Introducción

Esta guía se puede utilizar como requisito previo para reparar o reemplazar piezas en el controlador Elite Series 2.

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    • Ligeramente diferente del modelo anterior, la placa frontal debe quitarse antes que nada. Comienza quitando las tapas del joystick y la cubierta del d-pad.

    • Una vez que los elimine, deberá comenzar a trabajar con una herramienta de apertura junto con las púas alrededor de la placa frontal, comenzando en la parte superior izquierda o superior derecha.

    • Trabaja lentamente alrededor de la placa frontal para aflojar los clips utilizando principalmente las herramientas de apertura de plástico para evitar daños a la placa frontal y los componentes internos.

    Starting center to sides from top, then center to sides from bottom worked for me.

    Robert Cole -

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    • Esta es la única parte en la eliminación de la cara que sugeriría usar el spudger de metal, ya que necesitarás un poco más de palanca para liberar el adhesivo que sujeta la placa frontal.

    • Inserta el spudger de metal en el área ubicada, pero solo hasta donde necesites hacer palanca para levantar la placa frontal. Trabaja con precaución y lentamente, ya que esto puede dañar fácilmente los componentes.

    • El adhesivo está ubicado en dos lugares y debido a que no sella el dispositivo para cumplir con los requisitos de IP-67/68, no es necesario reemplazarlo.

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    • Los joysticks se atornillan en el vástago de los potenciómetros y será necesario insistir para quitarlos. Estos deberán girarse en sentido contrario a las agujas del reloj para quitarlos con cualquiera de los siguientes métodos:

    • Método 1: usar una tapa de joystick: intenta esto primero independientemente, ya que tienes menos posibilidades de dañar el dispositivo. Inserta una de las tapas de la palanca de mando en cada una de las palancas de mando e intenta girar con la mano. Si están demasiado apretados, procede con el segundo método.

    • Método 2: Usar alicates: con la menor fuerza necesaria para evitar resbalones, aprieta la palanca de mando cerca de la base, donde el bisel permite un "borde plano" que las pinzas pueden sujetar. Una vez que estén sueltos, vuelve al método 1 para continuar con la eliminación.

    YOU WILL BREAK THE ANALOGS if you force them with pliers! Symptom of them breaking: they start spinning around endlessly, with some resistance and never come undone. Please use a heat gun (300C was enough in all cases of me) to heat up the dome stem and then it comes undone very easily. The problem is some industrial grade loctite on its threads.

    tomaspuzis -

    Is there anyway of getting them off once you break them ?

    nicholasfawcett -

    Yes, this step is hell. Can't remove sticks correctly, broke one (symptom described above), and second one not working when I put everything back. Why is it so hard to disassemble....

    Frederic Esnault -

    Pliers are a bit too much in my opinion, a bit too easy to strip something essential or gouge the metal, and there is Loctite involved from the factory here also. I'd recommend using the long thumbstick extender locked onto the stick, since it has the rubber grip tip and is longer it should give you enough torque to get the threads unstuck and unscrew the thumbsticks. Use a slight downward force as you turn the stick to make sure the grooves don't strip on either the extender or the stick piece. At least try this first before moving to pliers.

    just chris... -

    Wish I read the comments first.. I ended up damaging my right stick but was able to move the analog guts back into place and get it functional again. 1/4" socket or box end wrench was a little small, but slight downward pressure gave it grip to screw.

    Attempting to just use the analog stick resulted in me shearing the bond between grip and metal and it's all bumpy now.

    Robert Cole -

    DON'T USE PLYERS!!!! I now have to buy and solder on 2 new analog potentiometers for my controller this is the second time iFixit's "teardown" has caused me to break some ones stuff luckily this time its mine.

    Spunken himer -

    Read the comments and still had to use pliers to get the stick off… screwing in the stick during reassembly seems critical to give it clearance from the plastic face above. To have enough clearance it needs to be super tight again (beyond screwing in by hand) and this is where I broke the tiny screw threads along the stick. It’s clear this was intentionally manufactured to be difficult to repair

    Blake Swanson -

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    • Retira los seis tornillos de seguridad T-8 que sujetan la parte delantera y trasera del controlador. Nota: uno (resaltado en verde) está cubierto por una pasta/pegatina blanca que se desmorona cuando se quita; esto te permite saber si alguien ha desarmado previamente tu dispositivo.

    • Una vez que se quitan los tornillos, puedes insertar un spudger debajo de un motor de vibración para proporcionar un poco de palanca para separar la parte frontal de la parte posterior del dispositivo.

