Yes but I bet it doesn’t last as long as when your first bought it and fully Charged it. Batteries degrade over time that’s the only issue with portables imo
Literally hadn't touched my GBA SP since I was 10, decided to bust it out on my 25th birthday last year and the charge light was STILL GREEN. They don't make em like they used to.
@@wambamthankumam Not an expert, but they can't do like it anymore. As device get more powerful, more powerful battery needed to be made, and thus it become more and more dangerous to push the limit. Battery become more dangerous the more you push the limit, and becoming more and more damn fragile. There might be new technology on the horizon as I heard, but I don't know how much improvement and fixed we will see
Switch- "i need to be charged at weast once every 6 months, owo" *Gameboy thats been chewed by the dog, dropped several 100 times, and stored in a shed for the past 3 years* -"i can hear them now, the drums of Liberation"
This is a natural part of the discharge process, which becomes reversed when the battery is recharged. If you leave a battery discharged for too long though, these soft deposits transform into hard, stable crystals that impede the battery's flow of electrical current, eventually killing the battery. source: Batteries Plus Edit: I'd never thought mentioning the source of my information could be this rewarding 😅😂
That's old, nicad and NiMh batteries they're talking about. For Lipo/lithium ion batteries it's the safety cutoff. Once the cell dips below 3V it can be come dangerous to recharge, so the chip in the battery cuts off the ability to recharge. You can take them apart, bypass the safety, apply a very low amp voltage 3.5+ directly to the cell just enough to bring it back and they will charge again... but sometimes they like to puff up and explode when you do this. As for NiCad and NiMh you can blast through those deposits with a high amp shot from something like a car battery charger and they'll work again but at a greatly reduced capacity. Protip: avoid batteries plus for everything including basic information. That info they're pushing is 15 years out of date.
@@ArtisChronicles quite literally… No idea why anyone would suggest that while stating it to be dangerous and then proceed to take apart a battery & bypass safety. As for the second part “at a greatly reduced capacity”, basically end of life of the battery. Both scenarios basically “kill” the battery.
Lithium cells have to be stored long term at 3.7 volts, usually 50% battery. Storing them fully charged (4.2v) or completely empty (3.2v) can degrade them. More devices should have a safe charge mode that the user can turn on or off. So you can leave it plugged in all the time, and it only charges to 60%, and doesn’t charge again until it drops to 40%. My BTR7 headphone amplifier has this option. It’s really strange at first, but I appreciate them including it, and I usually just leave it on unless I’m going on a trip. If you’re super worried, charge your lithium device to 50%, take it off the charger, and turn it completely off.
@@Frank-os6gq shamefully, during the heyday of big vapes. It was really getting me in to circuitry, because most of them were overpriced crap, which brought me to EEVblog and BigDotClive on TH-cam to not only understand it more, but how it’s been applied in common products. I also built my own 8 cell megavape inside a pelican case with the right mosfets that wouldn’t explode and information s be creen. It eventually shorted out from a leaking tank though. I don’t vape anymore, but it was a gateway drug into more important knowledge. I’ve done a lot of other projects since then.
More devices should have a true OFF switch. *Modern batteries can sit on a shelf for years without losing their charge.* It's "deep sleep" & fake 'off'/standby modes that still consume power periodically, which are the main reason disused devices end up with a dead battery. Disconnecting the battery lets most modern devices sit for years without going dead. Unfortunately, many portable computing devices, are now designed with modes that can _appear_ to be 'off', when actually portions of the device can wake on demand.
This applies to many managed charge systems. If lithium ion batteries go below a certain cell voltage, it can actually be dangerous for them to charge again. Many companies (including Nintendo) account for this by disabling charging functionality if this limit is exceeded.
I think what's important in these warnings is to consider that this is something that COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN, and NOT something that WILL DEFINITELY HAPPEN. Your Switch is probably fine, just charge it from time to time to keep it happy and healthy.
@@cjlite0210 I'm not entirely sure, I've heard sometimes that keeping a battery fully charged at all times isn't the best either. But I'm sure you'll be fine. I mostly play docked myself as well with no issues, but I turn the dock off at night.
@@bigcut695 most youtubers have multiple switches its INSANE they have a primary switch and stuff and i just have one probably becuase they have alot of money
I actually had this problem, and it was quite an easy fix. I just held down the power button for 15-20 sec, then let go and held it down for 1 sec. Hopefully this helps anyone with this problem.
I had a new battery and screen installed in my original gameboy advance sp - and I can honestly say it’s still the best handheld console Nintendo ever made - and an amazing library of games to play on it !!!! Retro lover for life - love your content by the way - you helped me buy a switch - but my true love with always be the gba Advance sp :)
The thing a lot of people don’t realise is all batteries are consumables. They have a charge cycle, and as they’re charged 100% that cycle lessens. Meaning that you’ll no longer get 100% out of the battery. You may charge it to be full, but the capacity of the battery may now only be 80%. Smart phones display this information as do most computers.
@@winchan7065it won’t make a difference. If you charge from 30% to 100% that’s only 70%. The next time it charges to or over 30% that’s one cycle count. Another example: 0% charge, charging to 80% playing for a while and using 30%, leaving you with 50%. The next time you charge to 100% it’s now complete a charge cycle and is 30% into the next charge cycle etc
I think what they are saying here is if the battery becomes too dead, you cant initiate charge protocol because charger wont detect the battery. Usually you can resolve that by charging the battery directly with another battery for a min or so, just to give it enough charge to detect the charger and start the charge protocol.
@@acquiresanity yeah the only reason to turn it off is to change the sd card. And if you want it to save battery. Although it uses very little in standby anyway, so if you're not gonna use it for a while, turn it off, but make sure the battery is only like 60-80% maximum. Not any more than that, otherwise it's too much stress on it. But don't have the battery too low, otherwise you won't be able to charge it again
The recommendation is a generic one for lithium ion batteries, they should be fully charged and discharged once every 6 months. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't turn on after that period of time. It takes years for a significantly undercharged li-ion battery to break fully. And even then there's just a chance for that to happen, not a given.
*_If you have a Switch that won't turn on_* hold the power button down for 20 seconds and then turn it on. This will force the Switch to ignore the start speed up files and do a cold start.
I once shocked my boyfriends switch when I touched the power button with static electricity, and then it wouldn’t turn on. This trick worked and I was so relieved I didn’t brick it
I had to do exactly this right around when you commented this, a month ago ! Had no idea about this till it happened to me and I had to Google search it frantically
I had to leave my wife's OG switch plugged in for a day. It said 100% for like 2 minutes, then immediately to 2% and warned about imminent power off. To fix this, I loaded youtube and set to auto play until it actually turned off, then charge back 100%. Then the battery meter is accurate again.
Had a similar issue with my wife's Animal Crossing Switch. Ended up just replacing the battery. Not super hard to do. ifixit has kits on Amazon, and directions on TH-cam on how to so it.
