Rechargeable Battery

Reganovski

I have a rechargeable battery for my controller for my xbox. I hadn't played it in over a month and now when I go to recharge it it won't hold the charge. The light stays green and when I take the connection out it the controller goes dead. Did that happen to anyone else? S'pose I have to buy a new one

dammitjanet

happened to me too a while back, i still use the battery pack but i keep my kit plugged it (like a wired controller) so if being wired doesn't bother you your grand
If your buying a new one i suggest the orb ones xtravision do, about 16euro i think and you get two batteries and two chraging cables. I found that they charge quicker and its far handier having two batteries, but you do lose the play and charge ability cause the cables are so short so it's be up to yourself really!

JD1763

Same thing has happened to all mine, I have to leave the plug and play in and it charges up for a bit but then overnight it dies again. Kind of defeats the purpose of wireless controllers.

tman

There have been a few threads about this already... It should really be stickied tbh.
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055815561

When the light goes green you need to unplug the cable then plug it in again, you'll have to repeat this 10-20 times (or more!) until the light remains lit red.
Leave it plugged in for a few hours and you should be good to go then:)

ondafly

funny enough this only started happening to me this week. i went and bought a replacement battery in HMV for 12euro and its all good again.

alexlyons

anyone have any experience with the ones of ebay? theres loads of them starting at about €4 for two from hong kong. complete knock offs but are they worth it? its the same price as a pack of batteries so i would have thought it might be...

calex71

Have the orb one's myself.

+ having 2 is good as you have one ready to go all the time.
- 3 months old and I'm getting about 3 or 4 days use out of them , granted I've been playing a lot recently. Still i guess 18 hours is about right for usage on a full charge no?

alexlyons

LIGHTNING wrote: »

They are utter pieces of junk, I have three of them and you spend 95% of your time charging them. Not worth the hassle I am going to buy a official battery pack soon as they actually hold a charge.

but even if its just play and "charge would it not be better?

120_Minutes

tman wrote: »

There have been a few threads about this already... It should really be stickied tbh.
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055815561

When the light goes green you need to unplug the cable then plug it in again, you'll have to repeat this 10-20 times (or more!) until the light remains lit red.
Leave it plugged in for a few hours and you should be good to go then:)

seems this post was ignored, so i'll quote it.

this fixes the problem!

Reganovski

tman wrote: »

There have been a few threads about this already... It should really be stickied tbh.
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055815561

When the light goes green you need to unplug the cable then plug it in again, you'll have to repeat this 10-20 times (or more!) until the light remains lit red.
Leave it plugged in for a few hours and you should be good to go then:)

Cheers guys. The above worked. In fact, it only took 2 attempts and the red light stayed on.

ShiverinEskimo

I posted this a year ago now. Was hard to find the info online at the time but as others have pointed out it's cropped up a few times since.

Any mods around fancy another sticky?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=59192605