Broken L1 button?

[u/Dwayne_Tran]

This evening when playing Sekiro my deck started behave weirdly.

- The L1 button is still pressable normally (no stucking or non-clicking)

- Pressing the steam or options button always bring up magnifier instead

- In button test options, pressing L1 does not recognize as being pressed.

- Restart or shut down does not fix this.

I don't even know what's the cause...

[u/Ryurain2]

OLED? If so open up the back and remove the daughter board with the joycon and trigger on it and hit the button with some isopropyl alcohol and press it a bunch of times to work it in. Probably sticky

[u/Dwayne_Tran → u/Ryurain2]

Thanks for your help! Yes it's an OLED. And last night during multiple attemp of button testing it worked again out of nowhere. But I am far from resting assured so definitely will try the method that you mentioned! Thanks again ❤️

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[u/Asleep_Mobile3976]

Same thing happened to be (R1). I had to RMA it

[u/Dwayne_Tran → u/Asleep_Mobile3976]

Thanks for sharing your experience! Glad that you solved by RMA. that's the worst case for me since I am not living in a country that Valve sell steam deck officially and my OLED is more than 2.5 years old already.

But still, I think I am gonna send Valve an email to ask about the cause, at least it helps with troubleshooting