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le kwan · 07-15-2015, 04:18 PM

Hello, just a bit of info regarding the USB charging fault on the Kobo reader.
My daughters Kobo has a cracked screen and then developed the charging fault so I managed to perform a heath robinson repair using an old USB cable.
I took the back off the tablet and removed the ribbon cable to the usb terminal, I then noticed that under another ribbon cable was a set of terminals that looked like good candidates for soldering a new supply cable too..see the image

so i split the USB cable and using the RED AND BLACK cores only I soldered them to the terminals as follows, RED to the VUSB point and the BLACK to the GND point as seen here

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This shows the ribbon cable back in situ

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Then I boxed it all up and secured the cable

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Yes it is a work around but for a tablet with a cracked screen, it just was not worth sending off for repair and it works faultlessy now

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It may help someone
my blogpage https://sites.google.com/site/thekwanspage/

07-15-2015, 04:18 PM	#2
le kwan Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: kobo k107	Hello, just a bit of info regarding the USB charging fault on the Kobo reader. My daughters Kobo has a cracked screen and then developed the charging fault so I managed to perform a heath robinson repair using an old USB cable. I took the back off the tablet and removed the ribbon cable to the usb terminal, I then noticed that under another ribbon cable was a set of terminals that looked like good candidates for soldering a new supply cable too..see the image so i split the USB cable and using the RED AND BLACK cores only I soldered them to the terminals as follows, RED to the VUSB point and the BLACK to the GND point as seen here [Image violates posting guidelines for size - MODERATOR] This shows the ribbon cable back in situ [Image violates posting guidelines for size - MODERATOR] [Image violates posting guidelines for size - MODERATOR] Then I boxed it all up and secured the cable [Image violates posting guidelines for size - MODERATOR] [Image violates posting guidelines for size - MODERATOR] Yes it is a work around but for a tablet with a cracked screen, it just was not worth sending off for repair and it works faultlessy now [Image violates posting guidelines for size - MODERATOR] [Image violates posting guidelines for size - MODERATOR] It may help someone my blogpage https://sites.google.com/site/thekwanspage/ Last edited by le kwan; 07-15-2015 at 05:43 PM.