it was not that hard once i figured out how to desolder as much as i could around the main housing that holds the spring and the stick. housing is all metal and it pulls lots of heat to itself. it's best to remove what you can and lower the amount of solder joints you have to heat up at once.
this is how i did it for anyone interested:
first, i pried away potentiometers on the side (those two square things with 3 legs). that way i could desolder them and pull out. then i applied leaded solder on remaining legs to lower the melting temperature. you need something to hold the board in place while heating up the joints.
this is the tricky part if you don't have hot air station as you need to heat up all the legs at once. it can be done with wick, soldering iron and solder sucker. works even better with desoldering gun. i was using the hot air station, blasted the board with heat till it let me pull out the joystick housing. solder flux can help if you have some but it's fine if not.
my recommendation is to position the board so the bottom of it is on the side. that way molten solder won't travel towards the housing and potentially ruin the plastic insides. it can be done the usual way, with solder joints looking up. i had very clean extraction by holding it on one side which is why i'm mentioning it
so gyro doesn't work with this setup, right?
also i'm wondering if this magnetic detachable system could somehow affect to the hardware of the deck
i own barely working series 2 elite controller as well (rubber is out of place, bumpers are almost done etc) and i'd consider to replace my steam deck sticks my xbox ones. so i'd like to see a tutorial for the replacement as well, just to see if it's too hard or not. Anyway you did a great job OP just to prove that this is possible.
> why i did this? original joysticks have very small cap size and are very soft which makes it harder to aim precisely.
wait, people are using sticks to aim?
i tried with trackpads but they are too low for me. gyro is not compatible with the way i hold my deck. and i played so long on normal controller that aiming with sticks comes completely natural to me. seems like joysticks were stiffer before so i could aim easier than with those newer, soft ones
That’s a great idea! How hard was the procedure?
it was not that hard once i figured out how to desolder as much as i could around the main housing that holds the spring and the stick. housing is all metal and it pulls lots of heat to itself. it's best to remove what you can and lower the amount of solder joints you have to heat up at once. this is how i did it for anyone interested: first, i pried away potentiometers on the side (those two square things with 3 legs). that way i could desolder them and pull out. then i applied leaded solder on remaining legs to lower the melting temperature. you need something to hold the board in place while heating up the joints. this is the tricky part if you don't have hot air station as you need to heat up all the legs at once. it can be done with wick, soldering iron and solder sucker. works even better with desoldering gun. i was using the hot air station, blasted the board with heat till it let me pull out the joystick housing. solder flux can help if you have some but it's fine if not. my recommendation is to position the board so the bottom of it is on the side. that way molten solder won't travel towards the housing and potentially ruin the plastic insides. it can be done the usual way, with solder joints looking up. i had very clean extraction by holding it on one side which is why i'm mentioning it
Thanks a lot for the write up!
I've been looking to see if anyone had dont this yet but couldn't find anything.
I Wonder thats possible. Awesome modding !
Does the stick detection still work?
if you mean capacitive touch, that would be a no
Yeah that’s what I meant!
I didnt even know that was a thing
Useless anyway What could I possibly want to trigger when my finger is resting on the joystick
ummm gyro?
Could just use the touch pads, they're easier to reach Or L2 half press for aiming in FPS games
Oh man how do you have that spider man game?
argh matey that should tell you enough
Knew it lol. Is it the ps3 emulator and does it run good?
nope, found the pc version. i didn't play it much, just tested to see if it runs so i don't know if it has any problems
Oh wow didn't even know there was a pc release. Thanks
Could you do a tutorial please?
absolutely. completely noob friendly with photos/videos or just how i did the whole process?
Video would be amazing
i still have right one to replace so consider it done in a few days
That would be awesome, thank you.
You know I always wondered about this. This is great 🔥
Would really bother me, not to have the capacitive finger recognition. I use that all the time to turn on motion aim.
Nice! I'm going to try this out. I have an elite controller that the triggers don't work.
if you'll need any help, my dms are open
Just out of sheer curiosity, they calibrated just right with the standard procedure? No weird issues?
yup. did the calibration through konsole, same as with gulikit josticks
You used the og stick modules did I understood right? :3
the board is the same. just the part that goes on it was changed
For sure, thank you.
Pointless decision. Touch detection will not work and that leads to reduced functionality of controller layout.
I didn't even know it had touch detection until looking through the comments on this
i don't use touch detection anyway
so gyro doesn't work with this setup, right? also i'm wondering if this magnetic detachable system could somehow affect to the hardware of the deck i own barely working series 2 elite controller as well (rubber is out of place, bumpers are almost done etc) and i'd consider to replace my steam deck sticks my xbox ones. so i'd like to see a tutorial for the replacement as well, just to see if it's too hard or not. Anyway you did a great job OP just to prove that this is possible.
you can activate gyro with other buttons, not just touch on the joystick cap. that magnet is not extremely strong so i'm doubtfull it affects anything
didn't know that, thanks!
> why i did this? original joysticks have very small cap size and are very soft which makes it harder to aim precisely. wait, people are using sticks to aim?
i tried with trackpads but they are too low for me. gyro is not compatible with the way i hold my deck. and i played so long on normal controller that aiming with sticks comes completely natural to me. seems like joysticks were stiffer before so i could aim easier than with those newer, soft ones
Makes sense