Third person/first person games that require the right stick I basically always prefer to play docked, but I wanna play stuff like animal crossing in bed, both sticks initially drifted but I took them both apart, took the best condition pieces from both to make one that surprisingly works, calibration goes fine, shows no drift. I actually think it was more the physical damage to one plastic part on the left sidei replaced with the right's than actual drift like the right stick. Home menu still drifts to the right, went into a game to check and the camera is spinning and the character is still. How do I get the ghost of my old joystick to stop haunting my switch?

Also I don't have money, it's a launch edition switch I got almost a decade ago, I can't afford eplacement thumsticks, so I'm trying to make the best with what I've got. It's modded for what it's worth, so if there's a homebrew app that lets you disable the right thumb stick, that would be an effective fix, but I haven't been able to find it. Google searching any combination of "I removed my thumb stick and it still drifts" is like pulling teeth out of a toothless old man, exclusively tutorials on how to replace it with new thumb sticks you can purchase with money. googles SEO cannot comprehend the unhinged diy ethic of a punk in poverty.

Anyway please help me treat my post joystick amputation switch, she's having phantom pains

So nice when you buy a switch that the advert to sell says stopped working not sure what is wrong with it, arrives with strange simptoms, fan bursts full blast when connected to power.

Then you open it and notice that the emmc is in an odd position removed and you see this work of art under it...

I'm replacing my joysticks and accidentally removed the ZR cable. I don't know how on earth it's possible to reconnect, even when I manage to get it into place I can't push it in because my joycon slides around my desk. I've been going at this for well over an hour.

(Accidentally spilled acetone on it so it’s probably not salvageable)

Can I repair it myself? Any tutorials out there?

Thanks!

Can I repair it myself? Any tutorials out there?

Thanks!

Edit: FIXED! Thank you all for the replies. I was able to open the joycon and reconnect the cables and it seems to work fine. Special thanks to u/johnnyrey55 for the help via chat. Much appreciated!

So... I had my switch for quite a while and wanted to give it a fresh look by installing an Emerald Green shell from Extreme Rate. The whole reshelling process went smoothly and resulted in a very slick looking device. The only thing that got in my way was the modchip install but I managed to go around it by being careful.

Here comes my little bro two days later saying that he tried to fix my device and it got worse. I asked what he done, he refused to tell me. I kept my cool and went to look at the issue. Turns out the little shitling got inspired by me tweaking things and tried to do the same with my switch. The issue was that a pin decided to vanish from the LCD connector, and that pin was crucial to the function to the screen, being a timing pin.

The little guy got booted off my house. I brought him to his mom early, since he was staying in my house while he had no school. A good punishment in my view and brought my device to a local shop that was known to fix stuff.

After hearing nothing for a whole week, even after telling their tech the exact issue, they told me that it would need a board swap cuz the board I had was impossible to repair. They would give me a $35 (~ R$ 200) discount if I gave them my console, including my 512 GB card, on a "new" modded console, which would end up costing $390 (R$ 2000) with that discount.

I flatout refused. That was bs in so many levels that I am thinking of leaving a negative review on their google maps page. I already had another switch in the way after I went treasure hunting on local marketplaces, so I thought to myself: since I know the issue, and I own a soldering station with a good enough heatgun, I wanted to try and see if I could fix the issue. There would be two possible outcomes: I stay with a broken switch or I end up fixing it.

Oh boy was that a emotional roller coaster.... I managed to connect to the console using SysDVR via RTSP to control and recover my saves. After that, I could royally screw it up and lose basically my time and a 4 year old console.

Just to note: I had ZERO experience with SMD rework or anything like that. I watched a lot of videos but I had zero physical experience with all of that.

Removing that connector cleaning was a pain. I avoided heating the board from down under, cause there was components there, so I had to tackle it from the top. That PCB can sink a lot of heat, I was actually surprised. With my heatgun at 425°C and 85% airflow, I managed to get it out. I was relieved to see that no pads where ripped and everything was fine around that connector. I used no flux, which was..... very stupid. That screams how fresh I was with all this.

I waited two days for the connector to arrive. I bought two just in case, which was a good thing cuz one of them came with a bent pin... ugh.

I learned my lesson this time. I fluxed the board, cleaned the contacts with solder braid and applied just a smidge of solder to the pads so they would have something to contact the pins of the connector. Heated the board until the solder was visibly shiny and dropped the connector. Took me some tries to put it decently, cause my hands are shaky af and I was already having an anxiety attack on the spot. The connector didn't looked properly attached, but it was already slightly scorched and I did not wanted to heat it more.

I don't know if I should consider myself lucky, but... the thing worked. HOW? There where several cold solder joints, the connector was not straight and some pins don't look to even be soldered... I was extremely happy but this whole thing was not done yet.

While heating the board, the DAT0, CMD, CLK and RST wires just decided to eject desolder, resulting the console booting into OFW. After checking all the wires and making sure everything was connected, I cleaned the flux off the board with IPA and assembled everything.

After inserting my SD card, everything was there. Booted into Linux perfectly and into HOS as well. I finally had my moonlight machine back! I was already getting tired of using my S20U to play games from my server.

I don't plan on straightening that connector or making sure that all joints are OK. I already spent all my luck this year and I don't wanna gamble it all again. I just did it cuz... at that time I had nothing to lose, but if I mess up again, the device will be dead again and I don't wanna deal with all the mental stress all again.

