gauge and battery connector are too closed to it.

 

[gueshkiller66]

Hello !

A customer brought me 2 Nintendo Switch Lite with the exact same problem. The customer asked me to replace both Type-C ports because his kids damaged them.

After the USB replacement, both consoles didn't charge, drawing only 0.10A on the ampmeter. I thought BQ24193 was damaged as usual. The capacitor highlighted was indeed shorted so I removed the BQ24193 and the "shorted" cap from the board but even after this the short was still present.

After some testing I found that all pins on the battery connector were shorted to ground. At the back of the motherbord I found another capacitor shorted near a component with this label : +17050

I removed this component and all shorts on the motherboard disappeared. I was able to find the same component on a gen 1 Nintendo Switch board and after the replacement, the battery charged normally.

Since then I had this exact same problem on another Switch Lite and the same chip was damaged. I hope this could help someone !

Thanks bro you helped me a lot since I had the same problem with a switch lite , as the charging icon displayed on the console same like she was charging, but percentage of battery not increased .
I did not had any shorted capacitors near the m92T ou BQ chip so i investigated near the +17050 ic, I didn't had capacitors shorted near this area too, but so I had a donor motherboard , I decided to swap the 17050 ic and boom !! charging was again effective !
So many thanks you helped me a lot !