Not charging when I plug it in to charge it, the charge light comes on momentarily, and then turns off. It doesn't charge the battery, and nothing comes up on the screen

SOURCE: Nintendo DS Will Not Charge

I found that if you live over seas, which I do (Egypt), you cannot charge the DS Lite with an adapter. What my husband did was take my orginal DS Lite power charger cord, cut it, then splice it to a mobile phone charger of a close voltage from Egypt. It works great!!!! I also have the gameboy advance which had the same problem, and I used the same solution. This post is for those who live or work over seas.

SOURCE: Nintendo DS does not turn on

Find a friend that has a DS and try using their battery and charger to troubleshoot your hardware. If your battery and charger work with another DS, then you may have a problem with your DS motherboard.

My assumption at this point is the battery.

SOURCE: ds lite charging lite comes on but when i press power button nothing happens

i left to go to the mall one day and there were a whole bunch of little kids here and i put mi ds on the back of my sofa and wen i came back my ds didnt come on so i charged it for 3 days strait and on the charge button will come on but when it does it stays on for like 2 minutes then cuts of and mii game doesnt come on and the kid didnt do anything but play with it

Ed Perez

• 127 Answers
• Posted on Jun 27, 2009

SOURCE: DS lite green light comes on, top screen flash,then switches off

Check L2 near the power switch on your DS mobo. That part usually get loosen or taken out when you drop your DS. And usually you can recover it when dismantling your DS.

SOURCE: My GBA SP won't charge when I plug the AC adapter in.

try a new AC adapter