Broken USB port? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II

My dog stepped on my USB cord when my phone was charging and now it only charges when the cord is being pushed upward at an angle. Is there any way to fix this?
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QUOTE=Dariste;36688144]My dog stepped on my USB cord when my phone was charging and now it only charges when the cord is being pushed upward at an angle. Is there any way to fix this?
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Yes there is, go to ebay and search for Samsung Galaxy Note II USB Dock Connector Charging Port Flex Cable
there are a bunch of them on ebay for $10~$20. You can get just the usb port for about $5 and solder it on the board, but it's a pain. I would suggest just order the whole board and replace it.
hope that helps!:cyclops:

If I may ask, my samsung usb cable fits very loudly to the gn2. A very slight motion will unplug the cable. I found this annoying, but also thought it would be useful for the very situation that happened to you.
How did yours simply not unplug?
swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2

I'm not sure to be honest I thought the exact thing would happen too, but it twisted into a weird angle into the micro usb port. The cable was kinda messed up too
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After breaking the hdmi port on the dock, I realized I could know longer sell it for profit.
Sooooooo, I mcgyvered this into a working dock for the Et4g. Doesn't look good lol but gets the job done
Usb ports work, aux ports a no go
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Whats that black thing behind the phone?
Some old phone case/holder with felt material I had laying around dremmled it a bit so it fit alright.
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What kinda pills are in that bottle on the floor lol
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Allergy medicine haha
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I just bought an HTC box that plugs into the phone's USB, I wonder if it's the same deal...
My old G1 and MyTouch had no headphone jack, instead there was a USB adapter, and the sound is piped through the USB...
I wonder if that's standard, or just something HTC jerry rigged.
I'm hoping it's standard, so that I can hide this box in the dashboard of my car, run a line from the headphone jack on the box to the aux in on my stereo, and just plug the USB cable in to charge and get audio out of my phone.
...from your experience though, sounds like a no go.
Sounds like it could work, let me know!
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[Q] I thought if you can get to downloading you weren't bricked..

My friend has the same phone and his phone is semi bricked. I can get to the "downloading" screen but ODIN won't recognize the COM port. I tried reinstalling the drivers from Samsung's Epic Touch part of the website, rebooting computer, restarting ODIN, selecting all the options in ODIN before plugging in the phone.
What else can I try? I didn't try another cable since the cable I have works perfectly fine with my Epic touch. Any other ideas?
If it works fine with your epic touch
then it's def not the cable or drivers.
you can try 2 things i can think of
1. unplug the battery for a while and try again
2. try a jig that fixed it for me once
Crap. So that means my friend would have to order a jig in order to get it to work. I'll look around and see if I can find a write up for making on myself.
I will try the first option and see if a couple of hours will do the trick (which I doubt). Thanks for the response.
making one is easy
300k ohm resistance between pins 4&5
usually a 301k ohm resistor with a 2% tolerance will get you exactly what you need.
mjcollum said:
making one is easy
300k ohm resistance between pins 4&5
usually a 301k ohm resistor with a 2% tolerance will get you exactly what you need.
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Going to Radioshack now.
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I'm at Radioshack and don't see 300k resistors. Is that the same as a 3.3k?
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I used 3 100k resistors worked great follow zedomax's video
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OK thanks. I bought two packs and somehow lost one in my car. I will look for his video on making the cable. I'm assuming its on YouTube.
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Does your friends sbl show the phone to.be a I9100? If so I have the world's only repair solution for it other than Samsung...
Shoot me a pm if you have any questions. Long story short is an I9100 sbl disables the SPH-D710 USB controller.
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OMG. The only spare MicroUSB I have ended up being a waste. The connector is encased in a hard plastic all around with no way to get to the PINs. I will work on this tomorrow.
I will PM you now @ dude above me.
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T989D not charging

