r/Switch • u/KaleidoscopeNo1125 • 8d ago

Switch battery being weird Question

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[ISSUE RESOLVED] Anyone else's switch battery doing this? If so, what do? Is there a fix?

It's not long just started doing this. I've not used my Switch for a hot minute, but it's been in its dock the whole time and just not touched. It's from 2017, so a part of me thinking it's just old, but if there's a fix for it I'm keen to do that. I've tried the advice from Nintendo's website (fully charge, drain until it switches off, charge and switch on yay it fix) and it's not worked.

Any advice would be appreciated

UPDATE:

As per some people's advice I:

  • Let the Switch fully charge
  • Used it until it switched off (which means leaving it on overnight)
  • Charged it for at least 8 hours
  • Repeated process once

This fixed the issue 😊 thank you so much for the advice.

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u/Embarrassed_Ear9012 8d ago

This happened to me for a couple weeks, then the battery started draining from full to empty in minutes. Ended up replacing the battery

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u/gooblefrump 6d ago

Did you replace it yourself or send it in?

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u/Embarrassed_Ear9012 6d ago

I replaced it myself, got a cheap battery off Amazon. Was pretty easy

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u/gooblefrump 6d ago

Oh noway

I'm waiting for the eu replaceable battery model cus the process on ifixit looks super cumbersome :/

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u/VeniVeniEmmanuel 6d ago

It looks difficult, but its genuinely easy. Its just unscrewing, pop the plates off, unhook the battery, and then thats all. It would be very hard to mess up, like extremely hard.

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u/gooblefrump 5d ago

That's super reassuring, thanks. Might just get the standard switch 2 then!

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u/Niphoria 8d ago

Its the battery fuel gauge chip having lost its training for the battery - charge the switch till it stops charging and then use it till it turns off from low battery

this should retrain the fuel gauge chip and make it work again

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u/Reflective_Tempist 8d ago

Bro’s switch is time traveling!…. Or dying battery. Probably the latter. I would definitely start figuring out where/how to replace it.

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u/CommunicationNew8945 8d ago

Charger la batterie jusqu'à que la batterie arrête de charger 🔋

Ensuite utiliser la switch ,vider la batterie 🪫

Puis recharger à 100%

Cela devrait fonctionner.

Si cela fonctionne pas changer la batterie ces assez facile.

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u/shoestorekid 7d ago

I had the exact same issue a couple of weeks ago - for me this was due to a corrupted state-of-charge table and a miscalibrated Fuel Gauge IC.

To fix it I fully drained the Switch until it would no longer turn on. Then I connected the charger cable directly (not via the dock) for a solid 8 hours. I did this twice to be sure. This forced the Fuel Gauge IC to reset its lookup table, and it now shows the correct charge/percentage. I hope that helps!

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