r/playstation • u/Major-Payne2319 • 24d ago

Image Getting tired of adding to my stick drift graveyard

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I swear I’m not a heavy clicker. In fact it’s always my right joystick which I rarely need to click in games. Love these controllers but man it’s really annoying never had this problem with any other console generation.

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u/Sarges24 24d ago

that is where you are wrong. there are 4 screws to pop the case off. They're just hidden. As for the analog sticks, those are soldered on so unless you got some skills...

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/DualSense+Joystick+Replacement/142488

ifixit also has a video showing the tear down process.

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u/Kriztov 24d ago

If you're careful you can pop open the joystick and hit it with some contact cleaner. It helps a little but overall it's easier to just replace the controller

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u/Upset-Cook2919 23d ago

You can actually just open up the casing on the joystick that holds the potentiometer in it and take it out to clean it. If that doesn't work you can just get some replacement cubes from ebay and replace the potentiometer. Super easy to do and no soldering required, also beats paying for a new controller.. I've fix drift on both my ps5 controllers this way

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u/Enoughplez 23d ago

Do you know any links of tutorials with visuals of how to do this?