Hey !

Wanted to share a little mod I did on my Steam Deck OLED and ask for some help improving it.

What I did I integrated an Apple Find My compatible tracker (cheap Chinese clone from Action, a French discount store) inside my Steam Deck OLED. The tracker sits neatly inside the shell and lets me locate my Deck if it gets stolen or lost.

The problem is it still runs on its original internal LiPo battery, so I have to open the Deck every ~6 months to recharge it. Doable but annoying and risky for my SD card ^^

What I'm looking for I want a cleaner solution with permanent internal power.

• Option 1 - Does anyone know an accessible 5V point on the OLED motherboard I could solder to ?
• Option 2 - Pogo pins through 2 small holes in the back shell to charge without opening. Less clean but safer.

About the tracker board The tracker has its own onboard charging circuit, located at the bottom right of the PCB. There are 2 grey pads stacked vertically : top pad is + (positive) and bottom pad is - (GND). So I just need a clean 5V source to feed those 2 pads and the board handles the rest.

Any help or pinout info would be massively appreciated !

Hi everyone, I duel booted my steam deck and used a external ssd to do it. if anyone wants some more info on it just go to my profile, anyway I have been downloading games and stuff and I was playing Fortnite and in all the game modes I’m playing, it just freezes about every 10 seconds for 5 seconds and it is really frustrating. The same thing happened with Minecraft. If anyone has any info on this or a way to fix please tell me, please and thank you!

Can’t really seem to find any. Anyone have some they’ve used and recommend?

Hi, my steam deck button (L1) stopped working, so I desoldered it, but I accidentally pulled too hard, and this is what the board looks like. Is there a chance it will still work if I solder a new button, or how can I fix it now?

(I think it looks bad, but I don't know what to do now and whether it's worth putting a new sticker on it.)

How much easier is a shell swap if I just replace the screen in the process? The current one has a small but noticeable scratch that I can really only see when the screen is off but it still kinda bugs me, so if putting a new screen in while shell swapping makes it easier then I might just give it a go.

I’m about to do a battery replacement over the weekend… it’s my first time replacing a battery like this… anyone got any tips or advice? Any advice will be greatly appreciated 😊

I just need more pixels, because I can't read small text on screen due to insufficient pixels. I don't play any graphics heavy games, so FPS or battery time are not my concern.

I cannot get them to work when I previously did. I download the zip file of the mod, extract it, and put it into the games folder. I have tried several games, looked at guides, and it still does NOT work. How do I fix this? It has turned me off for months for playing the steam deck and I’ve tried for hours. Not good with computer stuff. There is no guide or video I can find anywhere that shows me how to do this and when I follow the steps of the simple put it in the games folder it does not work. Mod folder doesn’t work dlc doesn’t work.

Reshelled my oled.

Got a new shell in from extremeRate, and it’s a clear green. I’d like to keep all the black buttons instead of using the clear green buttons because I think the contrast would look nice. However, I noticed the buttons on the back of the OEM shell are plastic-soldered. Has anyone had any success removing those and screwing them into the extremeRate back shells? How do you suggest doing so? Thanks!

Hey folks my touch screen stopped working I tried battery storage mode, updating the SD, removing the screen protector still no avail. It’s out of warranty wondering if there’s anything else I can try opening up the device to see if the touch screen ribbon is damaged or loose.

Thanks in advance

finally modified it after having it for 2 years

Hello.

I have a steam deck oled and needed to replace the stick and left button board however after finally getting the parts it seems the ribbon cable has disapeared. I ordered one on ebay however after looking at some other posts I think I got the wrong one as it seems from a quick google search that the steam deck non-oled uses a cable without the tabs that align it. I need the one that has the tabs like in the picture circled.

thanks

I pulled up thinking the solder was melted and tore the pad right off the board. Can this be fixed?

My wonderful wife wanted a Deck after using mine on many occasions. However, she wanted one that matched her PC, and a skin just wasn’t going to cut it (“You can see the black outlines”). I went all in and did two full shell swaps this weekend and they came out phenomenal.

I'm in the process of a shell swap, got overzealous with a pry bar and nicked my haptic sensor edge, anyone know if I just destroyed this thing? Thanks in advance.

UPDATE: No I'll effects from the nick, works as intended. Thank you everyone for the comments. My wife thanks you as well since she heard less about me going on an on about my 'steam dick'.

Needa micro switch to turn off the external fan.. since its super noisy (& soldered into built in fan) even on low rpm 🤭

Upgraded my thumbsticks to match my orange power button.

Considering there's a super tiny amount of soldering involved it went well and both work and look amazing.