One good thing to come of this is that Nintendo will straight up replace joy on with broken buttons or connection issues no questions asked. I’ve bought about a dozen joycon in various states of disrepair from buttons missing to the controller being completely shot, and just said they suffer from drift before they stopped working entirely. About 100 dollars for 6 sets of new joycon 👌
@@krisishihat My joycon got so much stick drift that it created a company called Facebook and then pretended to be a human named Mark Zuckerberg to divert suspension. I'm so proud he became a billionaire 😇
@@pegasusrr3156 I don’t know, honestly, I haven’t kept up with the series since middle school. I left the fandom a few months we found out about Zane being a robot. It really went off the rails.
They started doing free repairs as soon as whispers of a class action lawsuit made it to the public. Honestly, never understood the issue. I've used the same pair of joycons since the switch came out and I've never had drift. I think most people just dont store their consoles properly so its easy for them to wear down. Good on nintendo for actually taking care of it though.
@@threemar3 nah my old gamecube controllers have been through hell with no issues. Left them out in dust, got food and hair in it, soilled soda on ine of them once, i chewed on the chords to the point i exposed the wires! theyve been dropped plenty too, and because i chewed them i know for sure my parents werent replacing them with new ones. worked like nothing was wrong. I had a bought new switch controller and it began drifting FRESH out the box, brand spanking new and it definitely wasn't used. Switch controllers both joycons and gamecube are really just fucking ass man, youre super lucky yours haven't drifted for so long. I only had 1 that lasted 2 years.
@@harisceric3945 2 years of warranty are mandatory in Europe. I've never had any modern controller to drift, including the JoyCons. I suspect that the European version of gaming controllers may be better because of that 2 years warranty thing.
Correction only offered to fix them AFTER getting pimp slappers by a class action lawsuit so it wasn't them doing it to be kind folks fixing them for free was there "please don't sue me!" Apology letter (case is Still ongoing) with a follow up case included
As far as i've been able to see it's only nintendo of america that does this. i'm not even sure i can get it fixed europe without having to potentially ship a set of joycons to the states
@@kapser2210 I also may have forgotten to mentain in my initial comment they also dident discloses the joycon repairs being free majority of people still dont know you can i only learned through word of mouth and then reasearching it myself if I had to guess it is in the UK but they did the same thing and said nothing in personally never buying another console from anyone especially nintendont (Yup just went and checked they indeed pupled yet another scum move in UK and dident tell many people) 350$ console 50$ trash joycons 59.99$ for a single game 20$ for online sub thats barely useful as they have almost no multiplayer online games Nearly 479$ just to be allowed to play Mario kart with a freind who also bought a 479$ switch heaven forbid you went with the new model thats a 600$ price now in total the light would cost you more then all the above if it drifts and you need to replace the whole thing Also read the terms of service there no joke a forced terms of service you sign just to use the switch in the terms it litterly gives Nintendo the right to scan your system top to bottem every time you go on wifi and thats why that itty bitty save file with only 1 digit off in its code gets you banned. I hate Nintendo so much nowadays And youd be furious if you knew the cost of labor and matieral for a switch is only like 30-50$ in china
@@kapser2210 EU consumer laws would mandate them to fix it for free if the product displays faults in manufactoring or breaks down before what a reasonable consumer can expect the life span of the product to be (the reasonable expectation being related to the price of the product)
Yea, 3rd party controllers that function normally do exist, I've heard the pro-controllers work too, but I'm not paying these shills extra for a working controller
yeah they could if this was actually what caused drift lol but since its not what causes drift you couldnt the only way to make driftless controlers is to use a contactless system like a magnomitor that way imperfections through friction of the 2 materials wearing dont cause inacuracy
@@LuisGonzalez-dq4bg This is just plain wrong. All potentiometers wear just like the switches it has always been a problem, specifically because they are built super cheap and always have been. The PS2 for example had in built calibration software so that when the inevitable happened all you needed to do was wiggle the joystick around and the software compensated. Console manufacturers being cheap isn't something new. By their nature consoles need to be built as cheap as they possibly can be.
