| joerg | there are friendly methods to remove USB plug and there are very failure-prone methods | 00:33 |
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| joerg | then there are usb-cable plugs that are very hard to unplug, and others that are "run in" | 00:35 |
| joerg | when a hard-to-unplug plug comes to a "unfriendly" removal method, it's probably 100s of times more likely to break the USB receptacle | 00:36 |
| joerg | to start with, you need to grab the plug on the small sides to unplug it, *not* on the large flat sides | 00:37 |
| sixwheeledbeast | I gently filed the locking pins slightly on the charger I use for N900 | 00:45 |
| sixwheeledbeast | probably not advised but WFM | 00:45 |
| joerg | I used a tad of pencil graphite on the plug sleeve and inserted and pulled the plug (halfway) a maybe 100 times while watching a movie. Also worked | 00:54 |
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