Steam Hardware
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I got mine pretty early on, one of the first waves to be shipped, and only issue I've had is having my battery level drop go zilch when switching to a 2.4Ghz Wifi network. Then I would have to plug it in, open the BIOS and switch to battery storage mode, unplug and wait about a minute. Plug it back in to boot it up, and battery levels are normal. I can fortunately just stick to 5Ghz networks nowadays and haven't had a problem.
That's seems like a pretty specific issue. Did you try other networks or was always just one 2.4ghz network?
Lots of devices will kill their own battery to maintain Wifi connection rather than drop.
When is happened to me, it's always a combination of a specific place I'm sitting and a specific wifi access point.
I haven't, myself, noticed it happen to my SteamDeck, though.
It happens on any 2.4ghz network. I'm apparently not the only one, as there are some old reddit posts about it, too. It's an oddly specific problem and I can't figure out if it's a software issue or if my battery really is borked.