Is easy to tin the jacket, just scrape it with a needle if need be and use solder flux or solder acid to make sure the solder "tins" the metal soldering it down to earth before you epoxy it but i still feel epoxy is messy and has a life span before going brittle and cracking up.
Use an epoxy needle-type dispenser to avoid mess (I used them successfully in numerous assemblies)... also, most epoxies will outlive the device.
EDIT: my other reason for focusing on epoxy is that more owners will be able to apply that than solder.
This will indeed insure that it will be very hard to break off, i did the method of scraping off some of the "green stuff" and making some more copper to hold on to.
This will indeed insure that it will be very hard to break off, i did the method of scraping off some of the "green stuff" and making some more copper to hold on to.
Do you think it is possible to glue some small metal plate or the like from the top of the usb micro port to the metal structure behind it?
This would give it far more strength than soldering or gluing to the pcb due to the bigger surface used.
Do you think it is possible to glue some small metal plate or the like from the top of the usb micro port to the metal structure behind it?
This would give it far more strength than soldering or gluing to the pcb due to the bigger surface used.
The thing i just did will really increases the strength alot i will say 3x minimum.
lorul2 Your welcome
I just fixed redkarma's N900 like this and now im doing my primary N900
As mentions above dr_frost_dk, have gracefully soldered my usb port, it looks as if, its gonna be able to take a beating, so no more worries about a broken phone due to disconnecting charger early in the morning, when the phone some times gets thrown around quite a bit ..
I think it's my duty to start complaining how wonderfully reliable my usb port has been to date. I have 2101 and bought it december 09. Greek version, the one with fmtx disabled (I think it has to be some kind of hardware difference as I reflashed with the global firmware and the fmtx was still disabled).
