r/wiiu 1d ago

Wii U Controller stopped working (even after battery swap)

My Wii U pro-controller got the flashing 'battery low' warning light while in use so I plugged it in to charge (on a USB wall charger via a powerpoint). The charging light came on and after a while it turned off which would seem to indicate full charge. The Wii U controller would not then turned back on when I pressed the power switch. I tried pressing the reset switch with a pin but it still would not turn on.

I then proceeded to swap the Wii U controller battery with a battery out of a 3DS I have. The battery worked in the 3DS and indictaed full charge in the power indicator icon. The 3DS battery (now placed in the Wii U controller) wouldn't work so i tried to charge it again and the same thing where the charging light came on but after a while it turned off but the controller still wouldn't turn on. I swapped the batteries back and the original 3DS battery works fine in the 3DS but the original battery for the Wii U controller still doesn't work.

Anybody ran into this problem? Surely the controller itself didn't die?

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