Damaged mini USB port

[caifalex]

So I guess if you use any old USB cable it *might* damage your mini USB port by pushing the pins in. I had NEVER used the supplied connectors and would simply plug in the charger straight to the phone... I guess that damaged it! Sometimes it wouldn't sync with activesync and I had to wiggle it a bit... I guess 6 months of wiggling adds up and while trying to fix it I BROKE the tab that holds the pins!! OUCH! it hurt! I think out of the six pins (ground, hot, data in, data out, stereo left, right) I think only right speaker works!


My temporary solution is that I bought two spare batteries (1400mAh) off ebay and a wall charger that charges the battery without the need to connect it to a phone. That takes care of the charging (I can swap batteries when juice runs out at night). As far as syncing I only used it for contacts and it's pretty much just a one time deal (btw, how would I sync via bluetooth, or is there a folder I can just copy to my phone? I think I also damaged the computer's COM ports and can't seem tofind the drivers anywhere!)

For copying stuff (cab files, maps, etc.) I have a micro SD reader adapter I can use. Plus BT explorer!

Then I was thinking I'll lose the whole mp3 player thing since I can't use headphones, but then I remembered about bluetooth headphones!! hehehe I guess since I have never used them it hadn't occurred to me! I will have to search through the BT headphone

Anyway, I started this thread because I searched and found nothing on damaged USB ports (it sucks you can't search words less than three letters long, WHY is that?!??) and figured it might help other people in the same situation.

If anyone knows an effective easy way to switch the mini USB port please let me know... I found a tutorial on hack a day but it was for a different phone. Any help is appreciated (I'll try out the BT thing for a while, if it works out I won't even have a use for the mini usb port anymore!!