AKNES GuliKit Joysticks for Steam Deck (Type A & Type B), No Drifting, Hall Effect Sticks Replacement, Left/Right Thumb Grip Parts for Steam Deck Console-Electromagnetic Joystick (No Soldering)

Truly love these Joystick replacements. Easy to install and set up. I got rid of my old ones since they had terrible stick drift. The Gulikit Joysticks got rid of that problem. Now my characters aren't running to the left or always looking up lol. Strongly recommend these!

This is a review for the type B compatible SD02 version of the thumbsticks. In short, they worked great for me. The install and calibration can be done in less than 10 minutes. You'll probably have to calibrate them with the button on the back of each joystick before putting the cover back on, but it's not a huge issue. The container they shipped in also works well to store the original thumbsticks. I wouldn't have minded if you had to solder the caps on, but it does save you a couple of minutes if you ever have to swap back in your old sticks for whatever reason, plus you get a spare set of caps. My left stick's calibration was perfect from the box, but my right one was off a little bit. I had no weird issues with deadzones after calibrating, or with other issues people had with the previous version such as the sticks grinding / scratching / sticking, or the motion not being smooth. If I had to pick a "negative" it would be that one stick is was switched to A and one stick was switched to B from the factory. You should be inspecting this anyway before installing, but I'm sure someone will leave a one star review eventually mentioning the gyro not working correctly. Assuming they hold up over time these are a great replacement for the stock thumbsticks. Just don't expect them to make you a better gamer.

Everyone knows a thing or 2 about joycon drift and the eventual need to replace the joystick. These are the perfect options for a replacement. Whether you need to replace your joycons or just want to get ahead of the problem with an upgrade. Pros: non-resistive design makes them immune to joycons drift. Cons: You will need to know how to do basic soldering They did take some time tinkering with to get properly zeroed in

Highly recommended to purchase these as the original thumbsticks modules, (being potentiometers), will wear out over time with use and develop an issue known as stick drift. You personally may luck out and never experience this as it doesn't always develop at the same rate and severity for every module as it varies greatly on the amount of time the sticks are used, but given enough time and use it will happen. These hall effect modules are multitudes of times more resistant to drift issues and are much more accurate allowing you to set the dead zone of the stick much lower. If you plan to keep and use your steam deck for years to come, then it's a no brainer to invest in these. These are very easy to install if you have the tools necessary, (a small phillips head screw driver and a plastic pry tool). The only complaint I have is that there are no instructions included in the box and requires visiting the gulikit website for instructions which I highly recommend as if you simply just do a drop in install you may mess up as there is a small switch and button on each module you'll need to use to make sure the sticks are properly adjusted and calibrated as the box makes no mention of these.

They are smoother in action, but the dead zone is bigger than the original joysticks. I can tune it in SteamOS to make it not drift, but if you use Windows or any other OS on your Steam Deck you will get incurable joystick drift. Edit Sept 2024: I bought the Steam Deck OLED joysticks. I kept my old LCD Steam Deck with these joysticks and I had the OLED Steam Deck for almost a year with the original joysticks. It was easier to test the difference side by side. I noticed the Hall effect joysticks were much more precise and responsive (I still don’t get why they say these don’t have drift though. The joystick returns to the center with basically a spring, Just like a traditional joystick, so as the spring wears out or holds a position slightly off perfect center, it can drift. The only thing that prevents it from drifting is the ability to adjust the joystick deadzone in SteamOS, The functional difference between these Hall effect joysticks and traditional is that traditional joysticks use potentiometers which is a variable resistor that has brush contacts so it can read out difference resistances to determine the joystick’s position. This means it can wear out and be vulnerable to dust and static to give bad readings. The Hall effect joystick uses a magnet on the joystick and a sensor to detect the magnet’s position. Since the sensor is very sensitive it can articulate many times the amount of positions a potentiometer could. ) While my original comment still applies, I’ve decided that overall these are better than the original joysticks in game. You can make much finer movements with them. My new right stick unfortunately still occasionally drifts in games running on my Windows dual boot. The touch sensing wire connected to my left thumb stick was a little short. This caused the wire to snag when I was circling the sticks to test the feel of it. This prevented some movement. Thankfully I didn’t close the Steam Deck up yet so I took it out to look and I didn’t have to desolder the wire. I just had to use a utility knife to very carefully cut the glue they had covering the wire near the solder joint. The glue made the wire stiff and took away a few mm of slack which was needed. After I cut off the glue, I was able bend the wires so that they don’t rub and snag against the joystick component anymore. I played a few games and it works great.

