Author Topic: D-Pad and buttons sticking issue (Read 89471 times)

alyinsanfran · « **Reply #80 on:** June 21, 2013, 02:06:49 am »

My PSP is 8 years old and STILL has a sticky square button. But I'm chicken and never opened it. If my KS sticks I'm lubing up.

jimclarson · « **Reply #81 on:** June 21, 2013, 02:46:05 am »

i have a psp 1000 that i hacked and the dpad on it sucked really bad. i actualy ended up opening it up and took the dpad out, and took the dpad from a ps2 dualshock controller and filed it to fit inside the dpad housing, i found an issue though in that the central boulge that makes it wobble, preventing opposing direction presses was missing. i ended up fixing that with a tiny tiny beed from my mom's beeding craft droor and some gel superglue, and stuck the bead to the underside center of the dpad, then covering it up with a thin layer of super glue again so the bead was set within the glue on the dpad's underside, preventing it from coming loose. after all this i assembles the case back together [which was surpriseing simple, inuitive, nonintrusive and easy]. i now have a wonderfuly functioning dpad which is now highly accurate and pulls off flawless diagonals [the problem with the original one was it refused to do diagonals without excessive pressing.

alyinsanfran · « **Reply #82 on:** June 21, 2013, 04:34:38 am »

Bloody hell, I wish some smart bugger on CraigsList offered to do that to a DPad - I'd get it done in a heartbeat! When I unlocked mine I took it to a dude on CL, seemed easier to give someone $20 to do it properly than to root the thing myself. (Note: root in NZ/Aus means something entirely different to the rest of the world!)

AztroZombie · « **Reply #83 on:** June 22, 2013, 02:16:54 pm »

Looks like I'll be opening my zero up again, now my buttons are starting to stick

relay01 · « **Reply #84 on:** June 22, 2013, 05:15:23 pm »

Yeah, my face buttons started to stick too... time for more lube. :-)

AztroZombie · « **Reply #85 on:** June 23, 2013, 02:02:54 am »

Quote from: relay01 on June 22, 2013, 05:15:23 pm

Yeah, my face buttons started to stick too... time for more lube. :-)

That's going to be one slippery Zero

ace9094 · « **Reply #86 on:** June 23, 2013, 12:59:28 pm »

Quote from: zear on June 18, 2013, 06:18:51 pm

It looks like it's the paint on the buttons/d-pad that made them too thick to fit in the slots perfectly and it is causing the friction. An extensive use of the d-pad/buttons for few hours should remove the excessive paint.

My suggestion to remedy this issue is simple....

Play "Track n Field" and attempt to beat the records... By the time you set the world records your buttons should be sorted

Dolbie · « **Reply #87 on:** June 23, 2013, 02:34:45 pm »

Quote from: ace9094 on June 23, 2013, 12:59:28 pm

Quote from: zear on June 18, 2013, 06:18:51 pm
It looks like it's the paint on the buttons/d-pad that made them too thick to fit in the slots perfectly and it is causing the friction. An extensive use of the d-pad/buttons for few hours should remove the excessive paint.

My suggestion to remedy this issue is simple....

Play "Track n Field" and attempt to beat the records... By the time you set the world records your buttons should be sorted

Genius!

Wait... Won't this only help with left & right?

ace9094 · « **Reply #88 on:** June 23, 2013, 02:57:12 pm »

Quote from: Dolbie on June 23, 2013, 02:34:45 pm

Quote from: ace9094 on June 23, 2013, 12:59:28 pm
Quote from: zear on June 18, 2013, 06:18:51 pm
It looks like it's the paint on the buttons/d-pad that made them too thick to fit in the slots perfectly and it is causing the friction. An extensive use of the d-pad/buttons for few hours should remove the excessive paint.

My suggestion to remedy this issue is simple....

Play "Track n Field" and attempt to beat the records... By the time you set the world records your buttons should be sorted
Genius!

Wait... Won't this only help with left & right?

to answer that one, Nope...

Just reconfigure the controls.... See I am a genius..... the best ideas are always the simple ones

Dolbie · « **Reply #89 on:** June 23, 2013, 11:56:14 pm »

Quote from: ace9094 on June 23, 2013, 02:57:12 pm

Quote from: Dolbie on June 23, 2013, 02:34:45 pm
Quote from: ace9094 on June 23, 2013, 12:59:28 pm
Quote from: zear on June 18, 2013, 06:18:51 pm
It looks like it's the paint on the buttons/d-pad that made them too thick to fit in the slots perfectly and it is causing the friction. An extensive use of the d-pad/buttons for few hours should remove the excessive paint.

My suggestion to remedy this issue is simple....

Play "Track n Field" and attempt to beat the records... By the time you set the world records your buttons should be sorted
Genius!

