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The Nintendo 3DS XL 2015, marketed as the New Nintendo 3DS XL, was released October 11, 2014 in Japan and February 13, 2015 in North America.

Battery light blinking, but battery still lasts for hours

I purchased a new battery for my N3DSXL from iFixit and did the required calibration of charging it all the way up, and then draining until it turns off, and charging it back up again, as suggested. After that, the battery lasts quite long, but the orange battery blinking light comes on on what seems to be half way before the battery actually dies.

I've repeated the calibration thinking it might have been that, but at this point I've done the calibration around 7 times, and the problem still persists.

When it's fully charged it correctly shows 100% charge, and it lasts for some hours before the blinking light comes and it is showing 5-1% by that point, yet I can continue to play for some more hours after until it shuts off.

Does anyone know or have any suggestions to what the problem might be?

I also checked with 3DSident what the battery voltage is after the light starts blinking, and it shows 3.4-3.3V, which from what I checked online should indicate empty battery, but then why does it still work for so long

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It sounds like it could be a faulty sensor, so I'd figure out what component does that and try replacing it to rule that out.

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Hi!

You could try another battery and see what happens with that one.

How did your old battery behave? The same? If yes, it could be something else on the motherboard.

I would test with a new battery first and see how that goes.

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