Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

5

Time Required

                          1 hour

Sections

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  • Battery
  • 5 steps

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Remove the sides and corners

Follow this vide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxkZ0zlL…

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Step 2

              Create a hole in the inner sphere
  • Using a drill or dremel, create a hole in the inner sphere between the red and white center pieces.
  • Go slow and make sure you don’t go too deep or you might hit the battery or something else inside.

Using a drill or dremel, create a hole in the inner sphere between the red and white center pieces.

Go slow and make sure you don’t go too deep or you might hit the battery or something else inside.

Step 3

              Get a power source
  • You need at least 5 volts. This shows 4 AA batteries together in series. There’s a wire connecting the ends on the right. The ends on the left each have a wire coming out. I used copper wire, but metal paper clips would probably be easier to adjust in the next step.

You need at least 5 volts. This shows 4 AA batteries together in series. There’s a wire connecting the ends on the right. The ends on the left each have a wire coming out. I used copper wire, but metal paper clips would probably be easier to adjust in the next step.

Step 4

              Jump start the battery
  • Hold the wire coming from the battery positive terminal to the red solder pad and the negative battery terminal to the black solder pad.
  • Hold it in place for a few seconds. I think I did it while the charger was connected. Not sure if you have to do it that way.
  • Plug the charger back into the cube if it’s not already, connect the cube to the GoCube app, and let it charge for a minute.
  • Try removing the cube from the charger and see if it disconnects. If it still disconnections, keep trying. It took me a few tries before it finally worked.
  • Placing the battery wires in the wrong place could break your cube, but it’s already unusable since you can’t take if off the charger, so not like it will make it worse.

Hold the wire coming from the battery positive terminal to the red solder pad and the negative battery terminal to the black solder pad.

Hold it in place for a few seconds. I think I did it while the charger was connected. Not sure if you have to do it that way.

Plug the charger back into the cube if it’s not already, connect the cube to the GoCube app, and let it charge for a minute.

Try removing the cube from the charger and see if it disconnects. If it still disconnections, keep trying. It took me a few tries before it finally worked.

Placing the battery wires in the wrong place could break your cube, but it’s already unusable since you can’t take if off the charger, so not like it will make it worse.

Step 5

              Re-assemble the cube

Follow the steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbqkBYRD…

Now just never let it die again, or you’ll probably have to do this again. And never buy anything from GoCube again since they’re terrible.

Credit for the fix to David García Illanas at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/192…

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rpitcher517 - Apr 2, 2022

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Sir. Bless you may you live long and prosper.

Todd Corson - Oct 3, 2022

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If this works, I wonder if it might be possible to accomplish the same thing by just sending some excess voltage through the regular charging cable. I might try it out with my useless cube before putting a hole in it.

Andrew Makowski - Nov 25, 2022

Any luck with the higher voltage through the regular charging ports?

ryan harrison - Nov 27, 2022

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Thank you for the tips. I have 2. Both dead. One was a replacement for one that was dead in the box. Can’t understand was this wasn’t a design consideration. I hope they resolved this issue on newer models.