I recently posted about Problems with the Pokewalker talking about small problems with the design of the Pokewalker. Unfortunately, It has a few unseen problems. I’ve received several reports of the Pokewalker or Nintendo DS game glitching and the device would no longer work. Thankfully, there is a solution.
If your Pokemon is on a stroll and you lose the Pokewalker or it glitches, you can retrieve your Pokemon. You can restore the Pokemon by going to the Pokewalker Connection Screen and press and hold: Up + Select + R. If you restore the Pokemon and it is still on your Pokewalker you will not be able to transfer it back (essentially making two of the same Pokemon).
Once you restore the Pokemon (or your Pokewalker has other issues) you will need to reset the back to it’s original settings. To reset your Pokewalker, go to your Pokewalker Connection Screen and hold: Down + X + L. This will sync the Pokewalker with your Pokemon game.
(via SereBii.net) Thanks Mat
never had even one problem with the Pokewalker.
my pokewalker wont connect to my ds. my ds keeps saying pokewalker is not registerd.
You have to reset it.
my ds keeps saying pokewalker is not registerd.
@christian Did you use the reset by holding down: Down + X + L on the connection screen?
My pokewalker wont let me select Return From Stroll, it just says Save, then go for a stroll.
Did you restart your game? If you did, I think it deletes the Pokemon from the pokewalker. Note: I think that's what happened.
i have the same problem. i reseted my game.then a f****** magicarp joined me.
i cant conncet cuz it says pokewalker is already registered
I accidentally washed my son’s pokewalker .. at first it worked, but thent he screen went dead and now nothing. HELP!!!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!!
Here’s a little trick I learned from a salesman when I bought my phone: rice. It works for phones so I thought, “Hey it’s worth a shot for my Pokewalker.”. Just take off the back and remove the battery. Place the pieces in a bag of dry rice and let it sit for about a day. Then put the battery back in and PRESTO! It works! The rice soaks up all the water so it works like new. This trick saved me not once, but twice!
Well I had a problem with my pokewalker and you can just order a new one on amazon for 21 bucks. Plus it DOES NOT COME WITH ANY EXTRA GAMES!!
@flick mine had the same problem. i popped out the battery and popped it back in and it works! so try that?
hope it helps…
@margaret it won’t work and you will have to buy a new one. Since gamestop doesn’t sell just the pokewalker you have to buy it online. I have the same problem.
I started a new acount and now my pokewalker wont connect and it wont reset plz help!
I have the EXACT same problem. I feel your pain.
While I’m walking with my Pokemon on my Pokewalker, it automatically shuts down after so many steps. Can you please tell me what to do?
Thank you!
Hi I have a similar problem to some people and it would be greatly appreciated if someone helped me out.
I previously had a game but I screwed it up accidentally and I had a eevee at the time on the pokewalker. I did a new game and I can’t get my pokemon back on. I looked at your instructions and it says at the connection screen which is where it shows the ds and the pokewalker on the bottom or top screen whichever view you set it as that you press up+sel+r and then down+x+l. Well I did both and nothing happened and I read a previous person’s message saying that when they went to do the return from stroll thing all it says for me is “save and go on stroll”? Whoever gets this message please reply and give me a helpful answer. Much appreciated.
same problem
I am not following press + x + L it is my sons pokewalker he retarted the game and now it said already registerd. what do i push to reset this thing. frustrated dad IS THE + ON THE DS?
@michael There is no + button. That just means you hit it as well as the other buttons at the same time. This video might help explain what I mean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAoRdjBOW0
@Pickle pickle When you restart your game, you can’t get a Pokemon from the old game if it is on the pokewalker. You have to reset the Pokewalker using the above instructions.
it worked
you really helped me alot. i can finally use my pokewalker again.
no prob thankd to vid i made hahaha XDD
I did the same thing as pickle pickle. I put my typhlosion in the walker then started a new game and it says its already registered. Help.
my problem is that it has said that i have all the courses its stopped at the town outskirts it will let me get the pokemon and i can get the watts but it wont give me more courses
Thanks.. like me, I washed it and I had A raiku in it. I replaced the battery. I followed the first step x up select but i was afraid i could never use it again but then i tried the second step. It said it would lose the poke walker data (not that bad) and it WORKED!! Im so happy
theo says:
April 10, 2010 at 9:14 pm
like awsome
So many things about that comment make we want to kill you.
Don’t say ‘like’ so much, you sound like a retard/american.
Learn to spell.
Thanks though to whoever said about removing and reinserting the battery.
thank u sooo much! i restarted my game wile i had a pokemon on the walker and no reset button so i was freaking out for a wile lol i appreciate this soo much happening to know nintendo.com didnt help at all xD
btw if any chance resetting the pokemon walker didnt work ur not doing it correctly or in the correct order my friend had the same issue. also taking out the battery shouldnt work if it does theres something wrong with ur pokewalker
will you losre all your routs if you do this?
yeah, mine also says “pokewalker is already registered” and iv tired all the button sequences, nothings working…plus i got the yellow forest so im especially pissed…help
My pokewalker got washed T~T now i cant get my perisan back and i want her back and ill have to buy and entirely new game D:
well just go to the pokewalker connection and click up+select+R at the same time and u will get it back it happen to me as well but I have my Gyarados back with me again
As I read through the instructions (like 5 times in a row), it told me to go to the title screen. I thought that ment just press the ‘connect to pokewalker’ button (that leads to ‘Welcome!’) I did both of the steps over and over again. Nothing happend. Then, I pressed the A button and did that till it came to ‘Save, Go for a stroll’. It finally worked! I thought that I was never going to get my cindaquill (or how ever you spell the fire starter pokemon) out of it. It finally worked! Now I’m like, realy happy. (Just saying that you might wanna add ‘Not just pressing the button, but to the screen where it says ‘Save, Go for a stroll’)
Thank you so much. My son's Pokewalker works now. Thanks!
Your instructions helped me soooo much! Thank you!
It took me a while to understand where to use them, and when, so I can help anyone with that if they want.
i tried to put a pokemon in the pokewalker but it said its already registered, i also tried taking out the battery but didnt work. what should i do?
it wont let me take the pokemon out of the pokewalker. what should i do?
i lost my pokewalker then i fuond it and i wont turn on im not sure if the battery is dead or not but PLEASE HELP ME
i lost my pokewalker then i found it and it wont turn on im not sure if the battery is dead or not but PLEASE HELP ME
I think the battery that came with my Soul Silver is a dud. *sigh* I took the plastic tab entirely out and did the whole hold-down-the-middle-button thing, but it won’t turn on. I really want to try it out but I can’t because of this stupid problem and I don’t entirely know where I could find a new battery in my area. >:(
Hi. I put a pokemon in the pokewalker for the first time. But when it was saving i turned off my DS (dont ask wy) any way but now i cant get my pokemon back because it dosent say return from a stroll. :O WHAT DO I DO.
Hey I have been using my pokewalker and trying to get enough steps in the yellow forest to get a rare pikachu. It will record my steps all day but when i wake up the next morning all the steps are gone and I’m back at zero! The watts are still there but why are my steps resetting, and does this affect what pokemon show up?
@Matt
Yep, it’s designed that way. It only keeps track of your steps for that day. As you see, the watts stay, but what’s the point of having a pedometer keep steps from other days? If you want to know the steps you took, you can find them in the trainer card info in your pokewalker.
Good luck!
i went through the restarting problem but took out the battery now it won’t work!!!!!! plz HELP
When I try to connect to my Pokewalker it would say In a place where it’s Ok for the pokewalker to emit noise, point it at the Ds card, press the button, and wait for five seconds. So I try to connect and then it says This Pokewalker has already been registered. Then I try to connect again and it says it over and over. PLZ Help Me!!!!!!
