XBOX ONE CONTROLLER with STRANGE FAULTS - Will it WORK Again? 

I had to laugh today, one of my Patreon supporters commented on a video where I fail to fix something, they said “My Mate VINCE wouldn’t have given up so easily…” and they were dead right !

Great Job Vince, and good job on the sponsorship! A hall effect sensor usually has 3 connections, GND, VCC and output. The output voltage varies with the magnetism detected, so now you know how to test them :) on another note I got approached by a company to do a review on something so things might be looking up!

So much fun Vince. I’m really happy that you got sponsored buddy. You’ve worked so hard at this, and you SHOULD be recognized!

So happy with the sponsorship Vince, congrats! 🎉

Well done on the sponsorship vince, glad to see you taking the channel to new heights

Nice finally you have a sponsor after all of these years you deserve it as well

So happy this one worked in the end after all that work. Also, loved the sponsorship (and congrats on that) - you're the only youtuber who makes the sponsorship section interesting to watch.

It's been amazing watching the skill transformation over the past few years, this is excellent troubleshooting and repair!

God tier levels of persistence. Another great fix. Well done, Vince!

I've never watched a PCB Way ad, but this was interesting enough that I did. Good job.

Great fix Vince. I love your perseverance and I have learnt so much from your videos. Congratulations on the sponsorship 👍

been watching you for years mate keep it up

Great Video Vince I had same issue on the left Hall effect .. never had any spares.. got a replacement board from Leigh very cheap !!

Congrats on the sponsorship! That's the first time I didn't fast forward through and ad!

Great job! For measuring smd capacitors and smd resistors I have bought measuring tweezers, which you can connect with your multimeter.

VINCE if was in the UK I would ask you in person if I could be your apprentice. You do dam good work of the lot of controllers you work on and you show the entire process from start to finish. Absolutely fantastic work sir.

For some reason I really wanted it to start working at 3:05 then have you say "All fixed, hope you enjoyed the video!" Ultimately glad it wasn't that short, really enjoyed watching this. But it would have just been hilarious.

That controller job lot was a lot of fun. So many interesting faults in one box!

Great video! For the intermittent issues, try resetting the controller (holding the sync button until it vibrates again).

Holy sh!t i thought you stopped youtube i used to watch your videos in 2016 and i remembered you glad to see you again 🥳🥳

What you need in the future is a preheating BGA station to pre-heat the board so the solder melts faster and doesn't damage the tracks and crucially the ICs .

Hi. I had the same situation with one of the triggers few days ago. It was constantly on like in yours. In My case removing a capacitor near the hall sensor fixed the problem. Inspection done using my microskope revealed that it was damaged. After that trigger started working normally. Nice job with changing the whole board with that Microsoft chip. I Like your videos

Of course you will have a sponsor, you do interesting videos! Any more thoughts regarding the TV offers? I think that if your nervous about doing them, then start with mechanical repairs rather than tiny circuit boards until your nerves settle! We really do want you to do this rather than anyone else!

Another great video. I had the same problem with the 100% trigger. I found a very strange fix that is to remover the small cap and resistor and it worked.

The superhero of electronics at it again to save another

Hi vince, nice win and an earned one too 😀Now you have a sponsor (congratulation to that) you can finally get a pre-heater. That would allow you to remove the board much more easy. You might remove the small nozzle from the hot air station to target a larger area.

Great fix Vince, love your determination and effort! I feel it may have been slightly easier with a stencil and solder ball paste for the chip though😂

Hi Vince & The Cod3r have you considered using one of those cheap pcb board pre heaters used by mobile phone repair shops, often sold quite cheaply on AliExpress? I think if you had used that with a little kapton tape to protect the smd parts then this repair would of been quite easy. Not only that the small pre heater would come in use for other projects ;-) I sometimes cheap out on using the old Kapton tape and use the wifes tinfoil (bacofoil) to protect the smd parts.

Remember when he used to make tutorial videos, and tried using different controllers from different consoles

Great job, Vince! I've repaired a couple of XBone controllers for my kids and the fault has always been a resistor, I think their parts quality is very low. One of the failed-open resistors I peeled the paint off and inspected had a teensy, but visible crack in the resistor element. **IDEA**: For testing SMD parts, I use something called 'tweezer probes' - they look like tweezers, but each prong is connected to a wire that goes to the DMM. This makes rapid testing of SMD parts very easy. Excellent video and channel, thanks so much for the entertainment! Cheers!!

What a weird one.. but a great fix. Good job on the sponsoring! You really earned to be sponsored.