I busted a joystick when my steam deck fell off my table last week, I thought I was boned. A friend told me the sticks were super easy to replace and sent me the link to these. Once I got them, I had them both switched out in maybe five minutes and was back in action. They have a switch for A or B mode for the two deck versions, make sure you check those codes against your serial number so you set them to the right option. At first one of them wanted to stick when pushed all the way to the left, but after rotating and clicking it a few times it never stuck again.

Bought this kit as soon as I saw it available for the Type B (MHDA) joysticks. I had already upgraded the NVMe drive of my Steam Deck, so opening it back up was simple as before. Just go slow and be careful not to strip any of the screws, and make sure you remove your microSD card if you have one. From beginning to end, it probably only took about 15 minutes including calibration to install these new joysticks. Mine were slightly low of center even after multiple attempts using the button on the back, but running thumbstick_cal in desktop mode fixed it so now it's perfectly calibrated at 0,0. As others have said, this new revision still has the downsides of a square outer deadzone and that the joysticks max out at about 80% throw (e.g., if you press forward on the joystick 80% to max, it will always register 100%). I feel like most people won't notice the difference or can adapt to it, but nonetheless it would be nice if they fixed this for any future revisions. However, I would not recommend using these to control an underwater submersible due to this small inaccuracy.

Super easy to install, didn't even have to calibrate after install. They were pretty well calibrated, no drifting, no issues. Perfect direct replacement. Just have to install them into the correct position (Left and right stick position). I personally, feel they are an upgrade from the OEM sticks (OEM potentiometers) to installed (electromagnetic). I feel they have a better response time, of course calibrate after install, but I feel they also move smoother.

I bought these to replace the stock sticks after my Steam Deck fell and one stick was damaged. They were easy enough to install so long as you followed directions available online, and seem to work great since I installed them. I have noticed no stick drift in my use. Make sure you set them to match which Deck you have otherwise you might have issues. Overall recommend if you want hall effect sticks or if you just need to replace the stock sticks.

Hacer el cambio fue más fácil y rápido que un parto y eso que tengo dos manos izquierdas. Sólo busca y sigue un video o guía, seleccionas el tipo de joystick que es tu deck, a o b, desatornillas y vuelves a atornillar, los calibras y tan tan.

Fuero muy fáciles de instalar, al momento se sintió la diferencia, honestamente me hizo amar más mi Steam Deck, puedo jugar cosas que antes no por el drift, puse las deadzones en 2000 y se siente genial, el único detalle es que son cuadradas en lugar de circulos, pero no afecta

The OEM are potentiometer joysticks which was a poor design choice on Valve’s part. The Gulikit are Hall Effect joysticks which are a much better design as they use Magnetic Fields over Resistant. Install instructions not included, but are very easy to install. Videos can be found online very easily. Basically remove screws off the back of the Steam Deck, remove the rear cover and then you will have access to the joysticks. Disconnect communication ribbon and remove the three screws on each joystick. Do the reverse to install. But Note: Before install you need to find out what your Steam Deck Controller ID is under Settings > System You will need to set the switch in the back of the Gulikit joysticks to A or B. If your Steam Deck ID starts with MEDA then set the switch to A on both joysticks. If your Steam Deck ID starts with MHDA then set the switch to B on both joysticks. Also make sure your joysticks caps are fully pressed on, if not when you install the joysticks they will bind up when you try to use them. Joystick calibration can be done with the button on back of the joysticks or using the operating system command via Konsole. More information can be found online.

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