robotmammal said:
The cap is fine and the shaft isnt wobbling at all, the 'up' direction just no longer works. I've read threads about
Sounds like GPH's dodgy soldering again. If you are any good at soldering (or knows someone who is), then reflow the joystick connections and it'll be fine again usually (you may want to add a bit more solder to make it a bit more robust, too)
Incidently, i am rather good at soldering- but i figured that if it was a soldering failure then the joystick would of been faulty straight out of the box, not after a week. But saying that- i am now seriously thinking about resoldering, regardless of voiding my warranty because either way i think im going to do a Dpad mod anyhows. Im going to use a gamecube Dpad pcb and pad. I've seen pictures of that done by Grahf to a gp2x- and it looks neater then straight vodka. Weirdly though, the joystick only started playing up when used different batteries- how this could affect it is beyond me though. (ps- and thinking about it, if the solder was dodgy then it would only take about a week to dislogde it fully, and sometimes the 'up' does work slightly leading to the conclusion that me applying force could sometimes short the solder link enough for it to work abit-sorry to doubt you at first Squidge!)
If the 'up' direction is faulty then wouldnt I have to look at the soldering on the bottom contacts?