The board is castellated, the majority of solder would be within the half-through-holes and not on what small amount of plated surface padding exist at the ends of those through-holes, you should have been able to use a wick to remove a majority of the solder that's there, if not all of the solder entirely. This kind of job is also where a hot plate is super, super useful, not only will it evenly heat (mostly, there are nuances) the entire area, but it also frees both of your hands for other work, not to mention their benefits for SMD, BGA, and components with fine pin pitches, and benefits over hot air stations and reflow ovens; GreatScott! and Carl Bugeja have some content on hot plates, designs are entirely DIYable considering price and quality can be concerns with what's currently on the market. Also, I've been able to find schematics, at least for 1708 and I'm not sure what else the creator has, but Columbia-Tech-Schematic here on RU-vid is a decent resource for schematics that otherwise aren't findable elsewhere, super useful for these more complex designs where things disappear into vias, not to mention having pinouts for various connectors and boards.

thanks for the videos!

Good job mate 👍

It's great that you got an electronics sponsor for the video.

Hello, It’s nice to finally see your face mate!

Nice fix, I wonder if the original owner left that trigger jammed on while answering the door or something blowing the chip then the resistor? If it was me removing that board I would have not used a nozzle as that's what probably caused the ripped pads.

Great to see you back Vince, its been a while. Everything OK in MMV land?

Great job dude

Happy new year, Vince. I'm glad to see that you have a sponsor this time. And I'm doubly glad that it's a service that your viewers can use, and not some garbage like "Raid:Shadow Legends". I know you wouldn't feel comfortable peddling an overhyped micro-transaction posing as a game. It's nice to see you with a sponsor that you feel comfortable with. Best of luck in 2023! (Think about doing that TV show if that's still an option. You have the personality and magnetism to make it work)

Great video 👍

Vince when wicking the solder add flux to the solder wick, it will wick it up a lot easier to remove the solder is my tip of the day!

whooooo a fix video :D awsome vince mate

I have the same controller but for mostly pc i own a xbox one love these video @my mate vince

nicely done!

Nice fix and congrats for getting a sponsor. My controller is white but has the same number, so far no problems.

I swear your hands are so rock solid you could manipulate individual atoms under an electron microscope. I remember those days! Now I'm older I could make a frappe holding onto a glass of milk. 🤣 Been following you for years bud and as always, a great meditative experience watching you work.

Hi Vince, you can probably use a little magnet on the little shield to lift the small board without ripping the traces the next time 👍

Cmon Vince it’s been ages since I could do a snooker reference in the comments

Good job and Congrats on the sponsor! One thing, I think I may have tried to just reflow that original BGA chip. Microsoft has a history.. lol

Brilliant Vince glad you sorted it out, I relaxed and kicked back and fell asleep 😴 joking watched and loved every minute thank you and congratulations on the sponsorship you deserve it

Great Video! Also reminded me that I've still got a broken xbox controller that I should really fix! :)

If the trace to a lifted pad isn't covered up by the part it's usually easier to fix the connection after putting the part on.

Great video vince. I'm having an issue with my controller aswell, I have recently changed one of the joycons and the circularity is off it now travels in a square any help would be appreciated.

Some interesting news m8 Google just announced its opening up the epic Stadia controllers to be used on other devices and they are still to be found for cheap as chips, next week this happens as Stadia ends on the 18th, I'm happy as I got two of the controllers and they are any bit as good as a Nintendo Switch Pro controller :)

Thanks vince my controller was doing the same I can check mine the same way

Great fix

Hey Vince nice repair. How about the "Frankenstein" Controller you planed a long time ago (from all of the rest parts of the joblot)? Greetings from Germany.

Vince buy a pre-heater. It would do this job easily.

Great job vince is that a piece of jumper wire used in that fix ???

Hi Vince hope your Christmas was good

Always interesting to see these controller repairs. No two faults are ever the same lol! Very strange behaviour before the update - I was thinking maybe a bad solder point (perhaps around the module you replaced)? But the firmware update seems to have fixed it?!?! The resistor going open circuit is probably from a drop - a bit like ceramic caps they can be damaged by shock. Caps tend to short, resistors tend to go open circuit!

the problem removing the board is you are using a very narrow tip in the hot air station. In these cases where the area to work is larger, you should use a larger tip.

9:39 The reason the thing only draws 140 mA is because of Ohm's law that states I = V / Ω. And 1 Volt across a 7 Ohm resistance path generates 1/7th Amps of current. The only way to increase the amperage in this case is to increase the voltage. 2 volts would generate twice the current (and four times the power). 12:06 You're right. Heating a conducting material increases its resistance. Every conductive material has a temp-to-ohm curve, and copper is no exception. Fun fact: each material has a so-called "critical temperature", where if the temperature goes below that, the conductor becomes *superconductive,* exhibiting zero electrical resistance (and, thus, theoretically being able to pass an infinitely strong current). Copper's critical temperature is 43 Kelvin (or -230.15 Celsius or 382.3 Fahrenheit).

I got distracted by the way you say Haribo 🤣🤣 but great video

Good video now lets see the other one you took apart working too

Congratulations on the sponsorship

Wouldn't those board to board interconnects be a great job for high quality solder wick? The Low Melt solder might have been a good choice, hot air is always a good idea to preheat the Board and increase your chances of not damaging stuff.

Great video as usual Vince is the controller tester on your pc a free to use if so where can I download it please retgards Jeff

wow well done vince so small some of the bits

great video. i have a xbox one controller that does not power on right away but if you leave the usb on for fair bit of time it finally gets power . Does has right stick drift. would you like to fix it

How do you make a difference between a common ground connection and a short circuit?

It could be weird after module replacement because of different firmware versions running in different chips around the controller. Updating made them all have the same version firmware (set).

You could do with a little preheater or hot plate for jobs like this, just so you can keep the whole area at a certain temperature. Might make things a little easier? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Pretty nice Repair Vince ... Now I know why don't service remote controls hahah lol

i had one of these blue ones but the USB port from it broke and I went to switch it since it was under warranty and there wasn't any blue ones so I instead got a white one that still works to this day

Maybe some firmware related settings are stored at the board you replaced and the update reset them.

My friend has a sound bar and sub that’s stopped working, it’s led lights up but it not receiving a signal from hdmi or optical inputs. Would you be interested in looking at it?

Does anyone know know where to buy the vice dat is used at 20:00? It is small, due to the spring it is fast to use and it could be made from stainless steel so solder is not sticking to it. Perfect! Thanks again for an interesting video Vince, I am learning a lot from you!

Nice job fixing the controller I didn't really watch the video I was listening to it while making a cat toy with feathers I was wondering is that the xbox controller that also has Bluetooth capability ? I have one I bought to connect to my phone that looks exactly like that one if I have ot pack away at the moment so I don't know the model # but when I bought it it said it was for the xbox one s and of course the xbox one as well as having Bluetooth so it can connect to other Bluetooth capable devices like cellphones and computers wirelessly , just curious about the one you fixed and if it sends a Bluetooth signal out so it could connect to other devices

Been waiting for a return to xbox one controllers from Vince! Cool be the part 7 ! Lol 😂

My original black controller have faults in the dpad up and down does work properly

whats the tool called you use scrape the board to reveal the traces?

Is your experience that with the Microsoft Controller boards its easy to rip traces apart?? I tried to fix my 360 Controller (faulty Left Button) and ripped a trace while trying it.

Hey, i guess you get this asked often, but what kind of Flux do you use? Thanks!

It doesn't look like you removed the low melt solder from the board with traces you repaired. You might want to revisit that later if you didn't just cut that from the video cuz that will cause issues with solder cracking and connectivity like it's a cold solder joint.

Hey Vince. I've got a problem with an original xbox controller from 2013. I had just taken it apart out of curiosity, but when i put it back together, the triggers and sticks don't work. I think there's something wrong with the rear pcb board but have no idea what caused it. Any ideas?

what is the name for the software you use to check the xbox with?

If there was ever a time to use the yellow mat, this was it...

Wonder if the firmware got corrupt from heat

It’s also really easy to get into the controllers components!, just take my little brother and make him play a game of Fortnite and he will slam the controller on the ground!

You really need to get a board holder 👍

You are use a to small nozzel for the hot Air.

Awesome

Personally I would of taken the nozzle off the hot air gun. Circled the entire inplace PCB, putting plenty of heat in the entire area. Something to think about maybe. PS. I am not an expert, so own judgement required. 🤔

My psychiatrist: Mustachioed Vince can't hurt you, he's not real. Me: 4:51 . . . . . . . . . . Sorry Vince!

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So there's no discount code from the sponsors so basically it's pointless to the viewers and My Mate Vince is reaping all the benefits... Nice one... Your the only you tuber with that amount of subs who claims poverty!!

I’m dying to see a Roller update

Xbox. One. Controller. With. Strange. Faults will. It. Word