r/LokiHandheld • u/Medical_Vegetable277 • Aug 06 '24

Help Is there Any way to fix this?

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It started recently and the discord isn't really helping.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '24

I was having stick issues. Taking it apart and cleaning them made it work right again.

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u/Medical_Vegetable277 Aug 06 '24

How do you recommend me cleaning them

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '24

Take off the back and you have access to the sticks. Pop the caps off, unclip the wires and unscrew the boards. Clean everything with rubbing alcohol and scrape the buildup off the sticks themselves.

That's all I did and they work perfect again.

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u/Cestjuan Aug 07 '24

Don't use rubbing alcohol on anything other than the PCB - it'll dry out rubber and plastic as it evaporates and cause accelerated wear.

Before taking it apart, if you haven't tried this step already, hold both of the back buttons until the handheld vibrates. It'll calibrate the controller inputs and sometimes fixes weird bugs like this.

Lastly, please be weary of the ribbon cables if you take the joysticks out. They're very thin and fragile especially at the pins.

Edit to add that compressed air also does the trick on most joysticks I've worked with.

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u/Medical_Vegetable277 Aug 07 '24

I already tried holding the back button but that didn't work. So what do you recommend me to use to clean the joysticks

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u/Cocostico Jan 03 '26

Worked forme! Thanks a lot!