Leapster won't turn on
We have a Leapster handheld game and I put in new batteries and it will not turn on. Is there a reset button ??
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Had the same problem. I could randomly make it turn on by some bazzarre combination of pushing buttons. Now won't do anything. Call Leapster 800 #, and thought I was getting a bunch of b.s. from a "tech" person, however IT IMMEDIATELY RESOLVED THIS PROBLEM. Remove the battery pack and batteries. Take a pencil eraser and rub/clean the contact point where each battery goes in on the tray (except the coil sides). Reinstall the batt's back in the trey. Use the eraser to do the same thing to the outside contact points on the outside edge of the tray as well as on the Leapster itself where the tray goes. Finally reinstall the the battery tray, and BINGO ! Crazy....I would have lost a bet on this "fix".
Thank you soooooooo much for posting this FIX! I just bought my daughter's Leapster Explorer in December and was not pleased to find that it recently stopped working. This is so far fetched and weird but thankfully I'm not to proud to do weird! It is awesome that your post from 5 years ago is still helping so many people!
Wow amazing! Worked like a charm, i did not think this was going yo work either
Had same problem.. inserted an SD card.. and started it.. It hung on startup (Probably because it was an 8GB).. took out the SD card.. turned it on.. it worked.. could've been the fix.. could've been just one of those things.
i have the LeapsterGS and it will not turn on i dont know if we have to put in battery or not please help me now thankyou!
I was about to go buy a new one my kids but I try the pencil eraser and it works AMAZING!!!
After almost giving up and getting ready to throw this thing away. I tried Solution #2 above with the eraser and it WORKED! I am pretty amazed. Thanks for the help.
I was having the same problem, until I tried changing my rechargeable batteries to regular batteries, then it worked fine. For some reason it will not work with rechargeables.
My daughters Leapster would not power on with the A/C adapter but I tried the suggestion with the pencil eraser and new batteries and IT WORKED!!!!! Completely amazing!! Even if the explorer doesn't power on with the A/C adapter, try cleaning the connectors and try it with the battery back and it appears to resolve the issue.
Tried this and it did not work right away. Used new batteries (we do not have recargeables), and pushed "B" button with power button and it worked! After reading some other posts about button combinations for resets, just started trying various combos. After all there aren't that many buttons on the thing. Thanks for your post as I think the eraser thing also helped in this processs.
Thank ya sooooo moch i did the eraser rubbing thing and it worked now my 5 yr old niece is enjoying her Leapster more than ever!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for posting this fix! The pencil eraser trick worked on the rechargeable battery pack we have! Happy kids again :)
Mine still won't work after using the eraser. Help!
Oh my goodness! Thanks so much for the eraser idea! It worked so well! You're a genius! <3
You are a genius, whoever you are! Pencil eraser works!
What about if my kids don't use batteries and have the a/c adapters and they still won't turn on?
Same problem as the above, not truning on even with conecting to main power suply.
I'm having this problem too - working w/ disposable batteries but not the AC adapter.