Hey, all. My Deck recently shat the bed, which is pretty disappointing because I love it, am gentle with it, and don’t feel like I’ve had it for very long (April of '22). I went back and forth with Steam support for a week, and they were ultimately pretty unhelpful. Here’s a copy-paste of the issue I’m having:
Device will only power on when charging cable is connected. When powered on, the battery indicator reads 88%, but the time to full charge reads “??:??”. Device shuts down when the charging cable is disconnected. The issue persisted after a reset of the firmware and BIOS, and a factory reset.
Has anyone here experienced something similar? My instinct is to replace the battery, but I don’t want to go down that rabbit hole without some reassurance that it might actually solve the problem lol
Thanks in advance for any help!
if it’s able to boot up, you can see on the display, and the deck dies whenever it doesn’t have a charge, it’s like 99% a battery issue. I’d just replace it, even if you manage to fix the battery, if another issue happens again, you’d have wished you just swapped it