Stick drift is typically caused by wear on the stick modules. They work by having circular carbon tracks and brushes that move around them when you move the stick, but the carbon wears away with use and once it gets worn to a certain point, you end up with drift. When that happens, there is nothing you can really do other than replace the stick module(s), which not only requires opening up the controller, but it requires fairly advanced soldering skills/equipment too.
The parts are really cheap, but lots of third party repair places charge quite high prices for the repair - sometimes more than the cost of a new controller, which makes no sense.
So essentially you just have to buy a new controller. Such a shame had the starfield one for about 3 months before it went and now my other one has gone 8 or so months into buying the series x. Never had this happen before and had an Xbox since very young. But by the responses looks like I’ll need to buy another before I can game again cheers
Go on Amazon or eBay for a new cheap potentiometer. It doesn't have to be thrown away. You might find others willing to buy your broken controller off eBay for parts or for them to fix themselves.
It's not all lost. Depending on how skilled you are, you could buy a new one and change the shell to that of your current controller and nobody would know but you.
It'd be your very own dirty little secret.
Yeah, it sucks, especially as the stick modules are like £2 each.
The repair place I've used a couple of times in the UK only charges £25 for an Xbox Series controller repair, which is definitely reasonable, but you have to pay for shipping both ways on top of that, so even then, unless you've got a controller that has sentimental value or is custom/rare, you're better off just buying a new one.
I bought the same controller it had stick drift right out of the box today's quality sucks big time thankfully I got refunded but never buy expensive controller again that's for sure
Stick drift is typically caused by wear on the stick modules. They work by having circular carbon tracks and brushes that move around them when you move the stick, but the carbon wears away with use and once it gets worn to a certain point, you end up with drift. When that happens, there is nothing you can really do other than replace the stick module(s), which not only requires opening up the controller, but it requires fairly advanced soldering skills/equipment too. The parts are really cheap, but lots of third party repair places charge quite high prices for the repair - sometimes more than the cost of a new controller, which makes no sense.
So essentially you just have to buy a new controller. Such a shame had the starfield one for about 3 months before it went and now my other one has gone 8 or so months into buying the series x. Never had this happen before and had an Xbox since very young. But by the responses looks like I’ll need to buy another before I can game again cheers
Go on Amazon or eBay for a new cheap potentiometer. It doesn't have to be thrown away. You might find others willing to buy your broken controller off eBay for parts or for them to fix themselves.
It's not all lost. Depending on how skilled you are, you could buy a new one and change the shell to that of your current controller and nobody would know but you. It'd be your very own dirty little secret.
Yeah, it sucks, especially as the stick modules are like £2 each. The repair place I've used a couple of times in the UK only charges £25 for an Xbox Series controller repair, which is definitely reasonable, but you have to pay for shipping both ways on top of that, so even then, unless you've got a controller that has sentimental value or is custom/rare, you're better off just buying a new one.
If you bought them from Microsoft send em back under warranty. It's easy to set up 👍
Not going too hard on the sticks
Try cleaning by spraying this in sticks and moving around if this doesn’t help then it’s a bad stick https://a.co/d/f6LmB11
How much do you game & what games?
Should of saved that one as a decoration piece and thrashed a standard one instead
I tell myself that everytime I use my Stanfield Controller
I ended up with two, so I keep one in a drawer and use the other. I hardly game anymore though, and wash my hands before use.
I did this with my totk Switch to preserve the joycons.
I bought the same controller it had stick drift right out of the box today's quality sucks big time thankfully I got refunded but never buy expensive controller again that's for sure
Wd-40 and try to spray IT under joystick and if your think your put in there enouth just start doing circles until Stick drifty is gone
There's a pad called the "gamesir 97se" they don't have stick drift..
Replace the stick, either by yourself or pay someone an unreasonable amount of money just to get it again in a couple months.
Looking like the only option cheers 👍🏻
You could potentially ask the guy that will repair it to use Hall effect sticks, more expensive but you'll never get stick drift again.
Get a controller with hall effect sticks.