The fact that Nintendo seems to intend for your Switch to sleep rather then turn off has me a bit worried. Is it dangerous to leave sleeping? I don't want to damage my Switch by not taking the extra time to turn it off. How much power does it consume when sleeping?
What concerns me more is if battery suffers from Switch being all the time docked.
Anyone knows does power comes through battery or when it’s 100% Switch getting all power direct from power supply.
I hope you can understand what I mean
I imagine it's always powered via the battery even when docked, and it being docked keeps the battery charged.
Which begs the question, could Nintendo enable a higher performance handheld mode which drains the battery more quickly?
As for concerns about battery degradation over time/use of sleep button etc my philosophy has always been to use a piece of hardware as intended. Put a sleep button on it and I'll use that, thanks very much! I'm sure I'll be on to the next thing long before my Switch battery becomes a concern.
If its undocked and in sleep mode it will have some battery drain over time. I've had it happen. Only a percent or two over the course of time I've left it undocked. Its still connected to your wifi and can receive updates while its asleep. So theres naturally going to be a drain.
@kyleforrester87 Technically they could. But the system is under-clocked in handheld mode for obvious reasons. But I don't think there's a point to it when the screen can't even display 1080p, or when your battery drains within an hour.
Not sure if it runs on the battery when it's docked. Some mobile devices have a bypass that allows them to be turned on when the battery is removed. Which is quite useful when your battery dies in five to ten years from now.
@Octane I did wonder about a bypass like a laptop might have. Still, I know iPhones won't power on without a battery installed. Who knows with the Switch.. wanna try it?
I guess even a really worn out battery can always act as a throughpass from the main power supply, though. Only complete removal would stop it turning on all together.
@kyleforrester87 Not always. My PSP wouldn't turn on at all (even when plugged) before I replaced that battery. That's said, it's an ancient device nowadays. Maybe the Switch is different in that regard.
@kyleforrester87 The battery in one of my phones died, as in, it grew to proportions a phone battery shouldn't have. My phone didn't have that bypass, so it became completely useless, and I couldn't be bothered to look for a new battery online. I already had a new phone, so it wasn't a big deal, but batteries can and will leak at some point. If you think about it, it's weird that we're still using the same outdated 1800s tech to power our devices. We need a battery revolution or something like that!
It's designed to be left in sleep mode. Just like smartphones and tablets, that is it's intended use case as designed. The only reason to turn it of is, say, a long travel with it where you know you won't be connecting it to a power source by the time the battery will deplete through the idle drain, which would be a matter of days into weeks. So if you're moving, or on vacation and you know you won't be able to plug it in for numerous days, then turning it "off" to stop the idle drain may be a good idea. Otherwise if you'll be docking it regularly, or leaving it in the dock, it should be left on as intended for all modern portable electronics. Even PS4 and X1 are intended to stay running in "rest" mode and they're not even portable.
@MarcelRguez "Modern electronics have built in safes" Tell that to desktop replacement laptops that devour their batteries if left docked
@Octane I don't think they were using Lithium-Ion polymers in the 19th century..... But the problem is "batteries" are energy storage, not energy generation. And the more power you have to store in a small footprint the more dangerous it becomes. LI-Ion is already fairly dangerous overall.....imagine new tech that stores MORE energy in your pants? I don't really want the raw equivalent of 40lb of butane in my pants.
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