Hi, great guide. Saved my presenter after pandemic death. 🙂 Step by step I had success with this: - connect USB-C to power bank and switch power bank on (safer, because no line voltage) - connect 2 AA batteries (+ to -) with neodym magnet - connect 2 jumper wires (or similar) to batteries with neodym magnet - just put wire between magnet and battery pole - hold cable on + to contact in presenter with red wire - hold cable on - to contact in presenter with black wire - a few (2-5) seconds later the vibration alarm of the presenter makes some "brr brr" - charging led on presenter starts flashing - remove wires - charging led on presenter still flashing - let charge until flashing finishes - start charging 2 more times by removing and reconnecting USB-C cable So no soldering needed, no long waiting needed, because power bank continues charging after presenter has booted. Reason is that the charging circuit needs a short "jump start" to see that the build in battery is present. And with the cable and power bank connected while jump starting, there is no need to externally charge the battery, as the internal circuit takes over immediately. So hanks a lot for this great research work!

Such a disappointing design from Logitech. I wonder how many people's remotes have similarly died from inactivity during the pandemic. Thanks for a great video!

I just want to THANK YOU. I recovered my pointer with your video.

Thank you 2ai and those who left their results. I used a 9V battery for 30 seconds, and it worked. Very useful. Soldering was not necessary.

I had the same issue with my Spotlight failing to charge after 2 years in my drawer. To be honest, I was sceptical about this, but I had nothing to lose as my device was also dead and Logitech wouldn't support me as my device was out of warranty, so I gave it a try. Having opened the back with a craft knife (from the bottom rather than the top, so that the retaining clip is inactive), and peeled away the protective tape, 2-3 seconds with a 9V battery across the terminals and my Spotlight burst into life. It is now charging away merrily. The existing glue was enough to re-attach the cover, and there is only very slight damage to the cover and case, but it's a price well worth paying. WELL DONE OP - GREAT ADVICE.

Also had to resurrect mine. I too opened it up from the bottom (so the end closer to the middle of the unit), to preserve the retaining pin closer to the end near the top. Careful use of a hobby knife to pry it up and then a pry tool to retrieve the rest meant a very non-destructive opening. Carefully lifting it up, I was able to remove the grey part. I then used a very fine pair of tweezers to remove the translucent yellow plastic over the two contacts that are connected to the red and black wires, and using the matching probes on a multimeter, tapped it a few times whilst the spotlight was plugged into USB - and it came to life! No soldering, not even needing to be too particularly careful about holding some batteries and wires to the contacts, just a multimeter turned on to amp reading.

absolutely agree that this is a serious flaw from Logitech esp for the price! Yes mine died over the pandemic and there is no repair centre who can fix this in my country. Thank you so much for sharing this video. I hope Logtitech can look into this!

Thanks for that. Used my lab power supply to do the initial charge. Below 5 Volts, the battery did not draw any current, once I hit 5 volts, it jumped up to around 1A which decreased to 500mA over 10 minutes or so. As indicated in the video, I then charged it with a "normal" charger, and it immediately came back to life.

Thank you so much for sharing this video. It really worked with me and the battery now is charging normally. Unfortunately, logitech did not respond well to this issue. What I did: - I used Panasonic AA battery charger. - I took two cables with different colors (so I do not messed up the negative and positive). - I place them as shown in the video with wooden stick (Note, I tried to retain the cables with real battery and it did not work). - The charger plugged in and it's ready to be used. - I hold both cables (made sure about the negative to negative and positive to positive) - I just touched the battery with both cables, negative and positive (I heared a sound). - I removed everything and pulged in the type C cable into the remote and connected it to USB port in my desktop PC. - And it just worked and started to charge normally. Special thanks to the owner of this educative video, you really saved my spotlight remote from being thrown into the trash!!!!

Great video, and it actually worked! Brought my device back to life. I soldered two needles onto the end of short wires attached to a standard 9V battery. I connected the USB-C to an external battery power pack. The needles then easily penetrated the goo over the battery terminals, and it required between 30 - 60 seconds charging before coming to life. I am currently leaving it to charge overnight, but it seems to be working fine now.

