oh, thats actually kind of sick. i mean, its not rocket science to make it so it does that but its still pretty cool. if nintendo was lazy, then im pretty sure they wouldnt add this "feature". idonno if you need any type of coding in order to have this feature, or if its just built in to the motherboard in the dock itself.
Having power bypass the battery and go straight to the components is a hardware thing, you need connectors from the port to the motherboard in addition to the standard connection to the battery
@@ziggytron345 What communication does a USB-C cable make possible? The one between your phone and your electricity 😂? It's all inside your phone (and dock) and has nothing to do with the port type..
I was genuinely wondering this the other day as I don’t use my Switch OLED all that much. So it stays docked most of the time. I am glad that I now know!
It would be better if the state of charge wasn’t so high when docked. A lot of people are primarily docked, so the 95-100% trickle charging it does isn’t very helpful. It would be better if they did some sort of 80% limit, or an option to, so it can preserve battery health. Sure it’s pretty easy to replace the battery, but what if you just… didn’t have to? The battery theoretically could last like 10+ years before it starts expanding or something if it’s taken care of properly
yes but it's so nominal and consistent with regular battery charging patterns that by the time it refils itself that 1% 99 times for a full charge cycle, it would have gone through that cycle if it was on a regular charging schedule anyway, maybe even longer past a normal cycle charge usage.
@@PinoyGamingTribethe catch is this is within a years time unless you’re in this weird scenario where lithium ion batteries aren’t rechargeable and they just don’t retain energy after being discharged and recharged this won’t happen instantly. Surprisingly enough this isn’t like immense pressure that technology never experienced before, this is just average capacitive nonsense, your power supply goes through this every hour or so that you use it, your average switch or even oled deals with this strain every few days or so, whether if you play it or not on the dock, it also does this with its joycons.
but other people won't. To get consumers attention they at keast need a different more appealing design. if they don't cgange its appearance, grandma won't see a reason to randomly buy it for her grandson.
I don't have to worry about that I only take out the Switch when I want to sit outside and get some fresh air after I finish reading or if I'm going somewhere that's going to requiring a long car ride otherwise I don't take my switch out of the docking station just to move it around my house so I can say I can play on the couch instead of playing it in my bedroom.
it is impossible to keep it at 100 percent all the time without charging. It will eventually decrease to a 99 percent even if the battery is not in use. so the dock continiously trickle charge the switch for the battery level not to drop which is not really bad for the battery versus discharging-recharging which uses the charge cycle more, but it is much better if Nintendo gave users the option to charge the battery only upto a specific level (ex. 60%, 70%, 80%) before being bypassed. it is more useful for us "dock" users and better for the battery in the long run than keeping the battery at 100 all the time.
PSA: While the switch may stop charging, somehow power is still getting to it. I left my switch on the dock for a couple days at college and when I went to play it again, it no longer worked. Took it to GameStop, they sent me to a tech store, where he found that the problem was that the battery could no longer take on power because it had been charging for so long. It would have been $300 to get it fixed and mine was out of warranty. Do not leave your switch on the dock. Take it off the dock and set it next to the dock even if you don’t intend to play.
My switch's battery actually goes down in battery when playing more graphically intensive games when docked. I could have it docked playing zelda and if I check the battery an hour in, its not at 100% anymore.
@alyssahall28nah, my switch has never done that and I bought it around the first year it released, usually with more graphical games it just takes longer to charge while playing
Yes, but keeping an Li-Ion bat at 100% for a ling time is far from good. Even apple have an option now to limit the max charging to 80%, so the phone isn’t kept on 100% charge for hours and hours, everyday.
