I got my touch controllers at launch and I've been using the included AA batteries. Last week the right touch controller stopped working and I noticed it's battery was completely dead, while the left hand controller still has full power left in the battery.
Is anyone else noticed the right hand controller draining battery is faster than the left hand? I asume they don't get approximatlely the same amount of use, so it seems odd that the right one would be completely dead while the left controller still has full power.
Mostly just got a bad set of batteries from Oculus?
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Try using menu's etc with your other hand, evens out the battery usage a bit
Also, the right battery went completely flat, while the left battery was still showing FULL power in the oculus setup...
Guess no one else has noticed similar behaviour then... I guess I'll pop in a couple fresh batteries and see if the right controller goes flat prematurely again...
So you could try swapping your left and right battery after 10 hours or so
first time you have ever made me LOL.. Nice...
on topic. My controller indicators went from full to dead in the matter of three hours. Of course I had been using them since launch and this was about two weeks ago. But I do believe there may be something off with the way the controllers measure the battery?
But a lot of people also say the right controller is more likely to glitch (I've had that too). Could it be glitching because it's battery is lower due to vibration motors? Or is there a fault in the design that makes it drain faster than the left?
Are left handed people finding the left controller glitches more than the right or loses power first?
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I've posted this Reddit discussion a while back that has some good info on it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5hxynl/touch_batteries_lasted_4_days/
I set mine up on Christmas day and still using the same batteries that came with it. So I imagine they must be getting low by now. Being right handed I assume that gets more use for me as I do tend to shoot rocks in Dead & Buried while waiting on players.. and I do tend to use my right/ dominant hand for that and also for throwing cards at the enemy players.
Probably in game as well - I imagine I shoot faster with my right.
Will be interesting to check - but Id be surprised if the right isn't lower than the left.
edit: (hand controllers)
The batteries lasted WELL over a month for me.
They both died basically at exact the same time, so cannot confirm what the OP says.
Now will see how long the Enerloop will last. The batteries before were some Chinese (?) ones which are probably the original the controllers came with.
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I'm always putting the controllers down so no buttons are being pressed but yet they drain regardless. Would have been nice if they had actually included an off switch to prevent accidental battery drainage. But i guess i'll have to take the battery out every time i stop using the controllers, which is quite inconvenient but this is getting ridiculous.
I slip a plastic strip between the battery and the terminal when they're not in use.
Dear Oculus, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", please.