@@ruffmadman I think you're mixing NiCad/NiMH tropes with Lithium Ion or LiPo batteries. You don't get battery memory from crystallization on Lithium batteries. One of the only factors that really matters with Lithium cells is avoiding heat degradation. No direct sunlight, avoid using while charging, and avoid fast charging whenever possible unless you absolutely need it. The most heat is generated when topping off the last 10% of the battery, so many phones will slow charge the last few percent, and will prevent continous charge at 99/100% and recommend you unplug when the battery is full lol. Want to kill your phone's battery? Use a wireless charging dock on your car's dashboard while navigating. RIP battery.
@@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli don’t use WHILE charging? It’s impossible to play your switch in docked mode without it charging? And that’s 100% of the play time is while charging.
@@CatwithFancyHat So? What’s your point? That has nothing to do with the fact that a REGULAR Switch is constantly charging while docked, which Giuseppe said will kill the battery. Your comment made no sense. Telling me that the Switch Light “exists” doesn’t change the fact that my regular Switch is always charging while I’m playing it docked.
It's rather fascinating when you think about it. I still have my 3DS and it's absolutely amazing. The battery on it still runs and it's not even dead. I've barely charged it in like 3 years I think. Nintendo knows how to make a good battery
After around 5-10 years of not using most of my GBA’s/DS’s, they all work and charge perfectly. Exactly how they did when I was a kid. Older Nintendo handhelds are absolute beasts
@absoluterawterror.nevergon4367I’m guessing it’s automated captions due to the fact that the video cuts and caption cuts aren’t the same sometimes. Premiere Pro really need to study that Nintendo trivia
I thought it was just my Switch that does that because it’s old hardware by this point (I still have my Switch that I originally got a year after the Switch released)
Dude, thanl you for your video being recommended to me. My switch was not used for over 6 months and has no battery power (I am currently charging right now).
This is how lithium batteries work. They bleed charge over time and If you store them with a low charge, the voltage could drop below chargeable levels. If you have any lithium batteries, store them with at least 40% charge and check them every 6 months or so, as Nintendo recommends!
And if you live in a cold region, in the winter months they may discharge faster and lose cycles if not plugged in at night; I live in Seattle, and I’ve had phones, tablets and powerbanks completely discharge at night during the non-summer seasons even if they were off; I had one powerbank run out of cycles prematurely this way after a few camping trips.
This is the same with my electric moped too funnily enough 😂 it says if im not gonna be driving it for longer than 6 months, to make sure its fully charged before storing it away then check on it in 6 months time 😂
Nintendo batteries are exceptionally good. I have a 2005 DS that I played alot and it still keep charges for months when turned off, same with my 3ds. But all my sony handhelds (psp/vita) have very poor battery time, they discharge within weeks when off.
I have a DS Lite that I barely play but the last time I played the battery was still pretty good. Not sure if it lasts as long but it's still many hours.
Crap, this just reminded me that I haven't used/charged my Switch or PS Vita in a long time. I hope Steam Deck didn't ruin their batteries! (I sure miss the days of PSP and DS where if you wanted needed to change the battery you didn't need things like heatguns and full disassembly to do it)
Remember folks, Store your electronics around 40-60% for increased battery longevity. They don't like being drained completely and stored, and nor do they like being full (but that one is less damaging)
@@20quidccording to Nintendo, leaving your switch on the dock for extended periods of time won’t harm the battery. Although all batteries degrade over time no matter what, So take that as you will
@Matthew Harbour but there is a reason tesla and other electronic care by default don't charge the battery to 100% (unless you go into the settings menu and tells the car to charge to 100%) Storing any letichum battery at 100% is bad for the battery life spand
@@20quid I do it and have no problems however I did have a problem leaving my New 3DS XL plugged in, the battery puffed up so much the bottom shell cover came off and the battery is ruined. I have a DS lite with the original batter and it still works to this day, also a 3ds and a 3ds Xl with no problems there either. same with my ultrabook which is always on AC. I guess these devices have power management that was not designed by downies which is a lot more than I can say about phones,, they really fucked up on cell phones for power management. Most if not all phones will constantly drain and charge the battery if left plugged in instead of charging the batttery ton like 80-80% and then just running the device from the AC power until the battery drops below a certain threshold before charging it again. They make the phones so they never run from AC and just continually discharge and charge the battery which ruins the battery very quickly. I know becaue I has an app I wanted to run on an old phone that had to be on 27/7 within a week the battery puffed out, thye never should have designed phones to makanger poiwer in this way because you can't just run the off AC without a battery.
Sometimes the Switch will crash in sleep mode. A few times I thought my Switch was a goner, but holding the power button to make sure it’s off, and then turning it on always fixed it. Though I’m aware that this isn’t the same situation as in the video, I feel it’s important to note.
This applies to essentially all rechargeable batteries. There may be some special battery where this isn't the case but you will not find that in your typical consumer products. This is why I charge all my controllers and old ipods
I think it's because most people just press the power button once. But that does not turn off the switch, it puts it to sleep and it will drain the battery. You have to HOLD the power button and then select power off manually to do a true shut down. This prevents the battery from draining. I know from experience of leaving it on "sleep" mode for 2 days on a full battery then coming back to see its at like 40%.
What Nintendo was talking about is how Lithium Ion batteries will degrade over time if left unused and uncharged; it's not related to your shutdown habits. Hence, you have to charge every six months to maintain the health of the battery
@@frullmusic yup, same thing happens to lithium phone battery, once the reserve pocket of energy drains, it's done, lithium battery powered shavers too
Yeah, I was gonna say, "Bruh, I never turn my Switch *off,* how could this _possibly_ be an issue? I'm playing _something_ literally every day, even if it's just for two minutes.
I didn't use mine for a really long time once and it took forever to charge. To the point I thought there was something wrong since it was dead while charging for over 15 minutes. I was thrilled to see it bounce back.
That’s not true either my daughters switch has been completely dead and not active for a little over two years, I recently charged up with no problem and it’s working just fine. 🤷🏼♂️
@@585totodamgood it doesnt happen every time but usually you want to leave at least 50% in the battery to avoid future issues. it mnay not have happened this time but the chance goes up every time that happenes because it phisically isnt good for the battery health
I left my first switch off for about 2 years once. Tried to turn it on, long story short, it didn’t. I thought it would never turn back on, I had to leave it on the dock for several hours before it would even start taking a charge. I thought it was done for, but it booted up finally, and now my daughter plays it. It works fine, holds a charge fine, everything. Was a super sketch moment when it happened, I was like, “Did this Switch just put itself out to pasture?” Definitely keep those things plugged in folks, or on their docks if you plan not to come back to it for some time.
Omg, this can't explain my situation any better! 😂 I haven't turned my switch on for a while too, and I've been waiting for TOTK to play to get me back into using my switch again. I didn't think I'd find a video about that 😅
I bought a Nintendo Switch for a friend. He never used it beyond initial setup. Two years later he tried to play a game he bought and it wouldn't turn on. That made me very happy because I was mad about paying so much for something he never used.