Wait... Won't this only help with left & right?

to answer that one, Nope...

Just reconfigure the controls.... See I am a genius..... the best ideas are always the simple ones

Get out of hits way people!!! He's on a roll!!!!

obscurehandhelds · « **Reply #90 on:** June 25, 2013, 08:10:45 pm »

well i sat for 20 minutes hitting the down button repeatedly in the hope it might loosen it up a but, but it's not made the slightest difference. in the end i thought fuck it and loaded up fire emblem, only to notice that my A button is now sticking as well. if i end up having to send this back to america i'm going to be very pissed off

yerffej · « **Reply #91 on:** June 25, 2013, 08:38:49 pm »

I can confirm that the sticking issue is getting better by just regular use. It still sticks sometimes, but I can tell that the problem will eventually go away.

Skyline969 · « **Reply #92 on:** June 25, 2013, 08:44:00 pm »

Quote from: yerffej on June 25, 2013, 08:38:49 pm

I can confirm that the sticking issue is getting better by just regular use. It still sticks sometimes, but I can tell that the problem will eventually go away.

Is it because the paint on the d-pad is slowly chipping away, or is the paint still intact?

obscurehandhelds · « **Reply #93 on:** June 25, 2013, 08:49:10 pm »

Can i clarify something with other people having the same dpad issue. My dpad does not stick, ever. In fact unless I'm very quiet and listen hard, I cannot hear any resistance of it rubbing against the case. But it fails to register unless I apply about 50% more force to "down" than required for any other direction. Am I alone with this issue, is everyone elses dpad physically sticking?

AztroZombie · « **Reply #94 on:** June 25, 2013, 09:04:45 pm »

Quote from: gibberish on June 25, 2013, 08:49:10 pm

Can i clarify something with other people having the same dpad issue. My dpad does not stick, ever. In fact unless I'm very quiet and listen hard, I cannot hear any resistance of it rubbing against the case. But it fails to register unless I apply about 50% more force to "down" than required for any other direction. Am I alone with this issue, is everyone elses dpad physically sticking?

Mine did exactly that until after hours of trying to loosen it up, it began to stick.

Wortsenawl · « **Reply #95 on:** June 26, 2013, 10:26:05 pm »

So I was overjoyed that my up and down buttons were working seemingly perfect... than I realised that the left button does not register unless I push down really hard.

And then after a bit more playing, I found the actual problem to be more than that (and nothing feels like it is sticking).

If I press down hard on the left button and get it to register, then pushing the left button with normal force seems to work fine. However, the moment I then use the right button (on the d-pad), then the left becomes problematic again.

I hope that explains it properly.

relay01 · « **Reply #96 on:** June 26, 2013, 11:11:45 pm »

@Wortsenawl and gibberish
Sensitivity issue's are how mine and AstroZombie's sticky issues started. Things progressively got worse.
The sticky issues tend to develop over time, then get worse, then possibly (as some have reported) get better.

Anyway, you don't have to take your unit apart to resolve the issue. GCW had me make this up.

<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190315202724/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-lg-IzNmJU" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-lg-IzNmJU</a>

@AstroZombie, can you update the OP with this and your fix information?

Wortsenawl · « **Reply #97 on:** June 26, 2013, 11:19:31 pm »

Cool, thanks.

I joined the IRC and was banned within 5 minutes, not sure what I did (or didn't do).

This is going well for me right now.

Is there an idiots guide, or something? Otherwise I will put one together, when I figure things out.

zear · « **Reply #98 on:** June 26, 2013, 11:45:07 pm »

Quote from: Wortsenawl on June 26, 2013, 11:19:31 pm

I joined the IRC and was banned within 5 minutes, not sure what I did (or didn't do).

Nobody from #gcw has banned you, nor can I find information of such event in the channel logs. Actually, in the history of the channel, we have never banned anybody, and if we wanted to, it would definitely not happen for no reason.
If you indeed got banned and can't reconnect, it must have happened on the Freenode level - maybe they mis-detected your client/ip as a spambot.
Can we parhaps help with unbanning you?

EIREXE · « **Reply #99 on:** June 26, 2013, 11:59:25 pm »

Quote from: zear on June 26, 2013, 11:45:07 pm

Quote from: Wortsenawl on June 26, 2013, 11:19:31 pm
I joined the IRC and was banned within 5 minutes, not sure what I did (or didn't do).
Nobody from #gcw has banned you, nor can I find information of such event in the channel logs. Actually, in the history of the channel, we have never banned anybody, and if we wanted to, it would definitely not happen for no reason.
If you indeed got banned and can't reconnect, it must have happened on the Freenode level - maybe they mis-detected your client/ip as a spambot.
Can we parhaps help with unbanning you?

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Author Topic: D-Pad and buttons sticking issue (Read 89471 times)

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