SX CORE Battery drain

[ernesto2111]

i would like to report an issue i detected with sx core. It's draining the battery when the nintendo switch is completely off. According to my statistics, it drains about 2% per day without any use
My N. switch it's almost brand new, my battery has no more than 8 charges. Not a big deal but it's there and I just wanted to report it. Regards

 

[MomZo]

Are you saying that if your Switch is full battery and you let it rest for 50 days without playing, the battery will be empty..? Crazy!

Did you already try to do the same with a smartphone, a camera or a laptop? Give it a try, you might be surprised...

 

[ernesto2111]

Are you saying that if your Switch is full battery and you let it rest for 50 days without playing, the battery will be empty..? Crazy!

Did you already try to do the same with a smartphone, a camera or a laptop? Give it a try, you might be surprised...

I already did the same test on my switch (before the sx core installation) and the drain was around 3% during a month with no use at all. Sure dude... crazy

 

[MomZo]

And your Switch was not coming with a charger when you bought it?

 

[ernesto2111]

And your Switch was not coming with a charger when you bought it?

I'm only reporting a battery drain case that I noticed. If you wanna make some jokes just pick another thread to get someone's attention

 

[Grimlock97]

Yes there is a confirmed battery drain as it seems obviously that the switch does not power off fully.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/sx-core-and-sx-lite-test-units-received.565210/page-137#post-9157856 npavlovici measured 0.003A drain.

 

[excellen234]

Yes there is a confirmed battery drain as it seems obviously that the switch does not power off fully.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/sx-core-and-sx-lite-test-units-received.565210/page-137#post-9157856 npavlovici measured 0.003A drain.

Thanks for sharing the solution.

 

[MomZo]

Hum, with this thread, this is a total of 3 people who complained about it. But reading the text, 2 of them seem related.

 

[ernesto2111]

Yes there is a confirmed battery drain as it seems obviously that the switch does not power off fully.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/sx-core-and-sx-lite-test-units-received.565210/page-137#post-9157856 npavlovici measured 0.003A drain.

Thank you. As I said ... it is not a significant thing but it is good to know how to prevent it

 

[josete2k]

Yes, you also can boot into genuine boot and power off normally from OFW.

I have a v1 with trinket modchip and it has same fault... I think it's an sxos related issue, not modchip.

SXOS doesn't power off the console properly

 

[MomZo]

I've compared the current draw on a Lite with SX Lite installed vs without SX Lite installed, scoping the voltage drop with a 0.25 ohm resistor in series on the battery positive rail. Used latest SXOS 3.0.4 with latest SX Lite firmware.

Selecting "Power off" from the Nintendo OS menu and then waiting a few seconds gives the same current draw of nothing for both modded and unmodded Lite. So it looks there's not really a battery drain issue using SXOS on a SX Lite.

So I'm not seeing any issue here

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