Disabling DualShock 4's Blue LED

ID: 27602

Description: Disabling DualShock 4's Blue LED

Steps:

  1. Remove the four Phillips #00 screws from the back of the controller.
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  2. Remove the bottom half of the controller while monitoring the triggers and springs within.
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  3. Pull the ribbon cable out of the LED/USB connecter assembly in the center of the controller.
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  4. Place a thin piece of paper in front of the last 2 pins (counting from left to right).
  5. The paper will prevent the motherboard from completing the circuit that enables the blue LED.
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  6. Don't twist the ribbon cable when inserting it.
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  7. Insert back ribbon cable with piece of thin paper already inserted.
  8. Connect the bottom half of the DualShock 4 controller together.
  9. Rescrew 4 Phillips screws on the back of the controller.
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