Thank you so much. I have my Logitech spotlight working again as a result of your clear instructions.

This is amazing, thank you so much! I've used 9V battery and hold it for a less than a minute. It was enough to resurrect it!

Managed to get this to work by connecting 3 AA batteries in a line. I got two wires from an old USB cable and taped them to either end of my battery line. I then then connected + to + and - to - on the remote. Took a while but it brought it back to life!

With this advice as the base, 9v battery and some wires, a few seconds charge, and now it's working again. Thank you!!!

You are incredibly talented. Thank you. I don't often give likes and comments on KZfaq, but you deserve a special shout out! Thank you I did use the neodym magnet suggestion too.

I charged very briefly (1 Minute) by using just 2 AA batteries, that was enough to give it the boost to wake up. Amazing advice, thank you so much!

Thank you maestro! With the same slogan "nothing to lose" like many companions here, I have reanimated my Spotlight after watching this tutorial! Actually, I used 2 old AAA batteries (Energizer) with 2,55V and charged it just for around 15 seconds. Then the spotlight vibrated, the white LED start blinking and I disconneted it from the AAA batteries. Yet, the battery of the Spotlight had 3.9V according to my multimeter. Now it works fine after regular charging.

Vielen Dank für diesen hilfreichen "Life-Hack". Meine Spotlight Fernbedienung ist nun wieder "wach" und ließ sich danach wie gewohnt nutzen. Kleiner Tipp für Alle, die so wie ich nicht löten können: Wenn man die beiden Litzen per Hand für eine Minute an die beiden Pole hält, hat der Presenter danach genug Power um normal geladen/bedient zu werden 🙂

Brilliant video. Followed the steps, plugged into USB and it worked !

I just hot wired the battery to a 9v block and jumped it. Worked like a charm, thanks for the idea!

Thank you! I managed to do without soldering, but your video gave me everything I needed to know. I almost threw it in trash, but now I can use it again. Thank you so much!

Same problem, post pandemic dead device. I fixed it with this solution but modified it so I didn't have to solder. I basically had to make little 'jumper cables' like you'd use on your car. I used a camera Li-ion battery, 3.7V because it has the two exposed connectors. I took the back off as in the video and made a note on the remote of the positive and negative. I took a paperclip and bent it to a sort of u-shape (made two of these). I added "handles" with grey duct tape in the middle of them as to not conduct energy when I held them. I positioned the batter near the remote for stability with the +/+ lined up and the -/- lined up. With my 'handles' I aligned each paperclip. One connected the two + nodes and the other connected the two - nodes, then held it there a couple of minutes. It lit up and buzzed. I took off my little "jumper cables" and plugged the charging cable. It's now charging and I think it will be all fixed. Thanks for the video!!!!

After struggeling a bit with the cover I charged the battery for a few minutes to revive it. Then I as able to charge via the USB-C connector again. All is working now.. Many thx for the video

Just did this for not even 1 minute and now charging again, thank you good sir. Using Nitecore battery charger.

Thanks for sharing. As suggested by others, you don't really need to add wires, as long as you keep your hands still for a few secs 😅 I used a lab power supply set at 5V for about 20 secs, and then I could already charge normally via the USB.

i used two 1.5V and office clips to wake it up! thank you for this video!

I don't remember any video that made me so happy. It works!

Thank you! It worked!!! 9V Battery and two small wires... 1 minute to "ressucitate" the battery and now its working.

thanks. I simply applied a direct 5V shock for a few seconds using 2 needles at the tips of 2 wires to pierce through the protective tape on the battery terminals. Then, I proceeded to charge it normally with the original charger.

Thanks, that saved my new presenter!

jeez. this works. just used a 9v battery and thin fuse wire and hand held for few secs, no solder. hard part is peeling off the back cover. i used eyeglass screwdriver kit instead of knife. after that you plugin with original USB-C and it buzzes to life. Thanks much.

This worked perfectly. Thank you!

I can't believe this freaking worked, thanks dude!

