DFGT broken, any fix possible?

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I took my DFGT to my friend's house, and when I got home I went to set it up, and I noticed that the USB cable's missing the head to it, so now it's just a bunch of copper wire sticking out. I was wondering if there's any way possible to fix this, because there's almost no way I could get another one as this was a birthday present and there's not a lot of money lying around to buy another one.
 
I'm assuming you've lost part of the usb cable here. It can be fixed. You need to buy a standard usb cable. buy the smallest, cheapest kind you can find as it's going to be getting cut anyway.

Take it to someone who's handy with a soldering iron. Could be a friend, member of the family, or even just a local electronics repair shop (maybe even a small, independent computer shop) and have them do a clean job of cutting the usb cable on the dfgt and your new usb cable.

Solder, seal and you should be good to go. It shouldn't cost too much. Nowhere near the cost of a used DFGT.

When it's fixed, make sure it's sealed well. If the repaired section looks weak, neatly apply masking tape around the weakened section and have it overlap with the stronger parts.

Lastly, be careful with the new cable. Depending on how professional a job is done, the days of taking it to a friend's house may be over. If it's done really well then you should be okay. But be careful. ;)
 
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I'm assuming you've lost part of the usb cable here. It can be fixed. You need to buy a standard usb cable. buy the smallest, cheapest kind you can find as it's going to be getting cut anyway.

Take it to someone who's handy with a soldering iron. Could be a friend, member of the family, or even just a local electronics repair shop (maybe even a small, independent computer shop) and have them do a clean job of cutting the usb cable on the dfgt and your new usb cable.

Solder, seal and you should be good to go. It shouldn't cost too much. Nowhere near the cost of a used DFGT.

When it's fixed, make sure it's sealed well. If the repaired section looks weak, neatly apply masking tape around the weakened section and have it overlap with the stronger parts.

Lastly, be careful with the new cable. Depending on how professional a job is done, the days of taking it to a friend's house may be over. If it's done really well then you should be okay. But be careful. ;)
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Thanks.
 
You want to make sure each individual wire can't ground out to other wires too, so I'd recommend after soldering, you wrap each solder joint with electrical tape. It doesn't have to be much, just don't want to have signals jump across where you don't want to them to go - then tape up the whole thing with quality electrical tape (read: 3M - no dollar store crap) and it should be good to go.

Here's a pinout:
USB-cable-wiring.png
 
thechosenwonton
You want to make sure each individual wire can't ground out to other wires too, so I'd recommend after soldering, you wrap each solder joint with electrical tape. It doesn't have to be much, just don't want to have signals jump across where you don't want to them to go - then tape up the whole thing with quality electrical tape (read: 3M - no dollar store crap) and it should be good to go.

Here's a pinout:
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Thank you SO much! That helped immensely. It's back in somewhat barely working order, I didn't use electrical tape. I might re-tape it, but I'm too scared to do it so I'll probably leave it.
 
I just came here through a google search for the USB pinout image. I (John Beale) originally took that photo of the USB connector and labelled it. A bunch of websites copied it (which is fine by me) except that I got the pinout wrong! DATA- should be WHITE, DATA+ should be GREEN, just FYI. One guy (probably not from this website) sent me an email saying I cost him many hours of troubleshooting... anyway, the corrected photo is on my website now:
http://www.bealecorner.org/best/measure/USB/index.html
 

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