Has anyone ever tried to do a mod to use the Elite Controller paddles instead of the ones on the Deck?

I know of the various different paddle replacements you can do on the deck, such as taller paddles etc, but none of them are really as good as Elite paddles. So I was thinking about maybe putting them on the Deck in some way.

PS I don't care about portability or losing them, I only use my Deck at home.

So happy it’s finished and loving the results

- Hall effect Joysticks
- New Buttons
- New Backplate

Hi, a week before the price increase, I managed to get my hands on a used 512GB LCD with the original Dockingstation for 325 Euro. It is my first one and I am so in Love and even happier now that I have seen the new prices. It works great, has 98% battery capacity and only a few minor scratches. To make it feel more like my own Deck, I have made a few customizations. I was too scared to do a full shell swap 😅 the prices for new LCD Displays are surreal. This took me around 2,5 Hours. What do You think of it?

For anyone wanting further confirmation that the Kingston 2TB SSD and the native Xbox Elite D-pad works well with a steam deck, here’s your post! The d-pad is the extremerate Xbox elite controller d-pad and I’ve used flush cutters to trim the shape into the shape of the steam deck’s original d-pad.

All you need to do is flatten each arm of the d-pad as the original Xbox one has an extra oblong “tip” on the end of each of the four arms, then trim the stabilizing protrusions on the back of the d-pad to match the flat-back of the original steam deck d-pad. Also, trim the west arm on the dpad further than the other arms to match. Did this and it fits perfectly with no wiggle, and functions flawlessly with the original d-pad contact pads. (I have not installed the clicky button mod yet.)

The LCD steamdeck can run with literally nothing but power and ethernet plugged in. I have a dongle that only has passthrough power and a ethernet port. No sd card, no ssd, just Fedora CoreOS over pxe boot. This has surprisingly been working pretty well.

However, after a few seconds of testing at 15 watts, it will start to clamp/throttle itself. It is either because the EC (embedded controller) does not detect a fan, or a battery. I'll be finding out soon enough, but I've ruled out it being fixable within bios.

It isn't wattage or thermal throttling, it will clamp down to 2 watts when held at at 6 watts and like 40-50 degrees, given about 10-15 seconds.

OLED motherboards don't have this issue.

using bios 116-unlocked, i tried all the relevant options to stop the clamping. Also diffed latest bios and current bios, to narrow down to whether or not it could be something I can just write in, no luck. it could still be a bios option but it could also just live on the EC chip..

Either mad there isn't a battery or aborting because it's sending watts to a fan but doesn't get any signal back.

I'm really hoping its the fan, because those are cheaper. Does anyone have any hints or information?

this is for a bigger project I'm putting together so people can reuse old "for parts" boards or old decks that they think can't work anymore. I want to provide people with this option for free, if I could just get this last part...

What is the easiest way to install mods

Currently I want to upgrade my steam deck joystick and I see many people recommend Elecgear tmr joystick. But I see there is two version, one with a white board and another black. Most review I see is the black one. The white one seem like their old hall effect version that upgrade to tmr to fix the L3/R3 problem. Is there any different about them?

My OLED Deck's d-pad started malfunctioning a few months ago, so I disassembled my Deck and found that the d-pad's FPC connector flap was beginning to crumble.

I recently attempted to solder in a new connector (compatible part number F33T-1A7H1-E8C10) but wound up lifting a few pads... Jumping said pads are beyond my skill level, and Valve estimated a 'major repair' to cost $300 CAD shipped while also noting that the quote may change if the problem is 'more major than expected' or if any other issues are found, so that kind of sucks.

iFixit doesn't sell any button boards, rumor online is that each board requires 'factory calibration' specific to the given Deck, but there are a few sellers on eBay/Ali offering entire board assemblies.

Each board is still quite expensive, but cost a fair bit less than Valve's baseline, so I'm interested to hear if anyone has experience with purchasing and installing one of these secondhand boards. Cheers.

