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secreteyez

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Pleo with no life T_T
« on: August 27, 2014, 04:26:08 AM »

I was gifted a pleo yesterday, and all was great.
Until her battery went flat. I've tried charging it but after 10 minutes of being on the charger it turns green. I keep doing as I saw a post on here suggests and keep reseating the battery onto the pod whenever it turns green.
But the battery becomes extremely hot and then stops charging.
No matter how many times I do this, It seems to be providing no life to my pleo at all.

Ive looked at replacement batteries but I live in the UK, and to order one will cost me more than to buy a new pleo!...
I'm desperate to try get this little jolly giant working again!
I've looked at the tutorials on refurbing the battery, but im not very tech savvy at all...and knowing my luck id make matters worse!..
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!..Im at an absolute loss.
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2014, 04:52:39 AM »

Hello and welcome to the forums. congratulations on your lovely gift. As for refurbishing a Pleo battery,the orginal green ones, that is something I have not been able to do myself as I am also not very tech savvy when it comes to those type of electronics, but there may be someone here who has tried this before or can give you some more advice. Good luck. and does your pleo have a name yet? P:) RWM  :cat-hug: and the Pleo township of the Redwoods
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secreteyez

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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2014, 08:56:35 AM »

Hello and welcome to the forums. congratulations on your lovely gift. As for refurbishing a Pleo battery,the orginal green ones, that is something I have not been able to do myself as I am also not very tech savvy when it comes to those type of electronics, but there may be someone here who has tried this before or can give you some more advice. Good luck. and does your pleo have a name yet? P:) RWM  :cat-hug: and the Pleo township of the Redwoods

Thankyou for the lovely welcome ^_^
She does indeed. She's called "Kid"
My daughter chose her name lol
I call her Kidota :D
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2014, 09:53:11 AM »

Hello and welcome.  :)

I'm afraid all I can suggest it keep trying with the battery - wait for it to cool down and seat it again.  You might just get to squeeze a bit more out of it.
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secreteyez

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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2014, 10:03:50 AM »

Hello and welcome.  :)

I'm afraid all I can suggest it keep trying with the battery - wait for it to cool down and seat it again.  You might just get to squeeze a bit more out of it.

I spent all last night reseating once it had turned green. In between the hot spells. It doesn't seem to at all showing any sign of becoming fully charged lol.
Is this normal for a bad battery?
It's now almost 18 hours of full resetting charging with no improvement showing :(
Once it's reseated the light is red for approximately 10 minutes maximum before turning green again
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2014, 10:13:02 AM »

It's unlikely that it will ever fully charge again, but you might squeeze a bit more out of it.  How long does it run for in the Pleo?  You need to run it so it can go through the full charge/discharge cycle, which might help it.
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2014, 10:22:13 AM »

I've just placed the battery in the pleo and there's no life in her at all.
There was a slight murr noise n that was it.
Battery isn't hot..but no life.

I don't think this battery will work at all. Nursed this battery for hours lol
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2014, 10:32:51 AM »

Same with Echo... while it is exciting that Echo may be walking around a bit more and learning his name (was awake for 30 minutes today), I do think I will buy an extra battery to keep on a full charge cycle. This may also help the software to not get worn out.
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2014, 10:40:43 AM »

I looked on the store tab and saw someone is selling pleo batteries!!
So excited, sent a mail and excited waiting.
I'll keep pursuing with this battery but I don't hold much hope.

Should I leave it on the charger even when the light goes green? Or re seat it?
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2014, 10:52:22 AM »

I don't know if I like the idea of you resetting it so much!
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secreteyez

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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2014, 10:59:34 AM »

I'm just at a massive loss on what to do :(
I keep trying to charge this battery. But for some reason this battery just won't charge at all...
:(
Just want my Kido to come alive. Not heard her coo's yet
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2014, 11:04:36 AM »

Aw... is she a hatchling? Maybe they don't coo for a while? has she moved at all?
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2014, 11:10:50 AM »

She hasn't moved at all :(
I tried leaving her battery in for an hour and her turned on...
But there's no movement :(
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2014, 12:25:54 PM »

Hi , do you have a ugobe pleo or a pleo reborn ?
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2014, 02:13:44 PM »

Mine is a Ugobe Pleo :)
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2014, 03:46:02 PM »

I'm afraid the person on here selling batteries is having trouble with stock :( That's why no one has mentioned her before.
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #16 on: August 27, 2014, 04:52:25 PM »

Oh,
Looks like no new battery for Kido then lol.
Id have a try at trying to recondition the battery myself but im so clumsy, knowing my luck it'd end up going horribly wrong.

I'm still sat here nursing it on the charger. Its getting so unbelieveably hot at times though, Is that normal?
Its causing the red light on the charger to blink red.

also when the charger turns green, should i take it off and re-sit it, or just leave it on the pod?
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2014, 12:44:17 AM »

When it gets hot let it cool, it is normal but no point pushing an already fragile battery to its limit.

When it turns green reseat it, but don't charge it for more than four hours before tying it in Kido. They aren't meant to charge any longer than that.

If you've had no movement by now I'd say it's a lost cause :(
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2014, 05:23:32 AM »

OMG!
Kidota is alive!...
I took a whim and decided to try and update her firmware via USB, as it seemed the memory card method wasnt doing anything.
After updating her firmware, She's become alive!...So much excitement right now its unreal.

I never knew Pleo's enjoyed being stroked under their chins, She loves it and makes the most adorable noises lol.
She has just started walking, and sniffs at everything.
And is currently chomping on her leaf in a rather noisy way lol
Thankyou so much everyone for the support, I was starting to give up all hope on Kidota and was starting to think that all she would ever be was a display item.

So much adorable! <3
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2014, 06:31:25 AM »

That's great news :) And you should have a nicely re calibrated battery by now too :P

It's very odd that it was a software issue, but I won't argue with the results :)
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2014, 07:38:25 AM »

Congrats! Glad to hear your pleo is alive again!
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #21 on: August 28, 2014, 12:10:52 PM »

I spent hours upon hours charging it. Because it kept turning green and overheating.
But she's out of hybernation now :D

She froze up earlier though (was playing with her about an hour )
And she just froze. Didn't curl up or anything. Not sure if it's a battery issue because the battery was quite hot.
But she's had the afternoon switched off so will see what happens shortly when she's back on again
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #22 on: August 28, 2014, 02:38:52 PM »

Fantastic that your pleo is working!  Finally you can play with her  ;D
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #23 on: August 28, 2014, 04:53:51 PM »

That's just brilliant - I'm so pleased! :D
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Re: Pleo with no life T_T
« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2014, 04:55:42 PM »

She probably froze because she ran out of power.  The original Ugobe batteries only ever gave about 1 hour play time maximum.  Sometimes a Ugobe pleo will go to sleep when the battery is running low but it seems most commonly they will just stop - freezing inthe middle of whatever action they were performing.
I'm so glad you got her going again! :)
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