@@Winters11 battery percentage doesn't matter, only battery cycles, and once it's at 100%, it's purely powered by the power source, meaning it's not damaging the battery any more than charging it nornally
@@matthewloscar2893 Absolutely not true. I work with batteries. Lithium based batteries - being them LiPo, LiFe, Lion, etc - don´t chemically like to be on full charge. Thats why they never - absolutely never - came on full charge from factory. They came on what is called "storage charge" (nominal), which is usually around 40% of the full charge. On hobby batteries, which usually are never used that many cycles but are equivalent to phone batteries in its structure, are worn out by mainly 2 things. The high temperatures they endure on high rate charge/discharge cycles and the lack of care when storing them outside of their recommended storage charge. The (decent) chargers have the option of put a battery on "storage" charge. So, before you put it away for 1 or 2 weeks, being it fully or partially charged, you should put it on "storage charge" so you can keep them on good shape for much, much longer than if you don´t.
This video was meant for non-techy people who have questions about overcharging and overcharging protection. Not everyone is knowledgeable in this kind of stuff ya know
Nintendo put out a statement saying that if you’ve left your switch charging on the dock for long periods of time you can actually fry the battery and it will essentially become direct current switch because the battery will no longer hold a charge. I can stand and say this is true being some who’s had a switch and the switch lite I never took my docked switch off the dock for 3 years and when I did finally the switch wouldn’t turn on but when it was docked it was fine.
But what happens when it’s running off of its own source but goes down to 99 then charging to 100 then stop charging? That’s gotta be bad for the battery
Well why is it that I charged my OLED overnight and it stops charging close to 100% and no longer charges at all now?! I have a oled for about a year and this never happened till now and I just bought another OLED after this has happened and now it's happening to the new one after 3 days?! Know anything about this?
Having the battery at 100 is all the time is just as bad as having it dead. I only connected it when it’s low and remove at a max of 80 unless I REALLY need that extra juice for the time being
Quick question: my Nintendo switch was at 2% before I plugged it in. Immediately after plugging it in, it skyrocketed to full battery. Is there any way to fix this?
Deeper question, why do y’all even care? Nothing you can do can mitigate batteries aging and the only outstanding quality of getting a depreciating battery is how much you use it so at the end of the day you’ve used your battery as much as the guy who burnt out their battery quicker. It’s better to enjoy the time you have with the thing
My switch is jumping to random numbers whenever I take it off the dock it can never be portable again I have to replace it I just don’t want too since it’s one before the revision maybe I’ll just jailbreak it or something
Hi bro I have new nintendo switch oled when charge it for first time from 42% to 100% and turn it off totally off when I turn it on after 2 days I found battery 95% is it norma
My dock works great, but after I turn off the switch when it's on the dock a lot of times, the switch goes into rcm until the battery dies without being connected. It could be my dock that does this.
I knew that was what it had to mean… After all, why else does my seven-year-old console still have a good lifespan? I mean, it’s not as good as the physical component patch a couple years later… but it doesn’t feel degraded, it has good life still! (Apple could learn a lot, lol. Optimized charging is cool, but it could be better if it forcefully stops at 100!)
This is true, but it goes from 99 to 100 over and over again. It may stop charging at 100, but the second it goes to 99, it starts charging again. This is called trickle charging, and is bad for lithium battery life. Edits are spelling fixes
no that doesn't answer the question. Li Ion batteries last the longest when kept between 20-80%. The Switch will charge to 100% then the charging cuts off yes, but once the battery begins idly discharging (batteries discharge even when not in use) the charging starts up again, this is bad for the battery if you are regularly topping it off every time it goes down a percent. The ideal solution would be that the charger charges to 80% then lets the switch discharge 5-10 % before charging again, and fully charge periodically.
You know your completely incorrect and think you know better than a bunch of tech guru geniuses in a billion dollar company? Lol Yes lithium battery has it drawbacks but you didn’t take in the factors on how the switch has a separate processor in its console to run a signal and its not the same as a laptop being hooked up to a monitor. It also has an overcharging built in circuit and you didnt take in factor of how heat and environmental conditions are the actual problems than trying to baby a 800 cycle 80% battery. That would last for years and the only way to actually take care of it is to not reach 0% at all, 80% to 100% fake ideal scenarios doesnt matter when a lithium battery just hates being charged up end of it all. It would last for years anyways and has the ability to be used in sleep mode instantly which was exclusively designed to help slow down an inevitable battery degrading technology.
