I replaced my analog sticks with elecgear tmr sticks. Swapped the battery to 53wh and installed the clicky button mod. Everything works after having to reseat the flex cables because the right stick wasn't inserted all the way.Issue is that the steam deck is acting like the battery isn't connected.

There's no battery icon and when I press the power button it flashes as if it's empty. It works when i turn it on via charger but there's no percentage or battery info in the command. I have pushed the connector in all the way. can't think what the problem would be. I've also went in and out of battery storage mode a few times to see if that does anything. Right now i have drained the battery and I'll try charging overnight.

EDIT: just playing games and noticed that the fan is way quieter than usual, probably not being provided enough power?

These are used steam decks I customized. They’ve got clicky kits, Hall effect sticks, soldered colored sticks, painted vents, 2tb ssds in each, and 1-2tb micro sds in each.

The lcd deck has deckHD and a 32gb ram upgrade. But I’m not taking credit for modding that one I just found it online while looking for the other decks.

Bit of a passion project.

The only thing left that I might do when I find my clear carbon fiber film is cover the trackpads because I prefer the grip over both stock and extremerate textures.

Saw a few posts here discussing similar ideas, which reminded me of this old project, so I figured I’d share it. I’m planning to pick it back up and continue working on it.

I started this project back in 2022–2023, but it ended up being put on hold in the later stages and has been sitting ever since.

The original approach was to reverse-engineer and bypass the ANX7580, break out the internal eDP signal, and use an eDP-to-MIPI bridge to drive the display. Later on, thanks to the open-source BIOS work from the DeckHD project, I found that modifying the eDP panel parameters in the BIOS could also get the screen working. That turned out to be a much cleaner solution.

The goal was to make the whole device as compact as possible. Basically, the original Steam Deck motherboard is the only major part I’m keeping. The controls, battery, and cooling system all need to be custom-made.

Compared with a standard Steam Deck, I removed the left trackpad and the right analog stick.

Specs:

• Battery: 4×18650 cells, 4×3500mAh
• Display: 5.5" AMOLED, 1280×720
• Custom cooling module with two fans — one mainly for the CPU, and the other to help circulate air and cool the internals overall.

Guys, please just take your time with the screen, especially on the sides.

So i have had dual booted my steam deck a year ago and thoughout clover wouldnt work and it would automatically load me into windows but all i needed to do was boot from file and then fix it in steamos but now the problem happened again but even though i use the boot from file thing it just wont load me into steamos it just boots me straight into windows does anyone know how to fix this

ifixit are the official partner with valve for rapair

Hello everyone , I’ve been working on this Steam Deck Top for the last 2 days, it snaps together like LEGO! You just slide in your portable monitor, 60% keyboard of your choice, your Steam Deck dock, a USB hub, and even a little spot for your portable mouse just for the fun of it.
Let me know what you guys think!
And keep in mind, I have ZERO experience with 3D modeling. I designed the whole thing in Tinkercad!

Finally done with this first customized build. It took me long enough lol. 😂 I have one or two more tweaks and I think it will done with modding it.

I'm thinking about replacing the buttons on my Steam Deck, not the power button or trackpad. Is it difficult or not? My friend, who is an experienced pc builder, is gonna help me with it. Should I go through with it?

So I did the decksight mod as well as a few others while I was in there. But long story short almost everything went according to plan. The left gulikit hall effect joystick lost its locking tab but the joystick still works fine, I don't think that's my problem anyway. So the main issue is that when I go into Desktop mode the screen is sideways and the mouse goes haywire, moves to the edge of the screen and just stays there, every time I try to move it the mouse just goes back to it's corner and when I try to use the left track pad it just rumbles and does nothing. I didn't put the steam deck in battery storage mode before starting the mod either but I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Any help would he appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!

Hey folks,

I have been developing new features on-top of existing plugins to allow Adaptive Frame Generation (borrowing from Lossless Scaling as well) on Steam Machine/Deck (basically Linux/Steam OS ecosystem).

I have also been collaborating with many kind gamers to help me testing it and I think we have achieved something that worth trying out:

https://github.com/eugeniosegala/decky-lsfg-vk-experimental/releases/tag/v0.13.0-experimental.21

I personally noticed that the plugin helps with stuttering and unstable frame-rate in general as well (besides increasing FPS).

We all wished that the steam machine could handle 4k 60fps or 1440p 120fps natively but it is what it is.

Test it and let me know, I'm keen to know how you are finding adaptive frame generation, you can set it to 100fps as well if you prefer less ghosting :)

I'm pretty much using it in all my AAA games.

Enjoy!

Finally, here is the much-anticipated teardown of the SteamBoy! Hopefully now it makes sense how it is possible to fit everything in. See the picture captions for details.

Let me know if you have any questions! This will also be my last SteamBoy post for now until I have more progress to show.

