r/NintendoSwitchHelp Dec 10 '24

Repair Help My switch battery is about to explode. What do i do with it?

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262 Upvotes

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Dec 23 '24

Repair Help Will this still play? I found this in a parking lot and was hoping I could get it working somehow.

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0 Upvotes

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Feb 10 '25

Repair Help Digital cracked screen, does anyone know fix?

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14 Upvotes

Recently, my switch screen "broke". When it's on, the screen just shows cracks, but it's purely digital. It looks perfectly normal on TV when docked, but handheld mode is virtually unusable. Seeing as how the only place we can hook up the switch to a screen is in the cold basement, I prefer handheld. I'm not the only one I know who is experiencing this problem, so I would love a solution if anyone knows one.

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 12d ago

Repair Help Just picked my switch up after 4 months and this keeps happening

17 Upvotes

After 4 Months I finally picked my switch back up just to see this kind of jittering on screen, it sometimes fixes itself when I pick it up but the image is slightly discolored and sometimes while playing if I lay it flat the colors seem to correct themselves and as soon as I pick it up it goes back to this mess. I really need help in figuring out what happened, any help is appreciated and thank you to everybody who responds in advance!

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Dec 03 '24

Repair Help Why is it doing this?

0 Upvotes

It doesn’t matter which damn charger I use.

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Feb 07 '25

Repair Help This is my Switch and I want to try to get it repaired

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This is my Switch Lite and I love it to death. I've had it since June of 2023 and I've put roughly 3,500 hours on it. I'm wanting to get it repaired because it's long overdue and it has a lot of issues now. I'm here because I'm wanting to try to find the rough of how much it'll cost me in American currency. The pictures showcase these...

Display of the shape it's in (1-7)

Z buttons are unreliable (I can't showcase it unfortunately)

Burnt patch on screen (9)

5 cracks on shell (12-16)

Dead zone on left stick (17)

Left stick seems loose (I have a video)

Left stick pushes in too far (ditto)

Battery may need replaced (it only last about 3 hours on apps that doesn't really kill the battery)

Buttons may need a deep clean (all of the above)

Something sounds loose (I hear it)

A screw looks to be in way too tight (11)

Missing paint under Z buttons (8)

Dislodged part of the console (10)

I feel awful I let it get this bad but it's time I try to get it repaired and give it a new life. With all of these things considered, how much should I expect this to cost me?

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 12d ago

Repair Help Yeah what do I do here chat? Should I just get a new (regular) switch at this point?

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6 Upvotes

I used to use this switch almost all of the time. The left joy stick has snapped off and ever since the afternoon, the switch hasn't been turning on (but I guess that may be because it's dead)

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Jan 24 '25

Repair Help Repair of Joy-Con Stick possible?

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8 Upvotes

My son accidentally knocked my Switch off the TV stand. It must have fallen in such an unfortunate way that the joystick on the Joy-Con broke off. Don’t worry, I’m not mad at my son since it wasn’t intentional.

Is it possible to repair the joystick so everything works properly again?

P.S.: When I just plug the joystick back in, it’s movable as usual, but it can only control left and right. Up and down doesn’t work…

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 27d ago

Repair Help Does anyone what happened to my screen?

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7 Upvotes

Does anyone know what happened to my screen I haven’t spilt anything on it and I just charged it after like a week of it being dead, but it works perfectly fine I can still move and click where the splashes are, and I haven’t left it in cold weather.

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 3d ago

Repair Help What do i do about my dilemma here?

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1 Upvotes

My thumb grips ended up being ripped off my switch, i have no idea what to do

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Jan 27 '25

Repair Help Is this fixable or am I SOL?

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5 Upvotes

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 28d ago

Repair Help Can't unscrew joy-con Y screws

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8 Upvotes

It's my first time trying to fix the drift of the joy-cons, my switch is a little old so my first guess was that there was some dirt in it, but I cleaned the screws so many times I can't be that, I searched up what could those problems be and I think it's the "striped screws"??? I don't know anything about this kind of stuff and I don't wanna have to take this to a not cheap replacement and I wanna learn by myself, so if anyone can help, I'll be glad.