Brilliant. Worked for me after charging with a 9v battery for 2 seconds and then plugging in the usb

Thank you! I charged mine at 4.2v, 0.085mAh for 3 seconds, it made a fuzzy noise so I stopped, then plugged it into USB and now it's blinking and charging again. Just needed a little jumpstart.

Thank you, this done the trick for me! I had to peel away two layers of protective kapton tape before being able to access the terminals. So what I done then was I used a jumper wire (think breadboard), and another small 3.7v battery that was even smaller (250mAh) - so the surge charging wouldn't be too high. You don't need to charge over night, just enough for the voltage reading t o be above the minimum cutoff voltage that the charger chip looks for - that's why your usb-c isn't charging, and you're directly charging the battery.

followed this tutorial and logitech spotlight started to work. thanks for the steps.

Worked for me. Shame on you Logitech for having to do such things to get a 150€ presenter working.

Thanks for the video. Had the same problem with the missus Spotlight. Used a 9V as the kicker. :) I didn't solder but used two alligator clips to connect to the 9V battery. When the lithium got revived, the haptic vibrator buzzed.

works perfectly 10 seconds with a 3,3 V DC. thank you.

Thanks for this. I used 9V battery a short time and then it was able to start charging normally.

Thanks for the video... Revive the Spotlight using : 1. TP4056 microUSB lithium charger 2. Male to male jumper cable for breadboard 3. Cable with alligator 4. (+) pole to yellow cable (as in your video) 5. (-) pole to black cable (as in your video) 6. Jumper only for 20 counts N voilaaaaa.... It revived Thank you so much for the video. God bless

It's amazing! Many thanks to the author and colleagues in comments! Mine got alive after 5 seconds' boost by 9V battery. Placed wires from the battery directly on the cleaned contacts of the presenter. After that the charging by USB-С from my Mac. The presenter beeped and started to charge. Awesome! If I'm not mistaken Logitech says that 1 charging is enough for 3 months. It seems that it is the real battery life, cause I didn't use it around 6 months and the presenter gone dead.

Thanks for your great video. It helped me a lot to reanimate the presenter. Otherwise I would have had another expensive piece of tech crap.

Thanks for this video. Will try it and update later!

Thank you for your video! We had 4 defective spotlights with the same problem. However, we woke her up with a 9V battery for 3 seconds. Then you dont soldering cables.

you sir are a legend and a life saver

Thank you very much for this tutorial My Spotlight is working fine again and it is charging normally again Thank you thank you thank you :)

Tuve el mismo problema, como estaba fuera de garantía no lo reemplazaban y Logitech tampoco me dio una solución. Seguí las instrucciones de este video y funciona perfectamente. El único cambio que hice, que ya lo comentó alguien, es que no fue necesario soldar nada, solo conecté los cables a los electrodos a los polos correspondientes de la batería, unos 10 segundos, y luego conecte el cargador habitual USB-C y comenzó a cargar inmediatamente.

Works for me in 2023! Thank you!

amazing problem solving! I connect 3 AAA batteries in series for 15 mins! and woila'!IT WORKS! thanks a lot!

Thanks for the video! I am so mad about this. I remember I paid over $100 for this and also did not use in a long time. At least a year and a half without use. Now I wanted to use it and it just does not work. As other comments say, no word from Logitech about it.

Thanks 2ai! The tutorial worked perfectly! However, I just need 5 seconds of charge and then I used the regular USB charger. There is no need to let it charge over the night.

OMG 9V DC battery works! I had 2 old wires strip. I connected as per video. Yellow is positive (+) and black is negative (-). On the remote controller, leftmost is positive and rightmost is negative. I charge to use binder clips to attach the end of wires to the battery end tips. I use my fingers to press it the other ends of wire to the remote controller positive and negative. Don't worry, no electric shocks. I use my thumbs to press against the metal surface of controller for 5seconds. Then i remove and charge it normally and it worked!

Thanx a lot for your video. Really helpfull!

Genius ! Thank you ! First i tried to hold the wires on the contacts. No success. Voltage max 1.7 V Then i soldered them to the contact. Holding the both wires on a 18650 charger for 2 minutes and a Voltage of ~4 volts brouht it back to life. After the 2 Minutes i used the delivered USB Charger..

