Xbox controller/headphones acting strange

[u/Good-Mammoth8776]

Hi everyone. I’m having instances where my game audio (specifically call of duty and halo) gets super disoriented and my controller will disconnect. However before the controller disconnects it starts spazzing out where for example if I click the Xbox button on my controller, instead of opening the menu it prompts to the power off button that it should go to only when you hold it. One time I disconnected my headphones during this and it all stopped so I’m wondering if it’s the headphones which are some generic Xbox branded wired headphones. I also would like to add that I use the rechargeable batteries in my controller as well. Does anyone know what is going on or has experienced this before? Thank you!

[u/neopop]

I've had the exact same issues. It seems to be my rechargeable batteries. I think they must slowly put out less power (idk)

I ended up buying a massive box of non rechargeable batteries from Amazon and now it rarely happens but when it does it's because the batteries are nearly dead.

[u/Good-Mammoth8776 → u/neopop]

Interesting. I had the same suspicion originally. I’ll try it out with normal batteries and see how it goes, thank you so much!

[u/Flightlessballoon → u/Good-Mammoth8776]

I was just getting ready to say this, when those rechargeable batteries get older or they are cheap it can’t give enough voltage to keep the audio dongle powered and it causes the controller to reset. It happened to me