Wii U GamePad Speakers Replacement

Introduction

This guide will help you to replace the speakers if you are experiencing audio issues.

What you need

Step 1 Battery

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Place Gamepad face down and remove the two 4.7 mm screws with a Phillips size #00 screwdriver.

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tried to unscrew the 10 Tri-Wing size Y1 screw with my iFixIt toolkit

unfortunately the tool is too “fat” and short, it cannot reach 4 screws on the corners of the gamepad.

having the iFixIt toolkit and needing to purchase an additional slim screwdriver it’s a shame…

Antonello Iannone - Mar 7, 2021 Reply

Step 3

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With your finger, press down and pull back on the battery connector plug.
Remove the battery from the battery case.

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Battery lifts up from the bottom not the top like the photo shows.

Tyler Schommer - Oct 5, 2017 Reply

Step 4 Outer Case

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Remove 10 9mm screws with Tri-Wing size Y1 screwdriver around the outer case.
Lift up on the back of case.
Lift gently because the rumble motor in the back of the case is still connected by a cable to the motherboard.

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I used a small blade tip to life up on the black squares that covered the screw holes. Replacing them after.. I skipped that as it seemed impossible they would even stick back down.

Chris - Oct 29, 2018 Reply

I am having trouble getting the two screws on the hand grips as the screws are too deep. What should I use to get them?

[deleted] - Jun 10, 2021 Reply

I ended up having to buy some cheap amazon screwdrivers and are very disappointed

[deleted] - Jun 10, 2021

Step 5

Unplug outer case rumble motor connector from the motherboard with your fingers.

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Do not pull by the wires! If you do, you better be pretty good at soldering.

Brandon - Apr 9, 2018 Reply

I agree. A circle over the plug would have been better as the picture looks like you just pull on the wires lol.

Chris - Oct 29, 2018

Thanks for the comment. I did get a set of tweezers and the negative cable broke anyway. They really could have done a better job at using a different connector for that.

Kristen Bartholomew - Nov 20, 2021

Great. Didn't pull on cord. Whole thing ripped off.

August - May 6, 2020 Reply

Why in the world is this thing so tightly connected?

Andrew Moore - Nov 9, 2020 Reply

Thanks for the comment. I did get a set of tweezers to try to pull it out but still ended up breaking the negative cable. They really could have used a better set of cables and connectors for this.

Kristen Bartholomew - Nov 20, 2021 Reply

Step 6 Speakers

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With your fingers, unplug the left speaker cable from the motherboard.

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Speakers are connected with solder so removing them is not possible without requiring soldering later on. I left them both connected and instead of removing the motherboard completely I just "hinged" it carefully down to facilitate the work following step 18.

dietcokediva - Jun 11, 2017 Reply

Thank you for offering this info because I spent 20 minutes between scratching my head and searching for any alternatives to just the image above, which had a wire nut/housing (and mine certainly did not). As I began to have an anxiety attack (

Missy Leap-Courtney - Nov 6, 2017

Mine also did not have connectors for the speaker. But like mentioned above, I was able to do repair WITHOUT the need to unsolder the speaker wires. Thanks!

Louis Bellanca - Dec 10, 2017 Reply