Wii remote the main icon (hand) for the wii system is not showing up! i darkened the room, the wii scanner is where it has alway been and worked perfectly before, the wii remote is connected but the hand wont show up!

Got you my friend. Unplug the console for about 10 minutes then plug back in. That reboots the system

Here is step by step on what you need to do
turn on your Nintendo Wii Gaming System 2Make sure that your Nintendo Wii is connected to a wireless broadband connection. 3Go to the Wii Settings and follow the prompts under the Internet Setup screen. 4Once your Internet is set up and ready to connect and browse, return to the Wii menu. 5Point the Wii remote at the top right hand corner of the Wii Menu until the hand is over the Wii Shop Channel icon. Press the A Button to load the main page of the shop channel Once you are into the main menu of the Wii Shop channel, there are several options you can look at.

you need to reset the configuration and it also happens when the systems been on for a long time unplug the main power supply for 30 mins and try again. hope this helps and also try and clean the disk and let them dry.

youo may have a defective Wii remote, and you should take it somewhere like GameStop and have it looked at, or you should take it back to the store and exchange it for a new one.

The main unit is not receiving the signal from the remote,
It can be a couple of things...

More than likely you have two remote handhelds. You may be using the wrong handheld to choose the options. Try the 2nd handheld.

Check to make sure the batteries are charged and handheld is ON

Make sure the receiver is in plain sight and not blocked

Make sure you do not block either the sensor bar or the sensor on the wiimotes. Check all your connections in the back escpecially the sensor bar. If everything is all set you said it worked for your new wii system so im assuming your old one has issues. try all these out and tell me how it works out

Hi--Thanks for your e-mail. I have found out the cause of my problem with the TV screen dimming after about 5 minutes when the hand controller goes off. It was me--by pure chance I discovered it was due to me turning on the WII console using the hand controller and not the "Mains" switch on the console, so when the hand controller switched off, the display on the TV went into "Standby". It even did it when displaying the Home screen so it was nothing to do with the game. All I did was switch on the console with the main switch and then switched on the remote, I left it untouched for about 20 minutes and it was fine.Perhaps this little tip might come in handy for some other "Twit" like myself. Thanks for your offer of possible help. Alan Marsham.

We used to have the same problem. We have our TV in the corner of the rec room, with windows on either side of the TV. Turns out that the sunlight coming in through the windows was interfering with the functionality of the Wii remotes. All we had to do was hang some heavy drapes to close while we are playing and that was the end of the problem. If you have any bright sources of light which might relfect in the Wii remotes or the Wii remote bar (receiver of the Wii remotes), turn them off, or block the light.

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Well, mabey your sensor bar settings are out of wack. You might have your sensor bar set to above TV but you actualy have it below. To fix it, I would move the sensor bar to the opposite position, go into settings and chanage the sensor bar settings to the way you want. then put the sensor bar back where you want it.

on the front of the wii theres a red button you have to keep you finger on that for 5 seconds and try again this has to be done everytime u have to sinc a different device.