Today I pulled my steam deck out of my backpack to find that it ate 15% of the battery sitting in the bag. I swear I heard the fan running in the bag.
Now, the fan is just running all the time whether I’m doing anything or not. This is incredibly suspicious battery eating behavior that I don’t recall experiencing before. I’ve checked what’s running with top and the Steam instance and two web helpers seem to constantly be eating up 30% of the CPU.
Has anyone experienced this before? Any tips or ideas on how to debug? I don’t think the fan should be running all the time, just sitting on the main menu doing absolutely nothing.
The Deck has been sitting here on, doing nothing on the home screen for about an hour, and 20% of the battery has been used. This thing would never last 48 hours doing absolutely nothing.
Sometimes when you put it to sleep, it doesn’t actually sleep and the screen stays on but black.
Only thing that seems to fix it if holding down the button until it turns off, then turning it back on again.
I find that the “click” of the trackpads is a pretty good tell whether it’s really asleep or not.
Yea this occasionally happens to mine. For me it seems to be something with updates on system and decky.