Could be interesting to do a battery life comparison, like how you did the OLED burn in, and try to see if you can ruin the battery by leaving plugged in 24/7, have one where you constantly charge to 100% then drain to 0%, one that is left off for a while, etc.
Life doesn't allow you to save 1$ PER WEEK? That's not life. That's just piss poor self control. Honestly, unless you're homeless, that's just pathetic.
@nolankuffner3573 "Unless you're homeless," You sound like your counting the days till you become a cop Yeah, I should spend the 1 dollar a week I save on a game console and not literally anything more important
I remember going to bootcamp in the military for 7 weeks and my launch model Switch absolutely refused to turn on, even when charging. The console had to do like a VERY long hard reboot. I held that power button for like 30 seconds before I saw the screen come back on
@Javan Clarke Hell no. The Navy does let you bring your phone to bootcamp now, like the Army and Air Force but not Switches. I went into basic in 2019 and we had to ship everything back home, including phones. The new phone policy is recent since covid hit
@@javanclarke1431 Why do you think this person didn’t turn their switch on for 7 weeks? Maybe it’s because they went to bootcamp? You must have a tough time with context clues.
Can confirm. Left my switch in a drawer for a few months because I just hadn't been in the mood to use it and getting it to turn back on was hell, just keep it plugged in
Every time I see videos of Switches in non ideal conditions but working 100% fine I feel very satisfied with the quality of Nintendo hardware in general.
The consoles stopped being good quality when the Wii was released. Everything since then has been cheap plastic. Even the wii was generations behind. The ps3 came out in 2006 shortly after the Wii.
@@runed0s86 I disagree with that. There are videos and demonstrations of Switches being dropped from high altitudes, being hammered on, being heated and still functioning. The only point I really agree that is a problem is the drift, but this I believe is a problem of this generation as a whole. My Series S controller ended with an extreme drift with only a few months of use, while my joycons took years to show only a slight drift, and even then they just sent me new joycons free of charge as a replacement. I still think that Nintendo makes great hardware, quality hardware.
So, a fun quirk of the way Nintendo's charge circuit works is that occasionally Switches will just refuse to power up. You can even replace the battery, but they will just draw no power from a charger and appear dead. BUT If you leave them for a few weeks and then plug them in, a decent amount will miraculously power back up. Source: I worked in a repair shop and saw this happen at least 3 times.
This actually happened to me. 3 years ago I was having my house renovated and also being insulated so my switch and other things were being placed in a box. I didn’t take out that switch for months and when I did it no longer worked. I bought a switch lite a few months later, but about a year after that I got my og switched fixed with a new battery.
No, this is just how lithium-ion batteries physically work. Whether you have a steam deck, or a nokia phone from 2003, or a wireless controller from the PS3/360 era. Batteries need to be charged regularly
Good that they still turn on, but you should also test the battery endurance to know definitively if they still work as designed, not dying after an only hour of use.
Nintendos durability went wayy down with the switch. How did they go from the durability of a DS which you can stop on, drown, drive over it, and still works, to the durability of the switch which ruinds $70 joycons if the wind blows and gets a piece of sand in it
but then charging it often also kills it. at least it was *guaranteed* I’m not sure with newer technology from the last 5 years but old laptops in our house the battery doesn’t hold anymore AT ALL (literally dead as soon as you unplug) because the charger was almost always plugged in. my dads a big culprit, he taught me to do it with our old family laptop. I learned to stop after that but he still does with his current laptop, if you unplug it at 100% you have 45 minutes before it’s dead.
@@LiterallyAllNamesAreTaken most modern laptops are lithium ion. Older tech is either nickel metal hydride (Nimh) or nickel cadmium (NiCad). Old battery tech had different charging pattern rules. It's why a lot of older folks tend to think you shouldn't leave a battery at full charge. But the rule doesn't really apply to lithium ion so much.
AFAIK, if you're not gonna use a device for a long time, it's better to leave it at 50%, cuz the battery lasts longer that way. That's the reason why phones you buy are close to 50%
He didn't have a great example but this is actually a good tip. I didn't play my switch for like 3 or 4 months and it would not hold a charge for a while. Every time I took it of the charger it powered off, I thought I was going to have to send it off for repairs but kept playing it plugged in to the charger. Then one day it just started holding a charge again and has worked properly since. It was a confusing situation.
Same thing with the Wii U! Make sure the console and the gamepad are charged regularly. Husband didn't charge his Switch in over a year and we thought we lost his console for good. Took two whole days of staying plugged in to get it back. 😂
Just had this happen after not playing for a couple months. Had to remove the joy cons and plug the switch directly into the AC cable and let it charge that way over night. Came on after that
It’s just a suggestion to make sure your device works after a prolonged period of a dead battery. I’m not a scientist, but I read about something happening to lithium batteries where if they’re dead/unused for a long time, they won’t charge anymore.
I spent a year without charging mine and the battery’s voltage dipped to a point of no return. I’ve seen this happen in other types of electronics where some manufacturers understand how to preserve the battery status while the device is off, and others simply don’t. Nintendo definitely needs this secret to be shared with them
My switch was left for about a year while I was doing my GCSE exams and stuff, and to be honest, I never noticed any issues. I had it completely packed away because my desire to play was close to zero and I was busy at the time, and when I cracked it out again, it seemed fine. I don’t know whether this is something where it happened to a couple of people who were unlucky or what, but in my experience it was completely fine.
It's not about them being broken, it's about the battery taking a toll if you're not using it from time to time. In general if you plan on not using your Lithium Ion Battery Device for months, you should charge the battery to roughly 50% and then put the unit away and check it every 6 months after.
That might be for people who don’t actually turn it off. For a while I couldn’t figure out how to do it myself. But with those li ion batteries, it’s always to keep them stored around 80% and check them once a year to make sure they don’t get too low.
Lithium Ion batteries, when discharged under 10% will permanently lose capacity. Most batteries come with little chips that prevent them from doing this, but since there's a little bit of self-discharge, if you leave them uncharged for a long period of time, they can dip below this threshold and start becoming damaged as a result.
True of pretty much all lithium batteries. If they over-discharge they run the risk of exploding when recharged. To prevent this, theres a little PCB attached which will automatically cut off if the voltage drops bflow a certain limit.
Can confirm that turning a switch on after more than 6 months does induce anxiety. I had to try 3 different chargers over the course of several days to get mine to work after nearly a year long hiatus
I had this issue once, started to panic a bit internally but just left it on a charger for a couple days and it eventually started charging and turned on normally even though it was completely unresponsive after charging for a few hours. If anyone has had a similar issue you might just want to try charging it waaaay longer than you'd think and see what happens
Not surprised that Nintendo makes a recommendation to return to their dust collecting device on a bi-annual basis to make sure it performs its secondary feature of playing "video games". Thank you nippletendo.
This can happen with any device with rechargeable battery, if the battery level goes below a threshold the device locks the charging to prevent damage to the device. It takes a really long time to happen if the device is turned off with the battery at 100%, but since people don't turn off the switch it'll drop to 0 and have a risk of this occurring to it.
