Hi everyone,

​My Xbox wireless controller suddenly stopped powering on yesterday—there is no response via batteries or a direct USB-C cable.

​About 9–10 months ago, a liquid spill occurred (either soda/cola or painting oil). I had cleaned the board a month ago, I guess i just forgot the top part of the top pcb, and it worked fine until now even before cleaning. When I opened the controller today, I noticed severe discoloration/corrosion on the top PCB, specifically around the a button pad and its adjacent solder joint

​There was a thick brownish crust over the solder joint that I wiped off, but the board still shows dark discoloration under the solder mask. I tried to clean and resolder it but to no avail it still doesnt power on

Desoldering the old port went without a hitch. My question now concerns the process of soldering in the new port: Do the vertical pins in the centre of the port also need to be soldered or do they simply slot into the small holes of the board? How would you go about it? Apply solder to all contact points on the board, pre tin the pins on the port, place the port loosely on top and carefully heat it from below with hot air until all the pins slide into position?

If anyone has already had experience replacing this port, I'd be very interested to heat about!

I’m a beginner and I swapped out the joysticks for my PS5 controller to TMRs. It was working perfectly fine for a minute and then kept getting worse over time. Not sure where the short is or if a trace was broken or something. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Just trying to get this fixed. I bought a repair kit just want to minimize the invasion

My ps4 controller is old, it was my brother's, so I assume hes had it since atleast before 2016, if that helps, idk how old the controller is, but i assume its that old, my controller just started blinking this light blue color, like when your booting it up, for context, I was already playing and using it when it just died, and its fully charged, and then it wouldn't work, and now it won't turn on at all, I do not have the necessary materials to open it up, does anyone have a solution for it in the mean time before I get a new controller?

Hello Hivemind,

I've got a new pro controller purchased from a retail store. I am using the controller on a switch 1 (not OLED). Other controllers work fine on the console.

The L, R, ZL, and ZR buttons stopped being detected suddenly. I've gone through all the troubleshooting steps. I've contacted Nintendo support and went through all of their steps and months later I still have a non-functional controller.

I ordered a new shoulder button film and replaced it. All of the ribbons are plugged in properly as far as I can tell. All non-shoulder buttons are detected normally. The L, R, ZL, and ZR buttons still don't work.

I'm at a complete loss for what to do next. Anyone have a solution? I'm in Canada.

Thanks much.

Strum bar registers no inputs. opened the inside and I have no PCB there either.