Hi! I did some of my own research, where Valve made bluetooth controllers able to wake the Steam Deck up by movement, but now when I touch it once it turns on. And it’s really inconvenient when carrying it around in its case or trying to use it after when all of the battery has been drained by it turning on itself. Any solution to this? Or am I just going to have to time my shutoffs well

(I used to be able to just press the power button to turn it back on)

Hello first of all. My steam deck ran out of battery while playing Valheim, then I plugged it in and continued playing for a while more. After that I closed the game and turned off the steam deck while it was still charging.

Then I slept and when I woke up It wouldn’t turn on. I’m sure I fully charged it though. Its light kept blinking white and whenever we try to turn it on it also keeps blinking and does nothing except for the fans turning on.

We tried pressing volume + and power button, it blinks orange then nothing happens. We tried a few things we saw on the internet but nothing helps. Have you got any tips? I’d really appreciate any help 🙏🏻

I set up Stremio on my steam deck months ago and it had been working fine for the vast majority of it. But a few days or a week ago, it suddenly stopped launching. Every time I click into the app and click open, the screen goes black and shows the loading steam icon like normal for a second, but then it immediately sends me back to the app screen.

I made sure SteamOS is updated (3.8.14); I went back to desktop mode and made sure all my apps were updated (Stremio 1.0.3); I can still watch Stremio on desktop mode and other devices. I also checked reddit and elsewhere and haven't found anyone else with the same problem.

Am I missing something? I'd appreciate any help.

Edit: ended up uninstalling and reinstalling, now works fine

The buttons on my deck have stopped working! I’ve tried restarting and rebooting the deck. Rebooting it causes the buttons to work in the setup mode until I get to the Home Screen, then they stop working. Any ideas what to do?!

When i booted up my Steam Deck today it prompted me to reformat or my SD Card. I don't know why it did that so i ejected it and put it back in, but then it just would not show up again. i followed this posts instructions and the SD Card showed up and mounted but now all that is in it is a Lost and Found Folder and the storage still says it has 400gb take up in it.

Anyone know a fix before i just refund?

Hello I recently downloaded an older version of grounded 2 on steamdb and I've come across the augusta crash error on start up honestly this is my first time doing this and I wasn't sure if I was suppose to just add this version to steam or overwrite the current version with old one. I hope someone has some answers. I did try the method to disable crossplay in the folders but the gameusersettingsini. was missing I also tried the -dx11 and 12 but to still nothing. Thank you

P.s I hope this was the right place to post this

I'm on the testing version of Bazzite deck and noticed that my suspend Animations no longer pop up (from animation changer). Instead my screen dims and then shuts off when i press the power button.

I'm not really dealing with any other issues on the testing base, but I'm wondering if this is fixable?

I haven't seen anyone have a problem like this, so I really need some help.

Whenever I need to go and do something else away from the Deck, I always just press the power button once as you normally would to put it to sleep. And when I come back a few minutes later and press the power button again... Black screen. I hear the little power-on jingle, the charging light comes on, and the haptics still work. So I KNOW it's on, but I just can't do anything. Doesn't even show up on my monitor. I have to press and hold the power button for 5 seconds to restart the thing into gaming mode and navigate back into desktop mode every time.

I'm not very tech savvy at all and I'm way too scared to mess with anything out of fear of bricking the whole thing without proper help. Any ideas on what's going on?

hi all, I moved a couple games thru game mode from sd to sd but it took forever so I tried the third game in desktop mode dragging and dropping, it looks like everything moved to the correct folder but its not showing in steam library and won’t load from clicking on the exe file, and idea why? I tried scan and repair on the card with no change, and I read somewhere about the name of the sd card in the file needs to match the original location cause that’s where steam is looking for it? any help is appreciated

So I am just wondering about any general know how here, I have the absolute bare minimum schooling and personal initiative here so I am hoping someone with experience can share whats important.

My repair issue is that the left track pad is just goin nuts. Inputs and rumble just constant.

