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check that you have the battery in the correct way
if it has batteries like AA , AAA or what ever the negative terminal of the battery goes against the coil spring so if you have them all facing the same way, that may be why they are not charging
the screen shutting down at this stage would be cause the batteries are flat
of course you could always bet new fully charged rechargeable batteries and put them in correctly to see if the rest works
