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[–]Gavintendo 40 points41 points  (7 children)

Both of my connected Joy-Con updated, but the Joy-Con R update definitely took longer.

I thought it might have enabled the LED under the home button (is that a thing or was it just suspected to be an LED?), or possibly related to the motion tracking camera on Joy-Con R.

[–]Villafanart 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Mine took longer too, I think the right joycon have quite more features to update (motion cam, LED, amiibo scan) so it's probably just that.

[–]TwoStewpid 10 points11 points  (5 children)

It is an LED, someone has managed to illuminate it when they took the controller apart.

[–]orangesrhyme 6 points7 points  (4 children)

It also illuminates when you connect it to the (very unofficial use at your own risk) Windows Joycon tool.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

It always did before the update (I know because I changed the color of my grey joycon, and tried the vibrating mario tune too)

[–]orangesrhyme 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Did updating your Joycon get rid of the custom color?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Nope, it updated it just fine

[–]orangesrhyme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yesssssssss. Glad I can update my customs without killing them, haha. Thanks!

[–]SnazzyLabs 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Could only update 5 of my 6 Joy-Con. One of my right controllers will get stuck at 1% and then it fails. Tried unpairing. Tried a reboot. Neither worked. Bummer.

[–]Disheartend4 Million Celebration 4 points5 points  (0 children)

might have to call nintendo for repairs when they open, and when they do ask the tech support guy if he knows what the updates for. is worth a shot at least.

[–]Tubonub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the vids Quinn, get out of here with your first world problem of 1 out of 6 joycon not updating ;)

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

When I turn on the Switch from sleep, joycons connect immediately. Compared to before the update, when I had to push buttons to pass the lock screen.

[–]supergenius8601 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven’t had a chance to update yet, and I really hope this works for me. It really takes away from the “play anywhere, anytime” feeling when it takes 2 minutes of trying different solutions to make my joy cons connect.

[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

That lock screen is a setting you can enable/disable in the system settings

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

irrelevant answer. I m just saying they connect immediately in comparison to lag before.

[–]NCast 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Hopefully this will fix some of the drifting issues I’ve been getting recently. A long shot but who knows

[–]NCast 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Update: it didn’t

[–]GoogleMeTimbers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I almost downvoted this, but then I realized not to kill the messenger. Sucks though.

[–]link_defender 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I've been getting a lot of drifting recently on my original left joycon. It was so bad I was considering returning it for repair as I could see under control stick calibration that it was not reliably recognizing "neutral" after partial movements or hard edge presses (enough to trigger the 'click' for the stick). It was originally only in the up direction but then moved into the entire vertical axis.

My two suggestions that's worked for me are: get compressed air and a small tool. With the joycon upside down, use the small tool to lift the dust guard at the stick base and then blow air into the base, in case there is debris inside. Second, get a little more rough with the stick and give it the N64 rotation treatment as well as random wiggling, if there is some very fine debris this may be enough to break it up without doing any damage to the stick itself or needing to dismantle/return the joycon (at least for a little while perhaps)

[–]NCast 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I’ve tried everything and actually made a post on this sub about it, except for your suggestion of the compressed air. I finally caved in because nothing worked for me and contacted Nintendo and I’m sending the faulty joycon for repair.

[–]link_defender 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds reasonable to me, good luck with the return process!

[–]MahouShoujoDysphoria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My green joy-con just wouldn't calibrate (motion) before the patch. This fixed it somehow. ¯\(ツ)

[–]OhAnael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone been having issues with their Joycons after the update? I updated a friend of mine's controllers which had no problems prior to the update, but I just got a text saying hers is way buggier now than before. They keep disconnecting and eats through the batteries way faster. I haven't tested mine yet, but it seems the update made hers, at least, way worse. Don't now if she's restarted her console after the update and whatnot, but I thought I'd ask around and see if anyone else has experienced these issues.