Button Response - FIX (Pics) EDIT : *^*MAYBE NOT SO GOOD*^*

**AdamTL7** · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 430

EDIT : Or at least I thought...

Alright. So it's been a couple of months, and lo and behold, my blue button stopped working (As well as a little of my orange...Which is the one I already fixed). So I redid the entire thing...Including the ones that were already done, because they had indents.

IT WORKED PERFECTLY.

HOWEVER...

3 days later...And my buttons still don't work...I opened up my guitar and looked...This is what I found.

You can see that they are all starting to get indents...However, the top row middle two have it REALLY BAD.

So...This maybe isn't the best fix, and seems to be temporary.

I don't know why there are indents in those two so badly, the pins are spring loaded...So I'm really clueless now...I'm getting quite mad, I can't do anything anymore in game. So I think i have to perma hardwire it.

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I'm not sure if anyone already posted something like this.

My first guitar I had to send back due to the fact that the yellow button didn't work.

My second guitar had the same problem with the orange button. After taking a look at where the pins go, I discovered...

The black dots at first looked almost like it was just dirt or something. But they were actually dents.

So I used a peice of tinfoil to bridge the connection for a long time (Which didn't work too well) until my dad felt like bringing out his sodering gun.

Result works perfecctly.

(sorry, my video camera doesn't take the best pics)

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**Gotsmack** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 1693 Location: Manassas, VA

An awesome fix! Vote for adding to BriGuy's Sticky.

Obviously a ton of soldering skill is needed, but much easier than hardwiring!

**AdamTL7** · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 430

Actually, just put a drop on the circles. Not much skill needed in that.

**FireWorks16** · Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Posts: 593 Location: Illinois

You aren't the first to think of this. Check this out.
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**OpenYourEyes** · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:06 am Post subject:

Seems like a pretty good fix. I'll know what to look at when I have a problem with this...
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**duze** · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 43 Location: Norway

Damn, I was just about to write a guide on how to do this, great fix tho =)
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**ajones46** · Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 2

I have the wireless Kramer for PS2 and SOMETIMES the blue note will give out or flicker. Extremely frustrating... Would this be the resolution?

**IWillKickU** · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 2830 Location: In the Undertow

This is one of many resolutions. For other fixes and ideas, see the section in Briguy's modding 101 thread on detatchable neck fixes.

**tayeh** · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 21

Just want to verify that this works great. For anyone that is worried about soldering, I bought my first soldering iron today and was really nervous about doing this. My soldering job was actually pretty sloppy and I honestly thought it wasn't going to work because it looked so bad. Plugged my guitar in, and only played for about 30 minutes, but I had no dropped holds. I reinforced the connection of the neck and guitar with some paper and a rubber band, so its tight and won't jiggle around. I recommend this fix to anyone, thanks for posting this.
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**Kane40** · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 762 Location: Belgium

I did it too (ok, I asked someone to do it for me :p), it was fine the 1st day, but now the yellow (and sometimes blue or orange) fret randomly stopped working, even with the neck not moving.

It often happens when I activate star power (tilting or select, it's the same)

I guess there's no other way than making it hardwired ?
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**duze** · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 43 Location: Norway

It was the same for me to, this fix worked temporaily, I finally got fed up and hardwired the neck and then bolted it to the guitar with two bolts.

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**adam12343210** · Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 247

works perfectly.
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