Locate all of the 3-wing screws and remove them too. There are 2 on the bottom, 1 by the DS card slot, and 1 inside the battery compartment. Remove the back cover, exposing the electonics that are the DS. Do your best not to damage anything. Find the white and the black wires that connect close to the DS card slot on the motherboard.
Carefully disconnect these and unthread the black wire from under the DS card slot. Lift up the motherboard and flip it over. Carefully disconnect the orange ribbon cable that comes from the top. You can now move the motherboard aside. Unscrew the 2 philips screws by the hinge. You can now fully remove the top from the bottom. Carefully slide the ribbon cable through the slit in the plastic faceplate. Pull the white and black wires through the hinge hole.
The top part is now entirely disconnected from the bottom. Remove these either with a pin or an X-acto knife. Thanks for the videos, will be sure to check them out. Hi chaucolai Would be more than happy to help out Post a reply back in here if you still need help and i will send you my contact details. My ds lite's hinge has cracked.
I found this one: www dot videogamerepairs dot co dot uk but i am not sure if it is secure. I fix Nintendo ds lites all the time. I have gone self employed doing it, Gotta love kids throwing them about lol. I buy them of ebay cheap rebuild and sell them on. If you have kids under 7 try to get the ds Original I sell more of them than ds lites, they are more drop resistat and are good at falling down stairs just ask my son lol.
Hello… Log in or sign up. Steve 'Rasher' Greenfield Editor-in-chief Steve tends to do more work in the background these days than on the website. Read more articles by Steve. Share this:. Want to read more like this? Join the newsletter…. TGK - pm, 18th July Rasher Did you know that the DS lite is the new version of the DS? Nex - pm, 18th July Rasher And the relevance to this post is? Rasher - pm, 18th July Author yes m8, fully aware the lite is the new version, it was you asking what a NDS was for some reason not me :.
Nex - pm, 18th July yes m8, fully aware the lite is the new version, it was you asking what a NDS was for some reason not me : I dunno kids these days. They think they know everything when really they know nothing. Neutral Dynamic System? Robert Pleban - pm, 18th July This very thing happened with my little sisters ds, i thought she had just been rough with it till now.
Rasher - pm, 18th July Author man, i am sorry to hear that out of interest, how old is it? Rasher - pm, 18th July Author again, sorry to hear that man and again, dare i ask what colour this DS was? This means I cannot afford to replace it, and I don't favour my technical skills enough to dismantle it and fit a new case. My fix for now basically consists of wrapping a wristband around it - it's thicker than an elastic band so it holds it securely - then when I play I have to rest it on something or hold the top screen.
What I'm gonna do is get some superglue and "fix" the top screen tight against the bottom alone the groove between the hinges.
It'll mean I can't close it but it's all I can really do until I can replace it. FatTonyBBX - pm, 18th July Superglue job done, gonna go across the grooves again tomorrow to make sure it's as rigid as possible.
Rasher - pm, 18th July Author Tony, been looking on eBay, and there is quite a number of kits If you want to buy any of them kits, and post your DS off to me, i would be happy to fix it for you for free. Metal Ed - pm, 18th July i bought a black ds off a colleague because her the hinge had snapped. Rasher - pm, 18th July Author windyfishface, that's really good news if they have sent it back I hope they sort it for you.
Tools - pm, 18th July Came across the site googling for broken hinge on DS Lite to see if it was a common problem, seems it is :u20, some excellent info thanks. The unit has had not impact damage at any time and after reading around here and elsewhere on t'interyweb it is blatantly obvious it is an underlying design fault on many machines. I am also Admin on the free consumer rights help forum Legalbeagles and I will be posting about this on there and will also try to keep updated on here as to my progress.
Great site, good info, as Arnie says Tools - pm, 18th July Thanks, I rang them today and right on que they disputed that the fault was inherent and tried to blame it on either impact damage or straining the hinge by opening the upper screen "too far". Rasher - pm, 18th July Author Obviously I havent had a response from Argos, and my husband thought it was a new one because all the settings had gone, but i thought that would happen if you totally disconnected the battery?
I don't think that taking the battery out loses the settings, as we have put removable cover on all ours and swap the battery's around and we never had to put nick-names etc back in i am glad you have it sorted and i thank you for posting that you got it replace, this might just give others a glimmer of hope towards this issue.
GrrrNintendo - pm, 18th July My daughter's 10m old DS lite red had a cracked then eventually broken hinge. Tools - pm, 18th July The DS is now collected from Currys and no attempt to ask for payment. Can I take you up on that offer? I got a mate that's got two NDS lites - a salmon pink and a white one. The whites broken though that she got first, she only got the pink one to replace the white but kept it with the whole broken hinge right side with the LEDs too.
We're in NZ, apparently her mother phoned up and since it was literally JUST over warranty it would cost a small fortune to fix it. Never unscrewed anything in my life that wasn't made to be unscrewed Looking at all the self-repair sites, they look confuzzling.
Does anyone know a decent, easy-to-follow repair site that even a young girl with no practical hardware skills could follow to repair a broken hinge? Still have the broken hinge, willing to fork out some money for a new shell on eBay Metal Ed - pm, 18th July First thing's first, how's your dexterity? Metal Ed - pm, 18th July good luck! Rasher - pm, 18th July Author Hi chaucolai Would be more than happy to help out Post a reply back in here if you still need help and i will send you my contact details.
Your comment:. Please send me an email when a new comment is added. Nintendo DS. Platform Details. Remember me? Login Register Forgotten? Trending Children of Morta Review. I, Zombie Review. Northgard Review. I have a launch DSLite. Mine suffered from the cracked hinges and I called up Nintendo before Christmas '09 wayyyy out of warranty. The support person I spoke with was fantastic and got the process started by sending me a shipping label via e-mail and actually had it shipped UPS RED back to me free of charge so I'd have it back before Christmas.
It came back with the same serial number just a different top half If I'm not mistaken. I have to hand it to Nintendo for this one.
Both my boys' DS Lites ended up with cracked housings at the hinge. The narrow plastic loop on the right side cracked.
I used JBWeld epoxy to glue the cracks after encircling the cracked housing with one loop of steel florist wire. The wire provided strength, and the epoxy held it. It's been two years and they both held up fine. Can you tell me how you put the florest wire around the hinge? It doesn't seem to be accessable all the way around. Dave Bahamaboy bahamas. All because of a bloody hinge crack!
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