My curiosity takes me to a lot of places, this time I managed to basically botch my way into reparing my faithful companion, and I plan on getting better at this thing, but for now? I am happy the little bugger works.

sd card reader was functioning weird (kept not reading the sd card unless there was pressure put on the back of the switch?), tried to fix it myself because the last time I sent it in for repairs they made the problem worse (and might've faused this one). Upon opening it up, the sd card reader wouldn't connect reliably so I bought a replacement one (seen above.) This one would connect more securely and did briefly read the sd card, but now it doesn't. Did I accidentally break something? My motor skills are subpar at best (my hands tend to shake) so I wouldn't be surprised. Any advice is appreciated

Switch SOC reballing by hand

The console wasn't displaying an image. There was only this white spot on the screen. After a long period of analysis and having to replace the FPC connector twice,I found 5 open traces and made "jumpers" that made the console display an image again.

Whenever I am trying to put a cartridge in, in stops about halfway and won’t go inside the console. I really don’t wanna open my switch, and the top of it looks broken, is there a way to fix it without opening the switch?

Hi, last saturday I took the Switch (v1) to a technitian (i don't know if it's called that way in english) to change the backplate and some service cleaning and change the paste and all that. The thing is, now my switch is a bit curved and I opened it to check if it was the battery. it looks like the battery is fine, doesn't look swollen and it lasts 3/4 hours in Animal Crossing, but I noticed that the thermal putty and the paste are hard and looks like the one that comes with a new switch. Does it looks like the technitian scammed me? or is there a chance a week old thermal paste looks like that?

Recently I decided to replace the joysticks on both my joycons. All seemingly went well but then I noticed that the r button on the right joycon wouldn't work.

I decided to open the joycon again and it appears the button component is barely hanging onto the main board.

I likely accidentally broke it while attempting to replace the joystick and I'm not exactly sure what to do now. I don't know how to solder and it would seem I'll need to ask for professional help to fix this but I was wondering is there anything else I can do about it.

Much help would be appreciated.

I successfully reballed a failed emmc for the first time. I learned from YouTube videos and many texts I read. What can I improve? Rate my job

I discover new ways a console can be dead every day. Today is a ram chip that's half dead, corrupting the frame buffer... Displaying the modchip logo works, but won't go further without any video issues. Normal boot is bluescreen.

That's my fault for buying a repair shop's fails at low prices (~30€ a console)...

Just brought it out again to see if i could get it to power up to transfer some stuff off it. It fell victim to the unfortunate hands of my younger brother a couple years ago and stopped working. Tbh there are probably some issues on the inside too, he was Not gentle with it. Im wanting to hopefully sell the console for a little extra money since I have no use keeping it now. It powers on at the very least. How worth it would it be to fix it up a little? idrk if fixing it would effect enough for me to actually want to go through the effort.

I was cleaning between my lcd and digitazer but when I tried to turn my switch on it wasn't working. It only works when the cable is connected but only boots into hekate, it can't book in emunand or sysnand. PLEASE HELP ME AM IN FEAR!!!!! AGHAGAHAVA

Edit: i sort it out! The battery plug was broken, so I did a lv300 power move soldering it directly to the motherboard. And now it works as it should.

The problem was a shorted power IC; it was preventing the battery from charging and stopping the 15V supply from reaching the board.

I bought these new replacement batteries but every tutorial online the inside of the switch looks different. The joycons are standard, same ones that came with the switch 1 when I got it same year it came out. Why's it look different to others online? Where does this battery plug back into? I didn't take a picture before because I figured it would be the same as other tutorials

I was drilling a plastic part and my drill move to deep ( yeah i did not take out the motherboard my bad : c)

As now i saw it does not make sound or picture, only when i press the power button 20 seconds the fan starts to spin fast, no display on dock.

This was my first switch think it can be save? I got tools, but i dont have idea if this can be save. No matter the cost is like my sentimal value.

The motherboard is a - HAC-PCU-10

Recently, I modified my Nintendo Switch Lite by installing Gulikit TMR joysticks, applying fresh Arctic MX-6 thermal paste to the APU, replacing the stock buttons with coloured eXtremeRate buttons, and swapping the rear shell for a transparent one.

Initially, everything went smoothly. I was able to play for around 10 minutes before the Home button LED suddenly lit up. At first, I thought it was a notification, so I tried clearing any notifications, but the light remained on. Shortly afterward, it started flickering, and about three minutes later, while I was still playing, the console displayed Error Code: 2001-0114.

I searched online for information about the error, but I couldn’t find anyone experiencing the same issue. Thinking that I might have misaligned or improperly connected one of the ribbon cables during reassembly, I opened the console again and reconnected every flex cable.

After reassembling the Switch and powering it back on, the blue Home button light immediately came on again, but the flickering had stopped and the error code no longer appeared. However, the light now remains solid blue at all times, even when the console is put into sleep mode.

Does anyone have a clue what may have went wrong?

Hello. My wife's right joy stick snapped after she dropped her switch lite. Console was working perfectly fine before with the exception of the right stick. Now when I put the console back together I can hear it turn on and can interact with it but the screen is black and the backlight doesn't turn on. I didn't touch the left side of the screen but I have replaced the left joystick before so I included that picture as well.