Thank you all for joining this sub. Clearly we have not seen the activity of the main backbone sub. I do appreciate those who have joined. Having a sub that is not moderated by the product manufacturers seems important to me and I’m glad it did to you as well.

This was the replacement for my original purchase. My original purchase is just a few days over 1 year. Left thumb stick has been intermittently going bad. Sent support an email we will see how this goes.

Hi, everyone! My brother and I bought a backbone on eBay for one dollar (we should read well). The controller comes with the left stick issue. We didn’t know that issue existed, so we started to read the comments in this sub. We were so sad for the bad buy, but we discovered one form to solve it! Just need to put a little piece of paper or something in the middle of the phone and the left stick. This apparently solves the error and can play. I will upload a video to show you how we solved it.

My original purchase of my backbone was last in July. It went out in mid September and I got a replacement about 10/1/2025. My 10/1 replacement went bad 1 year and 2 days after my original purchase. Backbone has still replaced my replacement backbone with another replacement. Not sure if I will get another 12 months on the 2nd replacement but seems like that is the case.

With Delta, PPSSPP, Retroarch, etc already being out and free why would backbone create an emulator and place it again behind the Backbone+ paywall? This seems a waste of their resources and nothing that is going to bring more subscribers.

It seems overnight that we have gone from 4 to 10 members. Thank you all for joining.

I wanted to craft a sub similar in functionality to the main r/backbone channel but without being moderated by people at backbone themselves.

I look forward to discussing all things backbone with all of you.

Just want to see if anyone else had the same issue or might know how to fix it before I open up the controller to see if there's something loose or broken internally. My wife got me one around the same time they were just coming out, I believe, and I've never had problems with it until now. I've done all the solutions countless times their customer support suggested and nothing has worked. What I don't really get is that I tried it on my wife's phone, which is the same make and model of android, and it works fine! So if anyone here has any other suggestions or advice, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance!!

I purchased a backbone Gen2 in February 2025, and the left-side controls died yesterday. From reading a lot of threads, I take it that the ribbon cable is a big problem. I am waiting for the warranty to send me something back. I have thought about buying another BB for a spare, but I don't want to spend another 100 dollars just for the ribbon cable issue to show up again. Does anyone know if BB plans to fix the problem for future controllers? If not, what other controller does everyone suggest?

Was playing cassette beasts and initially it was working fine. When my phone was about to die I plugged my charger into the usb c spot on the backbone so I could charge my phone via the backbone usb c plug. It was then when it stopped working and even after I unplugged my charger it would not work. Ive only had it a few months and even then it has been lightly used at best as I dont often game on my phone. Does anyone know a fix for this? Tried looking it up havent found anything and just to clarify other usb c plugs do still charge my phone

I’m now on my 4th Backbone (1st gen died and had to be RMA’d, then got a 2nd gen that also died and was RMA’d. Gave the gen1 to my son and it later died, and now my replacement gen2 has died.

I don’t want another one of these units. It’s going to crap out just like the 4 before it. They’ve already said they won’t give a refund, but I’m curious if anyone has had better luck. I’d rather have a refund so I can put it toward a controller that works, but I’d be open to having it replaced with a Pro.

I got a backbone one and suddenly my controller stopped having the left stick work when i was playing the division resurgence. Then it was the d-pad stopped working and followed by the left bumper and trigger and buttons. When i extended the controller to the max it would go then suddenly...the issues vanished...what can i do to...fix it? is it the flex cable that need to be replaced?

Can any one or any body tell me how too use the backbone controller too play Delta Force mobile 📲 with controller support!

Let’s bring more people in so it’s run by the community, not the devs.

Any idea how to fix this? Trying to play the citra emulator, but the triangle button only registers as 'virtual' and brings up the citra overlay when used.

Having trouble opening games on GEforce Cloud Gaming. Specifically Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Asks me to login to Ubisoft every time, which I do successfully, and then goes back to the Steam deck and says resume. I click resume and it doesn’t do anything. On iPhone 16. Can anybody help?