Happened to an old computer of mine too. And a cordless tool I had. It’s a battery issue not just a Nintendo issue. If you leave a battery dead for a long time it will no longer hold a charge.
the way i had to pause and immediately open the description to see the song list as soon as i heard a homestuck song. that was a jumpscare. anyway uh. i'm just 10 minutes in but good video 👍 (also great choice on the ace attorney music)
IT Battery Fact: When storing any electonic device with a rechargeable battery it's best to let it get to about the 50% mark before shutting it off and storing it, this preserves the battery life in storage, and can help make sure the thing will turn on even without being plugged in.
This applies to all batteries. If you have a controller you don't use, I recommend charging it at least once a month, a battery will go bad even if you don't use it, look at cars, when people don't use their vehicles for 6 months to a year then their battery will be completely dead. That's why we technicians recommend for you to remove the negative terminal off a car battery if you don't plan on using it for a long time
Yeah, this is why I’m always a DS girlie at heart. I don’t use my Switch for MONTHS at a time so whenever I wanna play Hades (my only Switch game 😂), I’d have to wait a while for it to charge. Meanwhile, my DS, after a long time as well, will turn on with still 3/4 or 1/2 battery still on it 🥰😂
Meanwhile my DS still working after 10years of me losing the charger
fr lol
Yes but I bet it doesn’t last as long as when your first bought it and fully
Charged it. Batteries degrade over time that’s the only issue with portables imo
@@Callieforniiaa Nah mine deadass lasted a whole flight and airport lobby ✈️
Literally hadn't touched my GBA SP since I was 10, decided to bust it out on my 25th birthday last year and the charge light was STILL GREEN. They don't make em like they used to.
@@wambamthankumam Not an expert, but they can't do like it anymore. As device get more powerful, more powerful battery needed to be made, and thus it become more and more dangerous to push the limit.
Battery become more dangerous the more you push the limit, and becoming more and more damn fragile.
There might be new technology on the horizon as I heard, but I don't know how much improvement and fixed we will see
Switch- "i need to be charged at weast once every 6 months, owo"
*Gameboy thats been chewed by the dog, dropped several 100 times, and stored in a shed for the past 3 years* -"i can hear them now, the drums of Liberation"
Lol. Weast.
I'm pretty sure it's because Gameboy uses regular batteries. Also those switch consoles seem fine
you just watched three switches work perfectly fine after not being used for over six months though
Your gameboy doesn't have a rechargable batterie. Come on, bro. Think.
@@modkip25 Not with that attitude.
This is a natural part of the discharge process, which becomes reversed when the battery is recharged. If you leave a battery discharged for too long though, these soft deposits transform into hard, stable crystals that impede the battery's flow of electrical current, eventually killing the battery.
source: Batteries Plus
Edit: I'd never thought mentioning the source of my information could be this rewarding 😅😂
That's old, nicad and NiMh batteries they're talking about. For Lipo/lithium ion batteries it's the safety cutoff. Once the cell dips below 3V it can be come dangerous to recharge, so the chip in the battery cuts off the ability to recharge.
You can take them apart, bypass the safety, apply a very low amp voltage 3.5+ directly to the cell just enough to bring it back and they will charge again... but sometimes they like to puff up and explode when you do this.
As for NiCad and NiMh you can blast through those deposits with a high amp shot from something like a car battery charger and they'll work again but at a greatly reduced capacity.
Protip: avoid batteries plus for everything including basic information. That info they're pushing is 15 years out of date.
@@electronicsandewastescrapp7384 sounds like it's still a good idea to avoid attempting to charge an extremely low battery.
@@electronicsandewastescrapp7384 tnx for the info pal👍
@@ArtisChronicles quite literally… No idea why anyone would suggest that while stating it to be dangerous and then proceed to take apart a battery & bypass safety. As for the second part “at a greatly reduced capacity”, basically end of life of the battery. Both scenarios basically “kill” the battery.
So.. dont leave batteries charged but also dont leave them empty too long or they ill break entirely?
Lithium cells have to be stored long term at 3.7 volts, usually 50% battery. Storing them fully charged (4.2v) or completely empty (3.2v) can degrade them. More devices should have a safe charge mode that the user can turn on or off. So you can leave it plugged in all the time, and it only charges to 60%, and doesn’t charge again until it drops to 40%. My BTR7 headphone amplifier has this option. It’s really strange at first, but I appreciate them including it, and I usually just leave it on unless I’m going on a trip. If you’re super worried, charge your lithium device to 50%, take it off the charger, and turn it completely off.
Nuce tip, i bet most people like me had no idea at all. I mean that info isnt anywhere, how did you find it?
@@Frank-os6gq shamefully, during the heyday of big vapes. It was really getting me in to circuitry, because most of them were overpriced crap, which brought me to EEVblog and BigDotClive on TH-cam to not only understand it more, but how it’s been applied in common products. I also built my own 8 cell megavape inside a pelican case with the right mosfets that wouldn’t explode and information s be creen. It eventually shorted out from a leaking tank though. I don’t vape anymore, but it was a gateway drug into more important knowledge. I’ve done a lot of other projects since then.
@@Frank-os6gqit's practically in any phone manual.
@@Frank-os6gqI learned that personally by being a vape technician. That's why devices only come 50-60 percent charged out of the box.
More devices should have a true OFF switch. *Modern batteries can sit on a shelf for years without losing their charge.* It's "deep sleep" & fake 'off'/standby modes that still consume power periodically, which are the main reason disused devices end up with a dead battery.
Disconnecting the battery lets most modern devices sit for years without going dead. Unfortunately, many portable computing devices, are now designed with modes that can _appear_ to be 'off', when actually portions of the device can wake on demand.
This isn't a Nintendo issue. It's just a problem with rechargeable batteries. Same thing will happen to camcorders and drills, and such.
you can "jump start" most drill batteries if this happens and the charger doesnt recognize it....ive done it with the red and the yellow brand
@@firecrow7973 It's been 18 years since I worked in hardware, so tech is probably leaps and bounds ahead now.
No, it's just Nintendo
What other rechargeable battery can last months and still be mostly full
This applies to many managed charge systems. If lithium ion batteries go below a certain cell voltage, it can actually be dangerous for them to charge again. Many companies (including Nintendo) account for this by disabling charging functionality if this limit is exceeded.
@@WilsonRyan Thanks for knowing the science behind what I was trying to say.
Video summary: I have 4 working nintendo switches
It was just to flex he has 4 switches and a dog
ayy foreal
@@Royinszkiexactly
@@Royinszki havin a dog is a flex?
@@Royinszkihe has more than 💀
Nintendo probably had a complaint about one switch so they wrote that article so they can’t get sued
Like the first switches with problems with thr joycons
that sounds like Nintendo
This happened to me after not using it for a while, now I’ve gotta get my battery replaced. This happens!
@PAU FERNANDEZ BOJ they literally still have the same problem lmao
Well i had that issue, its really annoying
I love that dog yawn.