It's actually debris from the joystick scratching against other parts of the mechanism. I tried this method too and bits of debris were still stuck in. I had to fully dismantle the joystick and clean it with isopropyl alcohol to completely eliminate drifting.
@@joshhayl7459 worked fine for me. I don't use it on rubber just the innards of the actual joystick itself. Nothing else. These are cheap to replace anyway and I never messed one up doing this.
@@joneinarmattiasvisser6113 is this supposed to be a serious response? Or is this the tik tok trend of asking a dumb questions from message boards that were funny like 20 years ago? Either way, you're pretty cringe.
I learned the ins and outs of joycons. Started replacing my own. Bought a bunch of AliExpress replacement joy sticks and replaced all drifting sticks, including my friends and families. They may eventually drift again but it’s cheaper to just replace the stick than buying a new control.
I thought the solution people have found was to stick a square card behind the stick assembly? Supposedly the retention of the stick assembly seperates over time causing weird input. Unfortunately it means you gotta open the joy con but it could be a cheap fix.
@@theneedforspeeder9575 No.. it has been like 21 hours now. No problem yet and second if it happens again i will just blow some air underneath it and the funniest part is that i can do it without tools with just my mouth.
That you so much for appearing on my shorts cuz i have a switch lite so i couldnt send it to nintendo to fix it but this trick helped so much and works! Many thanks
Well recently people found out that it’s from the aluminum casing under the stick that causes it, because it bends and then stick can no longer make good contact with the pads
Man, It really worked😂 I was playing Zelda, when my link started to move on his own, that was a heck of a stress. The worst part about it, there is no official service in the country I live in. While watching your video, I took a pencil, moved this part away, gave two big blows, vuallya, it started to work as it suppose to😅😂😂😂😂 Thanks a lot man!! One more thing I would recommend is to use colibrating system by the nintendo, it really works with details. Before blows, it didn't work though😅😂😂
This does occur. However, that is not the cause of stick drift. The real reason that drift occurs is that metal & or plastic housing actually falls down roughly 1 millimeter, causing a gap between the brushes & the graphite contacts. To permanently correct your drift issue, open the controller & place a 1 to 2 millimeter piece of paper/cardboard/something stiff enough to have the housing of the controller push the metal & or plastic housing back into place when the clamshell is joined pushing that gap back into place and the brushes can now contact the graphite pads. This will 100% fix/correct the drift problems..
🟦.... Alcohol should NEVER be used on Rubber or Vinyl,... Sure it'll clean it out for a little while, but the bits of rubber debris from the deterioration caused by your using alcohol on the "Flaps" will just serve to accelerate this process.
This is what I did and it worked a lot easier and you don’t need one of those air blower thingies, what I did was I put a pencil on the flap, and blew air into it, literally you can blow the air from your mouth, a fan, practically anything and it’ll begin to work, I did this and it worked like a charm
I have a Splatoon 2 edition, Gen one switch controllers, which so far have never developed drift whatsoever. However, I think that’s because I only use the joy cons in portable mode, and ensure my hands are very clean before playing, and I’m generally particular about keeping the the joy cons clean. Also, I use those rubber caps over the tops of the joysticks to prevent wear, but they also seem to hold those rubber skirts more firmly in place reducing crud getting dragged under into it, and prevents the joystick from being depressed at the fullest extent against the limitations of the potentiometers themselves by the additional rubber on the cap, bottoming against the case, and this puts less mechanical stress on the components. Besides, the potentiometers read 100%, a bit before the bare joystick reaches the mechanical barrier of the stick, so the rubber joystick caps only provide improvement, without any discernible caveats.
THANK YOU 🙂🙂 I didn't know what the thumb stick was called because somehow I lost my thumb stick to my ANIMAL CROSSING. NINTENDO SWITCH. blue now I'm STUCK WITH GREY. so now I will be getting a new thumb stick for my blue controller thanks again 🙂
For very early stages of stick drift or sticky buttons I've always just dabbed a little 90% rubbing alcohol on it with a q-tip and mashed the button for a few seconds. Works every time
A few wipes around the underside of the flap with rubbing alchohol on a q-tip can also help. My friend has like 3 old pairs of joycons it's like get them repairedd!!!!
