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Hello folks, first up, I had this issue for the 2nd time now. I had the GamePad in repair at Nintendo while I still had warranty on it. They could fix it but 8 weeks later, no warranty any more, the thing brakes again. My issue with the GamePad is, that the screen is staying black. I can charge it, the batteries are full. I unscrewed it and all plugs are in the right places. When I press the power button, the blue power light goes on, but fades away. It won’t turn on again, unless I unplug the battery and plug it in again. Can you help me please? Sincerely, Franz

it seems to me like it would be the motherboard, but since its nintendo its the screen. all of the ds’s do the same thing when a screen is faulty or loosely connected Update (03/05/2017) !confirmed! it is the lcd screen that causes the fading blue light on the wii u game pad i just did a repair on one with the exact problems listed. i attempted a battery and motherboard swap, but i did thescreen swap and bam fixed it.

Any update on this? I am having the same problem with one that I replaced an LCD

Had the same issue with my gamepad. It turned out to be a bad motherboard. Hope that helps!

Hello, I had exactly the same issue and fixed in in about 30 mins, without spending a penny! • Disassemble gamepad - fairly easy, just take your time and be gentle with connectors • Take out main motherboard - this is the one everything is plugged into, held in by silver screws • I then used a hairdryer to heat the board, focussing on connection points, chips and other components. • Reassemble carefully Once I reassembled, it worked straight away and has been fine since!! Hope this helps someone. Stephen

Mines had the same issue and I swapped the motherboard and the led actually blinks orange when I try to turn it on. Any suggestions?

Hello, I’m on latest firmware. Everything was fine until I started getting the error code 165-2738 on the gamepad not allowing it to be used. The Console on the other hand works fine. When I get the error code, I press and maintain the power button on the gamepad for a few seconds until it turns off (sometimes it turns off but the screen seems to be on, just black background) then I press the power button again for it to turn on, then one of the following happens to the gamepad: 1- Turns on and works normally. 2- Turns on but then same error code appears. 3- It won’t turn on and the led light (next to power button) becomes blue then fades. In this case the only solution I have found is to charge it a bit (the led light change to orange and remains on even if I unplug the charger) then turn it on. And sometimes I have to remove the AC cable from the console for 15 seconds for it to turn on, or even remove the battery. Some other times none of the solutions work. I am assuming that maybe it’s due a mother board issue. Any help is appreciated I tried looking for the codes on Nintendo website but nothing!! How come they don’t have a list of all the error codes hopefully this won’t require opening the gamepad or replacing parts. Thanks in advance

First of all the following led colors are quite normal: Gamepad off -> no ledplug in -> red ledpush power to turn on -> blue led slowly fading, then red led againpush power 5 seconds to turn off-> red led goes off shortly and returnsplug off -> led is off So there isn’t actually a “fading blue light” issue, as this is normal. Problem is the screen staying black and no other notifications or input are working. After removing all connectors to the motherboard and connecting them again, the screen on my Gamepad worked again. Regretfully I can’t say which one specifically did it. Maybe this could help with your Gamepad too.

It’s the network module loose, open the wii u gampad and press in the module, it should work.

Hello everybody I am facing same problem gamepad black screen/blue led fades. This is the third time : first two by playing discinnecting battery ac plug desyncing it recovered with no pattern but this time nothing seemed to work. Yesterday i opened and nothing seemed loose : i discinnected lcd stripe, and wifi module … now … I will dissassmble mother board and will try hair dryerI am doubting to ask for chinese 13€ motherboard or getting for 50€ second hand.

If anybody has further info about what could be failing at startup seq and how to fix will be apreciated: quite strange since it seems to be a sw issue related to the modules startup.

Kind regards

JMPuk

I have the same problem please help