Omfg. Thank you so much for the information. I just bought a new pokewalker because I dropped mine out into the street and someone stole it before I can get it back. I was about to start a new game but thank god I read this first. Thank you so much for the info. X3
Okay, well I need some help here. My pokewalker works fine with all but one thing. And that’s the uploading with the routes… Least, I think it’s the pokewalkers problem. As It won’t give me any new routes since the 5500 watt one and I’m on 10k of watts so I haven’t been able to get any new pokemon and I need that damned fire stone X{
THank you – great fix for the pokewalker. My son Oliver found you and fixed on his own!
my pokewalker keeps saying its not registered but i tried to use x and L to reset but it wont work please help
thrown in pool worked then went black
so i had a file on my ds soulsilver well my friend messed it up and i restarded my game weel now i dont have a pokemon on it but its on heonn field and i only have the first two places unlock on my new game so i tryed to put my pokemon on the pokewalker on my new file and it said that it registerd in a place where its ok for the pokewalker to emit noise
i restarted my soul silver with a pokemon in the pokemonwalker and now i cant put my pokemon in the pokewalker and i tried up+select+r and it doesnt work
mine went through the washer and dryer, i let it dry out and it worked!…. but it started freezing randomly and right now is still frozen , what do I
do?
i restarted my game and i had lugia on the pokewalker (i forgote it was on there)and now with my new game it will NOT let me put in a pokemon. i have tryed to take out the battery and that dosent work. i cant take off my lugia, how do i fix this???
thanks dude! you helped me, it was in the wahing machine and i had a missingno on it and four glitch items :/ ty!
Can I really have a shiny shaymin????
my pokewalker froze and i can’t play anymore what do i do???
hey all you people out there that’s right it is me superskarmory and I am here to save the day. You dropped it in the washer? You broke it with you pan? No worries!! all you have 2 do is tape a paper to the pokewalker that says “connecting connecting” and then it is all better!! Tee Hee
nvm i fixed it haha its been broken sceince the game came out till today
my game is messed up i tried putting a pokemon from soul silver to heart gold but it says its not registered pleas heeeelllllllpppppppp meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
this is so annoying can sombody post how to register the poke walker.
Help, I left my pokewalker in my pants and they got washed and dryed. I cant turn it on and i dryed it like crazy but still nothing then i did the up+select+r and got my pokemon back but the pokewalker cant be removed and ima still worried that i have to restart the game.
ok, my soul silver game got switched with my friends soul silver game. When i put my Giratina in there it duplicated. so the next day i tried to turn on my pokewalker and it stayed off for 5 months and it still not working! can u help me
thanks a ton!!!!!!
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH I THOUGHT I WAS A GONER. I STARTED A NEW GAME ON HEART GOLD BUT FORGOT I HAD A WOBBUFET IN MY POKEWALKER. I HELD DOWN + X + L AND WALLAH RESET MY POKEWALKER! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH LAST GEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i had the same problem with my eevee on my pokewalker as gamincheeseburger 23 did but now its fixed.
I deleted my pokemon soul sivler game but there wasnt a pokemon in the pokewalker but every time i try to connect to the pokewalker it says it has already been registerd but there is no other way to put it in the pokewalker so what do i do take the battery out or sumting???
I start a new game and now i cannot connect to myy pokewalker it show only this pokewalker is alredy connected. Help.
youre stupid down x r thing dont work
a wild pokemon joined me while i was walking and now it wont register to the dsi
i restarted my game and forgot to take the pokemon off of the pokewalker, it says it wont connect and ive tried everything to get my murkrow off of it (the up+select+r)
(down+X+l) my DS doesnt have the option to retrieve from stroll and my Pokewalker is telling me that i have already registered
HELP!!!!! ANYONE?????
You can't get it back. Sorry. R.I.P. Murkrow. You'll have to train a new one.
is there any way to reset the pokewalker also Requiescat en pace murkrow
thank yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu i got scared then i went off and said sum stuff like@$%^#@@$#@#$@#!$!@#$
Pokewalker won't turn on. After lots of fiddling and moving it will but the minute you stop the screen turns blank. Help!
