Hi all,
I've been having trouble connecting my gamepad to my console. My problems started yesterday; my TV was in use, so I was using the gamepad to play Wind Waker HD. It was working fine for about an hour until I got a message saying the WiiU and gamepad were too far apart to be connected, which didn't make sense because I was about two feet from the console...
I reset the console and gamepad, and couldn't sync the two. I couldn't turn on the console with the gamepad button anymore, and I tried to re-sync the thing to no avail. I finally got it connected again by pressing the "Play WiiU" button in TV Remote and manually turning the console on. It worked just fine, but when I tried again this morning, yet again it would not connect. My TV has the message "WiiU will now search for gamepad updates" or something similar, and it needs input from the gamepad, which I cannot do because the thing won't connect! I've already tried to re-sync at least 5 times, unplugged the WiiU itself, taken the battery out of the gamepad, charged the gamepad... Nothing. I'm out of town, so I don't have any Wiimotes with me to at least try and navigate out of that update screen. The method that I used before hasn't worked, either. Any ideas?