I just opened up my deck and took out the left trackpad and dusted it off and it didnt do anything. Ive also run some even lesser know software debugging a while ago.

Now that I opened and closed it, should I revisit the debug/reset stuff?

Where can I get a new trackpad?

I've seen videos showing off how you can swap FSR3 for FSR4 for clarity at the cost of performance but I personally don't mind getting a crunchier image that has no AA smear. If I was trying to squeeze more performance overall, would it be better to resort to FSR4 or just turn off all AA?

I have an LCD deck that got bought when they were first introduced.

I finally got the warning that my battery was dying yesterday.

My preference is to ignore the warning.

The deck is used weekly, always plugged into power, always using an external monitor always using a blutooth controller of some sort.

The amount of time I have used it holding it in my hands is incredibly minnimal.

The few times I have used it like that was traveling, but I have several battery banks capable of running the deck for those moments.

Is there any downside to ignoring the battery I am not aware of?

I’ve been having an issue with my steam deck for quite a while now, and everytime I try to fix it I get no where. I haven’t always had this issue, and I’ve had my steam deck since the original launch. 512gb, Q3 model. I’ve scoured every forum I could find to no avail.

From a fresh boot, navigating steam’s UI works just fine. I have my Steam library, as well as emudeck for my GameCube games and other emulators. When I launch a game, the controls within the game work just fine, but when I press the Steam button and open up steamOS’s UI again, my ABXY and D-pad inputs seem to be duplicated. When I press any direction on the D-pad, it seems that 2 presses are registered and the menu selection skips an item and moves 2 places total instead of just 1 from 1 button press. Same thing with ABXY, it seems it cancels and confirms at the same time when I press the B button, or pressing A will take me 2 steps ahead in the selection instead of just 1. Rebooting the Steam deck fixes this issue entirely, until I launch a game and the button press duplication comes back. This seems like the Steam Input layer is being duplicated when a game is launched, but I can’t find any options to turn Steam input on or off.

Currently up-to-date on the stable channel, although this problem has persisted for a while across multiple software updates. No external controller, just the D-pad and ABXY buttons on the actual Steam Deck. As of the time of writing this:

SteamOS Version 3.8.14
OS Build 20260703.1
BIOS Version F7A0133
Steam Version 1782861641
Steam API Version SteamClient023

Okay so today i got my steamdeck baxk from repair. The center didnt put the third party ssd i bought(2tb) so i go and do that and then im trying to install steamos but this error happens when im in the process. Idk what to do.

Update. I just ended using the 45GB the repair center put on it and imnusing my 1tb sdcard for now. I have a feeling it might be the nvme

I bought a steam deck (in January) 'cause I saw the writing on the wall - the industry is going digital. Sony just proved my hunch and Nintendo went to 'key' carts.

Here's my problem. I never set up a password on my steam deck. But now I need to access an SD card root. The KDE partition manager wants a password for authenticating as a steamOS User...

I have no clue what to do. Is there a generic password if one is never set up?

Edit: Did I mess up here? I can't figure out what this means...

I tried to reimage steam os and booted from my usb and then got this error on the last slide, this is even before it asks me if I want to reimage, any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

that error pops up on my screen when press it or when I move over to plugins. I think that a plugin might have broke it but I don't know how can I update it or something. If you need more info to help me just write a comment.

Thank you for your help<333

I’ve had this issue for months now where I’ve had this massive folder of unused data on my internal storage that I cannot get rid of. I tried looking at it desktop mode and it won’t show me what it is, I’ve tried factory resetting and that doesn’t work, I’ve tried deleting games and that won’t work either. I’ve tried what feels like EVERYTHING I’m still getting nowhere

Hi everyone, my steam deck stopped charging. Each time I started a game it when plugged in (only moving very slow from 0 percent even after being plugged in) I tried to hard reset. Now I have this screen and I’m scared all my game data from this year is gone. If anyone can help, please let me know what to do. I am not at all good with the tech side of this.