@@islamardjoune1042just use it. Your switch isn’t going to stop working if you use it Infact it’s more likely to die if you don’t, enjoy your time and when it gets old, invest in repair, not scare tactics
Yes but Nintendo say you should get 800 charge cycles. That’s years!! Say you charge your switch from 0-100% once every 2 days (no one will do it this frequently IMO) - it’ll be 4 years before 800 cycles have been used. Realistically I think the battery will comfortably last 6-8yrs depending on usage. Which for a £300 console is amazing to be honest.
where did you get that information from, that the switch does not use/charge the battery when at 100%? just from the image at the top? sounds like BS and I really dont trust nintendo in doing anything correctly. Keepoing the battery at 100% is bad practice and destroys the battery, thats why every phone manufacturer keeps the phone only at 80%, not at 100% over night
Meanwhile my DS still working after 10years of me losing the charger
bro you lucky my dsi doesn't turn on at all
That’s good 😂
So you didn't play it after 10 years
@@hurricaneian09Lit’s most likely due to a dead battery
Yes even my gameboy advanced is still going strong
I'm calling the new switch
"The Super Switch 2000"😅
Or the "SS2" for "short"
Get it?😂
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oh, thats actually kind of sick. i mean, its not rocket science to make it so it does that but its still pretty cool. if nintendo was lazy, then im pretty sure they wouldnt add this "feature". idonno if you need any type of coding in order to have this feature, or if its just built in to the motherboard in the dock itself.
Having power bypass the battery and go straight to the components is a hardware thing, you need connectors from the port to the motherboard in addition to the standard connection to the battery
USB c stops charging when it’s at max health to preserve the battery health
It has nothing to do with port type
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@@almightyingot it does on phones bc USB pd will lets the cable and device communicate to change watts and charging speed
Thx man I was so scared that I broke it
@@ziggytron345 What communication does a USB-C cable make possible? The one between your phone and your electricity 😂?
It's all inside your phone (and dock) and has nothing to do with the port type..
I was genuinely wondering this the other day as I don’t use my Switch OLED all that much. So it stays docked most of the time. I am glad that I now know!
It would be better if the state of charge wasn’t so high when docked. A lot of people are primarily docked, so the 95-100% trickle charging it does isn’t very helpful. It would be better if they did some sort of 80% limit, or an option to, so it can preserve battery health. Sure it’s pretty easy to replace the battery, but what if you just… didn’t have to? The battery theoretically could last like 10+ years before it starts expanding or something if it’s taken care of properly
but when down again into 99 % percent it will start charging again and thats how the battery damage for charging over and over
yes but it's so nominal and consistent with regular battery charging patterns that by the time it refils itself that 1% 99 times for a full charge cycle, it would have gone through that cycle if it was on a regular charging schedule anyway, maybe even longer past a normal cycle charge usage.
The dock always charges the switch. If you put it in, it will always charge until you take it out.
@@jay_ay2713 yeah, thays why everytime you charge it or played it in the dock the battery gets cooked. and then you need to replace new battery again.
@@PinoyGamingTribethe catch is this is within a years time unless you’re in this weird scenario where lithium ion batteries aren’t rechargeable and they just don’t retain energy after being discharged and recharged this won’t happen instantly.
Surprisingly enough this isn’t like immense pressure that technology never experienced before, this is just average capacitive nonsense, your power supply goes through this every hour or so that you use it, your average switch or even oled deals with this strain every few days or so, whether if you play it or not on the dock, it also does this with its joycons.
@PinoyGamingTribe yung mga pamahiin mo wag mo na dalhin dito sa social media.
My switch life definitely dying and in constant life support
I love the switch. Just give me this exact same thing again but with more technical power and ill happily buy a switch 2.
I’ll wait for the Zelda version of switch 2
It’ll be worst that a ps4 in terms of power, buy a steam deck 2 it’ll be WAYYYYYYYYYYY better
@@Jokerxeno1 but... there is not a steam deck 2 yet :/
There won't be a Steam Deck 2 until late 2025.
but other people won't. To get consumers attention they at keast need a different more appealing design. if they don't cgange its appearance, grandma won't see a reason to randomly buy it for her grandson.
Thanks ❤
I wished every laptop manufacturer would finally do this by default!
Nice loop and info 👍
This is why I love nintendo
neat, i always wondered about this. thanks!
*vibin to mario kart*
I don't have to worry about that I only take out the Switch when I want to sit outside and get some fresh air after I finish reading or if I'm going somewhere that's going to requiring a long car ride otherwise I don't take my switch out of the docking station just to move it around my house so I can say I can play on the couch instead of playing it in my bedroom.
it is impossible to keep it at 100 percent all the time without charging. It will eventually decrease to a 99 percent even if the battery is not in use. so the dock continiously trickle charge the switch for the battery level not to drop which is not really bad for the battery versus discharging-recharging which uses the charge cycle more, but it is much better if Nintendo gave users the option to charge the battery only upto a specific level (ex. 60%, 70%, 80%) before being bypassed. it is more useful for us "dock" users and better for the battery in the long run than keeping the battery at 100 all the time.
They been doin that since 3DS times even DS times I’m pretty sure bc the charging light disappears when it’s fully charged
Thanks I just got the same one today’s
PSA: While the switch may stop charging, somehow power is still getting to it. I left my switch on the dock for a couple days at college and when I went to play it again, it no longer worked. Took it to GameStop, they sent me to a tech store, where he found that the problem was that the battery could no longer take on power because it had been charging for so long. It would have been $300 to get it fixed and mine was out of warranty. Do not leave your switch on the dock. Take it off the dock and set it next to the dock even if you don’t intend to play.
MY NINTENDO SWITCH HAS BEEN IN DOCK FOR MONTHS AND ITS STILL WORKING FINE
@ That is good, I’m happy for you.
i used my childhood nintendo dsi as my alarm. i set the alarm and set it next to me while i sleep.
Thanks!
Your first😮
Works for switch lite as well. I have it plugged in sometimes and forget but it disconnects when it reaches 100
many laptops do this too :D
My switch's battery actually goes down in battery when playing more graphically intensive games when docked.
I could have it docked playing zelda and if I check the battery an hour in, its not at 100% anymore.
I've heard of that issue, I think you have to replace the battery or get a new switch
Really when I do mine only drops to 99 but goes back straight to 100
Mine doesn't go down, however it gets too hot
@alyssahall28nah, my switch has never done that and I bought it around the first year it released, usually with more graphical games it just takes longer to charge while playing
bro i literally broke my 3ds and its prolly still working today THAT WAS 2 YEARS AGO
The viewers still live in 2000s like wtf we already solved overcharge before
Yes, but keeping an Li-Ion bat at 100% for a ling time is far from good. Even apple have an option now to limit the max charging to 80%, so the phone isn’t kept on 100% charge for hours and hours, everyday.
@@Winters11 battery percentage doesn't matter, only battery cycles, and once it's at 100%, it's purely powered by the power source, meaning it's not damaging the battery any more than charging it nornally
@@matthewloscar2893 Absolutely not true. I work with batteries. Lithium based batteries - being them LiPo, LiFe, Lion, etc - don´t chemically like to be on full charge. Thats why they never - absolutely never - came on full charge from factory. They came on what is called "storage charge" (nominal), which is usually around 40% of the full charge. On hobby batteries, which usually are never used that many cycles but are equivalent to phone batteries in its structure, are worn out by mainly 2 things. The high temperatures they endure on high rate charge/discharge cycles and the lack of care when storing them outside of their recommended storage charge. The (decent) chargers have the option of put a battery on "storage" charge. So, before you put it away for 1 or 2 weeks, being it fully or partially charged, you should put it on "storage charge" so you can keep them on good shape for much, much longer than if you don´t.
