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Originally Posted by plib
I note that the USB on the previous generation of Kobo, the "D" pad that my wife inherited from her father, which prompted the Touch purchases and the heirloom-ing through one more generation of the D-pad, had a mini-USB connector, not a micro. Given that micro are inherently more fragile just by the nature of their size and construction than a mini maybe that's part of the reason? Or maybe it's just a bad batch of parts and/or assembly?
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"The newer Micro-USB receptacles are designed for up to 10,000 cycles of insertion and removal between the receptacle and plug, compared to 1,500 for the standard USB and 5,000 for the Mini-USB receptacle" From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB