Roccat Kone AIMO has developed a double left click, when I click it once. Any fix out there?

[Shrek]

Seems to me the OP sees that modern debouncing does not always work so well.

 

[wNotyarD]

Seems to me the OP sees that modern debouncing does not always work so well.

I don't disagree with your interpretation, but I don't see any market for slow mice (due to a heavy debounce latency) except for office-oriented ones.

 

[Shrek]

Good point

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seems to have a 15nS delay

 

[Valorin]

So, as the title says... also it doesn't happen all the time, but most of the time... making it unusable. This is one of my favorite mice because it fits my hand perfectly. Is it possible some crud just got built up under the left clicker? Could I possibly use a toothpick to try and clean under the left click area? Any advice welcome.

edit: this is mouse is about 5-6 years old... its my go to so it has seen a lot of us. I guess its just normal for mice to fail after certain amount of time?

REPAIR SOLUTION HERE!

The Kova is the only mouse my wife and I will accept. We own 14 of them, 12 broke over time, all with button issues. I recently fixed 10 of them with the method below!

The issues were double-clicking buttons and non-functional or unreliable middle mouse buttons.


You need to open the thing for the middle mouse button, but no soldering required. What you'd need though is an electric washing solution and contact spray. That's both non-conductive of course, so don't worry. You'll get it online for cheap, Amazon for example.

In all cases when you reached the button's click thingie, you want to soak its base and the clicker itself in both liquids and wriggle and click it around a bit so the liquids can do their magic. The button should just work again... Just like that.

For the left or right mouse buttons, all you need to do to get to the clicker, is to lift the button's cover, by grabbing it carefully at the front and pull it upwards. You'll see the clicker underneath.

For the middle mouse button, you can try your like and spray blindly into the wheel's opening (the clicker sits on the right side directly next to it), but you will most likely have to open the thing. The Kova comes with 6 well-hidden screws. 4 under it's front and back feet, which you'd need to carefully remove and two more at the front, under the sticker thingie, left and right where the cable comes out (those fu**ers). After all screws are out you can just remove the cover. There's a cable attaching the bottom to the upper part, but it's long enough to just keep it attached. It's just a plug you can pull out though if it's annoying you.

There, that's it! Hope it helps! As I said, 10 out of 12 for us...

(What I actually want is a mouse with the Kova layout but in better quality... It shouldn't have those issues that quickly...)

Got the idea from this video:

 

[cvaldes]

It can't hurt to ask Turtle Beach (the owners of the recently retired Roccat brand) if they have replacement switches. The worst they can say is "no."

For sure in my 3+ decades of owning computers, I have periodically reached to manufacturers concerning the availability of replacement parts. Sometimes they have come through.

That's certainly a step I would take before wading through AliExpress listings.

 

[Space Lynx]

post one of this thread "can I possibly use a toothpick to clean..."

fast forward to two weeks ago:

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wtf is it with me and toothpicks? LMAO

hey mods/staff members/w1zz, can y'all make a guide on how to clean shit properly, i am not going to youtube and traveling through that filth of influencer after influencer bs.

 

[cvaldes]

Why do we need a guide on how to clean things properly? Most of it is described by the manufacturer. The topics that aren't mentioned in the owner's manual were typically covered in some tutorial published 20+ years ago on the WWW.

This mostly gets confusing when some gullible nitwit online sees some crazy YouTube/TikTok and can't figure out for themselves that they're getting played.

And besides that, a lot of the best PC cleaning practices are best handled by people with significant dexterity. We've seen in many threads here that there are bunch of people who don't have the manual skills to assemble a basic PC custom cooling loop without mucking everything up.

 

[Space Lynx]

Why do we need a guide on how to clean things properly? Most of it is described by the manufacturer. The topics that aren't mentioned in the owner's manual were typically covered in some tutorial published 20+ years ago on the WWW.

This mostly gets confusing when some gullible nitwit online sees some crazy YouTube/TikTok and can't figure out for themselves that they're getting played.

And besides that, a lot of the best PC cleaning practices are best handled by people with significant dexterity. We've seen in many threads here that there are bunch of people who don't have the manual skills to assemble a basic PC custom cooling loop without mucking everything up.

I was just joking.

I don't actually give a flying fuck.

 

[Shrek]

Replacing the mouse switch is longer lasting than cleaning, especially if one goes for a high quality switch; I even change worn mouse cables with a braided one.

 

[Space Lynx]

Replacing the mouse switch is longer lasting than cleaning, especially if one goes for a high quality switch; I even change worn mouse cables with a braided one.

im not skilled enough to even attempt it, hence why my mobo is dead from a toothpick. so i am just going to retire it in my closet for now

 

[Shrek]

Gotta start someplace and an old broken mouse might be a good place.

 

[wNotyarD]

im not skilled enough to even attempt it, hence why my mobo is dead from a toothpick. so i am just going to retire it in my closet for now

Might want to find a mouse with replaceable switches next

 

[LabRat 891]

Unless there's something 'irreplaceable' about it, replace it. As-commented, the microswitch is merely worn out.
I've had several mice do similar, and 1 the exact same.

If you do have some kind of sentimental attachment, you can always throw it in a box, and replace the microswitch later.

 

[cvaldes]

I was just joking.

I don't actually give a flying fuck.

More frequently than ever I feel like I've stumbled into some conversation between two mentally ill people when I visit the TPU discussion forum.

Traditionally if you are just joking you throw in a smiley or some other sort of visible indication like /s that you are joking. This is helps a lot of people aren't native speakers of your language. But anyhow I think this advice is lost on an entire generation of Internet users.

And if you really didn't give a "flying fuck" [sic] why did you bother even spending time to type the previous comment? So odd.

 

[micropage7]

I got the Kailh GM 8.0 (80 million clicks) from ebay

TTc is good too
https://www.ebay.com/itm/394186576598

there many switches that you could try, just name it omron, kailh

just keep in mind some stock solder is hard to remove

 

[Chomiq]

Rotate mouse upside down and spam click. Usually it's just dust or dirt stuck in the switch.

 

[Space Lynx]

More frequently than ever I feel like I've stumbled into some conversation between two mentally ill people when I visit the TPU discussion forum.

Traditionally if you are just joking you throw in a smiley or some other sort of visible indication like /s that you are joking. This is helps a lot of people aren't native speakers of your language. But anyhow I think this advice is lost on an entire generation of Internet users.

And if you really didn't give a "flying fuck" [sic] why did you bother even spending time to type the previous comment? So odd.

I had lmao in all caps, I don't know what you want from me man lol

I'm not even sure why this topic got bumped... I made it over a year ago, my AIMO is legit buried somewhere in my closet and I probably won't see it for ten years. Currently I use a wireless logitech mouse, gets like 100-200 hours on one AA battery, wild how good battery life is these days