This video was meant for non-techy people who have questions about overcharging and overcharging protection. Not everyone is knowledgeable in this kind of stuff ya know
Indeed, but many companies still don't implement it. Lots of laptops handle it the old, dumb way.
I wish party animals was on the switch😭
I had figured that the switch would stop charging the battery and draw power from ac adapter
On dock power does not bypass battery. Only way is to limit charge. L4t switch root has this
Mfs acting like you can’t just replace the battery lmao. There is nothing you can do to prevent the battery from aging.
Yeah buddy my Nintendo switch being in the dark will definitely run down the battery even though the Chargers literally connected to it
Nintendo put out a statement saying that if you’ve left your switch charging on the dock for long periods of time you can actually fry the battery and it will essentially become direct current switch because the battery will no longer hold a charge. I can stand and say this is true being some who’s had a switch and the switch lite I never took my docked switch off the dock for 3 years and when I did finally the switch wouldn’t turn on but when it was docked it was fine.
But what happens when it’s running off of its own source but goes down to 99 then charging to 100 then stop charging? That’s gotta be bad for the battery
When it gets to one hundred it’s starts to use power like a normal console that’s plugged directly into the wall
I think I broke it. Last night, it was like 94% and the next day, when I want to use it, it's dead..like..:/
Damn, sometimes external factors like the cold can affect it, but probably not that dramatically. Hopefully its fixable
this is literally what basically all devices do
Mine is still working after 12 years of owning it. 😂
if only they made the controllers not garbage
I always wondered that!
Idk, but my switch loses battery when playing games even when docked
it shouldn't, are you using the charger that came in the box?
@@hugopayne9446 yes, it's the only one I have
@alyssahunter2965 did it work?
Not charging your your battery till 100% actually extend your battery life, charging it till full repeatedly can damage the cell,
I read it as "Dog."
What happens when you plug a USB Switch charger into the switch dock with both ends in while connected to your TV?
Endo is a Fnaf character 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
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what are you saying
Good gaming phones have this
Well why is it that I charged my OLED overnight and it stops charging close to 100% and no longer charges at all now?! I have a oled for about a year and this never happened till now and I just bought another OLED after this has happened and now it's happening to the new one after 3 days?! Know anything about this?
So basically it just charges the battery and doesn't use the battery while in the dock
doesnt it stop charging at 100%
@@toastbud32 yes. But while charging it doesn't use the battery but it uses the power from the dock to power and charge
Maybe like making us stay there why is my Nintendo switch not charging I thought I was gonna reach 110 💀
Having the battery at 100 is all the time is just as bad as having it dead. I only connected it when it’s low and remove at a max of 80 unless I REALLY need that extra juice for the time being
Quick question: my Nintendo switch was at 2% before I plugged it in. Immediately after plugging it in, it skyrocketed to full battery. Is there any way to fix this?
☺️Thanks
I use the charger cord
Thank u so much
Does it work with the older dock.
Yep
Deeper question, why do y’all even care? Nothing you can do can mitigate batteries aging and the only outstanding quality of getting a depreciating battery is how much you use it so at the end of the day you’ve used your battery as much as the guy who burnt out their battery quicker. It’s better to enjoy the time you have with the thing
I turn off the charging outlet anyways after I’ve finished playing
Does it mean it has bypass charging like the modern laptops?
Thank god
Does the overcharging stop thing work on the nintendo switch v1?
is that work with usb-c charger?
My switch is jumping to random numbers whenever I take it off the dock it can never be portable again I have to replace it I just don’t want too since it’s one before the revision maybe I’ll just jailbreak it or something
Is this for all switches?
