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Stampela@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

What I’m describing is really nasty, as you think the battery is let’s say at 95% and you unplug it to be used as ha handheld. It’s updating a few games and you turn around, do something else… then check back on the updates and the Deck is off because it ran out of battery in a couple of minutes. I don’t think it’s good for the battery to be drained that much

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emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I dont think this is normal behaviour, maybe theres a problem with your dock? I leave mine docked and plugged in for weeks at a time, and when i have picked it up to play handheld its always been at 90-95%. Never had it be below 90 after being plugged into the dock.

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- Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It does show up as nice and charged, but (in my instance) it’s very much not. As I mentioned it might be my specific setup. My theory is that something I plugged in keeps drawing power even after the Deck is off, but when the Deck is off, the charger doesn’t send power… so it uses up the battery.
  
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  - emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Well that sounds like theres a problem with the charging circuit/battery readout. It shouldnt be reading as charged if its not, and afaik, it should still charge even if the deck is off.
    
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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s really extreme, I’m pretty sure that’s now at all how it should be working.

I don’t leave my deck docked that long, maybe 10 hours at the longest, but I’ve never seen anything like the battery drop you’re describing.

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- Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  In a day it won’t really show up, that’s not enough time in my experience. Also key here is that the Deck needs to be off: if it’s on then everything works as intended.
  
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  - Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    Also key here is that the Deck needs to be off
    
    Oh ok, I never shut my deck off. Closest I get is restarting to install updates.
    
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Scio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s very alarming!

Thankfully, I’ve not had this issue, I can see the battery go down very slowly over the day once it stops charging while plugged in. I normally play games in the evening on the battery, and haven’t noticed any reduced capacity in the last couple of years…

Hopefully, before I get something like this I’d’ve finally built a new PC 😁

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- Stampela@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah, it’s not a sudden thing: I believe it takes a few days just to have a noticeable impact. It’s just that my Deck lives on the dock for most of the time XD
  
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