WD-40 Specialty Contact Cleaner also works great. Make sure its the contact cleaner though because regular WD-40 will not work and will probably ruin your joycon, but better to not find out. You use the same process and do 1 quick spray into the stick. Then move the stick around a bit so the cleaner can get in there good. This works wonders for me and has worked for about a year now with no problems.
you can also recalibrate them for a temporary fix until you can replace parts or get a duster can. go to system settings> controllers and sensors> calibrate control sticks and then finish the calibration as best you can then see if it improved the functions until you can fix the bigger issue
I've always recommended a quick spray of silicon lubricant to not only loosely seal the connection between the socket and the flap, but also keep movement nice and smooth. This has also fixed some stick drift in the past with clients controllers. As for the longevity of the fix, I'm unsure, but you have a full can of spray at your disposal which should last a lifetime for a set of switch joycons.
I had a controller that had horrible drift, and a few days ago I tried to blow out gunk that I thought might be stuck. and SOMEHOW that fixed YEARS of extreme drifting! you don't even need a can of air, just blow on it!
the joycon is astonishingly easy to open up and replace parts. I occasionally have stick drift, and usually it goes away after enough stick wiggling. But its not garenteed, so i installed Hall effect sensing sticks from Gui (Gui-something i forget the full name). They use magnets instead of resistance and so shouldnt drift. I use the ifixit screwdriver set. But I Highly recommend buying a cheap joycon repair kit that comes with the two screwdrivers youll need and plastic tweezers. And just watching a youtube video for the replacement. Also on the right joycon a chip blocks the battery connector and makes it hard to take out. I just did it with it connected (Ive done that in the past too without issue). But if youre worried, try to get a variety of thin plastic wedges and tweezers to test prying it (it comes out upward so has to be pryed up)
Yes, this works if the potentiometers are simply just dirty, which is probably most circumstances. If your joystick components are worn out from brutishly playing too roughly or simply from extensively playing over time, you’re gonna have to replace components.
Besides the problems everyone else is saying, the bottom of the joystick module doesn't have enough support, if opened sometimes the metal casing could be bent because it doesn't have any support, you can use a card and put a square peice of it under the module, but I 3d printed mine so it could be snug and it worked for me.
Dude I never comment on anything ever in past ten years I'm playing totk and that shit was ruining my game I literally blew air myself and it works I fuck with u amazing video good job
My Wii U was being awful and the left joystick would be still but the character (mostly link in BoTW) would still move, which caused lots of stress and also stopped me from playing the game for a while. I looked it up and it said to just blast air into the joystick, which worked like a charm, and I can play botw without stress. I told my mother and she laughed and went “yeah, when any issue with Nintendo happens, just blow air where it’s messing up”
Honestly, I’d rather just to go to the point of sale and replace it totally free, because that’s something Nintendo has to do for us in Europe after the class action.
It should work, I do the same thing when I get dirt in my contact lenses just take some dustoff and stick straw in eye and blast away works great. I advise you huff it B4 and after! 😁
"Dust" isn't getting under there in such quantities to actually cause the drift. The debris is coming from erosion on the inside. But somehow a blast of air temporarily relieves the issue, and over time, the air gets less and less effective.
I opened the actual joystick box to repair my stick drift and found that the conductive material was being deposited on the tracks that tell where the joycon is. This was on a launch day Switch.
I blew air into the right Joy-Con, but I replaced the left's thumb stick! Here's how I did it: th-cam.com/video/vV9SyqZIASI/w-d-xo.html
Can you do a video on oculus two controller because my oculus controller has very bad drift
@@kailacarter3909 wd 40 always works
So, a very similar problem as the old track ball mice! Those would really pick up that junk.
