I promise to give my 3DS a proper burial when the time comes.

red or orange?

Evil red color of death

Send it in for repairs :3

Mine works like poo

I'd rather buy a new one.

Not for the light thingy, that's harmless. But all those other things.. Is it ok?

In that case, do an exchange. It's cheaper.

I don't know, It acts weird sometimes. On occasion I get a black screen of death w/ no text on either screen. Same thing happens with my Game Boy, but it still works so I still have my hopes that my 3DS should function for a few more years to come.

When someone is online it flashes orange.

Yeahh I'm thinking it's because of overuse as well. Now my battery won't last longer than a couple of hours. ;-; boo hoo

It should be slow orange flash.

one time my 3ds malfunctioned and froze when i chose a game
then when i called nintendo support it was just a black screen
i sent it to repair but then
system memory got deleted
e shop survived and so did dsi games -.-
but my mii plaza all that progress gone
i was on the secret quest of find mii II TnT
anyways
now my 3ds' circle has no rubber cause it came off XD
rant rant rant comment thing XD

ive had a grand total of 5 ds lites XD
all warenty
i dropped my ds' so much .-.
luckaly i aint that clumsy anymore XD

my 3ds is very broken as well its been charging for 2 weeks with the occasional unplugging to change power outlets but if i do unplug it the red light starts flashing until i plug it in again ugh

Wow that sounds horrible

if it flashes orange, its really just a sign a friends coming online. and if the battery is soon empty you can buy a new one. I am sure your 3DS loves you and is glad to be with you and doesn´t want to lay in a showcase and glaze. It loves every second you use it. I speak with mine, it has a name and I love it so much. Am I crazy?

While mine does not do that, the camera light will not turn off. It's actually draining the system of half of it's power.

mine never does that. but mine got broke because i was taking the charger out and the charger socket came out of the 3ds. i was freaking out but then, my mom sent it to nintendo to get it fixed and the socket was fixed.
but it looks like the person who did it did a poor job but, it still works. I want 3dxl because sometimes i can't find my 3ds sometimes....

Mine hasn't done that...yet.

'worst of all, my cats have sat on it'
ewe totally awesome-

I don't like XL DS's... ºxº

that happened to me and me 3ds isent that old like a month and a half the first time i saw the red light i had to charge it but the second time it was fully charged and it made the red light and im like wtf!! O.o..
idk what its, what could it be?

My 3DS sometimes takes a really long time to turn on and the screen is just black but maybe you burned the battery out because after you charge it a certain amount of times the battery life starts decreasing more and more. My DS has been through everything, heat, cold, water, snow, drops, falls down the stairs, people stepping on it, getting tossed at the wall, and my dog laying on top of it but it's still alive.

the life of my 3ds in this pic and desc D: it's scary when that happen

My 3DS won't let me use the camera and the sound directly from the app ;-; But, it still works if I take a picture through swapnote or something..
It doesn't bother me TOO much but it's still annoying :T

It's our battery, it needs to be replaced. I have an original black 3DS, and it started doing this last month. Anyway, just keep it plugged into an outlit until you can buy a new battery and replace it.

Wow, if it really is the battery then holy moly I use my 3DS wayyyy too much. I've had my first generation DS for 9 years and I've never had to replace its battery. Then again, the 3DS has features that depletes battery life faster, but w/e.

yeah chances are you have to replace the battery. No i dont think its cuz you overused it. Think about how many over advanced applications are on one of theese. The batterys just arnt as long lasting. If your on chat?

My R Button stopped working recently :(
And quite often, my DS freezes and then restarts whenever I'm on Colors and it's really annoying because nothing I do saves

it was the cat that broke it h-he SAT ON IT!!!!

Nothin' like a cat's but.t to ruin a 3ds XD

One time, I left my 3DS in sleep mode and it ran out of batteries. When I charged it and opened it, before the picture came up, the light slowly became blue, because there was a spotpass notification on it before it ran out. Maybe the reason it was red is that it was flashing before it shut off.
But then that means mine should have been red too...

uhh idk :O

Or maybe it just didn't charge well. Because one time I was playing it with a low battery and it did that. Maybe the charger got unplugged somehow.

But if the battery is at full charge and doing that, then I'll just be really confused. XD

That happenned to me one time. And thought I was the only one as well.

I thought:maybe is friend list...
It´s only an idea.

o m g D:

There goes my L Button too -_-

Now neither of them work D:

it's the OBSOLESCENCE COUNTER activated - you should quickly BUY (buy buy buy buy... and don't forget buy!) a new one!

no, seriously i'm impressed 3ds is kind of endurable taking some falls and i'm overheating my accu with playing while it's on cable (not good!) - still works good beside some area on the screen which has some - light moving the painting cursor to the left- damage.

maybe your sd or you accu has some errors?

This is completely harmless. This simply means that the device has been fully charged. Happens to me all the time.

If you buy a new system I recomend a 2ds xl. (Also Remember to mod it)