Please help revive a dog chewed Cruzer Slice USB stick...

[v3rn]

Helloo SanDisk aficionados!

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?

Many Thanks for any help!!

[cacho]

   Hi V3RN,

Dear member of SanDisk Community, welcome.

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.

Regards, Alfred.                                                               (Google translated)

[v3rn]

Cheers Cacho!!

Great idea.

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.

Success :smiley:

[ed_p]

Wow!!  Congrats V3RN.

[hirsche]

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? 

[drlucky]

its the standard USB pinout. 

[cacho]

From a book, (does not bite).

A.