Hi
thanks for the help!
when I created a new save file (because I didn't like that I chose Chickorita) it didn't let me use my pokewalker anymore…
You have to reset your pokewalker if you start a new game
well this is completely difrent from what you think i had this pokewalker for a long while now and it never did this befor and yet this is the first i had to change the battery on it so this is now not even fare cause my fav pokemon was in the pokewalker aipom now i feel i lost her forever and i really don't know what to do i feel as though i'm going to have to get a new one soon cause it wont turn on how can i fix it or is there even a way to fix this?
my brother deleted my game and now i cant get my faveoret pokemon back .help!!!
I was putting a Pokemon back on my DS when the DS died and I thought I lost my Pokemon for good but this fixed the problem. Thank you!
why wont my pokemon go to the pokewalker it keeps on say 'no trainer found' It wont go to the pokewalker why? help plz
My pokewalker isn’t turning on. Can someOne helP me Please??????
Thank you! My son's DS thought a prized Pokemon was on a stroll, but it never showed up on his Pokewalker. (I think he accidentally hit the power button during the transfer.) We were able to restore the Pokemon to the DS, per your instructions. Again, thanks for the help!
i bought a used soul silver that didnt come with a pokewalker. i have been trying to reset with up + select + R for a while and it is not working. i am on the pokewalker options screen when i try it. any advice would be greatly appreciated
i havent used my pokewalkers in almost a year and i got back in to heart gold and soul siver so i dug them out and they wont turn on and i dont know how to get them to turn on. also when they did work i i toke my pokemon of and then a wild one came on and i restarted my game and i get get it to conect it
S.O.S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
W-w-whait!!! I have to push down+X+L IN THAT ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did a new game like 3 times and i went to connect to poke walker "Welcome! From here, you can select a Pokemon from your PC Box and send it to the poke walker to take along on a stroll. Your pokemon can now take a stroll in the poke walker. Save then go for a stroll."I CAN NOT GET MY SPERROW OFF OF MY POKE WALKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my pokewalker did not come with a tab help
THANK YYYYYYYOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!
I have a Mew in my HeartGold pokewalker right now, do this problem is really worrying me.
First, my pokewalker isn’t counting steps correctly. I’ll walk around with it for an hour an only have five steps. I’m also walking with an Arbok. I’ll check it and have two hundred steps.
Second, the steps on my HeartGold pokewalker keep resetting. I walked around some this morning and got eight steps. I came back ten minutes later to walk some more and the steps were at zero. I want these problems solved, and if they can lose my Pokemon, I would like to know that too. Thank you for reading. I hope you can help.
My pokewalker's battery was getting low, so I replaced the battery, now the pokewaker won't even turn on! I REALLY need this for my game Iand I can't really get a new one, PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Thanks I got my Gyarados back all because my Pokewalker had water inside it looks like I won't be using my pokewalker anymore also I want to know if I buy a new one can I use it for my game
i was returnin from a stroll and i was savin it my dad shut down the 3ds while it was saving and the game restarted from the last save file and my cyndiqil is still in the stroll an i cant get it back and i started a new file thinking i could use my pokewalker again but it said my pokewalker is already rgistered
please help me
Thank you sooooo much I was freakin out because I left it in my pocket while washin it and my HO-OH was on it
PLEASE HELP ME!!! My battery died on my pokewalker and I replaced it after 2 days. My pokewalker had a pokemon on it and it was not there after i replaced the battery. Plus my ds still thinks the pokemon is on my pokewalker but it is not so I cant return it to put a new pokemon on it. I really want to put a new pokemon on it. So please help me.WHAT SHOULD I DO!!!
my pokewalker wont turn on
My pokewalker beeps and makes sound but it's graphics aren't working and I dont want to reset my file PLEASE HELP v.v