It's DISGUSTING that this issue persists to this day.

You absolute legend. I'm not a techy guy. Capable, but zero experience when it comes to getting under the hood of anything with a chip. Followed this step by step and was able to fix some mean left drift that had made the controller worthless. No more doing some weird "press joysticks in, circle left for 15 seconds, then right for 15" hokie pokie crap every fifteen minutes to re-engage the contact point. Bless you. This is my first comment on youtube because you FREAKING EARNED IT.

You are a legend. I, a 45 year old mum with no electronics experience, have just fixed THREE DualShock controllers this morning 🎉

This is an incredibly high quality video. The splicing together of your clear explanation side by side with videos of the actual performance of the steps you are describing is so clear and so useful. Thanks so much!

03.57am and I fixed my dualshock with my monster clumpsy hands. Dude like, I had more trouble with the screws. You are awesome

Thanks a lot man. Typically I HATE having to take apart any tech because I’m scared that it won’t work once put together but I am so happy this fixed my stick drift.

Bro, thank you so much for this video, it was super helpful! I had two PS5 controls that have drifting, one more than the other so i decided to tackle the worst of them and lo and behold after following your steps in the video the controller is working as if it were brand new! All hope is not lost boys!

I was really bummed out, 3 of my 4 controllers are already unplayable. I saw this video and comments, bought a tool set (these are really cheap) and just finished the first controller.....IT WORKS AGAIN! You are a legend, wish me luck with the next two.

Just leaving a comment to say this totally worked for me. There were multiple points where I thought I messed up, but it all worked out fine in the end. Thank you so much for this!

Great walk through. Had stick drift on my original controller, ended up buying a new one and sticking the white controller into a drawer and moved on. After my 2nd controllers x button stopped working. Figured I'd try to fix my original controller and found your video. After cleaning both greeny blue plastic bits. The controller works like it just came out of the box. Now i feel more comfortable attempting to fix my second controllers x button. Appreciate you saving me 70$.

Awesome tutorial, the cleaning fixed the drifting issue completely. Much appreciated!

Your video just saved two of my controllers. I greatly appreciated the explanation and the ease to take care of this. Well done and thank you!

Just completed the whole process, literally a few minutes ago. Was playing GoW Ragnarok and could sit my controller on the sofa and Kratos would happily veer off to the left all by himself. Just fired the game up again and so far so good. Cleaned and also bent the little metal housing as you suggested. Many thanks!

Just tried this today. My left joystick was drifting to the left and it was really annoying as I have only had it for about a year. This solved the trick and wasn't super hard either. Thank you.

Totaly usefull video. I did it for a first time and it took me 20 min and steady hand controller works like new after I followed step by step. Salute from 🇭🇷

Dude, thank you! The metal bending part was the main issue in my controller. I would have never figured that one out as I was just cleaning components!

Thanks, took care of most of the constant jerking left on my kids purple controller. Bonus for taking the time to show it being put back together, I actually had my battery upside down and the wires were a bit loose.

You are an absolute legend. ❤❤. Just followed your instructions right and now my dualsense controller works perfectly. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks man!! Repaired my controller with your help! Weird and rude that Sony doesn't do anything about this infamous issue...

thanks geezer. I ordered spare pots and replaced them. But this was a great disassembly guide.

Oh Joe, you’re a star. I’ve not had to deal with one of these yet (touch wood) but when I do I’m glad to see how much easier they are to get into than the Xbox Series pads. I’d probably also have gone straight to replacing the stick, as I’ve done in the past, but I might give your method a go next time!

Thanks for this video. Had this issue with two of my controllers. Following your guide helped me to resolve the issue!

I followed the steps and it worked pretty well. Thank you!!!

Thank you so much , it worked. If your movement goes to left you need to open upper one, it controls right and left direction

Thanks a lot. I have 3 controllers with this problem e I thought I'd change the analogic. Your guide worked perfectly

This needs more views this video is amazing. Saved me a controller 🙏

Thank youu! Had a bad drift going up and to the left on the left analog. made driving or walking around (eldenring) quite annoying 😅😅 the little disc chip that flew out when i popped open potentiometer was so nerve racking but its been put back together and works!

Very good guide! After some cleaning gamepad work absolutely perfect 😁 Thank You 🙏

Thank you man, worked like a charm. The drift is so small now that my controller barely registers it in games.

I can hardly believe it but I think this fixed my drift! Thanks for making this vid.

Awesome video. Straightforward and extremely helpful. 100% worked and my controller is no longer drifting. Weird thing is that one sensor was filthy (x-axis), but the other (y-axis) barely had much build up, at all. Just glad to not have to buy a new controller.

