Semi-Dead Wii Remote

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:13 pm

My brother and his friend were playing Wii Play(the target shooting), when all of a sudden the 1 remote starts acting funny. The pointer was moving erratically, and would randomly disappear. I tried new batteries but that didn't do anything. I later tried the remote in the sensor bar sensitivity option in the Wii menu.

If the remote was aimed left, both little dots showed up, and even near upper right. Once you went near the bottom right the left little dot would disappear. If you kept going further down, both dots would be gone.

This is really strange as I used the exact same remote my self about 3 hours before that and it worked fine. And my brother and his friend were also playing Wii play just fine, and then it just went nuts. They didn't drop it or anything because I was there when the remote was working fine, and then started responding weird, it just happened out of the blue.

Any ideas?

Post by **Skyone** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:30 pm

Do you have another remote to test it with? This happened to me once, most likely due to the lighting in the area you're playing in (IR LEDs might freak out at the sun).

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:16 am

Try cleaning your sensor bar, or the wiimote ir transmitter. (You know, the redish/black thing on the controller). Also try re-syncing your wiimote.

Twisted Warthog · Post by **Twisted Warthog** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:22 am

Man that happens to me all the time to my Wiimote, the cursor on the TV just starts going crazy. It hasent happen in a while and i always just tried re-syncing too and it works most of the time.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:27 am

HotDog-Cart wrote:Try cleaning your sensor bar, or the wiimote ir transmitter. (You know, the redish/black thing on the controller). Also try re-syncing your wiimote.

You are backwards, sensor bar has the leds in it, the Wiimote has the sensor.
Try new batteries

Jimmy · Post by **Jimmy** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:39 am

vskid wrote: Try new batteries

He did that already.

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:06 pm

Wtf. I didnt write that.

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:59 pm

Skyone wrote:Do you have another remote to test it with? This happened to me once, most likely due to the lighting in the area you're playing in (IR LEDs might freak out at the sun).

The other remote works just fine, so its not the sensor bar or lighting. I guess i'll try cleaning and resyncing

Post by **gannon** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:03 pm

If that doesn't work you might want to open the wiimote up and see if the sensor is damaged/bent/disconnected at all.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:11 pm

Jimmy wrote:
vskid wrote: Try new batteries
He did that already.

Oh, for some reason I missed that, I even checked to see if he said he did.

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:51 pm

Well it seems cleaning the sensor, and resyncing the remote made it worse, now i can barely get the pointer on screen. Guess I'll open her up and have a look see.

jedi knight · Post by **jedi knight** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:20 pm

This may sound kinda stupid but is there anything in between the wiimote and the sensor bar?

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:31 pm

jedi knight wrote:This may sound kinda stupid but is there anything in between the wiimote and the sensor bar?

No its clear sailing. There's nothing new there that wasn't there before when it was working fine.

Post by **Skyone** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:09 am

My motion sensor wasn't working in my wiimote once, opening up and closing it again fixed the problem. Hopefully it's that simple for you.

Rekarp · Post by **Rekarp** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:23 am

You know Nintendo has really awsome Customer Service. Before Voiding your Warranty why not give them a call? They will gladly replace your wiimote if it is indeed broken.