This was my Nintendo Switch! Has the XAW10016230216.
My Nintendo has a Problem with the L button Infront of the shoulder button and the button is not working it won't recognize the button getting pressed
It’s actually not dust. The joycons slide across a strip and overtime that strip can get worn out. It’s actually a baked in design flaw
You can completely fix the drift with a square of cardboard I am not joking
@@nynvib276 it’s not a long term fix. It’s just gonna break again
@@nynvib276 that just pushes the contacts into the metal strip harder. They wear down the same.
One good thing to come of this is that Nintendo will straight up replace joy on with broken buttons or connection issues no questions asked. I’ve bought about a dozen joycon in various states of disrepair from buttons missing to the controller being completely shot, and just said they suffer from drift before they stopped working entirely. About 100 dollars for 6 sets of new joycon 👌
Yes they work with changing resistance as you move them. Through use the resistance changed.
This video is full of missinformation.
Nah man my joy con has so much stick drift that it itself leaves my hand and goes to the left.
My joycon got so much stick drift that it left and got a life and a happy family for himself
@@krisishihat My joycon got so much stick drift that it created a company called Facebook and then pretended to be a human named Mark Zuckerberg to divert suspension. I'm so proud he became a billionaire 😇
Did you bought it in Ohio?
@@akiyz_xd1751 no, I bought it from a store in India.
@@Endingflame6583 oh
“If your joycon has a little bit of stick drift”
My joycon: *well on its way to mastering spinjitsu*
Remember when Ninjago used to be a Beyblades derivative? Yeah, isn’t that a blast from the past…
@@gummygrenade do they even do spinjitsu anymore
@@pegasusrr3156 I don’t know, honestly, I haven’t kept up with the series since middle school. I left the fandom a few months we found out about Zane being a robot. It really went off the rails.
@@gummygrenade i stoped after the genie thing
Use contact cleaner
They got sued in the EU, _that’s_ why they have to fix them for free.
They started doing free repairs as soon as whispers of a class action lawsuit made it to the public. Honestly, never understood the issue. I've used the same pair of joycons since the switch came out and I've never had drift. I think most people just dont store their consoles properly so its easy for them to wear down. Good on nintendo for actually taking care of it though.
@@threemar3nahh drift is a real design flaw, ur insanely lucky to have not gotten drift tho lol
@@threemar3 just a reminder that no company is our friend and is only wanting to do the right thing when they're pushed to do the right thing
@@threemar3 nah my old gamecube controllers have been through hell with no issues. Left them out in dust, got food and hair in it, soilled soda on ine of them once, i chewed on the chords to the point i exposed the wires! theyve been dropped plenty too, and because i chewed them i know for sure my parents werent replacing them with new ones. worked like nothing was wrong.
I had a bought new switch controller and it began drifting FRESH out the box, brand spanking new and it definitely wasn't used. Switch controllers both joycons and gamecube are really just fucking ass man, youre super lucky yours haven't drifted for so long. I only had 1 that lasted 2 years.
@@harisceric3945 2 years of warranty are mandatory in Europe. I've never had any modern controller to drift, including the JoyCons. I suspect that the European version of gaming controllers may be better because of that 2 years warranty thing.
"But if this doesn't fix it"
*Hasn't even said how to fix it yet*
it's literally normal sentence structure what the fuck are you talking about
Yup, his sentence wasn't written completely, i dunno, "linearly"... That's how language works sometimes 😋
@Avery Hamby and if they still drift open it up and put a thin piece at cardboard under the joystick
@@user-ot8oq1xk6iyeah i have a switch lite and im stuck like this now 😭
@@BooBuKittyPhukNo, THAT's not how language works.
