How to I fix the stick drift
The stick drift is small but irritating
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Hi!
Stick drift can only be repaired by replacing it!
Note, that you do need soldering skills to replace it, it won't be easy.
While you are there, I recommend to replace them for Hall-Effect joysticks straight away when one of them is defective.
Guide: DualSense Joystick Replacement - iFixit Repair Guide
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Contact cleaner. DeOXit is the one I use most often.
You dont need to replace or solder anything. Take the controller down to the point that you can take the sticks off. Pull them off. Blow a quick spritz of deoxit into the middle of each assembly, waggle the stick around a bit, wipe/blow off the excess, and there you go.
I have no idea why everyone seemingly forgot this around 2015 or so. Analog controllers have been the same arrangement of X/Y potentiometers since like 1950 something, they have always gotten dirty, which manifests as "drift", and contact cleaner has always fixed it.
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Strip down controller to board. Pull off thumb sticks. Using a screwdriver pop off one potentiometer and bend it out a little. Remove the inner piece. Clean the inner piece and piece you removed with a cotton bud and ipa. Reassemble and repeat for the remaining 3.
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