{"id":5372,"date":"2025-10-29T22:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:27:27","slug":"usb-c-connector-hook-is-only-0-25mm-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=5372","title":{"rendered":"USB-C connector hook is only 0.25mm wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My phone&#8217;s USB-C connector was having problems holding on to cables for a long while, and today it finally stopped working altogether: the cable will pop out no matter what I do. I tried cleaning it with a sharpened tooth of plastic fork, but no joy. There is not much debris there either, it is mostly clean. The phone, Motorola Edge 2022 is 3 days shy of being 3 years old.<\/p>\n<p>I got curious about the exact mechanism that holds the cable in place. It turns out that it is held by two hooks 1.25&#215;0.25mm in size, probably made of plastic. No wonder it wears down after 3 years of use. Corresponding drawing is on page 42 (of course) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/USB%20Type-C%20Spec%20R2.0%20-%20August%202019.pdf\">USB-C specification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5373\" src=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/usb-c-drawing.png\" alt=\"USB-C connector blueprint\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My phone&#8217;s USB-C connector was having problems holding on to cables for a long while, and today it finally stopped working altogether: the cable will pop out no matter what <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=5372\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}