Good day. On my pi5 I was lucky enough to have my best four legged friend zoom across a draped keyboard cable and ripped out the little plastic tang/key thing that secures the usb connection in the port. I got the pins straightened as best I can and was able to fit the plastic bit back over them but the connection on that port is predictably loose and unstable. And I don't wanna risk shorting anything. I did a real quick test to see if the port still worked and it does but am a bit nervous because when there was any wiggle at the connection my cooler fan would spin up. So I just have some masking tape covering the port now so I don't plug anything in it mistakenly. I was wondering 2 things. Are there spots online I can order a replacement port stack for the pi5 and it's as simple as resoldering on the board? Another is I have a pi3 and pi4 board that I don't use anymore and was wondering if I could just hot swap and it will work fine? Or is there more to it than that?
Statistics: Posted by chargingcharlie — Sat Jul 13, 2024 2:04 pm