I would recommend against using a heat gun to try and remove the original battery. It’s much easier and safer to use rubbing alcohol. You can use a dropper or a straw to get it around the original battery and it will eat away at the glue. Removing with alcohol was easy.
I have lost count of how many of theses I have done. make sure the battery is below 5%, I never use heat, I use Isopropyl alcohol above 80% use a small paint brush and get it around the edges, leave it fir 10 -15 mins then it comes off with a plastic spudger
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VJXMZKF this is the Battery Replacement Kit I got off Amazon and it had everything I needed, besides the hairdryer! That along with this video helped me save our Switch that refused to power on no matter what!
Awesome video. Thanks so much!!! The one minor problem I had was reattaching the battery strip back to that component. I didn't realize you had folded the 5 cables back on themselves and so was trying to put it on upside down, then I rewound the video and saw the black cables were on the right so I realized I had it backwards - other than that it all went smoothly! Thanks so much!!!
Thank you so much for making this video. I’m very excited to say I was able to switch my battery with the oGoDeal set from Amazon. Admittedly I was a little worried bc of a few reviews saying an error code popped up for them. Thankfully this wasn’t the case. The only problem I experienced was, presumably, when I was taking out the battery, I accidentally bent one of the sides of where the battery plugs in at. While this led me to repeatedly trying to press the battery plug in unsuccessfully, once I realized I had collapsed one of the sides, pushed it almost upright (best I could do), it went right in. Thanks again for the vid. Now I can get back to my island on AC lol
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I thought my switch was totally lost to water damage, but then I noticed it was just the battery. You video save me $100 plus shipping that I would have had to spend to get it fixed.
You could get a metal flexible scraper like , Heated up to maybe 110° or something like that maybe a little more and use it to slowly go under the battery and it should soften the glue
I THINK THE NEW BATTERY SHOULD BE OF THE SAME VERSION. IN OTHER WORDS, IF THE OLD ONE WAS INTO A V1 SWITCH SO THE NEW BATTERY SHOULD BE OF THE SAME VERSION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I AM CONFUSED ACTUALLY SO PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS THE CORRECT INFORMATION IN THIS REGARD. THANK YOU ALL
any chance on the link for the correct battery, ive ordered 2 they dont power on the switch one didnt even have the right connection on the end to plug into mobo
No it won’t happen since that’s on a software level, if you do this it’s good to backup all your save data to the cloud beforehand just in case something goes wrong
Is the battery still holding a charge after replacing the battery? I am getting ready to replace my battery not the battery you using but a nintendo genuine OEM battery i brought on ebay and just wanted to see how your battery is working. Mine only lasts for 2 to 3 hours in the XKW model and I am getting the new battery Saturday. I hope that the new battery will make the switch last like it supposed to. The XKW supposed to last 6.5 to 9 hours depending on the game. Zelda breath of the wild supposed to last up to 5.5 hours but only get 2 hours on any games
Ugh, well... I did replace the battery with a new one exactly like shown, but oddly enough it's still "bricked"... and upon the replacement that arrived and finally removing the old one I found out the hard way. The current one that was in my HAC-001 was all the time a HAC-003 battery and I didn't realize it (o.O!) yet I got another HAC-003 one as they said it's better and replaced but seems it's still dead and not charging. I am leaving it the hard way to charge from the wall-plug to the Switch itself right now overnight.
That makes it much tougher. What you could do is take a reverse drill bit and run it into them. It will likely back them out. If not carefully drill off the heads of the screws. Then remove the cover and use pliers to remove the rest of the screw. You will need new screws.
Put a rubber band over the whole head of stripped screw and push the screwdriver into it (not too hard but hard enough to see if it will grip and unscrew). If you have trouble with that way or it isn't working, try what he said above. I work on guitars and the rubber band method (almost) always works great. Keep in mind what he said though. Try not to break the head off the screw(s).
A tiny bead/dab of hot glue could work too. Just make sure that you put the screwdriver in screw head right after the hot glue so that it hardens around the screwdriver head and in the screw head. Hot glue from a glue gun comes off very easy so no worries about it messing anything up just as long as you don't go too crazy with the glue.
The V1 and the V2 has the same batteries. So there's no Upgrade. However they don't typically replace the battery unless the battery is completely dead and won't turn on. In my experience with nintendo I sent them my V2 for battery replacement and they sent me another replacement with battery issues telling me that they can't replace the battery due to the battery not lasting a charge.