Comment on I modded my Steam Deck OLED!

yeehaw_cosmonaut@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dditty@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks! I am super stoked with how it turned out. It took me about 4 hours, but a decent chunk of that was me using a utility knife cracking open the one touchpad for which I was trying to swap its cover before I realized it wasn’t compatible. I suppose I could’ve swapped their covers and adhered the replacements to the metal brackets, but I also could not get the touchpad daughterboards out of the housing (they are likely adhered to the other piece too).

  These are the resources I referenced while working on it:

  iFixit Steam Deck OLED teardown guides

  extremeRate Steam Deck LCD button swap guide

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …cracking open the one touchpad for which I was trying to swap its cover before I realized it wasn’t compatible.

    Yeah, it’s kind of surprising how dissimilar the OLED and LCD versions actually are, given how similar they look. This is good info to know, though, because I was planning an upgrade eventually, too!

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