I was able to fix the problem by using 2 ps vita's.
I had the same problem, if you put it on the charger it blinked once and went to solid orange.
I've opend the ps vita and disconnected the battery and the touch plate connector.
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I did the same thing with my other ps vita (that wasn't broken) and replaced the broken ps vita battery with the working ps vita.
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I did the same thing with my other ps vita (that wasn't broken) and replaced the broken ps vita battery with the working ps vita' battery.
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So I connected the broken battery with the working ps vita.
When I charged it, my none-broken ps vita was able to charge the broken battery.
Meanwhile, I connected the battery of my none-broken ps vita to the broken ps vita and tried to boot it up. That's when I encountered the next problem.
the ps vita didn't boot up and there was an blue blinking light.
So I went to the recovery menu (R+power+psvita logo) and tried the first 3 options. But that didn't work.
So I installed the ps vita software on my pc and tried to update the system using usb.
I went back to the recovery menu and selected the last option to update the ps vita, and selected to update it from the pc.
It went good, the bar got filled, but when it wanted to restart the ps vita to resume the update in the ps vita menu. There was just a black screen with a solid blue light.
I turned the ps vita off, if you turn it back on you just go back to the recovery menu. So I realised that the ps vita couldn't turn himself off.
so I turned it of and disconnected the battery and waited a second or 2 and connected the battery back to the system.
when I turned it on the update resume in the ps vita menu (that menu with a green background) :D
After that it all worked. It could be that the ps vita tryed to shut back down because of the update and you get the same problem. But just do the same and disconnect an connect the battery to the system.
After that was done the broken ps vita battery was after a few hours fully charged, so I connected all the original parts to the broken ps vita.
and everything worked fine.
I hope I helped some people, because I also did searched the web but didn't found anything.
Hi,
I was able to fix the problem by using 2 ps vita's.
I had the same problem, if you put it on the charger it blinked once and went to solid orange.
I've opend the ps vita and disconnected the battery and the touch plate connector.
I did the same thing with my other ps vita (that wasn't broken) and replaced the broken ps vita battery with the working ps vita.
When I charged it, my none-broken ps vita was able to charge the broken battery.
Meanwhile, I connected the battery of my none-broken ps vita to the broken ps vita and tried to boot it up. That's when I encountered the next problem.
the ps vita didn't boot up and there was an blue blinking light.
So I went to the recovery menu (R+power+psvita logo) and tried the first 3 options. But that didn't work.
So I installed the ps vita software on my pc and tried to update the system using usb.
I went back to the recovery menu and selected the last option to update the ps vita, and selected to update it from the pc.
It went good, the bar got filled, but when it wanted to restart the ps vita to resume the update in the ps vita menu. There was just a black screen with a solid blue light.
I turned the ps vita off, if you turn it back on you just go back to the recovery menu. So I realised that the ps vita couldn't turn himself off.
so I turned it of and disconnected the battery and waited a second or 2 and connected the battery back to the system.
when I turned it on the update resume in the ps vita menu (that menu with a green background) :D
After that it all worked. It could be that the ps vita tryed to shut back down because of the update and you get the same problem. But just do the same and disconnect an connect the battery to the system.
After that was done the broken ps vita battery was after a few hours fully charged, so I connected all the original parts to the broken ps vita.
and everything worked fine.
I hope I helped some people, because I also did searched the web but didn't found anything.