Literally the only good part of the video lol
@@skeeterson9341 i know.
Looks like a horse to me.
@@Lucifer-hq5pe bruh.
I think what's important in these warnings is to consider that this is something that COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN, and NOT something that WILL DEFINITELY HAPPEN. Your Switch is probably fine, just charge it from time to time to keep it happy and healthy.
I love that you use “happy and healthy” for an electronic device. 😂
Not me, if you ever cared to ask
@Okiegamer Anything that will let me play Tears of the Kingdom, I will take care of as if it were my firstborn child.
Will keeping it in the dock also help with that? Since it's technically always charging?
@@cjlite0210 I'm not entirely sure, I've heard sometimes that keeping a battery fully charged at all times isn't the best either. But I'm sure you'll be fine. I mostly play docked myself as well with no issues, but I turn the dock off at night.
Guy in background- “Should I tell him I’ve been playing one of his Extra switches while he wasn’t looking?”
He's the cameraman
The fact he has extra switches
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@bigcut695 yeah, I also don't understand why he needs more than one or two switches
@@bigcut695 most youtubers have multiple switches its INSANE they have a primary switch and stuff and i just have one probably becuase they have alot of money
I actually had this problem, and it was quite an easy fix. I just held down the power button for 15-20 sec, then let go and held it down for 1 sec. Hopefully this helps anyone with this problem.
My brothers switch had the same problem so I held the power button and it worked, can confirm
This also worked for me
omg this worked for me
Yep my brother had a similar issue I just did this (without really knowing what I was doing lol)
this is exactly what i would do and i dont know why
I had a new battery and screen installed in my original gameboy advance sp - and I can honestly say it’s still the best handheld console Nintendo ever made - and an amazing library of games to play on it !!!! Retro lover for life - love your content by the way - you helped me buy a switch - but my true love with always be the gba Advance sp :)
The thing a lot of people don’t realise is all batteries are consumables. They have a charge cycle, and as they’re charged 100% that cycle lessens. Meaning that you’ll no longer get 100% out of the battery. You may charge it to be full, but the capacity of the battery may now only be 80%. Smart phones display this information as do most computers.
Does that mean i should only charge my switch to 90-95% ?
@@winchan7065it won’t make a difference. If you charge from 30% to 100% that’s only 70%. The next time it charges to or over 30% that’s one cycle count. Another example: 0% charge, charging to 80% playing for a while and using 30%, leaving you with 50%. The next time you charge to 100% it’s now complete a charge cycle and is 30% into the next charge cycle etc
They def built batteries different tho back then😅
I think what they are saying here is if the battery becomes too dead, you cant initiate charge protocol because charger wont detect the battery. Usually you can resolve that by charging the battery directly with another battery for a min or so, just to give it enough charge to detect the charger and start the charge protocol.
The lithium doesn’t really degrade. It’s corrosion inside the battery. Like what happens on the outside of alkaline batteries
For $300 bucks, that shit better turn on again.
its the battery not the switch
@@bricknight810 ??? wtf you mean the battery is part of the switch
@@bricknight810gigabrain take
@@bricknight810yeah when you pay $300 youre paying for that battery too so that shit better be good
IT doesnt Matter how much you pay. The issue is how the battery works.
Dont Like it? Then Stick to Board Games.....
It’s also good to turn your Switch off once in awhile vs leaving it on sleep mode.
Turn off means pressing the top left button for long or just pressing it shortly?
@@alexandra7056 hold top left button, select shutdown in the drop menu
what do you mean? i like having my switch’s battery at 1/12th the capacity it used to have after a year of having it😮
out of curiosity, is there a reason why you should turn it off? i always forget my switch is in sleep mode
@@acquiresanity yeah the only reason to turn it off is to change the sd card. And if you want it to save battery.
Although it uses very little in standby anyway, so if you're not gonna use it for a while, turn it off, but make sure the battery is only like 60-80% maximum. Not any more than that, otherwise it's too much stress on it. But don't have the battery too low, otherwise you won't be able to charge it again
The recommendation is a generic one for lithium ion batteries, they should be fully charged and discharged once every 6 months. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't turn on after that period of time. It takes years for a significantly undercharged li-ion battery to break fully. And even then there's just a chance for that to happen, not a given.
*_If you have a Switch that won't turn on_* hold the power button down for 20 seconds and then turn it on. This will force the Switch to ignore the start speed up files and do a cold start.
Learned this about a month or so ago and thank god it worked. I was afraid I did something wrong and accidently broke it. lol.
I once shocked my boyfriends switch when I touched the power button with static electricity, and then it wouldn’t turn on. This trick worked and I was so relieved I didn’t brick it
I had to do exactly this right around when you commented this, a month ago ! Had no idea about this till it happened to me and I had to Google search it frantically
@@beesquestionmark Bruh... My gf will be glad if I broke my xbox
had to do this one time
I had to leave my wife's OG switch plugged in for a day. It said 100% for like 2 minutes, then immediately to 2% and warned about imminent power off. To fix this, I loaded youtube and set to auto play until it actually turned off, then charge back 100%. Then the battery meter is accurate again.
Had a similar issue with my wife's Animal Crossing Switch. Ended up just replacing the battery. Not super hard to do. ifixit has kits on Amazon, and directions on TH-cam on how to so it.
@@ruffmadman I think you're mixing NiCad/NiMH tropes with Lithium Ion or LiPo batteries.
You don't get battery memory from crystallization on Lithium batteries.
One of the only factors that really matters with Lithium cells is avoiding heat degradation. No direct sunlight, avoid using while charging, and avoid fast charging whenever possible unless you absolutely need it. The most heat is generated when topping off the last 10% of the battery, so many phones will slow charge the last few percent, and will prevent continous charge at 99/100% and recommend you unplug when the battery is full lol.
Want to kill your phone's battery? Use a wireless charging dock on your car's dashboard while navigating. RIP battery.
@@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli don’t use WHILE charging? It’s impossible to play your switch in docked mode without it charging? And that’s 100% of the play time is while charging.
@@Vmurphthe Switch Lite exists you know...
@@CatwithFancyHat So? What’s your point? That has nothing to do with the fact that a REGULAR Switch is constantly charging while docked, which Giuseppe said will kill the battery. Your comment made no sense. Telling me that the Switch Light “exists” doesn’t change the fact that my regular Switch is always charging while I’m playing it docked.
It's rather fascinating when you think about it. I still have my 3DS and it's absolutely amazing. The battery on it still runs and it's not even dead. I've barely charged it in like 3 years I think. Nintendo knows how to make a good battery
Nintendo doesnt make the batteries😂
@@Southized well they designed the system to work with the batteries or vice versa, so they know how to make a good battery either way.
@@Tarrabytethe software’s just not very demanding.
@@Nobody-w8n4s true.
I got grounded and my mom hid it found it a couple years l later never turned on again
After around 5-10 years of not using most of my GBA’s/DS’s, they all work and charge perfectly. Exactly how they did when I was a kid.
