Psp "R" Button problem

Hi Erikthug22,

You will have to open up your PSP to get to the contacts of the R button.

1. REmove the battery
2. Remove 4 screws from battery compartment
3. Remove 1 screw from front edge under the PSP logo.
4. Remove 2 screws from back on opposite side of battery.
5. Lift the faceplate from the edge above the LCD slightly.
6. Lift the front faceplate edge under the Home/Start button.
7. You need to be very protective of the little screw hole that is under the PSP logo of the Faceplate..
8. Do not touch the LCD screen if you can help it. If you do use a lint free cloth and windex glas cleaner to remove fingerprints and lint. Same thing for faceplate window.
9. REmove the R button
10. lift the rubber pad/frame behind the R button straight up.
11. Clean the back of the rubber piece with a Q-tip and Rubbing alcohol.
12. Clean the contact pad that is behind the rubber pad/frame.
13. Press the rubber/fram piece back into place carefully.
14. Put your R button back on.
15. Be sure your LCD sreen and inside of faceplate window are clean.
16. Refit the faceplate.
17. Reinstall screws.

you can tap it kinda hard and it pops in back in to place but if you to hard your psp will break.

Try this link . . . www.sony.com/playstation3

To find your best solution.

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where is the best place to fix the "r" button on the psp.would it be expensive tp fix it.

my psp had fallen of the table, and i had turned the psp on to see if it was okay, i was playing MPO and i found that my R button was pushed in...so i got on here to see for help, and i saw the comment for instructions on how to open the case and clean it out, i was about to do that, but luckly i kept reading, and saw comment number 7...i had done what he said, push the buttom up and down kinda hard, in a pattern, my R buttom worked normally again =D

This solution worked a treat.

Make sure that you are out of warrenty though, as you have to peel a label off in the battery bay that voids your warrenty.

Also, if you are finding sony a pain, just be persistent, and insistent.

When i got my brand new PSP, it had three dead pixels in the middle of the screen. I rang sony who told me that my $300 purchase was not faulty and that they were not responsible. Needless to say i kept pushing the point with the guy on the phone, and demanded to speak to his manager.

I then got the response i wanted and they sent me an email with a bar code which i took to australia post and 1 week later i had a new PSP.

Keep up the good fight and thanks for the help

alright i just fixed my i was hitting the R button on my knee like 3 times it fixed it idk if it will go back ill post here if it does

Mine Does it to
Im thinking about taking it apart myself

The rubber is on a small metal frame that is held in place by a black tab. You slide the frame out from the tab and then lift up.

you have to push it harder and harder up and down in rythm up and down do this for about ten minites and it shoud work but if it doesent the problem isn't the same as myne....

thanks and goodluck

fixia team