Me: "What is going on with your controller?"

My Son: "I don't know Daddy!!"

Me: "Wait... What are you doing, are you licking it??"

My Son: "What? No!!!, I keep looking at it to see what's going on but it just keeps doing it!"

It's the dreaded Xbox One controller problem and It's the worst...

And so that's how it all started about a week or so ago. Me and my 5 year old, our nightly Xbox One ritual, dealing with the ultimate hell. If you've experienced it, or maybe you're experiencing it right now, it's pure torture. Why? Because you get these little tiny pockets of hope where your controllers don't disconnect for 5 minutes and then BAM, disconnected. 3 seconds later and you're reconnected but the damage is done. Or maybe not so you start to try and play... nope there it is again, disconnected. Oh but it reconnected! and just when you thought "oh it's lasting longer now, I think I'm holding it better" you get disconnected. It's the dreaded Xbox One controller problem and It's the worst...

So I did what most people would do, I Googled it. I was pretty familiar with the issues others had claimed to have of this very thing. Before having this problem myself, I would read about it and think about how bad it must suck but there has to be some interference or reason for it, right? So you put your phone in airplane mode, you reboot your router, your Xbox, your router again. Your turn your phone off, blame your neighbors. You change the channel that your wifi router is talking on. You look around for anything that could be "interfering." Well... I did those things.. despite knowing that it wasn't going to fix the problem. Not really knowing but knowing, you know? It just didn't make sense. I hadn't had a single problem with my controllers before. Now it was 4 of them with different batteries from the Panasonic Eneloop (my personal favorite) to Microsoft charge packs to Nyko battery packs, even Duracell classic. Something is up and the common denominator here is... my Xbox One. I was able to confirm this further by using my other Xbox One in the same room without a problem. That's what really fueled the fire to crack the Xbox open. I'm thinking I have to open this thing and see if there's anything obvious. There sure was!

We're going in...

All the fuss. All of my controller problems. All of possibly a lot of people's controller problems?.....

Ok, it's open.

A loose antenna that connects the RF board to the WiFi board.