Thank you! I just saved 3 battery packs with this way that have been laying for years, I tried the other resetting method from other videos but it never worked, but after giving the battery a boost with 2 AA batteries in series (3V) I was able to charge the battery packs normally, Thank you again
Thank you very much I got an Xbox 360 and a bunch of goodies at a thrift store the other day a charger and two packs that would not charge did this method Now they're charging I appreciate it
Thank you! It’s my passion to help people learn something they didn’t know. Please check out my other builds and videos! All I ask is that you subscribe if you like my channel. Thanks again for the kind words.
Wow this worked! I first tried the paper clip suggestion from other videos until I found this method. I digged up an old 5V 1Amp power supply. The negative marked cable was actually positive, glad I checked with my multimeter. I touched the power supply pins for 10-20 seconds to the battery. Now the red led lit up in the controller charge cable! However it would be red for like 15 seconds and then the red led would go green :-( I took the battery out and it now measured 2.55V. So I though to myself, 100's of comments can't be wrong on the other videos so I touched pins 1&5 and 2&6, et voila now my battery is charging! Hope this helps someone!
Hi, My multi-meter showed 0v, so I pulled the 9v batter out of the meter and I did the same thing you did and after 5 to 10 seconds the battery pack was over 2v, it's now on the charger charging.
It worked for me! I don't have a power supply, I just used a 9V battery placed it in a 9v battery holder that comes with 2 wires +/- and I pinned the positive to pin 2 and the negative to pin 5 for around a minute. and checked it with a voltemeter, the 360 battery went from 2.45 to 2.78v and it works now. Thanks
Amazing 👏👏 I've manage to reset two batteries, one official and a parallel one, but I was having trouble with another official battery and this video saved it. I already had a multimeter and this method was perfect to reactivate my battery.
LOL IT WORKED, but I went MacGyver style with a 1.5 V battery and 2 e-cig coils, untwisting them and holding one to each side of the 1.5 V battery and shorting the 2nd and 5th pins with them barehandedly for about a minute. Didn't even feel a tingle and my two bad boys are now charging again in the charging dock. Kudos!
Thank you, thank you thank you!!! I tried the clip method dozens of times to no effect and this worked perfectly. Since I had no power supply near I just grabbed another 3rd party battery pack (this does not have the 6 pins, just + and - in the bottom as a regular AA battery pack) and used it to charge though pins 2 and 5. Tried at 1.5V and 1.8V with no success, but once it hit 2.0V it engaged charging.
Thank you so much!! I had two original Microsoft batteries I was about to throw away after 5 years of complete lack of use (I had no suitable TV). I joined together two 1.5 AA batteries with scrap parts from an old phone wall socket, duct tape (of course
Hi! I don't have a power supply but I can use a 200mAh 9V rechargeable Ni-MH battery, although I suppose I will have to keep it in contact more time, could you confirm me this? Thanks.
Thank you so much for making this video!!! I havent used my Controller in 3 years and the Batterypack was so empty the LED of the charging cable didnt illuminate at all after connecting it. Had no Power Supply though so i cut open an Old Sony Ericsson charing Cable. Worked like a charm... I'm so happy, you all you guys can fix your packs too. But hoestly, micrsoft did a shitty job desining this shitty crap...
I will try this method because it seems that you really understand what you are talking about, and I see that the devices you use are of engineering or of some electronic technical degree. And the option of the clip seems to me eloquent, I know for my career that an eeprom restarts between vcc and gnd, although I do not know that this can help, if in theory, the information that has this eeprom is only a clock For the charge and the battery serial, according to read, so, if it is something related to the programmed obsolescence, it would be interesting to know the system completely embedded from the USB port to the battery, through the control and the cable
I love rechargeable batteries. my Lenovo thinkpad 131e won't charge i might be able to use my dc power supply for the battery I don't know if it's the charger or the battery
I have done stuff like that before. If you are going to try and revive a pack like that, please be careful and keep the current low and monitor the temp of the battery. (you can use your hand but be careful not to burn your hand accidently). Also, this is mostly safe for nickel metal hydride, but a little more dangerous with LIPO's. Please dont leave your setup unattended if you do try it. Thanks for the comment and good luck!