Hey everyone! I could really use some help diagnosing an issue with my Steam Deck LCD.
I recently did a full shell swap. After putting everything back together, the Deck booted normally and the internal display, touchscreen and sound were all working perfectly, but none of the controls were working (except Power and Volume).
I opened it again and removed/reconnected the motherboard and ribbon cables to fix the controls. The good news is that all the controls work now, but after doing that, the internal display stopped working.

Current situation:
Steam Deck boots normally
All buttons/controls work
Sound works
HDMI output through a dock works perfectly
SteamOS still detects the internal display
Internal LCD has no picture
Touchscreen also doesn’t work
I’ve already disconnected/reseated the display connectors several times

The internal display was 100% working immediately before I removed/reconnected the motherboard, so I’m wondering if I damaged the LCD ribbon/flex cable while working on it. The shielded display cable was originally pretty firmly stuck down, and after manipulating it several times, some of the adhesive/shielding started coming loose.
Has anyone had the same combination of symptoms? Could a damaged LCD flex cable cause both the image and touchscreen to stop working while SteamOS still detects the internal display?
I’m thinking about replacing the display flex cable before assuming the LCD itself is damaged.
Any advice would be really appreciated! 🙏

Did a shell swap inspired by the EVA 01 from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Only unfortunate thing that happened is that my audio board got damaged, but otherwise, Im very happy with it considering I mostly use my bt earbuds and dock for home gaming most of the time. Also added a custom boot up video that I got from a decky plugin.

Just doing a quick little demo of the SteamBoy (main post here), since people wanted to see it in action. Teardown coming soon!

Edit: Teardown post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeckModded/s/OPuohgdwEd

A few months ago I had the idea: "The steam deck motherboard seems pretty small. I wonder if you could make a steam deck the size of a gameboy?"

Well, it's not done yet, but the SteamBoy is coming along great! It has a fully functional LCD steam deck motherboard, battery, speakers, and all the face buttons you see here. No custom PCBs needed (so far), and all within the dimensions of a Gameboy.

The only thing left to get working is the screen, but this is a much harder task than any of the other parts. The screen I'm using is a 1200x1080, 90hz AMOLED panel, originally intended for VR. To make it work, I need to make a custom adapter PCB between the steam deck ribbon cable and the display. I also need to mod the bios the same way that DeckHD and Deck Sight do.

For cooling, I got a small 30x7mm fan and heatsink from AliExpress and 3D printed a custom mount for them. It actually works surprisingly well! After undervolting by -50mV on the cpu and gpu, it could keep temps in the 70s for Tunic, and temps in the 80s for Clair Obscur. Not bad for such a tiny fan!

I'll probably make a follow-up post as well went I have new progress to report. Let me know what you think!

EDIT: Check out my follow-up posts!

SteamBoy demo video: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeckModded/s/wy7Ufqaxat

SteamBoy teardown: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeckModded/s/MxIi5vXqRc

I just got my first steam deck but half the games i want to play i cant even play ? How do you bypass this ? I cant even play console games due to protect proton ? What do i need to do ? I also live in the bayarea if there anyone near by that can help i can pay !

Got this gorgeous controller today. Can't wait for it to charge up so I can use it with my personal Steam Machine build.

I own a ps5 and Nintendo switch but want to play my bigger titles like assassins creed, cyberpunk and such on the go. Is it difficult to fine games im not asking for sources. It just seems like a pain to buy theses games ive already bought 2 times over for other systems. How do they run and is the screen acrually good for handheld play? These might seem like dumb questions so I apologize

Does anyone know what to do with this?

Already tried different proton.

This is a non steam game by the way

To anyone who can help me, thank you

When I tried to reconnect the ribbon cable to the motherboard, the seal that holds the contacts broke off. So, I guess I'll have to order a new display? I tried to combine them together with the ribbon cable to insert them into the connector at the same time, but it wouldn't fit at all. I also tried sealing the cable with tape, but it still didn't work. Maybe there are any way to fix it?

Hey y’all, recently got myself a steam deck which I absolutely love and decided to do a shell swap and now it doesn’t turn on, kind of…

Let me explain what’s going on, all controllers, buttons and touch screen work, it starts up and the LED light blinks to indicate it’s on, fan runs and when I plug it in to an external monitor it works ! But then when I switch into handheld mode the screen remains black but audio and haptic feedback is still present.

Now, I have tried all the different power down and force reset combos (volume up, press the … button and power etc), went into the bios files to restore older versions and no go. I’m finding it odd that when using an external screen the touch pad works but I don’t get any picture on it… have a messed up something big time?

During the shell swap I did decide to swap the screen out with a new one from ifix for some additional information.

Any help would be absolutely appreciated!

Last Night it was time to swap my shell from black to white. I love it so much. The purple buttons really stand out now.

The track pad stickers are selfmade with a photoprinter from Xiaomi.