i had this problem with the driver’s door and i had the problem of the mirrors not working and the windows not working off the switch in the driver’s door, the memory seats would move mirrors to memory position and the window’s would work off the key and the other switches, this was after replacing my mirrors with new ones form stealers £1800, so i fiddle and pushed and pulled and twisted then read the forum and tried the battery thing, then the driver’s window would work off the driver’s door switch, so after reading forum i thought it either had to be the switch or the connection in the door jam. i went to my mate who reset ecu and cleared all faults, still didn’t work, he said there was no connection in the switch when he tries using the computer to control them, he said it must be the switch cause it’s not responding, so i rang my mate so i could go round and fit my new interior and while i was sitting in the car with it running i plug the driver’s door switch back in and thought let me see if the mirrors would fold, guess what they folded and all the windows would work off the switch and even my passenger door lock indicator wouldn’t go up and down for the last year started to work.

i come to the conclusion that the switch must be like plug and play and the ignition needs to be on for the switch to be recognised, similar to when you plug a device into you home pc and it recognises it and loads drivers..
Hope this helps, it sorted all my lock window and mirror problems at once.
Maybe a lot of parts need to recognised by the car with the ignition on