Trigger drifting and can't be calibrated

So I recently been working on soldering with the xbox controllers I had. In total I have like 5 daughter boards. 3 I cleaned up because originally I thought I messed them up but turns out I didn't fully. Anyways I had another daughter board that I removed the old joysticks from and put new ones in. Before I did that I removed the impulse motors and rumble motors from the board so I wouldn't mess them up around that time I put those parts with the other motors I had when I installed the new joysticks I grabbed random motors from the pile I grabbed the correct ones for the rumble motors and the impulse motors I thought I did as well. After putting it back together I went to calibrate the joysticks which calibrated perfectly but there was still drift input which in turn when I went to calibrate the triggers it wouldn't even show me pressing it down. When I pressed it down it just showed on screen that the triggers were half way pressed down. So asking here what it might be because the magnents are perfectly fine and ultimatley I think it might be those impulse motors. I put them in correctly and soldered them in correctly and only issue it could be is that there either in the wrong spots or the wrong motors. I believe that might be the case but just wanting to know so I know what I need to do to fix it.

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Hi!

It could also be damaged traces causing this issue. Is it possible to upload photo’s regarding the solder work? This would make it easier for us to see what is happening.

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I did make sure there wasn't any trace damage it could also be maybe the actual wires r soldered fully to the board maybe

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Soldering looks fine as far as I can see. Also the traces look fine. Could be the motors or any other defect on the daughterboard… do you have other motors to test?

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Yeah I have a container full of them I'm wondering if the numbers on them determine which side it goes on let me see the other controller I have if there is a difference

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Yeah the side does matter. Would try that first.. please let us know how it goes!

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