Recently my wife plugged her phone in for the night to charge it and in the morning it was nearly dead. I figured bad connection so I unplugged and replugged it and showed charging now. A few hours later and it was near the same percentage. It is obviously getting some power. I got it charging slowly last night. It was at 91 when I went to bed. This morning it did not say charging and the battery logs I had on showed it stopped charging twice. The first time it hit 100 and quit charging for about an hour and then restarted. The second time it hit 100 it stopped charging for the night.
Other things I have tried:
Swapped battery with the one in my phone. (also t989d)
Different chargers (4 so far)
Flashing a different rom. (Leaving it on the cm10 nightly that works on my phone for the moment)
Looking for physical or obstruction for the charging port. (None I can see)
Searching the forums. (Doesn't quite match some posts since it does sometimes charge but I am going to pick up a new can of compressed air in case of lint inside.
Anyone with bright ideas?
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I have had similar problems with Kindle Fires -- my family has had to have both Fires replaced twice. The problem with them is that the connections to the USB port break. I would think that the same thing could happen to just about any device that uses a micro usb connector.
Have you tried a different wall socket or charging with a computer?
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Android_Monsters said:
Have you tried a different wall socket or charging with a computer?
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Will try the computer today. All the chargers were plugged into different wall outlets and were tested on different devices.
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TomSilverSpring said:
I have had similar problems with Kindle Fires -- my family has had to have both Fires replaced twice. The problem with them is that the connections to the USB port break. I would think that the same thing could happen to just about any device that uses a micro usb connector.
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This is what we are afraid of. We tried charging via the computer and it didn't seem to work.
After a reboot it is slowly charging off the wall outlet with the original charger. Much slower than it should but it is charging.
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You need to replace the charging port. if your phone is still under warranty just get it replaced.
Same thing happen to me the part is cheap to replace but you have to be careful when you take apart your phone so you don't damage any of the flex cable connectors.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2X-SAMSUNG-...862?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item337c796dde
DM_Sledge said:
This is what we are afraid of. We tried charging via the computer and it didn't seem to work.
After a reboot it is slowly charging off the wall outlet with the original charger. Much slower than it should but it is charging.
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I've come to the same conclusion. You make it sound easy to do. Is there no soldering etc?
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There is soldering and I would take it to a professional to get it replaced if I were you. It will cost a bit more, but at least they "know" what they are doing because your limited experience can easily damage the circuit board reckon it unusable.
Yep. I've done some home soldering in the past but those were all with things that the parts to replace the whole item were under $20. Waiting on a reply from a local shop
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50 bucks later and the phone is charging again
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Yep. Same thing happened to me. Except I didn't solder. I just got a replacement from Tmo since I'm still under warranty
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Any one have a permanent fix for the Micro usb port?

Any one have a permanent fix for the Micro usb port? I've fix it so many times the back is getting loose.
Afraid to apoxy it down.
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Don`t apoxy the back. How are you repairing it? Just curious other members have had this problem as well.
I have to keep soldering the USB port to the Kindle's Mother Board. Running out of cooper to solder on.
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rbeavers said:
I have to keep soldering the USB port to the Kindle's Mother Board. Running out of cooper to solder on.
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I see I wonder about jb weld if it does not transmit a current it would be perfect for extra support after your soder job, if it transmits current it would be a disaster.
Ok, think it's going to last.
Put a little piece of a small zip tie down in the groove on the case were the usb socket fits into.
Screwed the MB down good, could tell it was a tight fit.
The power button hung up the first few times I turned on and off. But it settled in.
The usb socket doesn't wiggle at all. The solder conection is holding.
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Charge but not charge?

Just today my phone decided not to charge anymore. So I decided to boot it up with it plugged in and it gave the illusion it was charging. However when I unplugged it the charging symbol stayed. Just recently it now flutters between charding and discharging which is destroying my battery. Does anyone have any advice?
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Bump.
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Clean the usb port.
Already tried it with no avail.
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I had that happen once and it was the cable. I think one of the wires in the cable had flexed just a little too much. Picked up a new cable and I was back in business. Might be a thought...
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I had that happen once and it was the cable. I think one of the wires in the cable had flexed just a little too much. Picked up a new cable and I was back in business. Might be a thought...
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I'm sorry but what do you mean my cable?
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vince7 said:
I'm sorry but what do you mean my cable?
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He is talking about your USB cable. If changing to a different cable doesn't help then I'm guessing your charging board is going bad (the board that controls the charging of your battery). There have been a lot if topics around about that, so do a little search and see what advice others with the same problem have done.
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