 What's up everyone? Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Today we're going to be talking about what to do if your Nintendo 3DS is not charging. Let's get right into this. So welcome back to another tech video today. Like I just mentioned, we're going to be focusing on the Nintendo 3DS and what to do if your Nintendo 3DS is either A, not charging or not holding a charge. And before just thinking that it is a dead console, there's a few things that you can check to fix it yourself that are very, very easy to do. So the first thing to check is that the Nintendo 3DS, the ports for the charging cable that there is nothing bent inside, that there's no bent pins. If there is, that's a bigger issue. You're likely going to have to replace that entire port. Wish if you're not tech savvy, you're going to have to give that to somebody to do to repair those ports and replace those ports. Now if nothing looks bent and it does look good to you, if you notice that it is dirty, the next thing to do would be simply clean out those ports and make sure there's no dust, debris or anything that could conflict a connection between the charging cable and the actual 3DS. So make sure you clean out the ports as well. If everything inside the ports looks fine, nothing is bent and you did clean it out and you're still, whenever you're connecting it, still having the same issue, the next thing to do is simply be to replace the charging cable for the 3DS. Now make sure whenever you are doing this, you do replace it with an OEM Nintendo official 3DS charger. That way you can assure that it has the right voltage and that it is hopefully going to work for you. Sometimes over time, the older the 3DS is, the older models, the charger sometimes does wear down over time and there might be a kink in the wire somewhere where looking on the outside it looks fine, but internally the wire might be frayed or there might be other problems with the actual charger. So the next step is to replace the charger and hopefully that does work for you. Now if you're still having the same problem and your 3DS is either A, not charging or B, not holding a charge, the next thing that you should do would be to replace the battery. Now prior to replacing the battery, please make sure before opening and taking out the battery that is inside, make sure that you have the 3DS turned off to avoid any corrupt data taking place. Now I know most people are likely going to know this, to have it turned off and make sure it's completely turned off prior to opening it up, but I did just want to throw this reminder in there. Now whenever you are replacing the battery, you can find the batteries pretty cheap on Amazon. They range from $10 to $20 depending on which model you have and which one you do require. Now it is recommended to try to get a better decent one, so around the $20 mark, but some of the $10 ones will work just fine as well. Now once you do replace the battery, unfortunately if you're still having the same results, you replace the charger, you replace the battery, the ports look good, you cleaned everything out and it's still not holding the charge, then it likely is a bigger issue with the Nintendo 3DS, which either might need to be sent into Nintendo if they're still doing that, which it looks like they're not in my opinion, I don't think they are. The other thing would be to take it somewhere that fixes these consoles and see if they can give it a try and hopefully they can get your console fixed, but prior to going and just giving somebody the console to try to repair it, it definitely is worth checking out some of these cheap and easy fixes that in my opinion anybody can do and for a lot of people, these will work for you. Sometimes if it's not holding a charge, it is a battery issue anyway, so even if you replace the battery and it's not the issue, you still know that there is a good battery inside it now. If you did replace the charger and it still didn't work, you at least have a spare charger, which in my opinion everybody should have a spare charger anyways, but hopefully one of these fixes did work for you. Let me know down in the comments below and I'm going to leave this video here. Please take care. Peace.