Dead zone drift on Xbox One Elite controller

Hello has anyone else had problems with their xbox one Elite controller having a slight drift on the analogue stick? When I go into the controller mapping I notice that the right thumb stick has a slightly downward neutral position. Is there any way to correct
the dead zone?

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Can games permanently re-designate a controller analog's dead-zones settings?

About sometime a year or two ago I started having problems with my analogs on my controller getting stick drift, a problem that persisted for many months. At first I thought it was a hardware issue, like my analog modules were failing. Currently, the controller
I thought that I had an issue with is working just fine and I haven't had any repeat of the issues for months, since late last year.

Some part of me wonders if a system/controller update re-designated the controllers dead-zones to combat this, or if there's another reason. The stick-drift / dead-zone issue fixed itself sometime back during holidays of 2016, about the same time Microsoft
had a big system update. However, it recently occurred to me whether games themselves can change the settings regarding the controller's dead-zones, not just for how the controller works for those games, but those new settings can be set permanently and migrate
to how the controller behaves in other games and apps.

It was sometime back in 2016 that my stick drift issues began to get really bad. I first noticed it while playing Velocity 2X. I also got it a lot by playing Albeddo: Eyes From Outer Space (which to me seemed like it was programmed to ignore dead-zones entirely).
It would still pop up in more minor but noticeably annoying ways in every other game I played from then on. I had a work-around to blow down under the analog housing because I thought dust shaving off from the sticks was getting under the analog housing and
interfering with the sensors; whatever the reason, this would work and buy me time to play without issue for a short while, but I'd have to keep doing this while playing games like constant maintenance.

It was around the time I got Titanfall 2 that I noticed an option in the game's menu to change the analog dead-zones, that game was giving me stick-drift too because dead-zones were set to a smaller dead-zone by default, but when I switched the dead-zones
from a smaller dead-zone to a larger one, not only did this in-game option solve my stick-drift issues for that game, all my other stick drift issues for any other game I've played to date have disappeared. I'm still using the same controller. It all seemed
to happen right after changing my dead-zone options in the Titanfall 2 options.

If this is indeed the reason my dead-zone / stick-drift issues have been fixed, could it also explain maybe how/why I started getting stick drift in the first place? Could a game I played sometime back have permanently re-designated my dead-zones to be smaller,
which would have accounted for my persistent stick-drift issue in other games that I played, and it wasn't fixed until Titanfall 2 permanently broadened my dead-zones again? Or, was there just coincidentally a controller and/or system update that addressed
dead-zone / stick-drift issues by broadening them?

 

Radial Calculation

It configures your thumb sticks' dead zones and possibly acceleration. Available for
controller elite configuration

 

Hey Flipsy! Generally controllers should not have a drift. You may want to contact phone or chat support to get it repaired. Thanks!