A battery issue with my Tamagotchi Version 2 Connexion

[RubyKuchipatchi98]

I saw a similar topic regarding this issue but I didn't want to 'butt in' to their topic. Thus, I made my own.

 

I am having a major problem with my V2. I'm lucky if I get a full 24 hours out of it. You'll find out about my tamagotchi below.

 

Here's my V2's backstory, if anyone's interested.

 

I got my tamagotchi v2 from ebay about a year ago. It came in a very thin package and it was just stuffed in a packet of cat food (without the food in it.) I opened the cat food box and got out my tama. That's when I got it.

When I went to connect with another one of my tamagotchis, I noticed something was wrong. It wouldn't connect. (This isn't my problem.) I thought it was weird but didn't take it further. I made a topic about it several months ago in the help section.

I played with it for a good few months until the batteries ran out. I took out the batteries and didn't put new ones in as I was running other tamas.

Then came the period I lost interest in tamagotchis [January-April.]

I got back into tamagotchis in April, but I did it slower this time. I didn't play on this one until the following month.

 

This could be where I've gone wrong.

 

In Mid June of this year, I decided to take the connection issue a bit further. I got my screwdriver and unscrewed the four screws with my screwdriver. I did it very carefully and I didn't break the casing.

Then I opened it up and it was in hideous condition. The connection bulbs were literally out of place and they were broken. I knew instantly that was the problem. I did nothing else to my tama. I didn't touch anything else. I just fiddled with the IR part a bit.

After about 5 minutes investigation, I concluded my experiment and put the tama back together. I noticed the shell was still a tiny bit not snapped back together. (The 2 shell halves looked like they had a tiny gap. Unconcerned, I put it all back together and put in a battery.

It took me a good while and some screeching from the tama to get it to power on.

 

This battery was used from another tamagotchi. I decided to run this tama again since I now knew where the problem with the connection was coming from. It worked for about one day but then I noticed the flashing X appeared on the screen. I was shocked since it had only been a day. I tried downloading it but it still had that X. I just took the battery out and left it for a few weeks.

 

I went down and bought a fresh pack of Duracell batteries on Saturday. They were the best kind of batteries you could ask for. They were CR2032s. I put one of them into my tamagotchi. It was hesitant to even wanting the battery in it's slot but it went in there eventually. Everything looked and acted normal. Again, it was fine for about a day and the X appeared. And this is where I am now. It's still got the X now. I was wondering why it's doing this. Maybe I screwed it up when I opened it up, but I don't see how, as I mentioned before, I didn't touch anything or break anything. Maybe it's because the shell's not back together properly. Or maybe the battery toggle is in a bad position.

 

Note: In my possession, this tamagotchi has never been dropped in water, dropped on a hard surface, debugged or otherwise 'hurt.' I don't know about the previous owner.

 

If you think you know what's wrong with it, please reply.

 

[Violetchilluvr3]

I have two solutions, none of which seem very likely in your case:

1) It's a first wave V1. I highly doubt you got these confused, seeing as V1s don't have a shop or gotchi points or items and they only have like 5 adults, but if for some reason it is one of these there lies your problem. The first wave V1s were known to eat up batteries super fast.

2) Although you may not have touched it when you opened it up, some dust or something got in the circuit board. I've heard people say when you open it up to keep it away from dust, so that could be it. It's also possible you didn't open it up all the way to the screen? Maybe the owner, I don't know, wrote on it with pencil or something.

I don't know. These are my explanations... good luck.

 

[RubyKuchipatchi98]

I have two solutions, none of which seem very likely in your case:

1) It's a first wave V1. I highly doubt you got these confused, seeing as V1s don't have a shop or gotchi points or items and they only have like 5 adults, but if for some reason it is one of these there lies your problem. The first wave V1s were known to eat up batteries super fast.

2) Although you may not have touched it when you opened it up, some dust or something got in the circuit board. I've heard people say when you open it up to keep it away from dust, so that could be it. It's also possible you didn't open it up all the way to the screen? Maybe the owner, I don't know, wrote on it with pencil or something.

I don't know. These are my explanations... good luck.

1) Mine is a v2. I do have a first wave V1 which has this issue too. I've just concluded for that one that there's nothing I can do. But for my V2, there has to be an external fault. I can tell mine's a V2 because of the shop and games, like you said.

 

2) Good point. Maybe I could've got dust or fingerprints on the circuits. I only opened it up to the circuit board.

Yeah. Could have. =/

 

Thanks for the good answer!

 

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Right now, I have just disassembled and re-assembled my Tamagotchi V2. I cleaned out the circuits with a clean dust free cloth just incase I got anything on the circuits. I also wiped the battery area. I made sure the casing clicked together properly and I screwed it back together. So far, it seems okay, but it's only been 10 minutes. I'll leave it a day and if it does it again, I'm not sure what else I can do. By the way, I used the same battery that was in the previous X I'll update again on it tomorrow or if it X'es out again.

 

I highly doubt my battery really has lost that much power in just a day. I think it's my tamagotchi.

 

I also noticed something new that I didn't pick up last time. I noticed there was a fine scratch on the white part of the battery area. I doubt this is causing it, but if it is, then bugger. I'm not sure whether I accidentally did that or the previous owner did it. It looked like he really tampered with this thing on the inside.

 

[RubyKuchipatchi98]

I've just woke up and so far, it seems to be working fine. My tamagotchi is just sleeping right now. I'm going to give it until the end of today and then I'll test it over a week.

 

[RubyKuchipatchi98]

Alright, so this battery lasted me just less than 5 days before 'it died.' I highly doubt it is dead, just the tamagotchi thinking it's dead. Well, it's an improvement over the 24 hour battery life. I'm trying it one more time and I've put in a brand new shiny out of the packet duracell battery. I'll see how it goes over the next few days.

 

If this battery doesen't work, I have 2 choices.

 

1) Carrying on with my theory about how the battery isn't dead, I can pop the battery out and back in. I'll do that every time it goes X.

2) If all else fails, I have no choice but to buy a new exact replica of it.

 

[Violetchi luv]

I think you should try the new batteries and see what happens. Best of luck, :furawatchi:

 

[Tamagirl1124]

I got mine off ebay too! i tried to open it but the secwrdriver was to big but i did open it up 2 the batrry part and nodiced it was dusty...

now hearing this im opening up now!!

 

[RubyKuchipatchi98]

So far so good. Right now it's perfectly fine. Though I thought it was last time. I'll see how it goes.

 

[RubyKuchipatchi98]

Battery died on the morning of 22/07/11. So that means 11 days. You know what, I think this actually is clinically broken. Oh well. I'll live with it.

 

[jordboss]

Aww what a shame, maybe you could you it for parts?