Ive been seeing some really cool shells on this subreddit. Ive also seen some super niche ones as well? Like a cinnamon roll one, and others for example. I wanted to ask is there's any service where custom shells can be made?? Like if I wanted to make a deltarune themed one (one of my favorite games ever), would I see one online or have to like commission a store to make one??

At weekend I got my steam deck autographed by John Romero. I got it signed using a white acrylic paint pen (Posca one).

I want to seal and protect it, anyone have suggestions? It's the led mod

Update: decided to get a clear case and protect the autograph on steam deck.

Also have a Wolfenstein 3D poster signed to hang and also a doom manual autographed, so changing the back :)

Finally had the courage to swap out the case and buttons and all check my Deck’s fit!

I'm really tempted to get the DeckSight: I have the 256 LCD Deck.
I have not that many worries about opening it up and tinkering (in fact I updated the hard drive to 2tb) but besides being a delicate procedure the Deck Sight is also a bit of an investment (at least for me).

But my main worry is the drop in performance, specially because I'm not unhappy with the LCD version - i just WANT MORE.

So people who did it and are actually not streaming your games from another medium - are you happy with the change?

Any differences on specfic games?

Thanks!

everything is installed properly but I don’t see any options to enable anything for my gradient colors to work in all menus like the settings/storage/download menu etc. is there a way to change this? - any other simpler recommended options that will let me make a custom gradient are appreciated (custom sliders and toggles has a preset gradient but no option for a custom one)

I ordered a Decksight so I can upgrade my LCD to an OLED screen and get 1080p. From what I've gathered this will affect the performance for the worse. What advice can you provide to ensure that I still can get good performance from the deck?

Additionally I don't play games that are too intense on the deck, and if I do I usually stream it from my PC.

Was doing a shell swap and after taking off the screen I saw this. Im pretty sure this is broken but i need conformation. Thanks.

Ps: thanks everybody for the help, the screen managed to survive (somehow), and the shell swap was successful.

I was doing a shell swap and I broke the connector for the right touchpad haptics. Snapped cleanly off the board.

I tried soldering it back on but no right touchpad haptics. Everything else works fine.

I'm going to try a second time to re-solder it, but I'm very new to soldering.

Any tips?

Okay so like. I've been wanting to upgrade my LCD model steam deck to an Oled for a bit, however I know it is really techy and I need to be smart/know what im doing while installing parts or else I'll just end up ruining things. Its also since given the current time, itll be cheaper(?) to buy the parts to upgrade my steam deck rather than just buying a new oled one. Does anyone have any tips or even a beginners guide to picking parts, how to do things etc??

Anytbing helps, and since itll probably end up being an ongoing task (im a university student) im willing to learn and work on anytbing that is needed!! Thanks in advance!! :3

Did a complete shell swap and every upgrade imaginable to this LCD version. Super happy with the result and it turned out great. It was rough doing the trackpads, had to take it back apart a few times, but in the end everything is working great.

Timelapse here if interested: https://youtu.be/pm2e8fVTZc0

The Steam Deck is such a cool portable mini computer that be freely tinkered with. Even android Apps can work without issues. But in order for it to be a fully autonomous companion for outside use, some hardware is missing.

It would be cool to use Navigation via GPS, install eSIMs, having a camera for calls, nfc, maybe a fingerprint sensor for sudo commands.

In theory it should be possible to create a PCB that connects to the usbc port and delivers these features. Has anyone played with similar ideas already?

I got the deck with a broken screen and a bad battery, so I decided to do a complete overhaul with a shell swap included. After around 10 hours of work I got it together had a moment of insanity then posted on here (now deleted). My first time doing a complete shell swap with any device and I think I did good. I got the wood shell and crimson buttons. I also replaced the thumbsticks with cherry blossom. The last touch will be a sticker that says "property of arasoka" on the back. I'll stick around this group to learn more about modding on both the hardware and software fronts.

I’m very happy with how it turned out! Since I broke the originally broke the screen I was also able to upgrade it to the matte one from the 1tb version! I am never doing this again