Thanx for the wonderful guide / walk through. You forgot to tell us when to put the plastic bracket back so I ended up forgetting it and having to take the whole thing apart again. Thankfully I could leave all the cables in except for the battery cables. Also it would have been nice if you had warned us beforehand about your struggles in removing the charging port as I paused the video (obviously) too early and almost panicked when I couldn't get it off. I ended up cutting it like you did before I saw that you'd done the same. LOL. Once again thanx for the video I wouldn't have been able to do the procedure without it.

This video is showing off the board game "Operation Wii U Edition"

Thanks for keeping this video up! Excellent quality, very well explained in detail. My charger port was out for years and rather than pay hundreds for a new gamepad, i spent $5 on a replacement port. Keep up the awesome work!

8bitjunkie, Thank You! I think I'm going to have to do this soon. I too have had trouble de-soldering ports and such from devices, so I appreciated you showing the alternate method with the Gameboy. Also, I appreciate that you show so many details without a lot of fluff (ie. chatter, repeating what you say, ums uhhs and so-on).

I usually wedge a flat head screwdriver or something under the component keeping pressure on it while working the solder points with my iron.

@8bitjunkie one of the prongs inside the socket of my Wii U gamepad kept getting bent and broke off. I was wondering if you thought it would be possible to solder wires on to the socket or the pcb without removing the old socket and just put a different type of plug / connector on those wires and the wires from the adapter. I was thinking of doing this since the socket is kind of a bad design.

Thanks for your video. I was wondering why my WiiU GamePad came with 1 less screw on the RZ side bracket. It seems some batches are not screwed on that position.

About to attempt this in a couple days with a soldering station (no hot air)... Thanks for the video , very helpful

do you by any chance know which pin is 5v and which is ground from those two center pins?

i just did this. not sure why nintendo just doesnt make it like a laptop where you can disconnect by a wire instead of soldering it to the board

I laughed hard when you said you spent like six mins showing us it's not a good idea to use the sucker thank you!

Hey, I try to fix the cabel of my Wii U gamepad charger but I cant open the AC adapter to fix it ,even wen I take off the scroos, can you tell me how exacly open and the AC adapter?

Great video! What do you charge to do this? It's just a little out of my wheelhouse and have a son that needs his repaired.

Thank you so much for posting this video It was very very very very helpful I had the same component to replace could have done it without you thanks again

What port do GamePad have and charge cable do it need?

I’m lost. My kids gamepad wouldn’t power on. I figured maybe it was the battery as bought this for them when it came out in 2012-2013. Ordered a new battery and replaced. Now it powers on but won’t charge. I seen this video and another one where the guy says to replace motherboard. I don’t want to just order things and replace that I don’t need. Any advice on how I could tell what needs to be replaced?

Hi, I have a gamepad where the LED turns blue then amber when trying to power the unit on. Nothing shows on the display. The wii u system actually see's the command and powers on but then the system does shutdown as well when the pad shuts down. Just to note though, the system itself works fine when turning it on by pushing the actual button on the front. I did replace the digitizer about 2 years ago when it broke and it worked great up until this point. My question is can a bad digitizer cause the unit to start to power up but shutdown almost immediately? I have no problem replacing it again if it is in fact the issue, Thanks for any help you can offer. Eddie

Would this work for the WiiU Pro controller? My boys jammed the cord in and busted the charging port, and Nintendo won't repair it. I'd rather not fork out the money for a new one if this is something I can do myself. Obviously some of the cords are going to be slightly different, but I would imagine it's pretty identifiable inside...?

Thanks so much

Would you be willing to perform this service if I covered shipping both ways, the port (from your eBay auction) and your labor? Please let me know, would love to save my son's Christmas since the port stopped charging recently. Thanks again!

Or you could just use a docking station (£5 on eBay) and charge it from the bottom.much easier

can we change the port with the 3ds port so we can charge it with the 3ds charger

Good video, but I would like to know why you choose to replace the port parts, is that the only analysis to cure a wont turn on wii-u. My grand son drop mine and the light turn off, and it havn't turn on any more. what else can I look fore.

hi my wii u pad charger port doesnt work so i got a nyko charger adapter but the wii pad doesnt charge. if the top one doesnt work does it affect the bottom one ? do you know what can be wrong ?

Where did you get the replacement part? What is the name of the replacement part? Thank you for the video

my headphone jack is broken and can replace it ?

There are actually 4 screws holding the board on. Yours was missing bottom center one.

is it possible to replace it with charger ports that are intended for phones?

thanks

nice instructions but you need more soldering skills that tip was fine your placement of solder was wrong..

my AC ADAPTER is broken.

it's called a PHILIPS HEAD SCREW/SCREWDRIVER! and when this happened to ours we just bought a second game pad, and use the other pad to charge the batteries and replace into the one that won't charge!

my wiiu gamepad from the charger

a 22 minute procedure what ?

What on the intro though?

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8bitjunkie I can’t find anyone that will do this for me commercially. My charging port on bottom works but I’m at the mercy of the charge of how long I can play. So I have to change my entire motherboard to replace the charging port on top?

is broken

I was considering doing this, but I realized that neither the side port nor the bottom charge port works. It must be a fried motherboard.

you arent much of a solderer/repairer are you. jk lol I actually only watched this to figure out where the charge port was I bought mine second hand

Oh ffs can I just send it to you and pay you to do it

Oh C'mon its too much to unplug!

Hahaha at this point I would just buy a replacement PCB and be done with it lol much cheaper!

This was confusing

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