Introduction
Use this guide to replace the molded analog joystick covers on a DualShock 3 controller. The electronic joysticks are soldered to the controller board.
Parts
No parts required.
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Remove the five 7.2 mm Phillips screws securing the rear cover to the controller.
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Press on the rear cover between the analog sticks and slightly lift the lower edge of it away from the rest of the controller.
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Push the rear cover slightly toward the top edge of the controller to clear the front edge of the #2 triggers.
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Pull the rear cover away from the rest of the controller, being careful not to pop off the #2 triggers.
the "trigger button guide" link links back to this page :o
I accidentally popped a trigger off, and both L1 and R1, because I skimmed and didn't read this step. Fortunately it's not hard. The tricky part with the triggers is that there's a little spring on them. You have to press the side of the spring that's pointing away from the trigger against the sloped surface of the controller (look at the other trigger for reference, if you only popped one off). Then you just slide the trigger on until the "handlebar" bits near the center click into place.
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Lift the battery off the motherboard for enough clearance to access the battery connector.
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Carefully pull the battery connector away from its socket on the motherboard.
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Raymond -
To safely remove the connector, you can slide a thin screwdriver inside two slots that can be found on top of the connctor housing (the beige colored one), which allow you to push on the connector. Do this slowly, prying first through one slot, then through the other, until the connector is out. This will allow you to remove the connector without pulling by accident on the wires.
Thanks Adriana. Good advice. My local battery replacement guy will not touch PS3 controllers.
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Remove the single 7.2 mm Phillips screw securing the motherboard to the front cover.
Most of the times, the only thing you need to repair to fix random key-presses is the soft plastic under the input-board connector to the motherboard.
At step 6 just move the motherboard upwards and you'll be able to see the connector.
Take the black soft-plastic-thing under it, and make it thicker with some tape. ( roll some tape around it 3-4 times - cut the tape properly so it can fit afterwards )
Now put everything back.
Random Presses are gone. Both of my controllers had this problem after a few hot summers and many hours of gameplay... both are fixed now.
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Slide the trigger button retainers slightly away from the front cover.
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Remove the #1 button on both sides.
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Pull the vibration motor retainers away from the front cover to dislodge the motherboard assembly.
My ~2012 EU controller (CECHZC2E) differs from this point as well. The entire white assembly comes out of the black shell by pressing in the latches on both sides of the vibration motors (you can see a small bit of white plastic stick out from under the black shell, that is where you press down).
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Remove the motherboard assembly from the front cover.
On my controller the button contact filament stayed inside the controller housing. Concerningly this exposed the contact ribbon for the buttons and sticks against the back of the logic board. However, the rest of the service with without issue, and the controller worked fine. This controller had a gray battery inside of it, and was likely a 60GB launch controller.
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Pull the analog stick covers straight up off the joystick posts attached to the motherboard.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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Reassembly doesn’t quite follow these steps in reverse order. Proper reassembly with the shoulder buttons is tricky. However, its much more simple to omit resinstalling the ‘1’ buttons until the controller housing is completely reassembled. They have one-way snapping clips on the edges, and appear designed to installed this way. Also, it’s good to double check the internal ‘1’ button switches are correctly centered inside the controller housing before4 snap in the ‘1’ buttons.
