Yet another person with the Kobo ARC USB port problems

[WanderingOne]

Hello, I am having a bit of a hard time finding help/parts for a Kobo ARC K107.

It slid off an end table while charging and landed on the chaging port. Since I have some experience with circuit board repair, and it being well past its warranty, I opened it up and found the micro-usb connector had lifted off the circuit board and ripped the wiring laer while doing so. The ribbon cable is marked "6201USB-R005" with a date of 2012.08.22 and followed by a batch number (I believe) C'4412'. This is a short 5cm flexible ribbon with a quick disconnect at the other side and a very easy thing to replace.

Contacting Kobo support, was un-helpful as it took multiple emails to get absolutely nothing.

So has anyone have any idea of where to get a replacement ribbon? Or a tablet that a could salvage for the part? I am hesitant to buy and break a working one to fix such a small thing.

[le kwan]

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/

[Dr. Drib]

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[le kwan]

Sorry Dr Drib, I will remove them and re upload them smaller...ah youve done it already cheers.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by le kwan

Sorry Dr Drib, I will remove them and re upload them smaller...ah youve done it already cheers.

Yes, please upload some newer, smaller photos.

Thank you.


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