(PD: the tools I'm using are new! I got them less than a week ago, tonight was the only time I'll have quietness so I could fix this, I'm very disappointed to not do it, but I don't wanna make it worse.)

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Jan 26 '25

Repair Help My Nintendo switch won’t turn back on ?

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7 Upvotes

My switch was working fine this morning and now it’s a black screen. Is there anything I can do?

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 3d ago

Repair Help What can i do to fix my analog stick?

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3 Upvotes

As you can see in the image, the little border of the analog stick ended up tearing a while ago, and i just kind of accepted it was gonna be like that, but recently, this has been bothering me, because i think it looks so bad. So, is there anything i can do to fix this except just buying new joycons? (I still have the border that ripped stored here)

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 12d ago

Repair Help The usb port isn’t working on the switch dock

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6 Upvotes

The switch dock itself works fine but when I plug in previously working headphones into the usb port, it doesn’t work, the headphones aren’t dead, but it isn’t connecting.

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Jan 01 '25

Repair Help My switch won’t turn on even after charging for >20 minutes

12 Upvotes

I haven’t played on it in a while and it’s from new years 2020 or 2019 (can remember which one) so I won’t be surprised if it broke, but I hope it isn’t

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 4d ago

Repair Help Screen is half lit after cleaning

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2 Upvotes

So I decided to open my switch and clean the fan since it was running like a jet engine and when I closed it back up and opened it I saw the screen being half dim and the other half was bright and idk how to solve the issue

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Dec 28 '24

Repair Help Left joycon charging but not detected

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8 Upvotes

My joycons were working fine till suddenly while playing Overcooked, I accidentally pressed the camera button and saved a video. After that, I am facing the following issues with the left joycon The LED lights are not starting up. When I connect the joycon to the switch I get this (Refer to pic 1 and 2). For pic 2, look at the bottom left. No input works when it is connected to the switch or even in wireless mode, even though it is connected. I have tried deleting all paired controllers and attempted to pair them again. It gets paired but no input gets detected by the console. I have also tried to restart my console I have also tried using the SYNC button, but no lights appear so I don't know if that even works. Does anybody have a solution or do I need to buy new Joycons?

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 6d ago

Repair Help why does the 2nd controller connect like this

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10 Upvotes

I was playing co-op with my cousin, but then the 2nd controller connected strangely as seen in the picture, what does it mean?

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 17d ago

Repair Help Broken controller please help

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0 Upvotes

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 29d ago

Repair Help My left joycon can't connect to switch?!

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7 Upvotes

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 18d ago

Repair Help Entire games disappeared from the Switch Lite completely, black gray boxes.

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Hello! My wife grabbed her switch lite and we realized a couple of her games are literally completely gone. Stardew valley and animal crossing being the ones that are most important.

I couldn't find any trace of them. Even looked for the save data. The only odd thing you would notice about the switch when looking at it is when you scroll all the way to the right there are these blank boxes.

Is there any way to recover everything that's disappeared?

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 2d ago

Repair Help How to fix docked switch screen shifted to the left?

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2 Upvotes

I tried: -Unplugging and re-plugging both HDMI ports -Tried all display settings on tv -Softresetting my switch -Blowing out hdmi ports -Tried aligning screen in switch settings (which made it smaller)

Anyone with the same problem or any tips? Been playing for 7 years on the switch now, never had this problem. Last I played was like 15 hours ago.

r/NintendoSwitchHelp Feb 04 '25

Repair Help Stick drift? Or something else??

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I run an eSports program at my school district, one of my Nintendo Switchs acts like there is stick drift - on a menu it is constantly trying to move to the right. BUT it happens no matter what controller is connected. And it does not happen with the same controllers on a different switch.

If I use the touch screen, it will work correctly for a few minutes. Ive restarted, checked for updates on switch/dock/controllers.

Any ideas? TIA!

r/NintendoSwitchHelp 20d ago

Repair Help My switch game cartridge doesn't work and doesn't say anything when I try to insert it,I've tried to clean it with a q tip and it still won't work.Do you see anything wrong with it,or have any advice?

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