GameSir Nova Lite Directional Pad - Rubber Contact Pad

ID: 200162

Description: This guide does not help you replace the...

Steps:

1. Turn your controller so that the back of the controller is facing you.
2. Remove all six 9 mm-long Phillips #1 screws securing the back plate.
3. This step requires a regular screwdriver - a Phillips screwdriver bit won't fit down these holes.

4. Insert an opening tool in the seam between the back and front case.
5. Insert iFixit Opening Picks around the controller to help keep the front and separated.
6. Slowly slide the tool around the controller until the two halves of the controller come apart.

7. Take the back shell off of the controller.
8. Hold the front part of the controller when taking the two halves apart.

9. Lay the controller down so that the motherboard and battery are facing you.
10. Grasp the white battery connector with blunt tweezers, and gently pull it out of its socket.

11. Use tweezers to carefully take the battery off the motherboard.
12. It’s ok if the adhesive strip that is stuck to the battery comes/doesn’t come off.

13. Heat the soldering iron and desolder the haptic motor joints from the motherboard.

14. Use tweezers to remove the haptic motors.

15. Remove the four 6 mm-long screws securing the motherboard to the front case with a Phillips #2 screwdriver.

16. Remove the motherboard and any components connected to it from the controller's front case.

17. Flip the motherboard to the front side with the joysticks.

18. Remove the rubber contact pad from the motherboard.