About battery health

[Tourette's Guy]

Is it normal that the battery of my steam deck shows a battery health of 94%? This is my third day with the device and the battery health was 100% at first, then dropped to 87%. I did a full charge cycle and it raised to 95%. The day after, it dropped to 94%.

Should I worry about this? I do not want to RMA it since I got one with the silent fan and I'm pretty sure if I rma it I will get a replacement with the damn whiny fan.

[Bene]

Mine is at 86% after 4 weeks of heavy usage. A bit concerned, too, maybe I‘ll try to recalibrate the upcoming days.

[Ranko]

Are you noticing a major drop in battery life? If not just take it with a grain of salt. It's a rough guesstimate and not much else.

[Tourette's Guy]

Originally posted by Ranko:

Are you noticing a major drop in battery life? If not just take it with a grain of salt. It's a rough guesstimate and not much else.

I think battery life is mostly normal. Battery drops from 100% to 83-84 after playing Dead Cells for 30-40 minutes. When playing heavy titles like Borderlands 3, it gives me around 1.5 hours of use without capping fps or using fsr.

[Crawl]

Originally posted by Tourette's Guy:

Originally posted by Ranko:

Are you noticing a major drop in battery life? If not just take it with a grain of salt. It's a rough guesstimate and not much else.

I think battery life is mostly normal. Battery drops from 100% to 83-84 after playing Dead Cells for 30-40 minutes. When playing heavy titles like Borderlands 3, it gives me around 1.5 hours of use without capping fps or using fsr.

Battery health isn't the same as Battery life. Battery health is more a measure of the battery condition and will generally get lower as the battery ages and runs through charge cycles.

I don't have the link handy but there is a post in this forum with instruction from Steam support on recalibrating battery health. They also mentioned anything above 90% is basically considered normal so I'm not sure that they would do an RMA. Mine is also 94% btw.

[Tourette's Guy]

Originally posted by Crawl:

Originally posted by Tourette's Guy:

I think battery life is mostly normal. Battery drops from 100% to 83-84 after playing Dead Cells for 30-40 minutes. When playing heavy titles like Borderlands 3, it gives me around 1.5 hours of use without capping fps or using fsr.

Battery health isn't the same as Battery life. Battery health is more a measure of the battery condition and will generally get lower as the battery ages and runs through charge cycles.

I don't have the link handy but there is a post in this forum with instruction from Steam support on recalibrating battery health. They also mentioned anything above 90% is basically considered normal so I'm not sure that they would do an RMA. Mine is also 94% btw.

I do not want to get through another RMA. This is my third Deck. And finally it has the Huaying fan, it does not have drift nor dead pixels, the sticks aren't crunchy, the B button is fully functional and the power button is flawless. Honestly, I'm convinced if I ask for another RMA I will end up with a Deck with the damn whiny fan again and who knows if it will come with any other extra-surprise in form of dead pixels, sticky B button or something else.

Nope, definitely I do not want to ask for another RMA. I hope my battery will recalibrate itself with time, or at least it will maintain a health value over 90% for a long time. It would be devastating if my battery is faulty and I have to get through an RMA process for THIRD TIME.

PD: also I know the difference between battery health and battery life.

[Bene]

My battery health is now back to 96% - haven‘t done anything actively (meaning recalibrating) to „achieve“ that, but played the last 2-3 days with the charger connected. Before, I pretty much always played without, recharged and then played again or sometimes while charging. So, probably no need for you to return your unit.

[Tourette's Guy]

Originally posted by Bene:

My battery health is now back to 96% - haven‘t done anything actively (meaning recalibrating) to „achieve“ that, but played the last 2-3 days with the charger connected. Before, I pretty much always played without, recharged and then played again or sometimes while charging. So, probably no need for you to return your unit.

Did you maintain your Deck connected to charger continuously for 2-3 days?

[Hank Hill's Disappointed Sigh]

Originally posted by Tourette's Guy:

Originally posted by Crawl:

Battery health isn't the same as Battery life. Battery health is more a measure of the battery condition and will generally get lower as the battery ages and runs through charge cycles.

