GuliKit Hall Effect Sensor Joystick for Steam Deck(Type A and Type B), No Drifting, Electromagnetic Module Left/Right Thumbstick Replacement Accessories for Steam Deck

Easy to install and feels basically like stock until you look at dead zones and remember the reliability of hall effects

The quality of these feels very solid. The install was great. The only complaint I have is that, despite the description to the contrary, either there isn’t a touch sensor in the thumb sticks, or it isn’t working. I didn’t use the gyro-aiming as much as I could have, but I liked the idea that it was there.

One of my original sticks started acting up. I was on the edge between ordering original from iFixot or these hall effect sticks. It is obvious which one I picked. Disassembly of Steam Deck and changing sticks was easy (I have experience). Mind if you need to switch to A or B depending on your Steam Deck configuration (original sticks used). Getting the new ones calibrated is best left for someone who has three hands... But can be done just fine as one person job. Since fixing I played quite a few (tens of) hours and all is working perfectly fine.

This was one of the easiest installs that I have done on my steam deck. Great quality!!

These did allow me to reduce the dead zone on my Steam Deck joysticks which surprisingly made a difference in my playing ability on some games because of the increased sensitivity near the neutral position of the joysticks. However, I had to open up the Steam Deck 4 or 5 times to do various mods to get these to work well. First, the stem on these are a bit too tall, so in some cases the joystick can get stuck when you push it all the way toward one direction - the plastic dome of the joystick gets jammed against the Steam Deck case. Several of my friends had the same issue. The solution is to pull the cap off the stick (carefully, so you don't yank off the wire), file down the stick a bit, and put the cap back on. Another issue I had was they don't feel nearly as smooth as the original joysticks. I took them out of the Steam Deck, pulled the caps off the stems, and applied some lube to the pivot points around the housing. I don't know what kind of lube would work best - I used some Krytox 205g0 that I had lying around from lubing keyboard switches. It didn't quite get them to the smoothness of the original joysticks, but it helped enough that my friends asked me to do theirs too.

I installed these on 2 steam decks after I installed the joysticks when i let go it stayed stuck to the side, so what I did was I pulled the top off of the joystick and i took some fine stand paper and sanded the top part off the stick make sure its sanded flat on the top to make it just a tiny tiny bit shorter so it doesnt touch the top of the white part under the thumb i used pretty fine grit sand paper and thats it then it worked great. before you screw the back on test it and see if it needs to be sanded down more you have to be very carefull you do not want to sand it down to much. I wet sanded mine it doesn't need much, it only needs to clear the white part from hitting the top part of the steam deck

Multiple Amazon reviews have mentioned these things as pretty flaky, and the pair I got had a way longer wire than was needed on the right stock. This means the wire then slaps the inside of the right trigger when being used making an annoying sound. I had to tape it down to fix that, but still obnoxious.