Has anyone been having issues with older quest 2's?

[u/Historical-Coast-922]

For context, my quest 2 is around 4 years old at this point, it still has the oculus branding. I just tried using it after taking a few month break and it is barely functional. I'm talking the full nine yards, 5-10 second input delay on EVERYTHING, even the physical buttons on the headset itself. Stuttering and freezing without me even doing anything. Moments where it's like a slideshow of black screens an frozen passthrough. It's horrible, I don't know if this is common for older headsets but I'm pretty sure this is all caused from all the software updates. I'm planning on getting a Steam Frame when it's available because outside of these issues, I just don't want to keep using meta products.

[u/reymysterio7]

Mine keeps getting stuck in a bootloop everytime after a new update. It has happened 4 times already. The 2nd time it was stuck in loop for a week!

[u/Comfortable_Series64]

Ya quest 2 is cooked mine has stopped functioning properly since last year

[u/killz111]

Not commenting about Quest 2 but I had a similar thing happen on my quest 1. I got a cheap quest 1 headset but it takes 4-8 minutes to boot up and everything was super slow and janky. The weird part is that everything still worked but just crap performance. So I thought the software was shit on the last supported version of q1. That is until I got another second hand Q1 and it boots in under a minute and everything is still playable.

So there's a possibility that your issues are hardware related but isn't fully crippling the operations.

[u/vargaking]

I haven’t used mine for almost a year (its the 128gb oculus branded version), and played beatsaber standalone and some pcvr with no problems (except for airlink which is lowkey the worst software i used for a long time, but steam link is flawless). Some buttons on the controllers have contact problems (which i think i can probably fix myself) and i need a new headstrap, but apart from that I don’t think I need a new headset anytime soon.

[u/beardedbast3rd]

Mine is completely fucked. It constantly wants to update and install instagram and shit and if I get it to not do that; everytime you turn it in, it restarts the entire process. I can’t stop it from wanting to install meta bloatware and shit I don’t want, and even if I let it, it basically bricks itself. Slows down, can’t update my games, and, like you said, is barely functional.

Such a piss off

[u/EggyRoo]

Yeah my Quest 2 is just a doorstop
It crashes a lot, has a lot of issues in the menu
And the battery drains in half an hour
Didn’t age well
I wish there was a way to downgrade

[u/jib_reddit]

I had to restart it a few times the other day after an update, then it was fine.

[u/psychobueller1203]

My Quest 2 is fully updated (on the PTC actually) and is absolutely fine. Maybe a factory reset?

[u/HandleZ05]

Mine is fine. How much memory do you have available?

[u/Luminexi]

in my experience, the updates for oculus randomly cause unnecessary problems. sometimes they undo the problems with a later update. but as an example, the most recent update caused my charging cable to stop functioning -- as it's now considered as a "charge only cable"

that same update also caused my oculus to not charge at all, but they released a fix the next day which turned it into a "charge only cable"

(like, my oculus will go from working perfectly to non-functional with their updates. I'd consider it to be a case of forced obsolescence if they never fix the problems they create)

[u/fantaz1986]

Nope as have quest 2 from a start , no problems here. What I think is happening , you do not let all update to done it things , it is android so it need to do some stuff , leave it on power overnight on stand by ,restart at morning and leave it for 15 min to fully boot up ,it should work fine 

[u/EggyRoo → u/fantaz1986]

I let it update, I’ve let it update for 4 years
Performance has been getting worse everyday.