For several days, weeks, months or even years, you are probably too busy or has no time to play your Nintendo Switch. One day, you’ve tried to turn it on and charge it. Unexpectedly, your Nintendo Switch didn’t turn on and was stuck on a Black Charging Screen. The only display shows on the screen is a low battery indicator on the upper left corner. You might be think it’s just something to do with the battery, maybe so depleted that it didn’t turn on and just need charging.
So you’ve decided to leave it for a charge in a couple of hours. You turn it again, and boom, still stuck on the black charging screen. This time, you are a little bit worried and may be thinking that there is a problem with your Nintendo Switch hardware.
Well, Nintendo Switch requires some decent amount of battery charge for it to boot up due to its hardware components that are too powerful that it takes a lot of energy. For this reason, the switch won’t turn on when the battery was depleted for a longer period of time, and some might have minor issue that is similar to yours.
The good news is, your switch is not broken “yet”, you just have to do some tricks to turn it on again. Remember back in days during the SNES era? that if a cartridge is not working, you’ll just blow the bottom of it and it magically works? something like that.
How to Fix Stuck on Black Charging Screen
Charge your Nintendo Switch via USB. If you suspect that your dock is broken, or you have a Nintendo Switch model that doesn’t use a dock such as the Nintendo Switch Lite, you can still charge it via its USB-C connection. Try a soft reset. Press and hold the power button for 15 seconds and then release it. Sometimes, your Nintendo Switch gets frozen, just due to a drained battery. Therefore, when you get Nintendo Switch frozen issue, the first thing you should do is to check the console's battery usage. If the battery is sufficient, please move to the next method.
To fix it. Follow our step by step guide below.
- First, you need to remove the Joycons from your Nintendo Switch.
- If your Nintendo Switch is connected from a dock, remove it as well as the adapter charger.
- Now, charge your switch directly with the adapter charger and wait for about 10 to 15 minutes to get some just for boot up.
- Then turn off your switch by holding the power button for 12 seconds until the screen turns off.
- Remove the charging cable from your switch and wait for about 3 to 5 seconds to cool it down.
- Turn it on again by pressing the power button.
- Once it’s turned on, your switch should now proceed to the Home Screen and shows a reminder message saying it needs to be charged.
- Immediately charge your switch and it will now starts to increase its charging capacity.
- Done!
From now on, you’re good to go and your Nintendo Switch won’t go back to the Black Charging Screen – unless you decided deplete its battery again. Once it is at least 15% in charging capacity, you can put back the Joycons to your switch.
To summarize the workaround, the Switch Dock with Joycons attached is not enough to charge your system when it is so depleted and it requires direct charging for it to work.
That’s it! Hope this guide helps you revive your precious Nintendo Switch. If you still have problem with this, please let us know in the comment section.
Nintendo Switch Frozen
The Nintendo Switch is a fantastic machine, but it's not without its faults. The included dock has been scratching some devices, while other early adopters have reported the device's software crashing at times. If your Nintendo Switch is like ours, it's frozen at least once. Clearly, we're not alone.
Here's where to do to fix the machine and get back to gaming if your Nintendo Switch is frozen and not working.
Nintendo Switch frozen: How to bring your game console back to life
If your Nintendo Switch freezes, you have a few options. The first you'll want to try comes from iMore, which suggests docking and then undocking the Switch. Putting the device in the dock may not seem like much, but shooting your game from your handheld screen to your television display interrupts nearly everything taking place within the console. Snap your Switch out of it by sliding it into its dock and then taking it out again.
If you're on the road and the dock is unavailable to you, the power button should come to your rescue. Mashablesays to hold the power button for 15 seconds. Afterward, press it normally as if you were turning on the system.
In the worst cases of your Nintendo Switch freezing, you'll see this: a blue screen of death.
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If this happens to your device, contact Nintendo and see if they can repair your system for you. The company may simply need to reset the device.
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