00:00Charging port board versus USB socket, which lasts longer.
00:04Okay, quick question anyone ever do that annoying wiggle with a charging cable
00:08where it only charges if you hold it at a weird angle?
00:11That almost never means a bad cable.
00:14It means the port is dying.
00:17So I dug through the best deals on charging port boards versus USB sockets,
00:21and the price gap between them is honestly wild.
00:24Here are the five I'd actually pick from.
00:27This first one's for the Samsung S20 through S22 family, the S21 Ultra, the FE,
00:32all the G986B, G998B, S906B, S908B stuff.
00:38The reason I like it, it's a flex cable board, meaning the connector rides on a flexible ribbon,
00:43so on most of these it literally plugs in, no soldering iron, no donor phone, no donor anything.
00:49Dock connector and charge board in one piece.
00:52Under 9 bucks, over 4,000 sold, and it's the friendliest fix on the list for a phone that refuses
00:58to charge.
00:59Next, the budget king at $3 and change, covering the Samsung A Series A51, 71, 70, 50, 41, 40, 31,
01:0930, 20, 60, 10.
01:12Here's the thing people overlook, on these phones the charging port and the microphone share one little board,
01:17so you fix both at once.
01:19Dead mic and dead charging, one swap, one tiny screwdriver, 3 bucks.
01:24It also carries the biggest sales volume of the group, and a 4.7 rating to go with it.
01:30Now if you game, this is the one.
01:33It's the JCD JDS-001 for PS4 and PS4 Pro controllers, covering the 030, 040, and 055 models,
01:41and the conductive pad comes included, that minuscule piece that every single person loses the second they crack a controller
01:47open.
01:48So no crawling around the carpet for a rubber spec.
01:52About 425, and controllers take more abuse than anything else in this video, so it's worth doing right.
01:58This one might be the best value here, because it's the cheapest and it also holds the top rating at
02:034.8.
02:05It's a 12-pin USB charging socket circuit board, again for those 030 and 040 PS4 controllers.
02:1212-pin is the one to grab if your controller still charges fine but the socket is cracked or the
02:17plug slides out sideways.
02:19275, dead simple swap, no drama.
02:23All five links are in the description, so just match the model number to your device.
02:28If this saved you a repair shop quote, hit like and subscribe, I'll be back with another one.