I just did mine. It had terrible left drift it was filthy I don't know why it was new thank you so much I believe it worked I almost slammed it the other day you are the man saved me alot of money 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Works 🎉 I was able to fix a left drift issue… on a “new” controller. When I had the controller open the little tabs near the mic had already been opened, and poorly.

Amazing video! I somehow managed to make my stick drift worse... So I obviously did something wrong. Rewatching until I fix it! Thanks for posting!

Just fixed 3 controllers with this method, awesome video!

Joe Thank you so much! You saved me! I am a woman, I do not understand Tech, I am brazilian AND I made step by step everything you did in this video and the control is fixed! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 You are the best 💛💛💛 now my son is playing well 👏👏👏

Thank you for help. I fixed my problem with left analog.

Tried this, it didn't work the first time - in fact got worse, but then tried again and was more 'forceful' with the amendments to the spring mechanism on the potentiometer thing, and it worked the 2nd time for some reason and solved the stick drift completely. So has saved me £45. Quite a bit harder, and more fiddly than repairing the Switch Stick Drift, but worked in the end. Took me about 45mins - 1 hour to do it twice.

Hey man, thanks for the great video. Got my drift issues fixed. Unfortunately, I was less careful than I should have been with my L2 ribbon cable and I accidentally tore it. Thought I was good to go because my controller was working on the main PS5 menu, but it won't work in-game if it's not connected properly. Luckily I had another controller I borrowed the ribbon from while I order some replacement ribbons. Works like brand new now.

Awesome guide 🙌 Thanks for sharing!

Worked for me, thanks man. I was about to buy a new one.

Great video! Helped me fixed out PS5 pad. Thank you 😊

Thanks sir - worked like a charm. I thought this controller was a goner.

you are the GOAT I just subbed and liked you just helped me fix my stick drift thank you so much

Thanks a lot for the video! This took care of my stick drift issue. I'm not sure of the name of the part, but those white plastic bits that you pull out the potentiometer, one of mine was in pretty rough shape and the metal was bent a lot more than normal. I no longer have stick drift, but my look sensitivity is faster to the right than it is looking to the left. I bought a cheap Amazon kit that includes the potentiometers and all of the internal parts, I'm going to try replacing just the damaged white plastic piece to see if it helps. Unfortunately, I broke the mic ribbon cable (lower bottom right cable that you warned us about) trying to get it back in. Good thing I rarely use the mic, I can use my other controllers for that functionality 😂

You just saved me $70 and earned a like and sub. A gentleman and a scholar.

Thank you! This worked amazingly well!! Cheers!

Thankyou, worked a treat

I'm thankful for this video. I couldn't take it anymore. Like new bow

THANK YOU! I thought for sure I was going to have to buy a new controller. This one was less than a year old and had awful drift on the left stick. I did everything you suggested in the video and it fixed it. You rock.

You my friend are the goat 😭thank youuuuu

Great video, very helpful!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thank you Work fine, my controller is fixed

You're the man. Thank you

Thanks for the video! I do have a question. If I have experience with soldering, would you recommend removing the whole thing while repairing it instead of bending the metal?

Thanks man

THANK YOU BRO

It worked beautifully. Thank you. Like and sub of course

the other option is to buy a bunch of those greenish and white parts on Alli , (i paid 4$ for 10) and jus replace the white part , the controller works like a charm with no cleaning and all that mess.

Great vid

Thanks. Working like a charm. Btw my ds5 ribbon cables more thinner than yours.

fixed my drift, but my right d-pad stopped working. A sacrifacie worth making!

You made a very good video, but the potentiometer blue thing for the sticks did not come off and I was stratching the top off it, how do I get them off? Thanks!

Thankyou

I did basically everything in this video step by step, and now my left analogue stick won't go left at all. What did I do wrong? Have I broken the controller?

Cheers absolutly amazing video. It fix the problem for me. Unfortunetly my X button not working now😂

You are the best

Brother what are u making me do there is no blue tab there still a connection on the top of the motherboard ribbons aren’t black their white and small not to mention another ribbon that connects to the top of the motherboard that makes it impossible to flip. I practically tore the ribbon off the socket piece. Idk if mine is just a different type but I’m not looking at what ur seeing and now I got a broken controller

I've finally managed to get the potentiometers cleaned but reassembling the controller seems to be much more annoying than I thought. The left hand ribbon cable is giving me quite some trouble, since it goes in in but won't stay in.

