I am having a problem with my Wii U after the 3.0.0 update. When I close out a program and go back to the menu I get a "please wait..." notice, from there it stays. I waited about 30 minutes and it just stays stuck. It's not a total freeze, I can switch screens but otherwise nothing happens, none of my apps load either, no miiverse upper screen either, just my mii shows up. It just stays on "Please wait..." I have to hold the power button to get the system to shut down and start again. I did not have this problem before the 3.0.0 system update. I decided to test some things before coming on here. What I found was that it only occured when a disc was in the drive. If I took the disc out, I never had a problem and in fact, I never even got the "Please wait..." message. I also tried various discs, I have five. I tried various programs to close out of. Same story. Disc in. "Please Wait..." stuck. Needed to power off, Disc out...no problems at all.
I owned this system on launch day. Since then I've only had one other real problem with it. Occasionally discs give me Invalid Disc ? errors. Sometimes those discs would load fine in the Wii U menu. Other times, invalid disc message. But the games themselves always loaded properly and played properly. The discs are not the problem. Something is wrong with either the disc drive or the wii u OS. I have no idea. I checked online and many people said pull the power cord for about 20-30 seconds. Indeed, that did seem to fix it. But then again, standard powering off and powering on sometimes fixed it too. A wonky problem that some others have had although not many. Now after the last update previous to 3.0.0. I never had an invalid disc error again. Not once. After installing 3.0.0 I got one invalid disc error. I pulled the plug did the usually 20-30 seconds thing. Now the system is no longer giving me the invalid disc error. While I get the please wait... message, It only stays on for about 2-3 seconds rather then being stuck. I never got a please wait... message before the 3.0.0 system update when I shut down a program with a disc in the drive.
Normally I would think my disc drive might have a problem, but I sort of don't think so in this case, because after the last update, the one previous update prior to 3.0.0 I had no disc drive problems. No invalid disc errors, no please wait... messages stuck or not stuck. So if I had it before the previous update and after the 3.0.0 update and the update affects the system. That tells me, something software wise is causing this, perhaps the OS is having a problem. But that is just a guess. I really don't know.
So I am curious is this problem normal, is there any suggestions what I could do to avoid/fix/remove this problem, has anyone else had it. It's more then just annoying, I'm shutting down a system when it is saying please wait... which can be dangerous and damaging I would assume.
I included a photo of the please wait... problem during an actual freeze, sadly I didn't take one of the invalid disc error and those are hard to replicate, I wish I did. Let me know any info. Thanks.
EDIT: Just to add my Wii U is a Deluxe Black Edition. I don't have a USB hard drive connected. I do have an SD card in but while testing my problem. I took that card out and it didn't seem to have any effect on the problem good or bad. If there is any other info you need let me know.