Let me be more specific, it’s stuck after an update after a factory reset, I was having some problems with the deck getting stuck in screen off mode unless I pressed the volume buttons, in which case it would turn the screen on for a second then turn off again. So I decided fuck it, factory reset. It came back in but had an update pending so I did. Here’s where the problems start, I update and it got stuck in a boot loop, okay, so I do the 3 dots and power button to go back to a previous version or whatever, it works fine and plays games until I try to update again, this time in the beta build, now upon restarting it hangs at the steam deck logo once again.
I’ll admit I tinkered a bit under the hood but nothing I would consider crazy enough to cause a brick. Heaviest thing I think I did was change the ram to 8gb or something using cryoutilities l, any ideas what I broke?
You can power the device off by holding power for 12. (I always do 30s when hard booting any device, just to be sure)
You can get into recovery mode by powering on holding volume up while pressing the power button. You’re welcome to look around, but I don’t think you’ll be able to fix it from here alone, but at least this way you’ll know the hardware is functioning fine.
Others might have a few things to try next, but if all else fails, these instructions could help install a fresh copy of SteamOS: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3
Yeah I ended up having to do a full reimagine, really wish I could have nailed down the problem but it appears to be updating just fine now
Is your ssd full?
Interesting. I just reimaged mine this morning for a very similar issue but didn’t run into any problems yet after restore.
Mine crashed while playing Uncharted and after it rebooted it would flip to a black screen when launching a game. Stayed black until the game fully launched and once you quit it would stay at a black screen instead of showing SteamOS. If you hit the volume buttons the screen would stay on until the status bar went away. If you managed to navigate to the desktop it worked fine. Screen came back normal after a reboot but problem would come back after every game launch.
Haven’t gotten to test yet while waiting for games to download. Somehow my sd card got corrupted during the restore so I lost all my downloads.
It’s possibly because I let these issues continue for so long tbh, but yeah that sounds exactly like what I was dealing with
Working fine all day yesterday playing Black Mesa.
Did you by chance clone your drive when swapping ssd? I noticed a few quirks with mine like verifying install on every boot, screen blinking on and off during sleep process, hitching with the steam button etc. All that seems to have gone away with a full reimage.
We seriously needs tags/flairs
