Topic: Joy Con Unreliability

After having various drift issues resolved over the years, I seem to be encountering a new set of issues, and wondered if anyone has any insight.

Firstly, I am finding that 2 of my right joy cons can be rather unreliable. They will usually connect, but regularly disconnect or have delayed response whilst playing.

The second issue is a set of joy cons (purple / orange) have suddenly stopped displaying their LED lights. They connect, but without the lights it is not clear which player number they are.

Anyone have any ideas? I really don't want to send them off for repair, after having done it many times with other ones to sort the drift problems, and pay silly money to repair (especially as last time I did that they billed me for a fault I had no idea existed!).

Thanks

Andy

@AndybUK
Nintendo support does have a trouble shooting page that appears relevant to the LED lights. I'm not familiar with the issue otherwise. Step 1 for all joycon troubleshooting is always, make sure joycons are updated.(you probably know that part)
The Player LEDs Are Not Working on the Joy-Con
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a...

Regarding right joycon connectivity: Are you talking about connectivity issues while the right joycon is attached, or detached? I had issues with my V1 switch, where my attached right joycon was a bit fussy about connecting, or staying connected. It was a known issue with the console, but the connectivity problem was usually only when setting up a game. It almost never happened during actual gameplay. So, that made it tolerable. I can't recall if I've had the joycon connectivity issue since I got an OLED a year ago. Side note: I typically only saw joycon connectivity issues with certain games. So, for me, it seemed to be more of a game related issue, not a hardware issue.

That's about the extent of my knowledge.

Many thanks for the reply. The connectivity issue is when playing on the TV, not handheld.

I will look at the support pages you suggest re. the LED problem. Thanks.

@AndybUK Check whether the SL, SR and synch buttons are working on the controllers where the LEDs are not working.

I'd say it's a good chance the ribbon cable for the rail has failed. It happens, I've had a few with that.

The buttons do work, it just seems to be the LEDs themselves, so perhaps that's it. Sounds like a repair job.