Just curious what you guys would do. Since I got my steam deck new about 6 months ago, Bluetooth has acted weird. The Bluetooth setting would randomly disappear, literally would not even be in the settings menu. When I would go to desktop to try and see if I could see it there, it says no Bluetooth adapter found.
Randomly when I would restart it, it would show up, and even let me connect, but after a few minutes it would disconnect and disappear. This wasn’t a huge deal, because I don’t use Bluetooth headphones, and when I played docked I used a wire, but it started to bother me for some reason lately. Just the thought that a core component of a device I paid good money for doesn’t work. I couldn’t resell this this way.
I decided to buy a cheap $10 Bluetooth dongle to see if it would work. I plugged it into the dock, and sure enough it worked perfect. Playing docked is the only time I would ever need Bluetooth, and the dongle fixes that issue.
Still can’t shake the feeling of getting a lemon though. But the Deck is my ONLY gaming device I have. So if I RMA’d it, I would need to open it up, reinstall the original 64 SSD, reinstall the OS, send it in, wait a week or more, get it back, open it back up, install the 1 tb SSD, reinstall the OS,and then reconfigure all my emulators and 3rd party launchers. I just don’t think it’s worth it for a Bluetooth internal chip that I never would use.
I’m conflicted. Thoughts?
If you happen to open it up to check things, pay a little extra attention to the Bluetooth and wifi antennas plugs.
They are very tiny and delicate, be gentle when looking and prodding, it could be the bluetooth one is barely touching instead of being fully inserted.
Could be like that from factory, could be you laid your deck down a little hard and the hit dislodged it.