Controller keeps disconnecting and reconnecting
Don't know why, but starting this week my controller would turn on fine and then the light will start flashing (disconnecting) and then reconnecting a few seconds later. This happens frequently and randomly throughout the entire time I'm playing something. I've shaken my controller to try and replicate it and it doesn't work. It happens whether the controller is plugged in or using batteries. It happens on any game I play.
Oddly enough it happened to my friend first (online, not in person) while we were playing a game together and then the next day started happening to me on my controller and console.
I've updated my controller, console, hard reset my console, changed batteries, bent the metal pieces in the battery holder to make the batteries fit better, all to no avail. Has this happened to anyone else before and are there any known fixes? I don't believe my controller is broken since the exact same thing is happening to my friend too. We live across town from each other so it's not like it's an issue with just one console.