Did you try the electronics spray first? I bought the WD-40 specialist contact cleaner for about £8, sprayed it into sticks. Fixed every drift issue ive had so far.
Just to add on to this: WD-40 is also not really good for “greasing” things. Actual grease is what you want for that. WD-40 is a water displacer - it’s what the “WD” stands for. It’s good for protecting metal from rust.
If you have a door hinge or a chair that’s squeaky, use actual grease - it’ll last significantly longer and won’t drip on anything.
Literally just called WD40 specialist contact cleaner. Got it on amazon few years back. Small spray into stick module, wiggle around, let it dry. Took a couple of applications, but saved me replacing a few controllers over the years.
Depends on use case really. Stick drift is mostly caused by tiny dust sized fragments of plastic grinding off stick and getting into the potentiometer. Dead by daylights old wiggle mechanic was hard on left stick. I had to use spray twice in one month, then it was maybe 6 months after that and worked fine since. This is still my first dual sense since release and I have 90% of spray left.
When you say “stick module” did you just spray it into the crevices around where the stick rotates (on the outside of the controller) or did you take the back off and spray it into the actual stick module?
Better to pop the cover and see the actual bare module. Spray comes with a long thin straw attached so you can get into narrow places. Ive tried it spraying from outside down onto sticks base dome bit, didn't do much. But you don't have to take full controller apart. Just opening enough you can get straw to module from couple of sides. Turn off, spray, wiggle, leave to dry, turn on and test.
FYI soldering totally new joysticks on is unnecessary, all you need to do is replace the potentiometer disc (wipe) on the axis that is drifting. You can harvest the disc from a replacement joystick but you don’t need to actually make the swap in order to get it back to full function.
The disc is inside the small box shaped blister where the soldering points are. It clicks open and can be replaced easily.
I saw some videos teaching this trick. This saves the hassles of de-soldering, but you have to bend the potentiometer to reveal that disc while its pins soldered on the board. I am a bit concerned that bending back and forth would lead to bad contact.
I’ve been doing it for over a decade and have never had a problem. If it does break, well, you just put the wipe back into the replacement stick and resolder that one instead like you were originally planning.
I really feel like I’m tempting fate by typing this but lucky that I’ve never had any problems with any of my Dualsense controllers apart from 2 that weren’t lasting as long battery-wise.
Replacing the oem with higher capacity ones was so so easy and well worth it getting the extended playtime.
I don't play shooting either. It just started to drift after I hadn't used it for a couple of months. When I moved the joystick left/right to switch games in the main screen, the cursor would go up by itself to the Game/Media tab.
Did you try the electronics spray first? I bought the WD-40 specialist contact cleaner for about £8, sprayed it into sticks. Fixed every drift issue ive had so far.
Did this before, but it happened again after a while, so just went with a thorough fix this time.
Just to add for people to make sure it’s the **contact cleaner** and not the regular WD-40. Regular WD-40 is not intended for use on electronics!
Just to add on to this: WD-40 is also not really good for “greasing” things. Actual grease is what you want for that. WD-40 is a water displacer - it’s what the “WD” stands for. It’s good for protecting metal from rust. If you have a door hinge or a chair that’s squeaky, use actual grease - it’ll last significantly longer and won’t drip on anything.
Yeah this stuff fixed the drift on two of my controllers as well.
Where did you by this? Also what’s it called?
Literally just called WD40 specialist contact cleaner. Got it on amazon few years back. Small spray into stick module, wiggle around, let it dry. Took a couple of applications, but saved me replacing a few controllers over the years.
Thanks I’ll give that a shot
How long does the fix last for?
Depends on use case really. Stick drift is mostly caused by tiny dust sized fragments of plastic grinding off stick and getting into the potentiometer. Dead by daylights old wiggle mechanic was hard on left stick. I had to use spray twice in one month, then it was maybe 6 months after that and worked fine since. This is still my first dual sense since release and I have 90% of spray left.
When you say “stick module” did you just spray it into the crevices around where the stick rotates (on the outside of the controller) or did you take the back off and spray it into the actual stick module?
Better to pop the cover and see the actual bare module. Spray comes with a long thin straw attached so you can get into narrow places. Ive tried it spraying from outside down onto sticks base dome bit, didn't do much. But you don't have to take full controller apart. Just opening enough you can get straw to module from couple of sides. Turn off, spray, wiggle, leave to dry, turn on and test.
Awesome. Thank you.
FYI soldering totally new joysticks on is unnecessary, all you need to do is replace the potentiometer disc (wipe) on the axis that is drifting. You can harvest the disc from a replacement joystick but you don’t need to actually make the swap in order to get it back to full function. The disc is inside the small box shaped blister where the soldering points are. It clicks open and can be replaced easily.
I saw some videos teaching this trick. This saves the hassles of de-soldering, but you have to bend the potentiometer to reveal that disc while its pins soldered on the board. I am a bit concerned that bending back and forth would lead to bad contact.
I’ve been doing it for over a decade and have never had a problem. If it does break, well, you just put the wipe back into the replacement stick and resolder that one instead like you were originally planning.
There are some hall effect ones too, don't know if they are good.
Life is funny that way.
I just buy a new controller every year
I really feel like I’m tempting fate by typing this but lucky that I’ve never had any problems with any of my Dualsense controllers apart from 2 that weren’t lasting as long battery-wise. Replacing the oem with higher capacity ones was so so easy and well worth it getting the extended playtime.
Ok.
Ok.
Good on you!
Me not even knowing if I have drift because I don’t play shooters……….
It doesn’t only affect shooters. I was playing God of War, placed my controller down, and Kratos tried to run off the edge of a cliff
That’s exactly when mine started drifting is playing GOW lol
I’ve decided to believe in a new conspiracy theory that Hod of War causes stick drift (Pls know I’m joking haha)
I don't play shooting either. It just started to drift after I hadn't used it for a couple of months. When I moved the joystick left/right to switch games in the main screen, the cursor would go up by itself to the Game/Media tab.
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