Will my razor phone charger charge a DS lite? Our new DS didnt come with a charger!

You can try charging your DS lite using a phone charger. In order for this to work the charger must

• Output around 5.2 volts
  
• The end of the plug must look like the second plug from the left in this picture

When plugging this cord into your DS lite do NOT force it in. If you push to hard it may break the DS lite.

We had this problem with a brand new DS Lite...turns out it was a bad charger. If you have access to another charger, try that first. Good luck!

:O) so the pencil idea didn't work? surprising :O)

Is the charger actually working? can you borrow one or test yours on anothers DS?

The charging socket may have become loose and requires re soldering or other damage on the mainboard like one of the fuses. Get it to a repair shop

turn your ds lite on, then realy quickly close the lid

Go buy a new charger. Chargers are made cheap so the thread wire underneath the rubber on the charger probably snapped or wore out. Go buy a new charger :) That should solve it

Did you attatchthe charge cord into the back of the Ds and attatch it to the wall? If you did and it didnt work, then I suggest getting it looked at, as this is usually the less expensive way of fixing it.

Likely not, as the DS Phat and Lite use a special charger that you can get at Walmart or somewhere similar for cheap, although I'd complain about it to whoever you bought the DS from and see if you can get a free charger from them.

could be a charger issue try a new charger .

Greetings emitchell,

The Nintendo DS Lite comes with a home wall charger.

Thank you!

Dorothy
Go Ahead. Use Us.

Are you leaving the DS charge until the light comes off? Remember that there are two likes too, one for charging and one for power. If you're just charging for some random period of time (lets say... One hour) then your Battery isn't going to be fully charged. The best way to ensure that your DS Lite is charged is to leave it charge until the charge light turns off. You can play your DS Lite while you are charging (I do it all the time), but it just means that you're just running off of the outlet.

A good test is to charge it fully (until the charge light comes off), unplug the charger cord (Make sure it's secured tightly to your DS while charging), then play for a little bit, your light should be a normal color (green).

If you cannot even play by using the outlet, then you need to
find a charger cord that actually works (You may need to send in the charger for replacement). If the same thing happens with 2 different batteries (assuming that you have two official Nintendo batteries).

TIP: Also run your fingers across the Charger cord. You're going to get a slight friction burn from the rubber, but you're going to get all of the kinks out of the wire in the cord. My charger cord had a similar problem (did not charge all the way, only charged until I moved the DS) but when I ran my fingers across it (pinching) it worked again.

Also check the pins in both charger cords, charging will not work if one pin is missing, nor if any are bent.