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As someone who also owns and recommends several Anker products, I do have a counterexample: A microUSB cable I bought about a month ago has gotten it's locking
by BHSPitMonkey 11y ago
As someone who also owns and recommends several Anker products, I do have a counterexample: A microUSB cable I bought about a month ago has gotten it's locking pins stuck in the retracted position somehow, and no longer secures itself inside the port. Not a common case, of course, but they're not infallible.
- InclinedPlane 11y agoThat's the standard failure mode for a lot of the monoprice micro-USB cables, it's annoying as hell.
- miahi 11y agoAs I remember, this is by design - better to have the cable break than the socket (as it was with miniUSB).
- sithadmin 11y agoGood quick fix for this: put a tiny pad of scotch tape on the flat face of the connector. Don't let it overlap the edges. The extra friction will almost always hold the connector in the port reliably.
- kej 11y agoOn most microUSB cables I've used, you can take a needle or safety pin and gently pry the locking pins back out to whatever locking strength you'd like.
- ce4 11y agoThat's what happens to all my Anker cables one after another. I've opened one failed cable's connectors and it looked like a design problem: The micro USB connector's metal jacket is really short and not properly anchored inside the connector (it is attached to 2 plastic hooks inside). Once it's bent too much, those hooks loosen and the two steel springs lose their tension and retract.