You can check battery health in desktop mode, by clicking on the battery.

I’ve had my OLED deck for a little over a year now, and it’s still reporting 100% battery health.

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis ( tunetardis@lemmy.ca ) English
    11·
    2 years ago

    Mine says 99% health. I don’t know how reliable a metric that is?

    Lately, I’ve been playing on battery exclusively and basically going with the 1 gaming session = 1 battery charge regimen to self-regulate. I may need to re-evaluate this as the battery ages, but it’s good discipline for me at the moment…

  • Clasm ( Clasm@ttrpg.network ) 
    3·
    2 years ago

    Mine failed a couple of months into owning the 512gb original model. Only holds about a couple of minutes of charge when it isn’t plugged in.

  • thingsiplay ( thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 
    3·
    2 years ago

    100% - first gen Deck

    I am not a huge Deck user, meaning most of the PC time and games are played on my actual PC. The Deck is only a secondary device, for a few times here and there. I have over 130 hours on RetroArch, and a few hours on various other stuff. Therefore its expected that the battery is still in good condition.

  • Zelaf ( Zelaf@sopuli.xyz ) 
    3·
    2 years ago

    I got a pre-order LCD Deck (256GB) from mid-October. While I don’t game too much on mine but mainly do desktop work, mostly server management and web development, it holds about 3 or 4 hours depending on how heavy the task is. When I play No Man’s Sky it’ll last about an hour.

    I can’t see battery health as easily in GNOME tho. But I’m not complaining. This is while being plugged into a USB-C external 1080p OLED monitor and mouse and keyboard connected with Bluetooth.

    For people wondering how the battery health is calculated, I’m guessing it’s what the factory max charge was in watt hours and how many it comparably holds now during max charge. That’s at least how I’ve seen battery health being calculated before!

        • _cryptagion [he/him] ( _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
          1·
          2 years ago

          If you keep it plugged I all the time, there’s a Decky Loader plugin called Powertools that has a handy charge limit for the battery. For a Deck you take places, limiting it to 80% is a good compromise that will increase battery life. For a Deck you leave plugged in all the time, I would recommend to set the limit to 50-60%, which is a good “resting” charge that doesn’t put any stress on the battery from being too drained or too full.

  • colourlesspony ( colourlesspony@pawb.social ) 
    2·
    2 years ago

    Mine seems to have plenty of capacity left but has trouble powering my xr glasses below 60% if I’m gaming. Also if it’s cold it will shut off under load until it’s warmed up. I got mine really early around May 2022 I think.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky ( AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English
    2·
    2 years ago

    Considering I got mine fixed less than a month ago and haven’t been using it at much, I’d hope the battery would be at 100% health. Not 100% sure since I haven’t been on desktop mode since getting it back, though.