That's awesome. Any way to get some juice into those packs will work. I'm impressed with your creativity. I'm glad i could at least get you thinking about how you could accomplish the same task but in a different way! Thanks for your comment and stay safe out there!
It may be possible. Using a power supply or something similar may help it get back to a voltage that the charger will accept. This could be tricky if you cant see how much current you are pushing into the pack. Be careful if you attempt to do this.
Some packs just don’t come back. Also, once it starts charging, try leaving it on there a few hours. If that doesn’t work it’s gone and it needs a proper burial. RIP...
It appears that quite a few other people are experiencing this same issue. I dont have a newer xbox or the packs to test with, but i would love the opportunity to try and figure it out. If you want, you can send the kit to me( ill pay you 20 bucks) and i'll make a video trying to figure out the issue. You can contact me at: icemanfiveoh@gmail.com if you are interested.
Nimh batteries are kinda picky. Some can be brought back and some can’t. You can always try and see what happens. Most of the time revived batteries don’t hold he same charge as they once did. What do you have to lose, they could be bad anyways so give it a shot!
Well, you should use an xacto knife and go around the pack following the seam. These packs like other things are 2 halves glued together. Take you time and don’t slice yourself open and it will be pretty easy to open. You can even carefully use a pair of adjustable pliers to kind of put pressure on the seams to help them pop. This may be hard to visualize but if you take your time and wear gloves you should be able to do it. Then you could carefully extract the old nimh batteries and put 2 more in. If you know how to solder or know someone who does. Good luck my friend.
Mike Benson you should connect the power supply for say 5-10 seconds at a time until the battery voltage gets up a little higher. This will allow the charger to take over the rest of the way. A little trial and error may be necessary.
After I turn my Xbox off the charging light was on for a while it was red for at least about an hour I was leaving it on to see if it would eventually turn off but it never did but once I turn on the Xbox and it immediately went to Green and to believe that it is now charged the only problem I have is it's not charging while playing.... I think that I'll just have to wait until the battery is critically low to see if it will take a charge while playing
I saw someone else had luck with a 9v battery and some paper clips. That sounds like a good place to start. Just look at the 9v and make sure you put plus to plus on the pack and minus to minus. Good luck.
@@icemanfiveoh so an hour later I realized it was the controller and those batteries I found a different controller and a different battery pack that was perfect other than it needed to charge but if need be I'll try this 👍
Thank you! I just saved 3 battery packs with this way that have been laying for years, I tried the other resetting method from other videos but it never worked, but after giving the battery a boost with 2 AA batteries in series (3V) I was able to charge the battery packs normally, Thank you again
Glad I could help
Your fix still works!!! I just used a 9 volt battery to bring dead packs up for charging.
Glad it worked for you!
Thank you very much I got an Xbox 360 and a bunch of goodies at a thrift store the other day a charger and two packs that would not charge did this method Now they're charging I appreciate it
Glad it helped you out!!
Thumbs freaking up on SO many levels, man. This is the way a video should teach you a 'thing' Nice work.
Thank you! It’s my passion to help people learn something they didn’t know. Please check out my other builds and videos! All I ask is that you subscribe if you like my channel. Thanks again for the kind words.
Wow this worked! I first tried the paper clip suggestion from other videos until I found this method. I digged up an old 5V 1Amp power supply. The negative marked cable was actually positive, glad I checked with my multimeter. I touched the power supply pins for 10-20 seconds to the battery. Now the red led lit up in the controller charge cable! However it would be red for like 15 seconds and then the red led would go green :-( I took the battery out and it now measured 2.55V. So I though to myself, 100's of comments can't be wrong on the other videos so I touched pins 1&5 and 2&6, et voila now my battery is charging! Hope this helps someone!
Thank you so much! I used a 9v battery and two paper clips, until my cable was able to identify it and charge it the rest of the way!
Hi, My multi-meter showed 0v, so I pulled the 9v batter out of the meter and I did the same thing you did and after 5 to 10 seconds the battery pack was over 2v, it's now on the charger charging.
Will try that..