Yeah
@@EndoUA-cam nice! I’m selling mine and was a bit worried so thanks
@@EndoUA-campls can you explain it more bcs i want to buy ninten switch oled and i didnt understand pls
Every switch has methods to make sure good battery health is kept
@@EndoUA-camwhat method you recommend for the switch oled so I can keep a good battery on it just bought one a few days ago
When switch is charging while turn off.. how can we know it is fully charged ? Is there an indicator ?
Hi bro I have new nintendo switch oled when charge it for first time from 42% to 100% and turn it off totally off when I turn it on after 2 days I found battery 95% is it norma
Shouldn’t the battery still go down while you’re playing in TV
My dock works great, but after I turn off the switch when it's on the dock a lot of times, the switch goes into rcm until the battery dies without being connected. It could be my dock that does this.
Wow
well my switch is broken. it has no battery life. even when its plugged in
So does it recharge when it’s gets down or do you gotta pick it up and put it back down
Yes
Please do not that
that answers the question what you didn't finish the sentence stop trying to make stuff perfectly looped
I need american accent 😢
I knew that was what it had to mean…
After all, why else does my seven-year-old console still have a good lifespan?
I mean, it’s not as good as the physical component patch a couple years later… but it doesn’t feel degraded, it has good life still!
(Apple could learn a lot, lol. Optimized charging is cool, but it could be better if it forcefully stops at 100!)
Switch dosent work After 2 weeks no charging
Nint
This is true, but it goes from 99 to 100 over and over again. It may stop charging at 100, but the second it goes to 99, it starts charging again. This is called trickle charging, and is bad for lithium battery life.
Edits are spelling fixes
redundant
no that doesn't answer the question. Li Ion batteries last the longest when kept between 20-80%. The Switch will charge to 100% then the charging cuts off yes, but once the battery begins idly discharging (batteries discharge even when not in use) the charging starts up again, this is bad for the battery if you are regularly topping it off every time it goes down a percent. The ideal solution would be that the charger charges to 80% then lets the switch discharge 5-10 % before charging again, and fully charge periodically.
You know your completely incorrect and think you know better than a bunch of tech guru geniuses in a billion dollar company? Lol
Yes lithium battery has it drawbacks but you didn’t take in the factors on how the switch has a separate processor in its console to run a signal and its not the same as a laptop being hooked up to a monitor.
It also has an overcharging built in circuit and you didnt take in factor of how heat and environmental conditions are the actual problems than trying to baby a 800 cycle 80% battery. That would last for years and the only way to actually take care of it is to not reach 0% at all, 80% to 100% fake ideal scenarios doesnt matter when a lithium battery just hates being charged up end of it all. It would last for years anyways and has the ability to be used in sleep mode instantly which was exclusively designed to help slow down an inevitable battery degrading technology.
@@mza2001pls can you explain to me more i am new to Nintendo switch i want to buy one how do i do to let my battery safe for long time pls
You can read about some test on batteries in the following paper. Search it with this doi:
10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.07.057
@@islamardjoune1042skull emoji
@@islamardjoune1042just use it. Your switch isn’t going to stop working if you use it Infact it’s more likely to die if you don’t, enjoy your time and when it gets old, invest in repair, not scare tactics
Doesn't answer the question of charging over and over again and increasing charge cycles
Yes but Nintendo say you should get 800 charge cycles. That’s years!! Say you charge your switch from 0-100% once every 2 days (no one will do it this frequently IMO) - it’ll be 4 years before 800 cycles have been used. Realistically I think the battery will comfortably last 6-8yrs depending on usage. Which for a £300 console is amazing to be honest.
Bro your screen is dying oh sit
Nice loop, take my dislike!
where did you get that information from, that the switch does not use/charge the battery when at 100%? just from the image at the top? sounds like BS and I really dont trust nintendo in doing anything correctly. Keepoing the battery at 100% is bad practice and destroys the battery, thats why every phone manufacturer keeps the phone only at 80%, not at 100% over night