Author Topic: Need Help Opening my Xbox 360 controller  (Read 398 times)

Ok, so a little backstory: I decided to play my Xbox last week because I haven't in ages.  I found my modded controller and none of the mod buttons on the back worked and the joysticks don't light up anymore.  I remember having issues with this about 6 months ago and the solution I came up with was to tape the battery pack to the controller because it wasn't on tight enough i guess and that seemed to fix the solution.  Not, 6 months later, nothing works and when i tried to open it I came across this:

The control has two different type of screws (probably because it is modded): both of them are Torx screws except one with a bulb in the middle and one without.  Here are some images:

this is the tool I used to get the flat screw out (the T8 screw driver didn't work for some reason on this screw but worked on the default xbox controller), this is a 1/4 inch:




This is the flat screw:







This is the screw with the bulb:






If anyone has a solution as to how I can unscrew the bulbed screws it would be great. 

when it came to getting screws out that i didnt have the tool for, i would just melt the end of a pen and then let it dry around the screw, like a cast. it barely works but it will get the screws out if you do it enough times

try using a rubber band maybe? if there's enough depth for the hex wrench to get in with a rubber band over it, that is

http://lifehacker.com/5462520/remove-a-stripped-screw-with-a-rubber-band