Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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He said it was the quick access button (QAM), which is the ". . ." button, not the select button. You can also see him pressing it in the video with his right thumb.
Also I finally found it, that button combo puts the Deck in battery storage mode.
Oh, I see it now. My bad. I missed him specifically showing that early in the video and later it looked like his left thumb was being used instead, but it's not.
I even remember looking at my own Steam Deck to see the icon on the "select" button, and it didn't ring a bell being called the quick access button. (Because it's not.)
In addition, I mixed up my looking at the button with him zooming in on that button in the video. I would have sworn he did that, and I was about to go take a screenshot of it, but he didn't. Stupid brain. [In my defense, it turns out I have a fever. ๐คง]
Battery Storage Mode
This Steam page says you enter battery storage mode through the BIOS. It doesn't mention there being an additional hotkey for it. Where did you read that that's what this key combination does?
It apparently used to say it on Valve's official FAQ for the steam deck, but it's since been rewritten to only mention the bios method. I found a 4 year old reddit post where they directly quoted the older version of the page.
I also confirmed on my Steam Deck that it works, I was able to get the double blue led flash (which confirms you've entered battery storage mode on the OLED) by plugging the deck in, turning it off, holding vol+ and QAM for 10 seconds, and then unplugging the Deck (while still holding the buttons)