. 9 volt you say... 👍
Hi, Yup
9v worked to get it started for sure
Glad it helped
It worked for me! I don't have a power supply, I just used a 9V battery placed it in a 9v battery holder that comes with 2 wires +/- and I pinned the positive to pin 2 and the negative to pin 5 for around a minute. and checked it with a voltemeter, the 360 battery went from 2.45 to 2.78v and it works now. Thanks
Amazing 👏👏 I've manage to reset two batteries, one official and a parallel one, but I was having trouble with another official battery and this video saved it. I already had a multimeter and this method was perfect to reactivate my battery.
Glad I could help!
LOL IT WORKED, but I went MacGyver style with a 1.5 V battery and 2 e-cig coils, untwisting them and holding one to each side of the 1.5 V battery and shorting the 2nd and 5th pins with them barehandedly for about a minute.
Didn't even feel a tingle and my two bad boys are now charging again in the charging dock.
Kudos!
Thanks! That’s what it’s all about, figure out what you got and make it work...glad you were able to squeeze a little more life outta them!
Thank you, thank you thank you!!! I tried the clip method dozens of times to no effect and this worked perfectly. Since I had no power supply near I just grabbed another 3rd party battery pack (this does not have the 6 pins, just + and - in the bottom as a regular AA battery pack) and used it to charge though pins 2 and 5. Tried at 1.5V and 1.8V with no success, but once it hit 2.0V it engaged charging.
Glad it helped!
You can use a 9v battery as well.I revived 2 year dead bateries with a battery .
If you are still able to reply can you elaborate how you did it?
Thank you, fixed my issue! I used a car trickle charger for about 30 seconds and then the battery pack began charging again.
Glad it worked for you. Thanks for the comment!
Thank you so much for the idea ,I used a 1.2 nimh AAA rechargeable battery worked great ! Thanks again👍✌
I’m glad it worked out for you!!!
Thank you so much!! I had two original Microsoft batteries I was about to throw away after 5 years of complete lack of use (I had no suitable TV). I joined together two 1.5 AA batteries with scrap parts from an old phone wall socket, duct tape (of course
Glad it worked out for you...
Oh my god, thanks! This works very well. I revival my 3years dead battery. I used a 5v from a atx power supply
I know this comment is old, but any tips on how to do this?
Wow!! It works great. Thank you
Thank you, It worked for me!! I used a generic laptop charger 13.8V 2.5A
Thanks! I used a 5v wall charger, i had to do two 15 second taps and it worked perfectly!
Nice work!
how do you do it with 5v wall charger?
You use a apple 5 watt charger adapter and strip the usb cable to only positive and negative and connect them to the pins on battery
Thank you very much. I used an old 12v alarm battery. The alarm battery itself was reading 7.2v, so I reckon let's try it
Good luck!
works :) even with battery, you don't have to power suply, i used 1,5 v battery and wire and works :)
Glad it worked for you!
Hi! I don't have a power supply but I can use a 200mAh 9V rechargeable Ni-MH battery, although I suppose I will have to keep it in contact more time, could you confirm me this? Thanks.
Thanks a lot. :D
My pack is revived and I can use it again :)
i ripped one apart and the board pins says 1: Temp 2: p- 3: SCK 4: SDA 5: p+ 6:VCC
Thank you so much for making this video!!! I havent used my Controller in 3 years and the Batterypack was so empty the LED of the charging cable didnt illuminate at all after connecting it. Had no Power Supply though so i cut open an Old Sony Ericsson charing Cable. Worked like a charm... I'm so happy, you all you guys can fix your packs too. But hoestly, micrsoft did a shitty job desining this shitty crap...
I will try this method because it seems that you really understand what you are talking about, and I see that the devices you use are of engineering or of some electronic technical degree. And the option of the clip seems to me eloquent, I know for my career that an eeprom restarts between vcc and gnd, although I do not know that this can help, if in theory, the information that has this eeprom is only a clock For the charge and the battery serial, according to read, so, if it is something related to the programmed obsolescence, it would be interesting to know the system completely embedded from the USB port to the battery, through the control and the cable
I just plugged my cable in then slid the battery into my controller when the charger cable was pluggged in and bam red light now we wait
Thank you....Grazie ha funzionato, resuscitata batteria originale microsoft a 0 V, ora funziona benissimo.
Sono contento che abbia funzionato per te. Rimani al sicuro!
It worked, thank you!
I love rechargeable batteries. my Lenovo thinkpad 131e won't charge i might be able to use my dc power supply for the battery I don't know if it's the charger or the battery
I have done stuff like that before. If you are going to try and revive a pack like that, please be careful and keep the current low and monitor the temp of the battery. (you can use your hand but be careful not to burn your hand accidently). Also, this is mostly safe for nickel metal hydride, but a little more dangerous with LIPO's. Please dont leave your setup unattended if you do try it. Thanks for the comment and good luck!
@@icemanfiveoh you welcome 😊
I didn’t want to do option 2 but I’m gonna keep doing option 1.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MAN LEARN FROM YOU GOODLUCK
Glad it worked out for you!
I was able to fix three out of three, the only change, I used a cut USB cable to jump charge the batteries.
That's awesome. Any way to get some juice into those packs will work. I'm impressed with your creativity. I'm glad i could at least get you thinking about how you could accomplish the same task but in a different way! Thanks for your comment and stay safe out there!
5v iphone charger works too. be careful tho!
My pack registers zero, can it still be revived?
It may be possible. Using a power supply or something similar may help it get back to a voltage that the charger will accept. This could be tricky if you cant see how much current you are pushing into the pack. Be careful if you attempt to do this.
@@icemanfiveoh thanks, my bench power supply has current setting. 👍🏼
Mine has enough voltage but controller stops working 5 seconds after disconnecting charger?
Some packs just don’t come back. Also, once it starts charging, try leaving it on there a few hours. If that doesn’t work it’s gone and it needs a proper burial. RIP...
Самый реальный способ оживить батарею.
Do you know how to do this for the newer Xbox one/series battery pack? Mine is messing up and won’t charge
I’ll look into it for you...thanks for the question and watching my video!
It appears that quite a few other people are experiencing this same issue. I dont have a newer xbox or the packs to test with, but i would love the opportunity to try and figure it out. If you want, you can send the kit to me( ill pay you 20 bucks) and i'll make a video trying to figure out the issue. You can contact me at: icemanfiveoh@gmail.com if you are interested.
merci beaucoup tuto tres simple . j'ai utilisé un chargeur universel et tout fonctionne nickel
Thank you!
Mine has not been in use for years, are they salvage?
Nimh batteries are kinda picky. Some can be brought back and some can’t. You can always try and see what happens. Most of the time revived batteries don’t hold he same charge as they once did. What do you have to lose, they could be bad anyways so give it a shot!
@@icemanfiveoh will do. I do wish just to open them up and put new ones in. Any suggestions? Something to be a are of? Thank you 🇸🇪
Well, you should use an xacto knife and go around the pack following the seam. These packs like other things are 2 halves glued together. Take you time and don’t slice yourself open and it will be pretty easy to open. You can even carefully use a pair of adjustable pliers to kind of put pressure on the seams to help them pop. This may be hard to visualize but if you take your time and wear gloves you should be able to do it. Then you could carefully extract the old nimh batteries and put 2 more in. If you know how to solder or know someone who does. Good luck my friend.
How long do you leave the power source on the battery
Mike Benson you should connect the power supply for say 5-10 seconds at a time until the battery voltage gets up a little higher. This will allow the charger to take over the rest of the way. A little trial and error may be necessary.
@@icemanfiveoh thnx.. wrkn now!!
After I turn my Xbox off the charging light was on for a while it was red for at least about an hour I was leaving it on to see if it would eventually turn off but it never did but once I turn on the Xbox and it immediately went to Green and to believe that it is now charged the only problem I have is it's not charging while playing.... I think that I'll just have to wait until the battery is critically low to see if it will take a charge while playing
How do I do this without a power supply?
I saw someone else had luck with a 9v battery and some paper clips. That sounds like a good place to start. Just look at the 9v and make sure you put plus to plus on the pack and minus to minus. Good luck.
@@icemanfiveoh so an hour later I realized it was the controller and those batteries I found a different controller and a different battery pack that was perfect other than it needed to charge but if need be I'll try this 👍
You could use a phone charger and strip two wires it is 5V 1A similar to a USB Port