This is by far the best video out there on fixing the analog sticks on Xbox controllers. Everyone else has you doing practically a complete tear down but you show perfectly that you don't need to do that. Thank you!!
This video helped me a lot! The grey plastic part that sticks out the top snapped, while trying to glue it back together I drop a glob of plastic bonder into the analog box! Thank you!!
Thanks for having one of the few vids where it’s not just tearing the joy con apart. I’m about to practice on an old controller before I fix the intended one and this video is really helpful
Worked for me. I have minimal experience in soldering, but was still able to remove and add new solder just fine. Thank you! Attempting to fix it and succeeding sure beats not trying and just going straight out and spending $60 on a new controller. I bought four analog replacements (four in case any were defective) on Amazon for about $6 total.
As a note, I used a general hobby soldering iron. I let it heat up for a long time. I added solder to the tip to tin it (the iron tip) before removing old solder with suction. I then used clean iron tip to add new solder (I'm not sure that's how you're supposed to do this. I thought my work mates told me to keep it tinned when adding new solder, too, but that didn't seem to work to well for me.)
After every solder point you should wipe off your solder pen or gun tip on a wet sponge with distilled water to help with oxidation of the solder tips before moving to the next solder.
This will be the video that taught me what I needed to do to replace my Xbox One thumbstick mechanism. I’ve replaced a few bumpers before but never actually did any soldering. I think you did a thorough job explaining this and I do appreciate it. I’m getting ready to buy my first soldering kit on Amazon right now. Liked & subbed. Thanks a lot gamer. 👍🏼✌🏼
Great video! Thank you for taking the time to show us how to do this properly. Could you recommend a soldering iron, type of solder & the temperature you recommend using while working on this type of repair job?
I did this job before and it worked good last time but today I did a new job on the series x putting a new analong on and now the right analog stick is showing it’s being pushed to the left what to do hope I explain it well this is a new analog I soldered on
Ive done 2 joysticks and both times after replacement ive made it worse somehow. The joystick goes to the right or left so fast i cant make it go the other way. What am i doing wrong?
I have severe tendinitis and can only play with the hori mini ps4 controller because of this but the sticks have too much tension and cause my thumbs too become tired fast. Does anyone know a company or person i can pay to have the tension reduce in the thumbsticks to that controller? Anyones help would be much appreciated
@@juliomanuel8664 yeah I cant help you there unless you shipped it to me and I did a physical repair but I dont trust myself like I belive I could do it but I dont wanna take the small chance if me ruining someone else's controller so I'm sorry to hear that...I know how to fix it but it takes special tools
I have done this exactly. Been learning more and more about soldering, never knew how complex this hobbie /job can be. I think I just need to find a good flux and cleaning method as well as the optimum heat temperature to be using that won’t burn my boards and destroy the contact pads. I see you play Cuisine Royale, I’m lovin that game right now, just hit lvl 200😝
@@akarshanmishra2351 You just can't hold the soldering iron close to the board for too long. A good rule of thumb is to only keep it next to the board for 2-3 seconds, anything longer and you risk damaging components or the pads themselves
Liqweed1337 you might be letting your solder tip get oxidized, which will affect the heat transfer greatly. You want to be constantly cleaning the tip off via sponge/ and or copper mesh while at the same time tinning the solder tip. To do this you just apply solder to the tip and reapply as needed. You should end up using more solder keeping your tip tinned than what is actually used on the board itself.
Miguel Maldonado , i don’t think so because I also wanted to replace another analog from a controller that didn’t have any issue it was just that the first owner glued a joystick to the analog stick so it broke when trying to remove the old joystick , and know that controller has drift on left one when the one I tried to replace was the right one
The original controllers are software calibrated in the factory to suit the analog sticks. You will be lucky if a new stick centers exactly like the old one. There is a video on YT showing a trick to manually tweak the pots or if using on a PC it can be calibrated on the PC. I would advise to try cleaning the wipers in the old pots if the problem is stick drift. Also there are some really bad (cheap) analog sticks being sold that have big dead zones.
The-Old if you’re still looking for ones, check out battlebeaver replacement modules cuz they have various tension options and are higher quality than stock
Hi there. I've just replaced my analog stick. Soldering went fine, but is now sort of snapping at 45 degree angles. Did I do something wrong or is it just a fake and shitty analog stick that I bought? While testing it can go to 100% on both axis which is not possible on original stick.
Did you sort the problem? Mine are doing the same. I can move the stick to any point, but they 'hug' the 4 axis (up, down, left and right), so its really hard to get it to go where I want it. Found this out when I use the controller tester app on the Xbox one. I wonder if its a tension issue.
