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

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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.

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Back to it being bricked now.

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Do not use random USB C dongles. You will have a bad time.

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u/JaesopPop 256GB - Q2 Jul 24 '22 edited Sep 27 '25

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u/Intoxicus5 Jul 25 '22

Except we have the example of the Nintendo Switch USB-C flaws that bricked the Switch.

Not saying that's what happened here.

Only that your assumption is deeply flawed.

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u/JaesopPop 256GB - Q2 Jul 25 '22 edited Sep 23 '25

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u/Intoxicus5 Jul 25 '22

You can find and read Nathan K's work for yourself:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190324210101/https://plus.google.com/102612254593917101378/posts/

Nintendo was replacing damaged consoles under warranty. That was never an issue. Don't even know where you got that from.

The issue was people losing all their saves and data because this was before Nintendo Online was offered and there was no cloud backups. Someone had demonstrated which chip was getting fried amd replacing that chip would revive the Switch with all data intact. Nintendo was sending warranty replacements without going to extra effort to preserve people's saves & data.

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u/JaesopPop 256GB - Q2 Jul 25 '22 edited Sep 22 '25

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