Hey all, just wondering how the battery life is after you’ve had it for a while? I’m getting one soon and wondered if it would have a noticeable impact on the battery if it was on a dock for most of the time.
Cheers
I swapped to an OLED deck about a year ago, but I didn’t notice any battery degradation on either my original LCD deck or my new OLED deck.
The OLED deck battery is a major improvement over the LCD in highly demanding games. Games like Baldur’s Gate and Cyberpunk went from 1.5 hour battery life to 2.5 hours, which is very noticable.
The deck has passthrough input and you can set a charge limit of 50% if it’s docked most of the time to reduce battery wear.
Is this new? I tried to figure out how to do that a while ago but couldn’t find anything about it
Passthrough input, or charge limiting? Charge limiting was added after release but that was a while ago.
The charge limiting, is it in the settings somewhere? I haven’t seen anything about it
You’ll need PowerTools for Decky: https://git.ngni.us/NG-SD-Plugins/PowerTools
Oh man, thanks for linking this. I’m glad there’s someone out there writing plug-ins but Valve should really provide this out of box.
Valve is doing a decent job of replacing plugins with stock functionality. Progress is a bit slower there than I would like, but many of my decky plugins have been partially or fully replaced.
Some replaced plugins off the top of my head
- Animation changer (although I still recommend the plugin for easier downloads of community boot videos)
- Vibrant deck
- Decky Recorder
- Bluetooth (let you quickly reconnect to BT devices, but the QAM menu now lists BT devices directly)
- Controller tools (let you see controller battery levels, which is now in QAM)
- That plugin for managing what BLE devices would wake the deck
and probably some more I’m probably forgetting.
Yeah and the fact that they allow plugins in the first place is great. It’s a great way to gauge what’s in demand and how it could be implemented. Reminds me of games that allow modding/addons and often key features are later added officially.
Oled model. Never got much more than an hour, but it depends on compute requirements. Imho it’s portable not wireless
At max power draw, you should get 2-2.5 hours minimum. I would recommend recallibrating your battery and see if that improves things.
2022 LCD Q2 or Q3 can’t remember which but still running good. I can get 3.5 hrs in a light game like vampire survivors and 1.5 -2 on a heavy game depending on the options. I dont play it docked and only plug it in to charge of it. I also dont charge it over night. I play it frequently , almost daily.
I haven’t noticed a huge difference and I’ve been playing it like crazy on both the dock and handheld. Battery wildly depends on the game and performance settings. It’s my primary gaming device and I love to tinker with it but I haven’t noticed a degradation at all.
Cool, I was a bit concerned about the battery life getting worse over time.
Thanks for that.
I know it’s been almost a month but I somehow stumbled on the battery health on the deck and it says it’s at 84%. I assume that means after years of heavy, almost daily use it’s dropped by 16%. Ifixit has battery replacements for ~$100 USD so if I don’t replace this baby in another couple years the battery won’t be too bad to replace.
I’m more worried about wearing out the bumpers and triggers. The LB is getting a little worn down and I wouldn’t say unresponsive but some days it rides the struggle bus for sure.
