My Switch Died (So What Happens Next)

[@crispyjokingtuna1495]

Frying power controller chips with aftermarket chargers isn’t just a switch problem. And it’s not all aftermarket chargers either. Phones laptops and tablets are vulnerable to it as well. The really basic and not too long explanation is that with especially cheap no brand /gas station chargers the cables and bricks aren’t built with voltage regulators and safety mechanisms in place to protect your device from over volting or a power surge. So when that surge comes through to your device the power controller gets fried which sucks, but at least it probably protected the rest of the motherboard from also getting fried. The way to prevent this is to use the original charger (duh) or a high quality cable from a name brand like Samsung, Anker, Apple, Belkin, or Nomad to name a few. Cables/bricks from companies like these have chips inside the cables and bricks themselves that regulate voltage to protect your device and are designed to be able to handle the power spikes so your device doesn’t have to. Sorry it’s long, but electronics repair is something of a hobby of mine 😁

[@JamieR]

Thanks for the info! Very informative

[@MeteorTribe]

same thing happened to my laptop couple years back, always used the charger that comes with my product ever since

[@chilisock]

Damn really sorry to hear about the switch, but definitely staying away from unofficial chargers after hearing this- so thanks for your sacrifice? lol. Hope to see another video soon saying the repair was flawless :)

[@sebastianparra8218]

Wishing you luck!!

[@Yeahsosoandyeahyeah]

Had the samething happen, lost all my pokemon I´ve traided over. Lost shinies and mythical´s and pokemon traided over from the old gen´s. Had some pokemon on home that could be saved

[@AllStarPoliticsOfficial]

From personal experience everytime my switch has died (it use to die out a lot since i didn't take care of it) all my games with no save cloud ended up getting completely reset. I sent mine to Nintendo themselves and never used off brand controllers. Personally i'd hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

[@Paradoxitic]

Hope it gets fixed. This happened to 3 of my switches and a faulty official Nintendo charger I had. My wife would use the charger with her own switch (V2) with no issues. The switches I owned all were used for retro uses. So one day she decided to use her charger and pretty much the story is the same as yours. And how we did not throw this charger away idk. Because it claimed the rest of the switches I owned and lastly a steam deck. From there I threw that garbage away forever.

[@bruteroots]

I use my mac laptop charger to charge my switch sometimes when im using it had held! That will be stopping...

[@jonathanhernandez7543]

In november I had a similar experience sadly, me and my family were on vacation and my switch was about to die so I turned it off and charge it but it wouldnt turned on so I let ot charge overnight and it didnt work so I looked online and it said to do the reset that you talked about but it still wouldnt turn on and it sucks cause I was exited to play the indigo disc dlc when it came out but it still hasent turned on I want to take it to a repair shop and see if they can fix it and hopefully your switch gets fixed

[@XIIIRoxasKeyblades]

At what point would you want to actually upgrade to a new switch just to make sure it doesn’t come to this? I still have my launch switch and this does concern me that it can potentially happen although I do stick with the official peripherals and haven’t had any issue overall other than an issue with a dock that was acting strange…

[@RetroAndChill]

Since it’s a launch Switch you can perform a NAND backup by using TegraRCM. Otherwise idk it sorta happened to me really suddenly

[@osobear4680]

Can a MacBook charger mess it up? I’ve been using mine but I just got a switch so maybe a few weeks of it

[@cjgudino13]

I do advanced micro soldering if that tech shop can’t repair your switch

[@CruzG614]

Dang sorry to here about this

[@AllStarPoliticsOfficial]

If it makes you feel better given by the fact that it died out that quickly with the charger plugged in it was probably nearing close to dying already.

[@RetroAndChill]

I watched a few videos of this repair being done and in one he turned it on and the home screen seemed populated with games. My understanding of the issue is that the chip is connected to a bunch of capacitors and when it goes bad it can cause one of those to short which prevents the power system from working correctly.

[@rtbear674]

I guess probably just put back and forth to pokemon home all the legendaries or so. Just have a thought about this too recently.

[@ilovemynewjacket1507]

Aren't they in your pokemon home? Then all you lose is your party pokemon

[@RetroAndChill]

I moved a decent chunk of them into mu game to use online

[@Summonsloth]

Yikers Island 😬

[@FreedomThroughPeace]

Twenty hundred. Thirty hundred. What late stage capitalism does to a mf

[@RetroAndChill]

I think I mispoke there a bit. It was $120

[@ricardowilliams3765]

honestly, you should just dump your save files to your pc. just incase

[@RetroAndChill]

How doable is that?

[@pnkwds]

You need to run custom firmware

[@theonlytristanrob]

Charge it

[@Tribow]

Surprised you bought another switch during this without waiting for the results from the repair first. Eh either way, stuff like this is just another example of how rough the hardware for the switch is. I really hope a lot of the hardware mistakes they had here don't repeat on their next console.