AKNES|GuliKit Hall Effect Joysticks for Steam Deck OLED, No Soldering

This is a review for the type B compatible SD02 version of the thumbsticks. In short, they worked great for me. The install and calibration can be done in less than 10 minutes. You'll probably have to calibrate them with the button on the back of each joystick before putting the cover back on, but it's not a huge issue. The container they shipped in also works well to store the original thumbsticks. I wouldn't have minded if you had to solder the caps on, but it does save you a couple of minutes if you ever have to swap back in your old sticks for whatever reason, plus you get a spare set of caps.My left stick's calibration was perfect from the box, but my right one was off a little bit. I had no weird issues with deadzones after calibrating, or with other issues people had with the previous version such as the sticks grinding / scratching / sticking, or the motion not being smooth.If I had to pick a "negative" it would be that one stick is was switched to A and one stick was switched to B from the factory. You should be inspecting this anyway before installing, but I'm sure someone will leave a one star review eventually mentioning the gyro not working correctly.Assuming they hold up over time these are a great replacement for the stock thumbsticks. Just don't expect them to make you a better gamer.

Easy to install, works awesome!!!!!

Highly recommended to purchase these as the original thumbsticks modules, (being potentiometers), will wear out over time with use and develop an issue known as stick drift.You personally may luck out and never experience this as it doesn't always develop at the same rate and severity for every module as it varies greatly on the amount of time the sticks are used, but given enough time and use it will happen.These hall effect modules are multitudes of times more resistant to drift issues and are much more accurate allowing you to set the dead zone of the stick much lower.If you plan to keep and use your steam deck for years to come, then it's a no brainer to invest in these.These are very easy to install if you have the tools necessary, (a small phillips head screw driver and a plastic pry tool). The only complaint I have is that there are no instructions included in the box and requires visiting the gulikit website for instructions which I highly recommend as if you simply just do a drop in install you may mess up as there is a small switch and button on each module you'll need to use to make sure the sticks are properly adjusted and calibrated as the box makes no mention of these.

They are smoother in action, but the dead zone is bigger than the original joysticks. I can tune it in SteamOS to make it not drift, but if you use Windows or any other OS on your Steam Deck you will get incurable joystick drift.Edit Sept 2024: I bought the Steam Deck OLED joysticks. I kept my old LCD Steam Deck with these joysticks and I had the OLED Steam Deck for almost a year with the original joysticks. It was easier to test the difference side by side. I noticed the Hall effect joysticks were much more precise and responsive (I still don’t get why they say these don’t have drift though. The joystick returns to the center with basically a spring, Just like a traditional joystick, so as the spring wears out or holds a position slightly off perfect center, it can drift. The only thing that prevents it from drifting is the ability to adjust the joystick deadzone in SteamOS, The functional difference between these Hall effect joysticks and traditional is that traditional joysticks use potentiometers which is a variable resistor that has brush contacts so it can read out difference resistances to determine the joystick’s position. This means it can wear out and be vulnerable to dust and static to give bad readings. The Hall effect joystick uses a magnet on the joystick and a sensor to detect the magnet’s position. Since the sensor is very sensitive it can articulate many times the amount of positions a potentiometer could. )While my original comment still applies, I’ve decided that overall these are better than the original joysticks in game. You can make much finer movements with them. My new right stick unfortunately still occasionally drifts in games running on my Windows dual boot.The touch sensing wire connected to my left thumb stick was a little short. This caused the wire to snag when I was circling the sticks to test the feel of it. This prevented some movement. Thankfully I didn’t close the Steam Deck up yet so I took it out to look and I didn’t have to desolder the wire. I just had to use a utility knife to very carefully cut the glue they had covering the wire near the solder joint. The glue made the wire stiff and took away a few mm of slack which was needed. After I cut off the glue, I was able bend the wires so that they don’t rub and snag against the joystick component anymore. I played a few games and it works great.

Solid packaging, easy to install, work great.

Bought this kit as soon as I saw it available for the Type B (MHDA) joysticks. I had already upgraded the NVMe drive of my Steam Deck, so opening it back up was simple as before. Just go slow and be careful not to strip any of the screws, and make sure you remove your microSD card if you have one. From beginning to end, it probably only took about 15 minutes including calibration to install these new joysticks. Mine were slightly low of center even after multiple attempts using the button on the back, but running thumbstick_cal in desktop mode fixed it so now it's perfectly calibrated at 0,0. As others have said, this new revision still has the downsides of a square outer deadzone and that the joysticks max out at about 80% throw (e.g., if you press forward on the joystick 80% to max, it will always register 100%). I feel like most people won't notice the difference or can adapt to it, but nonetheless it would be nice if they fixed this for any future revisions. However, I would not recommend using these to control an underwater submersible due to this small inaccuracy.

My sticks started drifting so I picked these up. They were very easy to install and seem high enough quality. They needed a little breaking in at first but they seem good now. Recommended!

The first pair of these I ordered did not function at all and gave all kinds of crazy readings when trying to calibrate. The seller replaced them for me no problem, but the replacement turned out to be a dud too. I barely used them at all and had to switch them back out with the originals because I needed to send my Steam Deck in for repairs. When I got it back and reinstalled the GuliKit sticks, I encountered all kinds of problems. The sticks were drifting, the R-bumper button stopped working, and the right track pad was registering incorrect touches. I put the original sticks back in and everything was fine. I think the hall effect joysticks for Steam Deck OLED are just plain defective. I tried looking up instructions to recalibrate them, but these do not have recalibration buttons like the installation instructions give. Don't waste your money on these. It's not a hard mod, but the hardware is totally unreliable. I'd really like my money back since I barely even used them, but it seems its too late and Amazon offers no means of resolution at this time, so all I can do is warn everybody to STAY AWAY. IT ISN'T WORTH THE HEADACHE.

Right stick arrived with a defect and looks like really cheap plastic.Edit: Got a refund for the right stick. After almost 2 months of use, they are still precise, but the feel the touch sensor is really not great. If you only care about the precision and reliability of the hall effect, go for it, but expect lower feel and look compared to valve's.

Muy buenos, una pena no haberlos cambiado antes.. muchísima predicción en shooters... Con los originales se apuntaba muy dificil

I bought these to replace the stock sticks after my Steam Deck fell and one stick was damaged. They were easy enough to install so long as you followed directions available online, and seem to work great since I installed them. I have noticed no stick drift in my use. Make sure you set them to match which Deck you have otherwise you might have issues. Overall recommend if you want hall effect sticks or if you just need to replace the stock sticks.

Installé en 10 min, calibrer en 5.Fonctionne parfaitement, ils m'ont l'air plus souple que les originaux , je les trouve top !!!

Die Sticks habe ich bestellt weil bei mir einer zu driften begann. Montage ist super simpel mit ifixit Anleitung.Die sticks fühlen sich gut an und funktionieren einwandfrei. Die im ausgebauten Zustand zu verwenden ist Quatsch und einige Rezensenten sagten, dass die nicht rund laufen.Surprise machen die originalen auch nicht. Eingebaut ist davon nichts zu merken.Auf Langzeit müssen sie sich Beweise, aber aktuell bin ich restlos zufrieden.