0 Year Old teens and unresponsive buttons on 4.5?

[KuroiNeko-Chan]

I have five 4.5s, but I only run two at the same time. The last time I ran two, the battery died on my orange one and I took the battery out of the my blue one because it was close to dying. Both had just reached the toddler stage. Yesterday, I started them up again and was greeted by two toddlers, 0 years old. When I woke up today, they were both teens, still 0 years old. I don't need the matchmaker this time because I've got a boy and a girl, but will it affect aging to oldie? I want to get Oyajitchi.

My blue 4.5's buttons aren't very responsive. I frequently have to press the B button very hard or multiple times for it to register. The C button works fine and the A button is okay. My blue 4.5 was my first Tamagotchi ever and it's also my favorite. Is there a way to make the buttons a little more responsive? I'm already pretty gentle with it.

 

[WiiYoShi14]

The age of the tama will change when the tama was born. If it was born in the evening, it will turn 1 in the evening. I learned that myself when I was running my V4.

 

[TamaMum]

The age meter on your V4.5s shouldn't affect the growth process. The normal age process in a tama is measured by the number of hours the tama has been running (unpaused) not so much by what is show on the age meter.

Baby 1 hr - then evolution into Child/Toddler

Child/Toddler 24hrs - then evolution into Teen

Teen 72hrs - then evolution into Adult

That's the usual pattern of growth - in hours, unpaused for a V4.5. Both of your tamas had batteries changed so they will be probably be measuring growth time by the last 'major event' - a connection with another tama, an evolution, etc. but if you only changed batteries and then downloaded the old characters again, I don't think it will affect the approximate evolution times I listed.

Both tamas will probably evolve into old characters within a few hours of each other, but if you are worried about it, I suggest you wait until the first one evolves into an oldie, then pause it. Keep running the second one until it evolves into an oldie - then you can unpause your first tama and both will be at the same stage in their evolution and you can connect them until you get a marriage (followed by Oyajitchi). I found a post by binary that gives a good explanation: https://www.tamatalk.com/IB/topic/129170-oldies-ojitchi-and-otokitchi-in-love/?p=1827434

I can't help you with unresponsive buttons. I only open up my tamas to remove or replace batteries, but plenty of members have done so and gently cleaned the buttons of dust/dirt or switched buttons from another tama successfully. Try using the TamaTalk Search Engine and look for posts with the word unresponsive - you might find a "how to" type of answer.

(The buttons on my blue swirls V4 are not as responsive either)

 

[Itsumo-nana]

I opened up my Hitorikko dino clone because the buttons weren't very responsive. The buttons were cleaned (dust and crumbles accumulates) and afterwards it was much better!

 

[TamaBlock]

This happened to me on my v2 (0 yr old teen), i think it's because i paused it alot and i also messed around with the time too much so it messed up the aging, so i just reset it. ^_^

 

[Jokus]

As earlier members said; to fix the buttons you need to unscrew the two layers of safery screws (eight of them in total with four on each level) beneath the battery cover, and take out the buttons to gently clean the button's contact spots on the circuit board. With the correct screwdriver and a steady hand while unscrewing (so that the screws don't brake) and some carefulness, it is a quite simple operation.

 

[haileymametchi]

Well I've heard around that Tamagotchi V4.5's are glitchy and don't function right. So far, I haven't had any problems with mine! ^_^ Just follow their suggestions and you'll be fine!