Older Nintendo handhelds are absolute beasts
After Tears of the Kingdom, I may need to turn off my Switch occasionally
For real 😂
@Watersuanᴏma Karatata no????
@Watersuanᴏma Karatata how
@absoluterawterror.nevergon4367 ah, i see now
@absoluterawterror.nevergon4367I’m guessing it’s automated captions due to the fact that the video cuts and caption cuts aren’t the same sometimes. Premiere Pro really need to study that Nintendo trivia
Now unplug and play with them for like an hour. They may show full charge, but bleed battery very quickly
That’s what happened to my switch
It still works
I thought it was just my Switch that does that because it’s old hardware by this point (I still have my Switch that I originally got a year after the Switch released)
dude that happens regardless lmao
That happens with all batteries.
......I want that minute back.
So you can waste it on some other youtube short? Cry less, touch grass more.
@@Guidofauxdude what
@@Piespys "Du wah?"
Thats you, that's what you sound like. Thank you for the profound insight.
@@Guidofaux hahahaha man you're funny
@@Guidofauxtouch grass
Dude, thanl you for your video being recommended to me. My switch was not used for over 6 months and has no battery power (I am currently charging right now).
This is how lithium batteries work. They bleed charge over time and If you store them with a low charge, the voltage could drop below chargeable levels. If you have any lithium batteries, store them with at least 40% charge and check them every 6 months or so, as Nintendo recommends!
And if you live in a cold region, in the winter months they may discharge faster and lose cycles if not plugged in at night; I live in Seattle, and I’ve had phones, tablets and powerbanks completely discharge at night during the non-summer seasons even if they were off; I had one powerbank run out of cycles prematurely this way after a few camping trips.
This is the same with my electric moped too funnily enough 😂 it says if im not gonna be driving it for longer than 6 months, to make sure its fully charged before storing it away then check on it in 6 months time 😂
Is it ok if i keep my switch all the time on the charge port? Cuz i play it always on the tv
Sometimes they're just so dead they don't want to turn on but after like 10 minutes it takes a fresh crisp breath
and sometimes they dont turn on. its just how lithium-ion batteries work
Crystalizing lithium ion axons. very sad keep your batteries charged folks
Nintendo batteries are exceptionally good. I have a 2005 DS that I played alot and it still keep charges for months when turned off, same with my 3ds. But all my sony handhelds (psp/vita) have very poor battery time, they discharge within weeks when off.
My Wii U Gamepad's one is damaged and now it runs out in about ten minutes. I need to play with it charging.
Facts. I have a DSi XL I can still play for the better part of a day without needing to charge, never replaced the battery in it.
I’ve got a DS Lite that wasn’t used for years and still works like a dream
My psp and vita still have charge and i charged them 8 months ago or longer. The 3ds never lasts more than a week for me even when 100% off
I have a DS Lite that I barely play but the last time I played the battery was still pretty good. Not sure if it lasts as long but it's still many hours.
Crap, this just reminded me that I haven't used/charged my Switch or PS Vita in a long time. I hope Steam Deck didn't ruin their batteries!
(I sure miss the days of PSP and DS where if you wanted needed to change the battery you didn't need things like heatguns and full disassembly to do it)
Remember folks, Store your electronics around 40-60% for increased battery longevity. They don't like being drained completely and stored, and nor do they like being full (but that one is less damaging)
What if I just leave the switch in its dock the whole time, would that cause any long term battery issues?
@@20quidccording to Nintendo, leaving your switch on the dock for extended periods of time won’t harm the battery. Although all batteries degrade over time no matter what, So take that as you will
@Matthew Harbour but there is a reason tesla and other electronic care by default don't charge the battery to 100% (unless you go into the settings menu and tells the car to charge to 100%)
Storing any letichum battery at 100% is bad for the battery life spand
@@20quid I do it and have no problems however I did have a problem leaving my New 3DS XL plugged in, the battery puffed up so much the bottom shell cover came off and the battery is ruined.
I have a DS lite with the original batter and it still works to this day, also a 3ds and a 3ds Xl with no problems there either.
same with my ultrabook which is always on AC.
I guess these devices have power management that was not designed by downies which is a lot more than I can say about phones,, they really fucked up on cell phones for power management.
Most if not all phones will constantly drain and charge the battery if left plugged in instead of charging the batttery ton like 80-80% and then just running the device from the AC power until the battery drops below a certain threshold before charging it again.
They make the phones so they never run from AC and just continually discharge and charge the battery which ruins the battery very quickly.
I know becaue I has an app I wanted to run on an old phone that had to be on 27/7 within a week the battery puffed out, thye never should have designed phones to makanger poiwer in this way because you can't just run the off AC without a battery.
@@namegoeshere197 maybe the software lies to you and never fully charged to max capacity?
Blud has more Nintendo Switches than i have light switches in my house 💀💀💀
bhahah true
“Blud” -🤓
Light switches? Man alls I got is candles and oil lamps
@@Saved-by-Grace lucky you, i literally have to set my house on fire just to get some light
unironically saying “blud” is another level of corny
I pulled my GBA out of a cupboard for the first time in 10 years and it still works.
Gba uses AA batteries, not lithium ion ones.
@@justinwhite2725 Umm.. literally false lol
@@cccreaturefeature bro what? I literally owned every Game Boy, I can assure you that the Advance ran off AA batteries
@@amberlee4536he’s talking about the GBA SP, it uses a charger not AA Batteries.
The gba had a rechargeable battery too
omg the reading journal !!! with the vocab !!! also i’m so happy you loved whiplash as much as i did :>
Sometimes the Switch will crash in sleep mode. A few times I thought my Switch was a goner, but holding the power button to make sure it’s off, and then turning it on always fixed it. Though I’m aware that this isn’t the same situation as in the video, I feel it’s important to note.
This applies to essentially all rechargeable batteries.
There may be some special battery where this isn't the case but you will not find that in your typical consumer products. This is why I charge all my controllers and old ipods
Oooff i hadnt turned on my old ipod nano in years. Ima have to do that with muh old devices
I think it's because most people just press the power button once. But that does not turn off the switch, it puts it to sleep and it will drain the battery. You have to HOLD the power button and then select power off manually to do a true shut down. This prevents the battery from draining. I know from experience of leaving it on "sleep" mode for 2 days on a full battery then coming back to see its at like 40%.
What Nintendo was talking about is how Lithium Ion batteries will degrade over time if left unused and uncharged; it's not related to your shutdown habits. Hence, you have to charge every six months to maintain the health of the battery
@@frullmusic yup, same thing happens to lithium phone battery, once the reserve pocket of energy drains, it's done, lithium battery powered shavers too
I realized that from day one, but it's a really stupid feature though.
Our Switch stays in the dock. Is it better to be completely off or asleep if it's in the dock?
@@ruffmadman I appreciate it!
It's amazing that you have plenty of unused Nintendo switch. You are so blessed. Can I ask one of those please. Hehehe
I moved out of state for work. Forgot my Switch for around a year. Charged right back up and worked like a charm.
