So my fiancee and I are sitting here playing zombies on Black Ops and every few minutes either one of our two wireless controllers just shuts off. Batteries are brand new, the battery case is not loose and the springs are getting good contact. Has anybody else had this issue? Could there be something wrong with the sensor that reads the controllers? Is there any way to fix it myself? I am not a lamen with electronics, and I pride myself on being able to fix red rings of death and open tray errors but this is something new to me.

Are you using rechargeable or double a's?

AA's but its not the batteries, tried several different types and its not it, just started happenign over the last day or so

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That's why You need a PS3 lol,

 My guess is something blocking the sensor on the Xbox it's self, Maybe try cleaning it with a can of Co2?

Nothing is blockin them and I used compressed air and nothing. Im wondering if the sensor might be loose or defective somehow but I dont have the time to tear it apart and look closer right now. Damn holidays haha

My brother's are the same way. If I even move the battery case while playing the controller shuts off.

Have you introduced a new or other sort of infrared, bluetooth, wireless device into the area recently?

I had the same problem with mine, it turned out to be a wireless router that also broadcast on the same channel as the controllers. Started happening the same day I picked up a wireless N linksys router. I just got into the routers settings and changed it to from channel 1 to channel 5, seemed to fix it. There is no sensor, the controllers have an RF radio in them which communicates with the consoles RF radio.

Edit: saw that ps3 comment... have fun once the battery in the controller goes bad. A friend of mine had to replace both his controllers after about 6 months because they wouldn't hold a charger longer than about an hour, and you cant replace the batteries.

Ahh,That would make sense! Now that i think of it, A friend of mine had the same issues with his router

6 months both controller batt's crapped out on him? Wow!..Could have been He didn't let them charge long enough and used them, Or charged them when they weren't fully dead..OR.. just bad luck..lol.. I've had My sixxas for over 2yrs and works fine, Holds charge for countless hours, Just got a Dualshock 3 a few months ago to, no issues.

But true, once the batt craps out Your buy a whole new controller!

I don't know what his charging habits are... but the rechargeable batteries in my xbox controller are a few years old and still perfectly fine, I just charge them whenever I feel like it.

Doesn't Xbox have their own rechargeable battery packs? I think I seent them before

I know its not the battery pack because weve even tried sitting them on the floor and, go figure, one or the other still randomly shuts off after only about thirty seconds or so. The router is the only thing I have in the vicinity and its been the exact same for several months now and this problem came out of nowhere. There are no other new wireless devices or anything else around. Ill try changing the router settings anyways tho and see if it helps, otherwise its time to operate....

Yeah, each one is like $20. They just pop into the back like the alkalines. Take forever to charge from dead though...

What about your neighbors? Are you in an apartment or a house? If in an apartment, maybe ask your neighbors. If you're in a house and a decent distance from your neighbors, I don't know. [&o]

I am on the same controller that came with my PS3 in November of 07, and it doesnt seem to die any quicker than the wifes newer controller when she plays (not noticably anyways). the left stick gets stuck sometimes, but the battery is still good...

House lol I enjoy my privacy and ability to blast my music, so house in the country

Have you tried binding your controllers? There is a little black button on the top of the controller, just press that and it re-binds it.

mine did that after a while i just taped to battery thing up tight works perfect now

Ok so i have the Xbox apart and found one problem already, but im not sure what it is or how much it matters. I found a small thin bar that clips onto something (idk what, hence my problem) laying in the part of the circuit board right next to the tower that holds the sensor for the controllers. I have included pictures of both where it was laying and the clip itself. Ill be researching what is going wrong online but in the meantime Ill leave these pictures up here in hopes someone can help me. Thanks in advance for any assistance!

Ok so that clip was nothing it was just meant to hold the hard drive in against the metal frame part of the whole assembly

There is no visible sensor... you may see a small copper antenna in there somewhere... but you wont find an IR sensor, not for the remotes.

Then what exactly is the little tower I show in the picture? It has a sensor eye and three solder points connected to the board. If I had a better quality camera i could show you better, but....

I remember not to long ago i stayed up til 5:00 in the morning and had the door closed where i store (accident)... I was in the middle of an online game that i was tearing it up in, when all of the sudden my 360 shuts off and then everything else in my basement. I sat there for a while thinking OMG what happened... Thats when all the power came back on even things that werent turned on when it shut off. Of course the ROD appears and i just went crazy with WORDS... I went up to my 360 and unplugged everything, oped the door where it was sitting and melted the hair on my face. I thought i had just ruined my 360, the brand new 62" Plasma tv and my $3000 surround sound system. Luckily next morning i went down stairs to see if i still did work, since i was to scared to that night... And what do you know the ROD was gone and everything worked freakin luckily...

Get a Wii! Controllers for those are expensive, but they do not have any issues, ever! (Unless you throw them under a bus)