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Teflora
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September 27, 2026
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Quest 3S messed up after update

  • September 27, 2026
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Hey there!

I wanted to take the dust off my Quest 3S today. After booting it up, it forced an update onto the system. After that update, nothing is working any more.

It boots up normally at first, but first thing asks me if I want to enable wifi debugging. If I cancel, the request comes up again 1s later. Even if I say yes, it comes back up 1s later. The whole visuals of the hub are also extremelly unresponsive with the screen not updating for seconds at a time and my input not going through.
The only option to advance is clicking "always enable wifi debugging on this network"
But a few seconds after that, the whole system is completely unresponsive. It doesn't detect any input from me any more, sometimes the head tracking turns off. I can see the store window in front of me, and it updates and is animated like normal. But after that there's nothing I can do anymore besides restarting the system and going through it all again.

Is my Quest 3S completely useless now? Did the update just brick my system? I don't know what I can do from here, as I can't find anything about this online.

    Best answer by Teflora

    I ended up doing a factory reset and now it's working normally again.

    5 replies

    TefloraAuthor
    New Participant
    September 27, 2026

    Small update
    Correction: It kept asking me for "wireless debugging"
    Between canceling with the 1-2s of input I could before it prompts me again I was able to deactivate the wifi and it stopped asking me.
    Still, after about 15s of overall time of it working, all input stops working. controllers, hands, even the volume controls don't work anymore. Even after a restart, I have 15s of navigating the menus until it happens.

    Edit: I found out I can reset the 15s timer (sometimes it can be up to a minute) by holding the meta button for 10s. That resets the UI and takes me to the store page. So if I need to go through anything in the settings, I can for a short while

    steve40
    steve40
    Honored Contributor
    September 27, 2026

    but first thing asks me if I want to enable wifi debugging

    So, I think... you have SideQuest installed?

    TefloraAuthor
    New Participant
    September 27, 2026

    I have downloaded Sideloader onto my PC if you mean that, but I never connected my Quest, I just booted it up and that happened.

    TefloraAuthorAnswer
    New Participant
    September 28, 2026

    I ended up doing a factory reset and now it's working normally again.

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