Note, from my experience the micro usb plug was the worst usb plug ever. (commonly used for charging/data). It seems to wear out and stop working on the device end (ie the expensive end). I had to get a wireless charge for my last phone with micro usb because even with a new cable you physically had to hold the phone and the cable just write to get it to charge. The mini-usb did not seem to have that wear issue as fast. My phone stopped working/charging with around 1x insertion per day for about 3 years (around 1000 insertions) and the wear issue was on the expensive end (the phone/socket side), not the cable end as the design intended.
micro-usb was designed to be more reliable than mini-usb, my data, and many others real world data seems to indicate that design was massively flawed and the micro-usb is unreliable crap and while designed to have 2-10x more insertions than mini-usb (in theory) seems to fail several times faster than mini-usb (in reality). And has to then be bent/adjusted/held just right for it to work (even with "new" cables). So be careful with that flawed micro-usb data/charging connection. And while it could be that it was just some of the micro-usb sockets the one I had go bad was in a major manufacturer high-end phone, so not someplace that should have bought the cheapest socket built by a poor manufacturer. On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 4:54 AM Philip Rhoades via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Samuel, > > > On 2021-10-27 19:31, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 2021-10-26 10:10, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > >> I am getting nothing recorded in /var/log/messages when I plug in the > >> GoPro and push its power button (plugging in any other USB device is > >> working of course) so maybe it is the USB port on the camera that is > >> the problem? - is there any way to debug that from the Fedora > >> workstation? > > > > After seeing Tim's message, I realized what you wrote. How do you > > have /var/log/messages? Run "sudo journalctl -fa" in a terminal > > before plugging in the cable and see if anything shows up. > > > Interesting - at first I got no response for a couple of the permuations > I had tried before - so I tried a new permutation of USB port and two > cables - an extension cable connected to a std USB cable with a micro > plug - which worked! Now I am confused about why ALL the other > permutations worked for ALL the other devices - besides the camera . . > weird - maybe it is an intermittent cable or camera problem? - hmm . . > more testing required . . at least I know now that the connection is not > 100% failed . . > > Thanks for responding - I appreciate it! > > Regards, > > Phil. > -- > Philip Rhoades > > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