Correction only offered to fix them AFTER getting pimp slappers by a class action lawsuit so it wasn't them doing it to be kind folks fixing them for free was there "please don't sue me!" Apology letter (case is Still ongoing) with a follow up case included
As far as i've been able to see it's only nintendo of america that does this. i'm not even sure i can get it fixed europe without having to potentially ship a set of joycons to the states
@@kapser2210 I also may have forgotten to mentain in my initial comment they also dident discloses the joycon repairs being free majority of people still dont know you can i only learned through word of mouth and then reasearching it myself if I had to guess it is in the UK but they did the same thing and said nothing in personally never buying another console from anyone especially nintendont
(Yup just went and checked they indeed pupled yet another scum move in UK and dident tell many people)
350$ console
50$ trash joycons
59.99$ for a single game
20$ for online sub thats barely useful as they have almost no multiplayer online games
Nearly 479$ just to be allowed to play Mario kart with a freind who also bought a 479$ switch heaven forbid you went with the new model thats a 600$ price now in total the light would cost you more then all the above if it drifts and you need to replace the whole thing
Also read the terms of service there no joke a forced terms of service you sign just to use the switch in the terms it litterly gives Nintendo the right to scan your system top to bottem every time you go on wifi and thats why that itty bitty save file with only 1 digit off in its code gets you banned. I hate Nintendo so much nowadays
And youd be furious if you knew the cost of labor and matieral for a switch is only like 30-50$ in china
@@kapser2210 EU consumer laws would mandate them to fix it for free if the product displays faults in manufactoring or breaks down before what a reasonable consumer can expect the life span of the product to be (the reasonable expectation being related to the price of the product)
who cares
@@AD-mq9yh people who paid 50$ for a controller made for 3$
I’m now realising that someone could literally just create replacement driftless joycons, and someone probably already has lol
Yea, 3rd party controllers that function normally do exist, I've heard the pro-controllers work too, but I'm not paying these shills extra for a working controller
@@icehoof i have 2 wired pro controllers, they dont drift
Quanwin joysticks
@@icehoof buy a used one that way nintendo dont get shit and you still win
yeah they could if this was actually what caused drift lol but since its not what causes drift you couldnt the only way to make driftless controlers is to use a contactless system like a magnomitor that way imperfections through friction of the 2 materials wearing dont cause inacuracy
WD-40 Specialist electric contact cleaner made all my old "broken" controllers, quest 2 joysticks, and switch joycons work like new
WD-40 in general is just pure Magic I swear.
magic
@@ObsceneLobster i agree
Just remember, everything can be fixed with WD-40 or duct tape
@@ObsceneLobster yeah just make sure you get the electric contact cleaner and no the degreaser for this though haha 😅
That's the nature of potentiometers. It has metal fingers that glide along a thin carbon film. They will always break.
In the history of home consoles with analog controllers, the Nintendo Switch is the only one that has exhibited this behavior consistently.
@@LuisGonzalez-dq4bg This is just plain wrong. All potentiometers wear just like the switches it has always been a problem, specifically because they are built super cheap and always have been. The PS2 for example had in built calibration software so that when the inevitable happened all you needed to do was wiggle the joystick around and the software compensated.
Console manufacturers being cheap isn't something new. By their nature consoles need to be built as cheap as they possibly can be.
They was forced to repair the joys for free.
If they didn't they would be hit with a massive lawsuit
BW-100 looking real useful about now
It's actually debris from the joystick scratching against other parts of the mechanism. I tried this method too and bits of debris were still stuck in. I had to fully dismantle the joystick and clean it with isopropyl alcohol to completely eliminate drifting.
🟦.... Alcohol should NEVER be used on Rubber or Vinyl.
@@joshhayl7459 worked fine for me. I don't use it on rubber just the innards of the actual joystick itself. Nothing else. These are cheap to replace anyway and I never messed one up doing this.
Pro tip, if you wash hands before playing video games, your controllers won't look like crap
Legend right here, calling the facts as they are
But if you wash yourself before using a towel, how is it getting dirty?
@@joneinarmattiasvisser6113 is this supposed to be a serious response? Or is this the tik tok trend of asking a dumb questions from message boards that were funny like 20 years ago?
Either way, you're pretty cringe.
nah man switch controllers are really that bad, never had these issues with my older gamecube controller and i chewed on those things
Skin is made of dead cells. Unless you are wearing a contamination suit, you are getting dust particles everywhere, even after a shower.
I learned the ins and outs of joycons. Started replacing my own. Bought a bunch of AliExpress replacement joy sticks and replaced all drifting sticks, including my friends and families. They may eventually drift again but it’s cheaper to just replace the stick than buying a new control.
You can buy Hall effect stick replacements now, should be a one and done for repair
Why am I watching this, I don’t even have a switch
Lol same
The thing is they don't even fix the joycons, they just flat out replace them
I thought the solution people have found was to stick a square card behind the stick assembly? Supposedly the retention of the stick assembly seperates over time causing weird input. Unfortunately it means you gotta open the joy con but it could be a cheap fix.
Yup, that's definitely something people do. This is just something that you could try if you don't want to/can't open up the Joy-Con yourself.
I had no idea about the flaps, I've been dusting the same way I would any other stick. Thanks for pointing out the thing I overlooked. ;D
So, this is how thumbsticks are designed? Glad that I'm not the only one. What a relief. :)
OMG BRO THANK YOU SO MUCH. I JUST HAD TO BLOW SOME AIR FROM MY MOUTH UNDERNEATH THERE AND NOW IT WORKS PERFECTLY. THANK YOU!
Lol sure thing. 3h later the problem is back
@@theneedforspeeder9575 No.. it has been like 21 hours now. No problem yet and second if it happens again i will just blow some air underneath it and the funniest part is that i can do it without tools with just my mouth.
It is probably too late but don’t blow with your mouth? Your saliva can possibly get inside and cause more damage than stick drift
I had a joycon with drift so I didn't use it for a year and now it works fine again
Oh wow. Doctor hindsight found the first solution everyone has tried 5years ago. Good job
My switch has never suffered from stick drift , where I have returned a Ps5 after 3months with stick drift. So I think this explanation is floored
tried a lot of things, what did it for mine was WD-40, not the electrical special type, just a bit of normal wd40, started worming perfectly again
Wd 40 will catch alot more dust/debri over time then normal . Just keep a eye on it.
That you so much for appearing on my shorts cuz i have a switch lite so i couldnt send it to nintendo to fix it but this trick helped so much and works! Many thanks
Np. I’m so glad to hear that it helped you out!!
I’ve been searching all over TH-cam for this thank you
Nintendo: Repairs those things for free
This guy: how to fix stickdrift
I feel like im the only one that didnt know you could buy canned air
You must be very young
Mr O’Hare
Well recently people found out that it’s from the aluminum casing under the stick that causes it, because it bends and then stick can no longer make good contact with the pads
Man, It really worked😂 I was playing Zelda, when my link started to move on his own, that was a heck of a stress. The worst part about it, there is no official service in the country I live in. While watching your video, I took a pencil, moved this part away, gave two big blows, vuallya, it started to work as it suppose to😅😂😂😂😂 Thanks a lot man!! One more thing I would recommend is to use colibrating system by the nintendo, it really works with details. Before blows, it didn't work though😅😂😂
Bro I thought this was clickbait but it actually worked! I'm very happy rn thx sm
This does occur. However, that is not the cause of stick drift.
The real reason that drift occurs is that metal & or plastic housing actually falls down roughly 1 millimeter, causing a gap between the brushes & the graphite contacts. To permanently correct your drift issue, open the controller & place a 1 to 2 millimeter piece of paper/cardboard/something stiff enough to have the housing of the controller push the metal & or plastic housing back into place when the clamshell is joined pushing that gap back into place and the brushes can now contact the graphite pads.
This will 100% fix/correct the drift problems..
I use a q-tip with rubbing alcohol on it to clean under the flaps and it always makes the drifting stop for me.
🟦.... Alcohol should NEVER be used on Rubber or Vinyl,... Sure it'll clean it out for a little while, but the bits of rubber debris from the deterioration caused by your using alcohol on the "Flaps" will just serve to accelerate this process.
@@joshhayl7459 What should it use then?
