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Take care with Micro USB cables..

jimmycrackcorm · 2011-04-09 00:40:56

I bought a USB mains charger and also regularly used another nokia micro USB cable with my HTC desire for charging. At some point the micro USB got damaged as the surrounding metal warped. Charging then became intermittent and it was not possible to do any data connection over the USB as the device would not be recognized.…

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09-04-2011 1:40am

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jimmycrackcorm

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I bought a USB mains charger and also regularly used another nokia micro USB cable with my HTC desire for charging. At some point the micro USB got damaged as the surrounding metal warped. Charging then became intermittent and it was not possible to do any data connection over the USB as the device would not be recognized.

I was luckily able to fix it by twisting the metal surround with a fine screw drive and now it works but I'm sticking only to the original HTC cable. So this is a friendly waring to be aware that micro-USB connectors are not the strongest and that not all cable connections are exactly the same. I did notice that when the connector was warped that the HTC cable was more loose than plugging in either of the other connectors so either one stretched the thin metal surround.

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