Thank you for your video. I have the same problem. Please can I know how to remove the back cover? ... I am not able to remove it at all.

I also tried it and it worked! Now back to normal charging with USBC cable

Thanks for this. I shall try this hack to revive my dead Spotlight presenter

Thank You So much dude

To which terminals are the wires connected on the battery to the device? The most outside one (below on your video) is red, the middle one of the three connectors has the black wire. The medial one has no wire connected. To which terminals do you put the positive and negative? I know what you said in the video, but based on the wires?

I tested with a 8,5 V charger for my headlamp with ten seconds charging, Risky since the battery seems to be a 5V, but it worked perfectly. Center of the plug was positive. On your own risk!!

Hi, excellent video thanks. I'm going to try this today. Can you use any battery charger for this or does it have to have a certain rating? Also do you need to solder the wires to the internal battery terminal or could you try and hold them on to avoid soldering?

Perfect Thank you😀

Wonderful !!!! Thanksiu so much !!!

You are the man!

I have the same problem. I found a replacement battery on Aliexpress. But I didn't find a way to replace it, because I can't completely disassemble it. There are two screws at the top, but even if they are removed, it is not possible to move the battery connector. Could you please, tell me how to do the complete disassembly?

I have the exact same problem. The battery is dead after not using the Spotlight during the pandemic. Will try to have it fixed with this method. However, I wonder if it is possible to get a replacement battery. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks, Worked with 9v battery

Thanks 2ai!!! Exact same problem here. Shame on Logitech for such a pricey remote and a significant design flaw. How did you pry open the back cover? I tried with a boxcutter to no success. It's such a tight fit.

Just need a quick check, is black original wire in the middle or right soldering point?

Is there any chance to replace the battery? It seems a bit dangerous to me to load a battery which has only 1,7V. Althought it works again afterwords, there may be some damage of the battery which might lead to dangerous situations.

Could you please tell me the type of the battery charger that you use? I'd hate to blow the battery up by charging it with the wrong current or voltage.

where can i get this battery

I had the same problem. Just use a higher voltage for charging, eg the ipad charger with a usb-c cable. Worked immediately thereafter

This's also happened to mine after more than a year i hasn't using it anymore. I'll try to open it now.

THANK YOU. solved

I'm not good with electricity, and things like this. Did anyone else video themselves doing this full project from start to finish. I am having the exact same problem... I don't have a soldering gun or a AA battery charger. Thanks!

Hi I have the same problem. I didn't use my Spotlight for a while. Currently, there is no blinking light in the indicator even though I already connect to the laptop. Is there anyone that can help me? There is no service center in my country I already connect my Anker Power Bank to the Spotlight but it still no response

I had this exact problem. Tried charging with the USB yesterday, tried multiple chargers, light was flashing and then on continuously. No response at all though, no vibration indication for 'on'. So today I got geared up to try this method and while poking the lid I inadvertently pressed the button, causing it to switch on, unlike yesterday. It still didn't seem to work so I charged for 5 minutes more and tried it again. No success. In desperation I decided to plug in the usb receiver and it came to life. Charged a bit more, and meanwhile removed the Bluetooth pairing and logitech app. Reinstalled, paired and now all is working again. Fully charged it says. So I think the apparently unsuccessful trickle charge of yesterday was just enough to get it to wake up again (24 h later). Using the usb receiver caused it to reboot or something. Then fresh Bluetooth pairing and app.

I am not able to reproduce it. Could you please provide more details about how you attached the wires, which is + and -, etc?

Can I use normal iPhone charger for external charging

Wow! I've done it too.

Mine died too. and i have no logitech support for this.

I have another problem , my presenter doesnt work unless it is already cabled to the usb , otherwise if not cabled , it will not work although i left it charging for hours , but once i removed it from the charge it cant work , anybody knows how to fix it please ??

I have the same problem and logitech can't give solution, poor logitech aftersales

I have had the very same problem. After pandemic the (very pricy) remote control is completely dead. I think I used it two or three times. Shame on logitech, very bad product at a very high price

I have no idea what that is. Just saying