OK...?
Hey penguinz0 your videos are always so entrancing
lmao
This man just casually has four Switches
Meanwhile me playing practically every day so I don't have to worry
Yeah, I was gonna say, "Bruh, I never turn my Switch *off,* how could this _possibly_ be an issue? I'm playing _something_ literally every day, even if it's just for two minutes.
All of them are drifty
I didn't use mine for a really long time once and it took forever to charge. To the point I thought there was something wrong since it was dead while charging for over 15 minutes. I was thrilled to see it bounce back.
The real issues start when you leave the battery fully depleted for more than 6 months.
That’s not true either my daughters switch has been completely dead and not active for a little over two years, I recently charged up with no problem and it’s working just fine. 🤷🏼♂️
@@585totodamgood the Switch itself should be fine yeah, the issue is that the battery won't be able to hold a charge as well as it used to.
@@585totodamgood it doesnt happen every time but usually you want to leave at least 50% in the battery to avoid future issues. it mnay not have happened this time but the chance goes up every time that happenes because it phisically isnt good for the battery health
I left my first switch off for about 2 years once. Tried to turn it on, long story short, it didn’t. I thought it would never turn back on, I had to leave it on the dock for several hours before it would even start taking a charge. I thought it was done for, but it booted up finally, and now my daughter plays it. It works fine, holds a charge fine, everything. Was a super sketch moment when it happened, I was like, “Did this Switch just put itself out to pasture?” Definitely keep those things plugged in folks, or on their docks if you plan not to come back to it for some time.
No, its bad to leave something on a charger for extended days, it’s unhealthy for the battery. Its about balance with some devices : )
Omg, this can't explain my situation any better! 😂 I haven't turned my switch on for a while too, and I've been waiting for TOTK to play to get me back into using my switch again. I didn't think I'd find a video about that 😅
I bought a Nintendo Switch for a friend. He never used it beyond initial setup. Two years later he tried to play a game he bought and it wouldn't turn on. That made me very happy because I was mad about paying so much for something he never used.
Wulff needed a reason to flex all his switches 😂
Never thought info like this would become relevant to me, and then my Steam Deck came in like a wrecking ball and dominated my handheld play.
Could be interesting to do a battery life comparison, like how you did the OLED burn in, and try to see if you can ruin the battery by leaving plugged in 24/7, have one where you constantly charge to 100% then drain to 0%, one that is left off for a while, etc.
Hear Chris Hansen say “keyboard warrior” has made my week. Love them so much
As a small tip: if you haven't turned it on in a long time, put the controllers on, and stick it in the dock. Saved mine twice already
Thank you this fixed mine!!
Wow Techcritial is blowing up! Charlie must probably a really proud brother now.
Wulff out here showing off his whole collection while my broke ass still can't afford a switch since launch
You couldnt scrape together 400 dollars over like 7 years?
@@herbythechef7624
Life man.
Life doesn't allow you to save 1$ PER WEEK?
That's not life.
That's just piss poor self control.
Honestly, unless you're homeless, that's just pathetic.
@nolankuffner3573
"Unless you're homeless,"
You sound like your counting the days till you become a cop
Yeah, I should spend the 1 dollar a week I save on a game console and not literally anything more important
It’s unhealthy to have that amount of switches
Extremely.
Bro it’s his passion. He can have as many consoles as he wants. Mind your business
It's literally his profession and passion it's not like he's sacrificing other things to pay for nintendo switches
@@sanguwu7497 it’s unhealthy no matter how you slice it bozo 🤡
@@yowlolstfu6759By putting himself out there for the internet to see, he is making it everyone’s business. Fuck off with that simple-minded bullshit
I still chuckle at “Maario”
I remember going to bootcamp in the military for 7 weeks and my launch model Switch absolutely refused to turn on, even when charging. The console had to do like a VERY long hard reboot. I held that power button for like 30 seconds before I saw the screen come back on
Big army let’s y’all bring Switches to basic now? Wild
@Javan Clarke Hell no. The Navy does let you bring your phone to bootcamp now, like the Army and Air Force but not Switches. I went into basic in 2019 and we had to ship everything back home, including phones. The new phone policy is recent since covid hit
@@javanclarke1431 Why do you think this person didn’t turn their switch on for 7 weeks? Maybe it’s because they went to bootcamp?
You must have a tough time with context clues.
That's why he's Army lmao
It’s so crazy that this just popped up cuz I just plugged up my switch after not using it for months lol
Omg, your dog is so cute! What breed is it?
Can confirm. Left my switch in a drawer for a few months because I just hadn't been in the mood to use it and getting it to turn back on was hell, just keep it plugged in
It's probably just that they've had some cases where this has happend but 99% of the time you're fine.
It’s happening at a rapidly increasing rate among 2017 switches
@@Questionthis1 what do you mean with "rapidly"? Do we have a number of some sort?
Every time I see videos of Switches in non ideal conditions but working 100% fine I feel very satisfied with the quality of Nintendo hardware in general.
*laughs in joycon drift*
laugh in WiiU dead nand memory...
The consoles stopped being good quality when the Wii was released. Everything since then has been cheap plastic. Even the wii was generations behind. The ps3 came out in 2006 shortly after the Wii.
@@runed0s86 I disagree with that. There are videos and demonstrations of Switches being dropped from high altitudes, being hammered on, being heated and still functioning.
The only point I really agree that is a problem is the drift, but this I believe is a problem of this generation as a whole. My Series S controller ended with an extreme drift with only a few months of use, while my joycons took years to show only a slight drift, and even then they just sent me new joycons free of charge as a replacement. I still think that Nintendo makes great hardware, quality hardware.
@@runed0s86 eh. Theyre still pretty good quality.
So, a fun quirk of the way Nintendo's charge circuit works is that occasionally Switches will just refuse to power up. You can even replace the battery, but they will just draw no power from a charger and appear dead.
BUT
If you leave them for a few weeks and then plug them in, a decent amount will miraculously power back up.
Source: I worked in a repair shop and saw this happen at least 3 times.
This actually happened to me. 3 years ago I was having my house renovated and also being insulated so my switch and other things were being placed in a box. I didn’t take out that switch for months and when I did it no longer worked. I bought a switch lite a few months later, but about a year after that I got my og switched fixed with a new battery.
This is something that you need to do for lithium ion batteries in general.
It might be some sort of pre-emptive response to the Wii U dying if not powered on in a while. Maybe they just don't want to take their chances?
No, this is just how lithium-ion batteries physically work.
Whether you have a steam deck, or a nokia phone from 2003, or a wireless controller from the PS3/360 era. Batteries need to be charged regularly
wii u’s are bricking themselves because of faulty NAND chips that are dying faster than other chips made from another manufacturer
Good that they still turn on, but you should also test the battery endurance to know definitively if they still work as designed, not dying after an only hour of use.
They forgot to put the last sentence
"Recommended for collectors who don't play"😌
Mine was totally stopped for a year, since Tears of kingdom released, I tuned on and play. It works perfectly.
