My P4 paddle BUTTON is not working at all what do i do? (Brand new controller)

Hi ChillzPillz 6, my name is Daniel. I am an independent advisor who is willing to help you.

For me, it is an honor to write to you and try to help you in any way possible, for my part I will do my best to try to solve any questions/problems you are presenting.

With the intention of helping you, I did some searches on the internet and found information that could be of great help to you. A user shared the following answer that has helped more than 20 people who have had a problem similar to this one.

Just make sure the paddles are properly on the controller and press the little button below them. Also make sure they have a button assigned in the Xbox Accessories app.

If you want to see the full publication, I leave you the following link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...-working/19bc2e0e-6e3c-4adb-a208-21ee96c2c4fc

Thank you for understanding and if you need more help you can let me know.

Best regards,
Daniel.

I understand, excuse my mistake. From what you mention in the previous message, the control is new, is this correct? So it shouldn't be a fault.

In this case, I prefer to release your question so that another expert/community member can provide you with better help, okay?

It's not the paddles, the paddles work fine. It's the button the paddles touch, it won't work. I pressed the little button and it does nothing, it's assigned and everything, the button clicks too, but it won't say I pressed anything and won't work.

I think I'm having the same issue, but since I just got my Elite 2 controller today I can't be sure. Could you check something for me?

Go into Control Panel -> Devices and Printers, then find your elite controller (listed as "Xbox Wireless Controller" I think) right click and select "Game Controller Settings". From there you should see a readout of all of your controller inputs. Mine lists 16 total buttons, but the paddle buttons will not activate. If I remap the paddles to other buttons within the XBox Accessories app then I can emulate a different button with the paddles, for instance X lights up the "3" button, and so does the paddle... but the paddle button never illuminates.

The paddles seem to produce NO UNIQUE INPUT OF THEIR OWN, they can only emulate other buttons, even though the computer knows the paddle buttons exist.

From all the searching I've done, what I've gathered is that the "Default" profile (which you can activate by holding the profile selector for a few seconds) used to allow the paddles to work independently, but something within the last few months broke that. For instance Steam's Big Picture controller configuration options used to allow for remapping the paddles, but now they do not.

TLDR: Microsoft seems to have recently broke something in and update to the Xbox Elite controller, which is now preventing the paddle buttons from sending their unique button input while using the default profile. They can now only emulate another controller button, or send no input at all.

Hi, I hope you're doing great out there. I am an Independent advisor and I am here to help you with your concern.

It seems like what you have is an Xbox Elite Series controller. According to Xbox Support:

"P1, P2, P3, P4 paddles: For additional inputs, four paddles are snapped into the sockets found at the very bottom on the back of the controller"

Also, here's the default mapping that you can definitely customize:

P1 = B

P2 = Y

P3 = A

P4 = X

You can check this link for detailed information that includes button information:

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-ne...

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-ne...