Bro this man’s joy cons are as shiny as the display Nintendo switches that you can play demos on
Bro your a genius. I tried this with my very terrible joy con drift, and it worked! Your great 👍
"Expel the dust"
*I feel like a Head Teacher / Principal* 😈😈😈😎
My stick drift was so bad it magically flew to the wall
This is what I did and it worked a lot easier and you don’t need one of those air blower thingies, what I did was I put a pencil on the flap, and blew air into it, literally you can blow the air from your mouth, a fan, practically anything and it’ll begin to work, I did this and it worked like a charm
This is why I took off the covers of my new thumb stick when I first got the joycons. It helped
Yeah this is harder than just opening it up honestly
How? You're literally just lifting a flap and spraying air.
Bro is incapable of simply blowing air into it
THANK YOU!!!
This strangely worked for me! I had such bad drift that I would never use my left joycon, but I gave this a go, and it works like brand new.
This advise is actually very good and helpful!
I blow into them myself 💪
And get spit into them which will fry the insides?
Yes, careful with that. It isn't ideal for the longevity of any electronic device.
Or just send it to Nintendo for free 😂
Thank you, they outright replace crusty looking controllers too. (Which I think applies here too)
I have a Splatoon 2 edition, Gen one switch controllers, which so far have never developed drift whatsoever. However, I think that’s because I only use the joy cons in portable mode, and ensure my hands are very clean before playing, and I’m generally particular about keeping the the joy cons clean. Also, I use those rubber caps over the tops of the joysticks to prevent wear, but they also seem to hold those rubber skirts more firmly in place reducing crud getting dragged under into it, and prevents the joystick from being depressed at the fullest extent against the limitations of the potentiometers themselves by the additional rubber on the cap, bottoming against the case, and this puts less mechanical stress on the components. Besides, the potentiometers read 100%, a bit before the bare joystick reaches the mechanical barrier of the stick, so the rubber joystick caps only provide improvement, without any discernible caveats.
THANK YOU 🙂🙂 I didn't know what the thumb stick was called because somehow I lost my thumb stick to my ANIMAL CROSSING. NINTENDO SWITCH. blue now I'm STUCK WITH GREY. so now I will be getting a new thumb stick for my blue controller thanks again 🙂
Man it's been discovered this has nothing to do with dust for like 4 years now.
this actually worked right away, thanks
For very early stages of stick drift or sticky buttons I've always just dabbed a little 90% rubbing alcohol on it with a q-tip and mashed the button for a few seconds. Works every time
I needed this information.
me who doesnt even have a joycon: "hmmm very interesting might be useful later"
THIS ACTUALLY JUST FIXED MY STICK DRIFT ISSUE OMGG
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!! MY JOYCONS FINALLY WORK!!!
Bro actually stuck the right joystick in his schnozz
instructions unclear, i blew up the entirety of tacobell
Ah yes, im gonna buy air
When I’m cleaning my room I use a microfiber towel to wipe down any electronic items so that’s what I use to clean my Nintendo switch I love it
Omg thx I've been having stick drift for over 1 year
A few wipes around the underside of the flap with rubbing alchohol on a q-tip can also help. My friend has like 3 old pairs of joycons it's like get them repairedd!!!!
i love you, you fixed my controller now i dont need 90 bucks
Used the find my controller vibration for a while and it helped a lot for me, visible diffrence in the calibration screen
WD-40 Specialty Contact Cleaner also works great. Make sure its the contact cleaner though because regular WD-40 will not work and will probably ruin your joycon, but better to not find out. You use the same process and do 1 quick spray into the stick. Then move the stick around a bit so the cleaner can get in there good. This works wonders for me and has worked for about a year now with no problems.
you can also recalibrate them for a temporary fix until you can replace parts or get a duster can.
go to system settings> controllers and sensors> calibrate control sticks and then finish the calibration as best you can then see if it improved the functions until you can fix the bigger issue
Thanks for this, I'll give it a try.
an actual, reasonable, money-humane way of fixing something... my faith in humanity is restored
I've always recommended a quick spray of silicon lubricant to not only loosely seal the connection between the socket and the flap, but also keep movement nice and smooth. This has also fixed some stick drift in the past with clients controllers. As for the longevity of the fix, I'm unsure, but you have a full can of spray at your disposal which should last a lifetime for a set of switch joycons.