I don't have the link handy but there is a post in this forum with instruction from Steam support on recalibrating battery health. They also mentioned anything above 90% is basically considered normal so I'm not sure that they would do an RMA. Mine is also 94% btw.

I do not want to get through another RMA. This is my third Deck. And finally it has the Huaying fan, it does not have drift nor dead pixels, the sticks aren't crunchy, the B button is fully functional and the power button is flawless. Honestly, I'm convinced if I ask for another RMA I will end up with a Deck with the damn whiny fan again and who knows if it will come with any other extra-surprise in form of dead pixels, sticky B button or something else.

Nope, definitely I do not want to ask for another RMA. I hope my battery will recalibrate itself with time, or at least it will maintain a health value over 90% for a long time. It would be devastating if my battery is faulty and I have to get through an RMA process for THIRD TIME.

PD: also I know the difference between battery health and battery life.

So I am in a similar boat. I also just received my RMA back and it is physically FLAWLESS. Just as yours, no issues, Huaying fan, better all around than my first, except my first always showed 100% battery health and seemed to last slightly longer.

My current one has shown the same battery behavior as yours and also has settled on 94%.

I don't really have anything useful to add so this is a glorified +1. Would love if there was a fix though, or just to know if we are actually getting units with slightly degraded batteries or if it's just a software/calibration issue.

[Tourette's Guy]

Originally posted by Stupid.Sexy.Flanders:

Originally posted by Tourette's Guy:

I do not want to get through another RMA. This is my third Deck. And finally it has the Huaying fan, it does not have drift nor dead pixels, the sticks aren't crunchy, the B button is fully functional and the power button is flawless. Honestly, I'm convinced if I ask for another RMA I will end up with a Deck with the damn whiny fan again and who knows if it will come with any other extra-surprise in form of dead pixels, sticky B button or something else.

Nope, definitely I do not want to ask for another RMA. I hope my battery will recalibrate itself with time, or at least it will maintain a health value over 90% for a long time. It would be devastating if my battery is faulty and I have to get through an RMA process for THIRD TIME.

PD: also I know the difference between battery health and battery life.

So I am in a similar boat. I also just received my RMA back and it is physically FLAWLESS. Just as yours, no issues, Huaying fan, better all around than my first, except my first always showed 100% battery health and seemed to last slightly longer.

My current one has shown the same battery behavior as yours and also has settled on 94%.

I don't really have anything useful to add so this is a glorified +1. Would love if there was a fix though, or just to know if we are actually getting units with slightly degraded batteries or if it's just a software/calibration issue.

In my case, battery health jumped to 98% some days ago. I don't know if it will eventually get to 100%. But whatever.

[Tourette's Guy]

Well, my battery health is now 100% lol

[Gabriel Angelos]

Didnt valve say something about this being normal? So that the battery doesnt continue to charge and limit its life. I am sure there was an article somewhere a few months back. It was intentional that it didnt hold 100%

[Bene]

Mine is also back to 100%.

[wundertunge]

Another thing I noticed: my deck has been asleep since Monday at a full charge. Today, I started it back up and the battery went down to 64%. Is it really using that much juice while asleep? Seems like there's some room for efficiency in a later update

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by mrsanchito:

Another thing I noticed: my deck has been asleep since Monday at a full charge. Today, I started it back up and the battery went down to 64%. Is it really using that much juice while asleep? Seems like there's some room for efficiency in a later update

It was asleep(not off) for almost 4 days.

That's expected.

[creepyfeet]

Originally posted by KittenGrindr:

Originally posted by mrsanchito:

Another thing I noticed: my deck has been asleep since Monday at a full charge. Today, I started it back up and the battery went down to 64%. Is it really using that much juice while asleep? Seems like there's some room for efficiency in a later update

It was asleep(not off) for almost 4 days.

That's expected.

Who told you that 36% battery life equates to between 3 and 4 days on sleep?