Fail Whale Feb 19, 2018 @ 12:25am
DS4 controller light bar and battery issues
My PS4 controller used to work (almost) flawlessly with Steam. I ended up reinstalling the driver to get it to work with FFXII. Now I am having issues with the light bar as well as some power-related issues.

The light bar used to turn blue when the controller was plugged in as well as over Bluetooth, as this was the color scheme I had assigned to it. However, now when I plug it in, it glows orange (to indicate it is charging, as it does on the PS4 I suppose) until it is fully charged, then the light simply shuts off. If I unplug the controller and sync it over Bluetooth, the light bar initially flashes white as it usually does but then stays white, as if it's frozen, until I turn the controller off. Sometimes the light bar will be off but the controller will still be on on. Playing around with the color profile doesn't change anything. Oddly enough, Steam still recognizes all inputs from the controller just fine and also recognizes it as a PS4 controller when it's connected.

Also, while connected over Bluetooth, the controller no longer turns itself off automatically despite me having the timer set for 10 minutes. In Big Picture Mode, there also seems to be a battery life indicator in the top right corner that always shows the controller with a low battery, even if it is fully charged. Clicking on this notification doesn't do anything.

I've already tried restarting my PC, restarting Steam, uninstalling/reinstalling the controller driver, re-pairing it over Bluetooth, and turning Bluetooth off/on with no luck. What else can I try?
Last edited by Fail Whale; Feb 19, 2018 @ 12:29am
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Fail Whale Feb 19, 2018 @ 12:52pm 
bump
Icy May 8, 2018 @ 8:44pm 
same here. have you found a fix?
Icy May 9, 2018 @ 12:28am 
solved updating bluethoot drivers
zuMaX1 Jun 7, 2021 @ 11:07pm 
Can you tell us which driver exactly you uninstalled?
s1rux Jul 17, 2021 @ 5:37pm 
bump, i have the same problem, rumble and light bar doesn't work when connected via bluetooth
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Date Posted: Feb 19, 2018 @ 12:25am
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