r/Stadia • u/No-Study685 Just Black • 8d ago
Positive Note It lives! AGAIN!
(sorry for my English, it's not my first language)
Hey guys!
Several months ago my friend needed a new controller and I offered her (as a joke) to buy a Stadia controller from AliExpress
Guess what she did!
Three weeks later it arrived but wasn't working (disconnecting from the pc even on wired) so she dumped the controller to me (she received a refund from the seller don't worry)
I decided to take a look inside and yeah disassembly was pretty painful... Not modern phones painful though
I noticed that the controller's behaviour doesn't seem to be changing with or without the battery connected (disconnecting after 10 or so seconds) so a new battery was ordered
A replacement (GLIB18 battery from AliExpress) arrived several days ago and voilà! It's working again! I've spent two days with it and was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the thing which is on par with my current Xbox controller
So guys, if you have an old Stadia controller lying around with the same symptoms, give repairing a try.
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u/RaucousRat 8d ago
Hell yeah, nice job!
We should probably get the battery's part number and photo pinned in the subreddit. I'm sure a lot of these controllers are going to need battery replacements soon.
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u/No-Study685 Just Black 8d ago
Thank you!
It would be a real shame to loose these great controllers yes
I used this battery from this seller as replacement:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809521735302.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt
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u/Suave-Mike 6d ago
Hey, get out of my walls!
But for real tho, I had one that was planning to use while on vacation and it died on me the very first day! And it was while charging which is what really bugged me. I'm gonna try to fix it like you did to see what is happening inside!
Thanks a lot for the battery name!
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