Hi Joe, can u please send me a link where I can buy all of the tools that you used? I wanted to take te controller apart but I don't have any equipment

Have you done this type of vid for a Series X controller? I’ve got one that has vertical drift on the right stick. NM: got to the of the vid now!

I will try wish me luck yall

My drift is in my right stick.It pulls hard left.So does that mean I have to clean the top potentiometer?

Can you please make a video about cleaning ps5 edge joystick?

My character moves left or right when im moving my L3 but my R3 is the ones that turns

Well, I definitely did something wrong. It took me three hours to go from a controller that drifted badly left, to a controller that doesn't work 50% of the time, and moves upward the other 50%. You can't input any other directions, either. I guess that's my fault though. I didn't have a spudger so I used a paint scraper, which resulted in damage to the thing holding the stick in place. I also broke off the microphone piece, which I didn't care about, so I threw it out. The bottom right ribbon broke off, so I tossed that, too, then the bottom left ribbon also broke off, so it went in the trash as well. I'm a cautionary tale on what not to do. Great tutorial though

Does stick drift happen with the edge controller?

My controller is 2 months old and my right stick makes me just randomly spin to the left. Will this help?

Worst advice he gave is to bend the little metal things on the white part absolutely leave those alone it definitely cause a minor drift. Everything else is superb

So i have a ps5 controller and everytime i really really gently and barely move the right joystick to the right the camera in the game moves to the oppisite direction. Can you help me please i googled this up like a bunch of time but it seems like no one has the same problem i have

A ribbon fell out when I lifted the motherboard off...is it important or nah? Doesn't look damaged or anything, it just kinda fell out. I compared the amount of ribbons your controller has to mine and noticed this one seems to be an extra one so...I'm not sure what to do :( . It might be for my controller mic, because now it isn't working on my controller.

10:11 OMG I DID EXACTLY THAT HAHAHAH, then I friggin changed the wrong petentiometer 😂😂😂😂 when I found the one that was messed up, it was GUNkED up😅😅

certified hood classic

This fix worked perfectly but for only 1 week! I have 2 of these controllers that both had the same left stick drift (leftwards). Did this fix and was super happy with the results but just a few days later the issue started to come back little by little. Appreciative of this video but overall very disappointing as I'm now back to square 1. Not sure what to do next... even thinking about having to buy another controller makes me angry.

Maine, servicing modern electronics is a nightmare, it really feels like they do their best to making these things a pain to take apart, ribbon cables were invented by the devil, so are plastic clips, whatever happened to regular screws and a simple board with components man...

One scary thing that’s happened is at the part where I’m replacing the potentiometer, when i close the teal bit and test out the rotation it feels stuck for a second everytime i go up and down, have i broken the controller?

I was hoping for a simpler fix…like throwing it across the room again but at this point I’ll just get a new controller

Love the video very useful. But mine still is drifting up. Like I can’t even move it down, I’ve cleaned it and everything. I’ve done it 5 times now thinking I had something wrong but I’ve followed step for step 😞

Try this! Get a brand new controller and turn off the adaptive triggers in accessibility settings play a game that lets you to lower the stick deadzones Lower the dead zones to their lowest setting! Do you notice stick drift? No? Okay Next- Note *👀 The game must be an adaptive trigger compatible tittle. Now, turn on the adaptive trigger settings Play for a few minutes! Boom! Permanent stick drift.

My controller is cooked.

Fucking legend bro

I'm super bummed even after I did all of this the stick drift is still there, it did fix it a little bit but other than that my character is still strafing to the right. :(

i’m scared to take it apart if i break it

No joy. Cleaned the contacts up on both ends, bent the wee contact part out a bit more, lined it all up, clicked it all nicely, checked the action was smooth. Put it back together.... still drifting to the left Also quadruple checked to make sure I cleaned the right part 😂 Oh well

Mines not really a stick drift. During gaming if the controller isn't plugged in it does things on its own, turns, looks up and doesn't register any command. Goes away as soon as I plug it in. It's making me hate my ps5 that I bought a week ago. I even brought it back to get a new controller and the new one does it as well. It's really lame and I'm hating it. 600 bucks wasted as far as I am concerned.

Bro no way I followed the video step by step and it got worse the joystick doesn’t even work anymore it says to the left even though im not moving it can someone help me with this problem please

What about horizontal drift

I followed the exact same steps and the issue still remains. Right stick drifting to the left still😢

Stick drift would go to the left. Did this and now my stick drift goes up 😭

Seems easy enough, but when I tried it I managed to break one of the green wires. Luckily I have enough money to buy a new one. I’m clumsy af 😂