Quest 3 not charging - forever problem
Well I'm now a topic starter after replying on a two year old post. So - I have a few minutes this morning and will start a fresher discussion on this topic. OH - and in case you didn't see a posting date. I'm creating this on March 1, 2026. Last week my spouse's Q3 stopped charging. The charging has never been an issue since we purchased them well over a year ago. As most users have already noted, the battery barely lasts half as long as the Quest 2 did. So - we also purchased battery packs after a few 45 minute sessions gave low battery messages. We connect the auxilliary battery as soon as we've turn our Q3's on, and could probably play for hours, but being in our 70's our average play time is a little over an hour, occasionally stretching to 90 minutes. So enough of that. It worked fine for well over a year like that. Last Monday, my spouse's headset wouldn't charge. It had drained to 76% after our regular playtime, and we put it on the charger, and it actually dropped 2% after an hour. I tried moving it to the charger for my Q3, but nope, - it wouldn't charge there either. The charge port on her headset seemed a little looser than the one on mine, so I ordered two after market high quality charge cables with LED readout, and put both headsets on charge. Her headset showed an initial charge matching my headset for about 30 seconds and then dropped to zero. I switched the headsets and tried again with the exact same result. So I started googling, and searching for forums on Q3 headsets not charging, and tried every suggestion whether they made sense or not. so three days later and my headset stopped charging. Now I'm smelling a rat. The first thing that came to mind was - Meta rolled out some stupid update that messed up charging. I came to the Meta website to see if I could find current version, and possibly the date of the last one. I wound up on the forum page, and found out that this has been an issue for over two years. I'll try to make this short, but I hope to see some feedback, from someone other than the person who said the way I found my solution was comparable to "putting a cat in your microwave". So the solution for me turned out to be simple. I didn't need new cables. I didn't need new charger blocks. I didn't need anything except to read in that old forum, that multiple users had been told or had heard that when the battery gets warm it kicks in a process that stops, or severely reduces charging. ***************************************************** Solution: For two days now, I've been waiting three hours before connecting the chargers. I have Alexa, and just tell it to remind me in three hours to charge my Quests. It's only been two days, but it's working so far. I had given up on my wife's Q3 and ordered a new one. It's setting unopened in the package it came in, and I've already got a return request created. If my solution is still working a week from now, the new Q3 will be returned, and I'll have saved a bunch of money, NOTE: Out headsets have never felt even the slightest bit warm, but apparently the battery or some component triggered the "no Charge" cutoff.