Quest 3 suddenly making repeated connect noises & won't recharge.

Many thanks for your comments. I thought I was going mad or something, but the problem obviously doesn't affect just me then.

Do you mind me asking, does yours sound / act like my Q3 in the short video I linked?

Either way, my Q3 still isn't charging anymore (now down to 30%) and it seems that the latest update is currently bricking my Q3 so this needs rectifying immediately.

Many thanks Choleni​ for your very kind help. It's sadly reassuring to see that many others are having the exact same problem.

I've completely read over both threads and will try the connection process methods, but only as a temporary measure as I'm not putting my gear through excessive wear & tear connecting and disconnecting everything every time I simply want to use something I've bought.

Therefore I'm not marking anything (at the moment) as a "solution", and if this isn't resolved within the next week or two I'm selling the Q3 and never returning to Meta ever again.

I have only found out about this bug last night when I experienced this exact thing. The INIU cable is really good and I was disappointed to see it doing this. I need to use VR a lot for the stuff I do and Meta really needs to push out an update that fixes this.

I personally wouldn't bother having the power plugged in then as all it's doing is messing with enabling Link while not charging anyway. God only knows what kind of possible detriment or even damage this malfunction with the electrical supply may have upon the battery / rest of the headset.

Also, from what I've also read, while we can apparently roll back an update, it's supposedly pointless as the moment the headset goes online it automatically updates to the latest version again. I saw something somewhere saying that a line of code can be put into the headset to block updating - but that's currently beyond me (for today). Might be worth looking into if / when Meta bring out a fixed update though.

That's exactly what I'm going to do as soon as it comes back to normal. Reminds me of window's update, it's never better

Yeah, that's my video from my original post - albeit linked better 🙂

Yup, this essentially is "Denial of Service" via "Operational Disruption" regardless of 3rd party accessories being used. More specifically (if this act is intentional) this could be called a "Remote Blocking" which can cause "Hardware-Based Restrictions", but there's far too many legal and ethical considerations involved with such a matter to want to open that can of worms.

As I've heard a few (admittedly small amounts of) reports from Official Link Cable users that are also affected, that would debunk the 3rd party cable theory - providing those official cable reports are genuine and not planted purely to give false impression.

That though is (IMHO) all too speculative and unfounded to be considered as the most likely scenario here - for now. I still give benefit of the doubt - again for now. That said, the longer this issue goes on (with silence) then obviously the more suspicious this would seem & become.

Either way, yeah, had it not been for the Link Cable functionality I wouldn't have bought the Q3 as I use VR daily for gaming, cinema, and just as an alternative monitor for well over over 2 hours at a time (with short sensible breaks every now & again) so this "change" is clearly very significantly detrimental toward the products suitability as it was and still is sold for.

That's a completely reasonable response to this situation, which I'm now very much considering too.

Yup - most definitely does.