I had a controller that had horrible drift, and a few days ago I tried to blow out gunk that I thought might be stuck. and SOMEHOW that fixed YEARS of extreme drifting! you don't even need a can of air, just blow on it!
Thanks for tips brother 👋🤓 👍🏼
the joycon is astonishingly easy to open up and replace parts. I occasionally have stick drift, and usually it goes away after enough stick wiggling. But its not garenteed, so i installed Hall effect sensing sticks from Gui (Gui-something i forget the full name). They use magnets instead of resistance and so shouldnt drift.
I use the ifixit screwdriver set. But I Highly recommend buying a cheap joycon repair kit that comes with the two screwdrivers youll need and plastic tweezers. And just watching a youtube video for the replacement. Also on the right joycon a chip blocks the battery connector and makes it hard to take out. I just did it with it connected (Ive done that in the past too without issue). But if youre worried, try to get a variety of thin plastic wedges and tweezers to test prying it (it comes out upward so has to be pryed up)
I have just used a can of automotive contact cleaner, which is non conductive and lubricating and it has worked wonderfully.
Yes, this works if the potentiometers are simply just dirty, which is probably most circumstances. If your joystick components are worn out from brutishly playing too roughly or simply from extensively playing over time, you’re gonna have to replace components.
Besides the problems everyone else is saying, the bottom of the joystick module doesn't have enough support, if opened sometimes the metal casing could be bent because it doesn't have any support, you can use a card and put a square peice of it under the module, but I 3d printed mine so it could be snug and it worked for me.
I just wiggled that flimsy plastic under the joystic with a q tip dipped in alcohol. worked like a charm
O'hare finally did it, the sold the air
Bru thank you so much now I will stop dying in Minecraft so many times
Dude I never comment on anything ever in past ten years I'm playing totk and that shit was ruining my game I literally blew air myself and it works I fuck with u amazing video good job
Tell me you don't know about electronics without telling me you don't know about electronics 😂
Thank you bro it actually worked
This video was so good I don't even have a nintendo switch
Thx this helped my controller still has drift but not as much
Only if these were rechargeable, bro, this would be a life changer
they are though?
I used rubbing alcohol and it fixed my drift and haven't had a problem since .
who haven't switch and always watch videos like this
My Wii U was being awful and the left joystick would be still but the character (mostly link in BoTW) would still move, which caused lots of stress and also stopped me from playing the game for a while. I looked it up and it said to just blast air into the joystick, which worked like a charm, and I can play botw without stress. I told my mother and she laughed and went “yeah, when any issue with Nintendo happens, just blow air where it’s messing up”
Holly molly that realy workd. Thanx bud
It worked thanks a lot!❤
THANK YOU SIR THIS IS AMAZING IT WORKED FOR ME!!!!
Thank you man! 🙏🏻
Honestly, I’d rather just to go to the point of sale and replace it totally free, because that’s something Nintendo has to do for us in Europe after the class action.
It should work, I do the same thing when I get dirt in my contact lenses just take some dustoff and stick straw in eye and blast away works great. I advise you huff it B4 and after! 😁
you can also use a q tip with a little bit of rubbing alcohol and rub it around the sides of the flaps
Thanks dude 💯
Thumbs up for Nintendo for the free fix
Thanks that helped
"Dust" isn't getting under there in such quantities to actually cause the drift. The debris is coming from erosion on the inside.
But somehow a blast of air temporarily relieves the issue, and over time, the air gets less and less effective.
Thank you
Really big brain!
I opened the actual joystick box to repair my stick drift and found that the conductive material was being deposited on the tracks that tell where the joycon is. This was on a launch day Switch.