How to fix mushy guide button on Xbox 360 controller?

wellslep
wellslep Posts: 2
edited December 2012 in Video Games
How to fix mushy guide button on Xbox 360 controller?
On my Xbox 360 controller the guide button (the button in the middle with the X on it) is mushy and it feels like its going to get stuck pushed down. It seems mushy and it doesn't have good feedback. It still works but how can I fix it feeling mushy?




























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  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited December 2012
    Either take it apart and clean it... or do what I did when my right thumbstick started drifting to the left constantly: Trade it in at Gamestop and use the credit to buy a new controller. The Halo 4 controller I have now is FREAKIN' SWEET.
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  • PubFiction
    PubFiction Posts: 105
    edited December 2012
    Its probably wearing out the rubber, xbox buttons are chiclet dome switches, theres not much to them and they dont last long, so trading it in is a decent option. Of course you could open it up, if you had a tamper proof #8 star driver and put a small spring in there. No but really these are made really cheap to wear out, thats how they make money.
  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,640
    edited December 2012
    Strange 1st post...
  • wellslep
    wellslep Posts: 2
    edited December 2012
    Either take it apart and clean it... or do what I did when my right thumbstick started drifting to the left constantly: Trade it in at Gamestop and use the credit to buy a new controller. The Halo 4 controller I have now is FREAKIN' SWEET.


    OK! THANKS!






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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,640
    edited December 2012
    Gotta report wellslep. Highly suspected spam. If you're not, sorry...
  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,199
    edited December 2012
    wellslep wrote: »
    It seems mushy and it doesn't have good feedback. It still works but how can I fix it feeling mushy?

    I thought he might have been going for the Viagra angle.
    Sal Palooza