As a favour for a friend I am trying to revive a Sandisk Cruzer Slice 4GB stick that has been chewed by a dog(!)
The outer casing has been damaged and the USB connection to the PCB has broken off, but the actual PCB seems fine.
I am electrotechnical and hope to repair the stick by taking apart a San Disk Ultra USB 3.00 16GB and using the USB connection part (presently I am on a boat and only have access to the Ultra; another Cruzer Slice would have been ideal)
Can anyone advise if the PCB to USB connector ‘fittings/tracks’ will be fairly compatible in terms of layout/architecture (for me to solder the USB connection from the Ultra to the Slice PCB)? Before I destroy the casing on the Ultra? Or would we have to try and obtain another Cruzer Slice?
To me, the most simple and inexpensive, is gut any USB 2.0 cable, which I walk around, and get the “plug”.
Here you have the color code.
If equal need, gutting the USB 3.0, recalls having 9 pins, power are common to both, and the USB 2.0 signal are yellow and green.
USB 1.x/2.0 standard pinout Pin:
Name Cable color Description
1 VBUS Red (or Orange) +5 V 2 D− White (or Gold) Data − 3 D+ Green Data + 4 GND Black (or Blue) Ground
Luck, and then you tell us, what happened, please.
Unfortunately there was damage by one of the data pins so couldn’t solder it - I had to trace, test and do a bit of precision soldering to the leg of a chip!
All good in the end though!! Managed to retrieve the data for my colleague and transfer it.
Nice info there Cacho. I looks for it online, but could find were that was posted. Did you use a white sheet or something simlar to get those pin information?
Hi V3RN,
