Vita 1000 won’t turn on after 3 years of inactivity. What to do?

I have a PS Vita (1000 model) from a friend I haven’t used in 3 years. It was working when he gave it to me and when i tried it.

Last Friday, the new charger (USB A to Vita) was delivered. I told my brother to put it to charge. When I got back today, it was plugged in to a USB hub (not an outlet/wall charger).

When I turned it on, I saw a blue PS button only, nothing on the screen. I tried holding the power button for 30 seconds. The PS button will blink but nothing will show up. I tried r + ps button + power but that didn’t do anything either.

Then i charged it directly on the outlet for about an hour. I saw the orange LED go on then it went away. I assumed it was fully charged so I retried everything but still no dice.

Finally I plugged it back in to the charger on the outlet where it’s sitting now.

Thanks for any help

EDIT: It turns out the screen doesn’t work, I swiped from the top right to bottom left and music started playing :/

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u/spiderman1993 — 3 days ago
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Vita 1000 won’t turn on after 3 years of inactivity. What to do?

I have a PS Vita (1000 model) from a friend I haven’t used in 3 years. It was working when he gave it to me and when i tried it.

Last Friday, the new charger (USB A to Vita) was delivered. I told my brother to put it to charge. When I got back on today, it was plugged in to the USB hub.

When I turned it on, I saw a blue PS button only, nothing on the screen. I tried holding the power button for 30 seconds. The PS button will blink but nothing will show up. I tried r + ps button + power but that didn’t do anything either.

Then i charged it directly on the outlet for about an hour. I saw the orange LED go on then it went away. I assumed it was fully charged so I retried everything but still no dice.

Finally I plugged it back in to the charger on the outlet where it’s sitting now.

Thanks for any help

EDIT: It turns out the screen doesn’t work, I swiped from the top right to bottom left and music started playing :/

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u/spiderman1993 — 3 days ago

Is this v1 switch battery drain normal?

I’ve noticed:

  • hot to touch with wifi on in dock after no use
  • airplane mode it’s not hot in dock
  • my friends v1 erista I hacked for him doesn’t have this issue despite being on same versions

22.0.0 | 1.11.2

Any insight?

u/spiderman1993 — 1 month ago