How To Repair A Broken Wire In A Usb Port

In this tutorial, I want to show how to repair cleaved USB cables. In detail, it is shown how to repair a Micro USB cablesincluding the data transfer wires. I fabricated too a video tutorial about this topic. However, in the video, simply a charge-only USB cable (with 2 wires) is repaired. Y'all find the video hither:

How To Repair (Micro) USB Cables | Electronics Know-how To Go #one

Just for the sake of completeness — Listing of Materials:
– Micro USB cable[connector must be cleaved ;)] [Search on Aliexpress | Amazon | eBay.com]
– Micro USB plug [Search on Aliexpress | Amazon | eBay.com]

Typically, when a USB cable stops to work, the cable and the wires are ofttimes still intact. Instead, the USB connector got probably broken. Recently, the connector of one of my USB cables became loose. Moreover, it totally stopped working after some time.

I decided to repair it and ordered a pack of USB connector replacements (also chosen plugs, tails, or sockets) from Aliexpress. These USB connector replacements are available in many variants (different colors, different lengths, etc.).

My connectors consist of four parts:

1) The first step is to cut off the broken connector:

2) Then, the outer jacket must be removed (e.g. with a wire stripper):

3) Side by side, the inner wires must be stripped:

4) The cablevision must be moved through the 2 parts of the connector replacement'due south outer shell:

5) At present, the soldering (almost) starts. Luckily, the wire colors are standardized and used across many manufacturers. Typically, a micro USB cable has five wires: GND (blackness), 5V (red), Data+ (green), Data- (white), and the (outer) Drain Wire, which should be connected to the GND.

Unfortunately, dissimilar types of USB connector replacements might also have a different layouts. Therefore, accept a look at the datasheet or the store's website to notice out which pin has to be connected to which wire. The post-obit picture shows the pin layout for the connectors that I bought:

If you are sure about where to connect which wire, you can first soldering:

six) After the soldering, make sure that the wires are properly isolated. I used some record for this task also equally for strengthen my solder articulation:

7) The last stride is to put everything together. I used the help of some pliers to press all parts together:

If you have washed all these steps correctly, you should have a working USB cablevision that can be used for charging as well as for data transfer again: