The suggested solution (wait until the battery dies completely) hasn't worked in my case, and I'd been fiddling with that snake of death for about a month, until I figured it our today. Note: This solution is findable if you spend a lot of time scratching all over the internet, and ignore all the suggestions that don't actually work, but I thought it should be here in the forums too. But after I let the battery die completely and started charging, the temperature while charging was normal, not hot at all. One way to tell if this "cure" is working: When it’s NOT working, my watch and charger got really, really hot to the touch. Then start charging, and let it charge for a long time, such as the officially recommended 2.5 hours. That is, until nothing happens when you press the side button - no red snake, no green snake, just a black screen. Leave the watch alone until the battery dies completely. It happened to me in June 2020 after installing a new battery bought from iFixit into my original ("series 0") Apple Watch. People have had this happen to them after installing a new battery, or sometimes just randomly. The problem: Apple Watch shows a green snake ("charge me please") when on the charger but it doesn't charge or respond - except perhaps by getting very hot when sitting on the charger. Just the usual 'golly, take it to Apple' - where the battery repair is $79 (about $95 with shipping and taxes). This question was asked in these forums but never usefully answered.
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