    • La tercera imagen muestra el conjunto frontal retirado de la cubierta posterior.

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    • Comienza despegando la cinta (las pinzas pueden ayudar) que cubre la conexión en el tablero verde.

    • Mientras retienes la cinta, inserta el spudger de plástico con punta debajo de las conexiones, y la fuerza de empujar el spudger debajo de ellas debería ser suficiente para liberarlas de la placa.

    I’m having trouble reconnecting these cables back to the motherboard.

    Joseph Samuel -

    Hold the cable over top of the connector with one hand and use your fingernail to apply firm even pressure until you feel the connector reseat.

    Daniel Babin -

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    • Será necesario desoldar los cables de la placa y se reemplazarán más tarde para volver a ensamblarlos.

    • Nota: cada par de hilos tiene el cable negro soldado a la conexión inferior; ten esto en cuenta para el montaje si no tienes cerca las imágenes de esta guía.

    • Nota: Es posible que pueda escaparte y no tener que desoldar estos, dependiendo de lo que necesites alcanzar (crédito para @bikemerlin), pero debido a la simplicidad y fragilidad de estas conexiones, sugeriría quitarlas para evitar daños adicionales.

    • Parte de la soldadura en este controlador requiere una temperatura muy alta para liberarse. Yo tenía el mío configurado a 450 C, sin embargo, es posible que puedas eliminarlo a una temperatura más baja.

    • Retira los dos tornillos T-6 de la placa cerca de los motores de vibración.

    On reassembly, after the board is aligned over the pins, and screws are started, press in the center of the board mother board to plug in the connector from the motherboard to the button board.

    Andrew Kruse -

    Getting in here to clean a sticky Y button, i was able extricate the button board without de-soldering any of the wires. Unclipping the black/gray wires from their most outboard clips and then being extremely careful not to bend any where they connect to the motherboard, you can flip the whole motherboard out of the way, giving enough access to the button board.

    BikeMerlin -

    Yep, it should be possible to do it without desoldering. Some of the other main board connections are quite a bit more difficult to desolder, but these are relatively easy in comparison, so I would still suggest removing them to prevent extraneous damage if at all possible; assuming you have the appropriate tools, of course!

    Wayne Roberts -

    Was the wire soldering done by you on re-assembly, or did it come like this?

    SonarTech -

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    • Comienza a retirar la placa base deslizándola hacia arriba a lo largo de los pines (como se indica en la imagen). Será necesario levantar el lado izquierdo de su pasador y girar el tablero en sentido contrario a las agujas del reloj en un ligero ángulo antes de que pueda deslizarse la distancia restante fuera del pasador derecho (más largo).

    • Los gatillos se flexionarán un poco, lo que deja un poco más de espacio para la placa. Como con todo lo demás en este desmontaje, ten cuidado y paciencia para evitar dañar cualquiera de los componentes.

    • Una vez que se haya retirado la placa base, es posible que ya hayas notado que el conector para auriculares se ha movido o caído. Si no lo ha hecho, retíralo del tablero ahora.

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    • Hay dos pestañas que sujetan el retenedor de la barra en su lugar. Muévelos suavemente hacia ti con un spudger y se deslizarán hacia arriba por su propia tensión. Nota: es probable que el retenedor permanezca unido al conjunto del parachoques, pero debe retirarse del conjunto del controlador principal antes de continuar con el siguiente paso.

    • Una vez que se haya liberado el retenedor, usa nuevamente el spudger para hacer palanca suavemente en los botones hacia afuera y hacia arriba (en la dirección de la flecha en la imagen), lo que los liberará de otro clip. Haz esto en ambos lados.

    • Como ha señalado el usuario Shane Muir, ten cuidado debido a la fragilidad del retenedor en este paso. Se puede romper fácilmente.

    It’s worth emphasizing that these retainers are fairly easy to break on accident. Be extra gentle when removing or replacing the bumper bar.

    Shane Muir -

    Thanks for the advice; I’ve updated the guide to reflect!

    Wayne Roberts -

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    • Retira los cuatro tornillos T-6 que sujetan la placa secundaria al marco del controlador. Ten en cuenta que esta placa mantiene todos los botones restantes en su lugar, así que ten cuidado de que ninguno de ellos se pierda al quitarlo.

    • Nota: Todos los botones tienen clips que los rodean que evitan que cualquiera de los botones se instale en el lugar equivocado; asegúrate de no forzar ninguno de ellos en una ubicación diferente al volver a montar el dispositivo.

    • Al volver a montar, no fuerces nada en su lugar, ya que esto podría indicar que algo se ha instalado incorrectamente.

