broken usbc connector- is it repairable?

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• neo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As far as I can see, the contacts were been ripped off. You could try scratch away the coating in the lines above and try to get a connection there but I think you need some experience to do that

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  How seamless do you need it to be? Does it need to fit back into the same form factor exactly? If you have some wiggle room they sell small break out boards that have only positive and negative that you could likely use. But like the other convenient said you would still need to scrape the traces on the existing board, which is not terribly hard, it’s the shouldering that’ll be kinda tight but manageable.

  If you need it to be exact, that is a taller task. Which you could make slightly easier if you replaced it with a micro USB. Which I know downgrading sucks, but soldering to a raw USB C port is much suckier.

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• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Those pins are toast, it’s salvageable, but the question is if it’s worth it.

  Looking at the picture, it looks like it’s near an edge of the USBC connector, with some hopefully resistors attached. If these lines aren’t the high speed lines, it might work afterwards.

  You’ll want thin wire, like hair thin, and you might be able to connect to the pads of the parts. It’s beyond me at USBC scale, but not impossible.

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