HTC Vive Controller Battery Replacement

Where can I buy new t5 21 mm screws? Mine are getting stripped out!

Where can you get replacement batteries?

The middle bottom screw may have some form of warranty sticker on it if you have a Vive Pro wand (which is purple). Mine had this. Easy enough to remove and get on with it.

My top saucer was REALLY stubborn. Don’t force it with your hand, use the spudger to separate it at the seam. Try not to poke your spudger in too deep, there are internals just inside the seam.

The second time around, I learned why it was so stubborn. The picture suggests that you should start at the base of the saucer and work your way around, but that’s backwards.

Start separating with your spudger at the distal side of the saucer and work your way toward the handle. Then for the last part, pull the piece up and away, like peeling a banana. See the second picture for the bottom half of the saucer, below. Do the same on the top.

It’s Phillips 0, not 00.

You do not need to remove these screws to remove the bottom saucer. They provide stability to the two halves of the donut.

I had the same experience. Putting the screws back in made the bottom shell easier to remove.

I found the re-assembly of this difficult until I concentrated on two areas - the lugs which go into the handle first, then the central ring. My earlier concern was for the optical sensors on the wings but these snapped into place easily as the central ring was manoeuvred.

From what I can tell, there are two clicks on each side? one is quite easy, then the other one seems to require considerable force pushing down and on the side, I had to do it one side at a time and found two YouTube videos performing this step to use as reference. I have the vive pro wands and not the originals, so this may explain the difference. This felt very wrong to me.

Leave the middle screw where it is (the one being unscrewed in the picture). That screw holds the two halves of the photodiode assembly together, not the case.

five screws… two at bottom

I concur with trevosklar, don’t need to remove center screw to remove front panel (pad cover).

You do not have to remove the ribbon cables from the plugs…you can carefully work the battery holder around them and remove it…being very gentle. And the black part of the handle will stay attached to the cables and be in the way. But removing the cables does make it easier to access the area for the battery, just not completely necessary.

where can one buy the ribbon cable.

On my controllers, there was yellow tape over these? and in some other places as well? Why?

I don't have this metal piece in my first gen vive wand for some reason. Instead, there is just a piece of kapton tape covering the connector. It does not seem there are even screw holes for it.

There is no plate on mine, only tape covering it.

I found this to be true of mine as well (purchased 2018).

Same with mine, also purchased 2018. It seems the silver plate part can be skipped for later models.

On my controller these were Philips 000 5.8mm screws, the same as in the previous step.

Second the above with a slight correction. Phillips 00.

I also needed the Philips 000 for steps 11 - 14. Controller purchased in 2018.

Don't pull the battery cable! You risk pulling the pins out of the socket. Happened to me. I don't know how to do it properly but I had to use a fine flat screwdriver to try to get the socket out. It got a bit mangled unfortunately.

Suddenly, here the electronics of the saucer are gone, but there’s no previous step mentioning its removal. This is kind of important because loosening the ribbon cables attaching it to the mainboard is a bit finicky.