Nintendos durability went wayy down with the switch. How did they go from the durability of a DS which you can stop on, drown, drive over it, and still works, to the durability of the switch which ruinds $70 joycons if the wind blows and gets a piece of sand in it
It's a good rule of thumb for pretty much any rechargeable battery product to not let it sit untouched, especially at anything less than full battery.
but then charging it often also kills it. at least it was *guaranteed* I’m not sure with newer technology from the last 5 years but old laptops in our house the battery doesn’t hold anymore AT ALL (literally dead as soon as you unplug) because the charger was almost always plugged in. my dads a big culprit, he taught me to do it with our old family laptop. I learned to stop after that but he still does with his current laptop, if you unplug it at 100% you have 45 minutes before it’s dead.
@@LiterallyAllNamesAreTaken most modern laptops are lithium ion. Older tech is either nickel metal hydride (Nimh) or nickel cadmium (NiCad). Old battery tech had different charging pattern rules. It's why a lot of older folks tend to think you shouldn't leave a battery at full charge. But the rule doesn't really apply to lithium ion so much.
AFAIK, if you're not gonna use a device for a long time, it's better to leave it at 50%, cuz the battery lasts longer that way. That's the reason why phones you buy are close to 50%
He didn't have a great example but this is actually a good tip. I didn't play my switch for like 3 or 4 months and it would not hold a charge for a while. Every time I took it of the charger it powered off, I thought I was going to have to send it off for repairs but kept playing it plugged in to the charger. Then one day it just started holding a charge again and has worked properly since. It was a confusing situation.
"remember to check up on your tablet Incase the battery has degraded" is for once a good advice from them
How about not blow into your cartridge to avoid rust?
@@HyperVanilo i thought the spray that made it taste horrible took care of that
Dead ass had me jump up and check on all my switches 😂
Damn, dead ass??? That's fucking wild.
I just started using my switch after two years I think. It still had 99% battery I’m sure and didn’t seem to have a problem turning on.
Same thing with the Wii U! Make sure the console and the gamepad are charged regularly.
Husband didn't charge his Switch in over a year and we thought we lost his console for good. Took two whole days of staying plugged in to get it back. 😂
Just had this happen after not playing for a couple months. Had to remove the joy cons and plug the switch directly into the AC cable and let it charge that way over night. Came on after that
Who the hell is that guy at the end?
Idk
Meanwhile, my xbox 360 still working perfectly after years
The 360 doesn't have a battery.
@@colbyboucher6391 yeah but it can still be damaged nontheless
switch: "charge it every six months."
ds: "what is a charger?"
It’s just a suggestion to make sure your device works after a prolonged period of a dead battery. I’m not a scientist, but I read about something happening to lithium batteries where if they’re dead/unused for a long time, they won’t charge anymore.
I spent a year without charging mine and the battery’s voltage dipped to a point of no return. I’ve seen this happen in other types of electronics where some manufacturers understand how to preserve the battery status while the device is off, and others simply don’t. Nintendo definitely needs this secret to be shared with them
I fell asleep with this video playing on my airpods and slept 3 hrs straight. Thank you. Not being ironic about it btw
My switch was left for about a year while I was doing my GCSE exams and stuff, and to be honest, I never noticed any issues. I had it completely packed away because my desire to play was close to zero and I was busy at the time, and when I cracked it out again, it seemed fine. I don’t know whether this is something where it happened to a couple of people who were unlucky or what, but in my experience it was completely fine.
that’s just how batteries are, its nice they put out a reminder it couldve saved a few people their switch
It's not about them being broken, it's about the battery taking a toll if you're not using it from time to time. In general if you plan on not using your Lithium Ion Battery Device for months, you should charge the battery to roughly 50% and then put the unit away and check it every 6 months after.
That might be for people who don’t actually turn it off. For a while I couldn’t figure out how to do it myself.
But with those li ion batteries, it’s always to keep them stored around 80% and check them once a year to make sure they don’t get too low.
Lithium Ion batteries, when discharged under 10% will permanently lose capacity. Most batteries come with little chips that prevent them from doing this, but since there's a little bit of self-discharge, if you leave them uncharged for a long period of time, they can dip below this threshold and start becoming damaged as a result.
True of pretty much all lithium batteries. If they over-discharge they run the risk of exploding when recharged. To prevent this, theres a little PCB attached which will automatically cut off if the voltage drops bflow a certain limit.
Can confirm that turning a switch on after more than 6 months does induce anxiety. I had to try 3 different chargers over the course of several days to get mine to work after nearly a year long hiatus
The Nintendo DS that haven't been turned on for the past 7 years and still got 40% battery with an up to date callendar:
The guy looks like if Cr1tikal and Asmongold had a baby
I had this issue once, started to panic a bit internally but just left it on a charger for a couple days and it eventually started charging and turned on normally even though it was completely unresponsive after charging for a few hours. If anyone has had a similar issue you might just want to try charging it waaaay longer than you'd think and see what happens
I bought mine back in 2018 and a few years ago left it in a hot car all summer.
Still works just fine.
No issue, been using my Switch every week since its release
Not surprised that Nintendo makes a recommendation to return to their dust collecting device on a bi-annual basis to make sure it performs its secondary feature of playing "video games". Thank you nippletendo.
This can happen with any device with rechargeable battery, if the battery level goes below a threshold the device locks the charging to prevent damage to the device.
It takes a really long time to happen if the device is turned off with the battery at 100%, but since people don't turn off the switch it'll drop to 0 and have a risk of this occurring to it.
Happens with all kinds of batteries, power tool battery chargers cant charge from zero so sometimes you have to jump your battery
My girlfriend gave me her Switch around Christmas, and it was YEARS since it had anything done with it. Works fine 😺
Happened to an old computer of mine too. And a cordless tool I had. It’s a battery issue not just a Nintendo issue. If you leave a battery dead for a long time it will no longer hold a charge.
the way i had to pause and immediately open the description to see the song list as soon as i heard a homestuck song. that was a jumpscare. anyway uh. i'm just 10 minutes in but good video 👍 (also great choice on the ace attorney music)
IT Battery Fact: When storing any electonic device with a rechargeable battery it's best to let it get to about the 50% mark before shutting it off and storing it, this preserves the battery life in storage, and can help make sure the thing will turn on even without being plugged in.
This applies to all batteries. If you have a controller you don't use, I recommend charging it at least once a month, a battery will go bad even if you don't use it, look at cars, when people don't use their vehicles for 6 months to a year then their battery will be completely dead. That's why we technicians recommend for you to remove the negative terminal off a car battery if you don't plan on using it for a long time
Yeah, this is why I’m always a DS girlie at heart. I don’t use my Switch for MONTHS at a time so whenever I wanna play Hades (my only Switch game 😂), I’d have to wait a while for it to charge. Meanwhile, my DS, after a long time as well, will turn on with still 3/4 or 1/2 battery still on it 🥰😂
Bro flexed on us 😂