Request to owners of x56 stick

EDIT: dont open Your stick
all info collected, see below.

Hey commanders

If You happen to have x56 stick, can I beg You to open it up and simply tell me what are markings on those 3 electronic elements? No need to unplug anything, just need to unscrew few bolts. Only svrews on the bottom of stick + 4 holding electronic board. As on photos below.

Stick in question. Gray one from logitech will do too.
step1 - Kopia.jpg


This is what You will see upon opening. All needed left is to unscrew 4 bolts holding green board. Note that after doing that board will not fell off, its fits tightly on 2 of mountings so firmly pull it.
step2 - Kopia.jpg


And then simply turn it to see electronics. Dont touch chips with Your fingers. Hold board on the edges. Nothing should happen anyway but better safe than sorry.
All i need to know is markings on those 3 elements. Or at least on those two on the top (on Your board there will be some chips, they are gone on the photo). The small is much less relevant. I beg You please.
step3 - Kopia.jpg


In return I can either help You filling You carrier with tritium (ok not whole ofc), or give u a lift with one, well be helpful ingame, or actually guide You with modding of Your x56 or thrustmaster t16000 hotas.
Below You can see tutorial for modding/fixing of thrustmaster t16000 hotas and its yaw axis issue. Basically replacing potentiometers with magnetic sensors. Did the same thing for TWCS (t16000 throttle). Working flawessly for hundreds of hours. Its example how i can help You modding or fixing stuff You want (if its not one of these two hotas we can have a video chat or sth).

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/setting-up-thrustmastet-t-16000.552067/post-8631628

Rationale:
I managed to get my hands on broken saitek/logitech x56 hotas and trying to revive stick as an upgrade to my old t16000 setup.
Its being recognized by computer and everything works except of stick's main 3 axis - XYZ. Turned out that someone has soldered flash memory chips in place of magnetic sensor. Go figure. I need to know what model of magnetic sensor chip has been used (i have candidate but this is digital one so it has to be right one), and i have no idea what was second chip. Both are already unsoldered on my picture.
 
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lol all made in Taiwan rebranded with western logos +++cost
haven't craked open a wathhog virpil etc but if I did same old cheap pcb components ill bet
 
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lol all made in Taiwan rebranded with western logos +++cost
haven't craked open a wathhog virpil etc but if I did same old cheap pcb components ill bet
Yeah. Altough in all fairness its mostly about mechanical stuff rather than electronics. It made me chuckle when I first saw how empty x56 stick base is. I mean they've inflated it so much.

Anyway, managed to get info regarding all chips, leaving it for anyone interested:

U3 - magnetic sensor - 333BCT M56969 -E (M56969 is lot number so it varies)
U4- flash memory - winbond 25X40CLNIG 1603
Q2 - transistor(?) - Y2
Main chip - Cypress microcontroller - CY7C64215-56L

I will try to get new magnetic chip and see what happens. In worst case I'll just replace electronic board with https://github.com/FreeJoy-Team/FreeJoy
Eh, I hoped for broken wires or sth. Still, gonna be fun.
 
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