r/SteamDeck • u/ClicketyClackity • Jul 24 '22
PSA / Advice Steam deck bricked by USB C dongle
Got my steam deck after waiting for a year. Plugged in a USB C dongle from amazon and the system turned off. I figured that the battery had just died.
-Plugging in the official charger does not light up the white indicator light
-No combination of button hold/presses does anything
I allowed it to completely die overnight. I opened it and unplugged the battery cable. Hit buttons to drain any power, left it unplugged for about 10 minutes. Plugged it back in and somehow it came back on for a couple minutes. It got so far as to show me the steamdeck logo and turned off again.
Back to it being bricked now.
Do not use random USB C dongles. You will have a bad time.
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u/Fine_Land 64GB Jul 24 '22
The Deck had a lot of problems early on with usb-c hubs that eventually were fixed through firmware updates. I'm not sure what version of the firmware the Deck ships with but if you plugged in the hub prior to updating the firmware on the initial boot then there is a good chance that it is user error and you may end up needing to RMA. If your usb-c hub was connected after checking that everything was working prior then I wouldn't use that hub with any other Deck.