{"id":6359,"date":"2025-05-18T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:24:41","slug":"usb-type-c-soldering-repairing-a-broken-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/en\/games\/usb-type-c-soldering-repairing-a-broken-controller-6359\/","title":{"rendered":"USB Type-C Soldering Repairing a Broken Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had just finished modifying my prized, customized smartphone controller with PS4 sticks. As I picked it up to insert my phone and test it, my hand slipped and I dropped it. It landed in the worst possible way, hitting right on the L-shaped Type-C connector. The solder inside the female connector on the controller side ripped completely off, and it was dead. I had never soldered anything with such a fine pitch before. Would flux be enough to save it? After all, this was my one-of-a-kind, lovingly modified controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1620273378129479608772357-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1620273378129479608772357-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1620273378129479608772357-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1620273378129479608772357-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1620273378129479608772357-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1620273378129479608772357.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I bought some flux and picked up a magnifying glass from the dollar store. I then set up a smartphone holder I had at home, mounting the magnifying glass and a 250-lumen dollar-store flashlight to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1624568792568206252363710-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1624568792568206252363710-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1624568792568206252363710-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1624568792568206252363710-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1624568792568206252363710-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141949\/20250518_1624568792568206252363710.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can see everything clearly. I think I can do this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141947\/20250518_1634486687699053289049791-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141947\/20250518_1634486687699053289049791-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141947\/20250518_1634486687699053289049791-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141947\/20250518_1634486687699053289049791-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141947\/20250518_1634486687699053289049791-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141947\/20250518_1634486687699053289049791-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141947\/20250518_1634486687699053289049791-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/static.the-world-star.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01141947\/20250518_1634486687699053289049791.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I managed to successfully revive it. Thank goodness... That's another repair skill leveled up. Also, I definitely want to find more uses for this lighting and magnifying glass setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just finished modifying my prized, customized smartphone controller with PS4 sticks. As I picked it up to insert my phone and test it, my hand slipped and I dropped it. It landed in the worst possible way, hitting right on the L-shaped Type-C connector. The solder inside the female connector on the controller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/175.41.248.22\/?p=5611","_lightning_design_setting":{"layout":"default"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[371],"tags":[895,896,375,835,871,892,893,894],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-repair","tag-smd","tag-usb","tag-gaming","tag-type-c","tag-controller","tag-solder","tag-flux","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-world-star.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}