QUADSTICK disconnects randomly

[Noob 2Perfection]

My quad stick will blink on the bottom right one green and then 2 in the middle will blink red for like a second and then it restarts and it's fine Until it will randomly do it again I've unplugged it restarted my computer turn off my computer unplugged everything and replugged everything in any ide?

[Fred Davison]

In general this problem is due to the PC trying to save power and turn off the flash drive in the Quadstick, not realizing that the flash drive is associated with a mouse/keyboard/game controller.

There are a few approaches:  Try to find the setting in the computer that will stop this behavior, use a powered USB hub between the PC and Quadstick, or use the Quadstick with the flash drive turned off.

Sometimes it can be a simple as setting the PC for maximum performance in the Power options.  

Try going through the USB suspend settings:  https://quadstick.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/user_manual/um/windows_10.htm

Using the Quadstick with the flash drive turned off is done by adding a Preference setting to each configuration file that sets the USB emulation mode to 6.  (Firmware must be 2365+)

Preferences
Preference	Value	Units	Description
enable_DS3_emulation	6	on/off	Turn off flash drive

Example configuration:  Mouse2 no Flash

Keep in mind that when the flash is turned off, QMP cannot make any configuration changes, so there always needs to be at least one configuration file the allows flash drive access that is used while making changes with QMP:

Mouse2 with Flash

Before making any changes to your Quadstick's configuration files, make a backup copy of the CSV files to a folder on your PC.  That way you can recover quickly from any configuration problems by erasing the flash drive and copying back in the known good set of CSV files.

As a test, you can download both of those Mouse files to your Quadstick, select Mouse2 no Flash and see if the problem stops occurring while that file is selected.  If that fixes things, then go through your custom spreadsheets and add the mode 6 emulation preference.

Here's the tricky part:  If the default.csv file, or the prefs.csv file is changed, they will automatically force the Quadstick to select and reload the default.csv file.  (Other configuration files will not automatically reload, they need to manually be selected again.)   If the default.csv does not have flash access, you will need to switch to a configuration file that does to continue working with QMP.

Let me know how it goes.

[Noob 2Perfection]

I have used the same script for months and haven't changed anything The only thing that's new is I updated Windows Could that have anything to do with any of this

[Fred Davison]

When Windows updates, they often reset settings to their default values.

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[Noob 2Perfection]

Could this be the cord do I need a new one?

[Fred Davison]

This is not the first time someone has reported this problem.  If you search the forum for usb selective suspend you will find several threads on this topic.

[Noob 2Perfection]

Thank you Fred download the flash drive file to my to my main file and it seems to be working.

[Fred Davison]

Great!  Thanks for letting me know.