The leapfrog leappad wont connect to my computer

SOURCE: leappad tuneup stuck at 5%

This toy sucks. I've had a really crappy year, but three months ago I had a good month and had a little extra to spare so I decided to buy, for Christmas the Leappads my two daughters had been asking for since last year's Christmas.

All good? NO! After being very excited and seeing the happiness on my two little girls's faces when they saw their gifts I was very happy with the way this year was ending. Until it came time to get a few "apps" and connect to the internet etc. with these things. Nothing works, no updates, no registrations, nothing. To add insult to injury, I've my proof of purchase for these two items has been lost and I now have to sit my two little kids down tomorrow to let them know that their "dream gifts" are useless and may remain that way for the foreseeable future. I've plugged a lot of stuff into my computer and have never had any problems, until this little kid's toy came along and nothing works.


Way to go LeapFrog. I followed your instructions and am now stuck with two absolutely useless toys after spending the bulk of my Christmas day trying to get these stupid things to work!!!

SOURCE: leappad tuneup stuck at 5%

I reinstalled the Leappad connect software in Explorer rather than Firefox, which seemed to mean no error messages, then let the update run for ages. It did stick at 5% and 35%, but eventually moved on. All in all it took about 2 hours for the update to run, then the Leappad 2 did work. Which is not good considering this was straight out of the box. Fortunately I have a very patient little girl. All I can advise is let it run for ages and with a bit of luck it will get there in the end.