    • ¡Eso es todo! Afortunadamente, esta guía te permitió acceder a cualquier componente que necesite ser reemplazado.

    This is also known as the "button board"

    Andrew Kruse -

Conclusión

Para volver a armar tu dispositivo, sigue estas instrucciones en orden inverso.

Wayne Roberts

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8 comentarios

Hi Wayne,

thank you for the guide.

I have an issue with my controller and I can’t find the answer anywhere so here’s hoping maybe you could help me.

In shortest trigger movement setting (hair triggers) I can press LT and the movement is restricted as it should but software doesn’t registered the button as fully pressed. In Xbox Accessories I can see that the controller thinks I’ve pressed the button at around 30%.

I assume this is a hardware issue but I’m not sure which part I should be looking at. I’m a beginner tinkerer :)

editempura -

Off-hand, I don't know how the controller is doing this unless it's using 3 different potentiometers per trigger. I'd be willing to bet the problem is with software though because I've had the same problem in the past, but never really looked into it. I just checked mine now and it shows the hair-triggers to be working as expected in all positions; I checked these in both the Xbox Accessories app and Windows controller settings. Instead of tearing down the controller as a first step, I'd try checking for updates with everything: Xbox Accessories, Windows, the controller firmware, and the Windows driver for the controller specifically. If any of those have an update, restart your computer (after any single update) and then re-check all of them for updates again. If that doesn't work, let me know and I can try checking into my controller components to see what all compose the trigger assembly since I need to replace a couple of buttons that are wearing out anyway!

Wayne Roberts -

I have tried updating firmware of the gamepad but 5.11 and beyond does not really work well on Win10 and Bluetooth (Xbox Elite 2 is recognized as standard Xbox controller and paddles don't work). However, I did verify that I encounter this issue on 4.8 (bluetooth and cable) and 5.13 (cable).

I have reverted the firmware back to 4.8. I have deleted and reinstalled Xbox peripherals drivers as well as uninstalled most Human Interface Devices drivers & restarted my PC. Didn't help.

I took screenshots hoping this would clarify my issue:

https://ibb.co/8jK5bMS - RT is in hair-trigger (shortest movement), RT is registered as fully pressed

https://ibb.co/gTcWgWG - LT is also in hair-trigger, here I'm pressing LT as hard as I can but it's registered as ~35% pressed

https://ibb.co/9wfzDMR - gamepad tester tells me that the button is not pressed fully

editempura -

It'll be a few days before I can tear my controller down, but just to confirm, your right trigger is working fine and it's just the left trigger not registering the hair-trigger switch?

Wayne Roberts -

Yes, RT is working fine. LT works correctly in a sense that I cannot press it fully due to hair trigger lock but the press doesn’t fully register. Are there any sensors there responsible for analyzing strength of the press? The button is analog so maybe there’s something…

It’s worth adding that this has started happening after I gave the controller to 3rd party retail for LB/RB exchange. I cannot establish if they really did change the bumpers or just opened the gamepad and removed these white plastics (but I don’t see the plastics anymore).

editempura -

Sorry for the late reply! Alright, I just had a chance to break down my controller again and on the back panel where the aforementioned trigger switches are, there are two daughterboards; one for each hair-trigger assembly. I'm not seeing one easily with a quick google search, but if you can find a donor to test it against, you can compare and see if that board is the problem. None of those components require soldering, but you'll need a T3 Torx to remove them. If you have a friend with the same controller, you could try asking them if you could borrow it to test the components (assuming theirs is working correctly!). Alternatively, you could try finding a "parts only" sale on eBay as a donor that might be just as cheap as buying the board, but it might be a gamble as to whether or not it will have good parts.


Regardless, as a first step, I'd just pull the controller apart and see if there is any obvious damage or loose connections; good luck!

Wayne Roberts -

Oh, as a side note: those white plastics aren't 100% necessary for the bumpers to function. If I were to guess, I'd say they are probably to prevent excess friction/damage to either the bumpers or switches, but as easy as they are to replace (in general), I wouldn't worry about it.

Wayne Roberts -

Is there anything in the guts that identifies what kind of plastic the controller is made of? Like a sticker or something molded into the inside that isn't visible in the photos? I don't see anything listed in the manual but I could have missed it.

Particularly the faceplate; I just want to pop it off to paint it, but I'm having difficulty finding information about what kind of plastic they used.

Edit: I know the center part looks like it has ABS stamped on it, but I'm not sure if the same plastic was used for the front and back pieces as well.

Crimm -