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breezybottom • yesterday at 8:42 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

USB-C connectors are so flimsy compared to USB-A, it feels like a real step backward. It barely takes any pressure on the cable to make my charging cable fall out, or to rotate it just enough that it loses connection.

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Gigachad • yesterday at 10:08 PM

It's because your port or cable are filled with pocket lint. Get a sewing needle and fish it out and it will connect again.

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atoav • yesterday at 8:52 PM

Not to be that guy, but the USB-C specification requires an extraction force of 8–20 N for a new connector, measured on the sixth unplugging cycle after five conditioning cycles. After 10,000 insertion/removal cycles, the permitted range is 6–20 N.

Equivalent hanging mass:

  8 N is 0.82 kg  
  20 N is 2.04 kg
So the problem you have is likely one of your manufacturer not producing equipment suitable to pass the USB-C spec.

As an aside, the specified extraction force for USB A is:

  10 N minimum when new  
  8 N minimum after durability cycling
So pretty much the same, in some cases even less.

I don't have problems with USB-C connectors per se. I think HDMI is worse in terms of durability.

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