Currently if you search squishy joycon no results point to a bad battery. I’m hopping this will help someone on the future who is confused by a squishy feeling joycon.
This happened to a joycon that sat for a long time and is about 6 years old currently. Squishy is the only way I can describe holding this. Looking at it from the side you can see gaps and bowing which is a huge sign of a bad battery. While attached to the switch I can feel the edge sitting a little abover the switch instead of flesh with the edge. Check your warranty, if you still got a warranty I suggest sending it in for a bettery replacement. If you want to take apart your joycon (voids warranty) and confirm a bad battery you will need a triwing 00 screwdriver and a pick. Watch a disassembly video to avoid damaging a ribbon cable just on the inside. If you can’t quite tell if the battery is bad or not try spinning it on a table. A bad battery will spin and a good one won’t.
That’s it for all the info I got, hope this helps someone.
by ZappyBunny
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Good to know
Be careful with the bad battery, they’re fragile and if it gets punctured it could catch on fire
That’s lithium ion batteries in a nutshell. They don’t like being 0% or 100%. Being empty, it’ll bloat like this. Being full, it’ll lose its longevity in a few years.
This is why newer phones have a longevity mode that caps your charge at 85%. I personally think the 85% should just be the new 100%, though.
In my experience you should try to avoid stabbing this directly with a knife, even if the temptation calls to you. Lord, I know that it calls.
Have you tried spanking?
Huh well I just took a look at my joy cons and the right one is clearly bulging, the left one looks fine. Definitely out of warranty and I really only use it docked mode with a pro controller. Thought they’d be fine. That sucks because I do use them while traveling.
they literally just soldered the wires in? there’s no way to remove the battery without soldering?
Oooooor that it was put together clumsily (mine after I changed the shell lol)
I actually pulled my 3DS XL out the other day before the eshop closed and discovered that my battery had swollen. Ordered a new one off of Nintendo’s online store (coincidentally, it looks like it sold out a few days later) and already got it installed.
Not always the case.
My right OLED joycon bowed outwards a fair amount which caused it to be quite wiggly when docked.
Took it apart, battery was fine. One of the shells was just warped a lil. Gave it a slight bend and tightly held the halves together when assembling, and it’s significantly better.
Unfortunately it’ll never be perfect because it has a manufacturing defect. The top shell is ever so slightly longer than the bottom shell, which means it will never perfectly line up.
I have never ever seen this on any joycon before. Sent this to my friend who has had FIVE switches over the years and he’s never seen this either!
I never knew about this. How do you safely change a lithium ion battery? Or even get it out? Or will some place like Home Depot just take the whole joycon? How do I tell if mine are bad before they get bloated and dangerous?
Oh yeah. I’ve collected a lot of 3DS and switch consoles. Now I live in fear, considering that a single switch console contains 3 Batteries
This was genuinely a great post to spot thank you!
Nintendo will fix it for free. Just tell them it’s got drift.
If this burnt your house down would Nintendo pay for it?
Time to play some hot potato.
Probably because squishy is such an insane way to describe the hard plastic joycon.
I have never had a joycon last long enough to get to this point. They usually drift within 6-8 months
I swear, there needs to be a class action lawsuit against joycons.
4 joycons, and all of them have the drift issue, twice over each.
Now there’s a battery issue too. These have got to be the crappiest controllers ever made. And I say that as someone who genuinely loves to play my Switch. It’s just wild that most third party controllers out perform the joycons themselves.
Of course the commie is also the switch adult
The forbidden pillow
This shouldn’t be a problem because you have to replace the sticks every 6 months and can inspect the battery then
Is there a risk that the battery will burst? And if so, what is the danger there? Will it just leak battery acid or will things go on fire? I’m always afraid I’ll have old electronics in a drawer I never look into and one day my house will burn down because of that
I’ve had this happen to the Switch itself. At first I thought it was just warped (was like this since I got it) but it inflated until it was getting difficult to put it in the dock
It just gained a little weight, don’t judge. Lol it just wants some switch sports to lose it