[Info]Making/Using a Factory Cable
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Hey wow am I in luck! Just tried making my first cable and while it came out correctly, its going to be used on a customers device so I really didn't want to trust myself with such a quickly rigged device. The fact that you posted this today is just great
I am highly interested in purchasing the last one if you still have it available by now! And also I would like to get a few of those micro-usb ends and honestly anything else that may come with or be helpful, got a few days off and would like to spend them tinkering How should I go about setting up an order?
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Not sure when Motorola changed their bootloaders, but newer devices can charge the battery.
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Hey wow am I in luck! Just tried making my first cable and while it came out correctly, its going to be used on a customers device so I really didn't want to trust myself with such a quickly rigged device. The fact that you posted this today is just great
PM sent, lol....
Is there a reason it wouldn't be used anymore? I have a fire hd 7 that i bricked trying to install cyanogenmod. it boots up, shows the amazon logo then turns back off. ADB doesnt' pick it up so I cant use any of the apps. Would a factory cable not do me any good?
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I am really impressed with the images of SkOrPn but I didn't want to wait, so I tried to make my cable out a low-cost microUSB cable I bought on ebay and took some photos that can help other people.
These are the steps I followed:
1) Cut the cable. It is very unlikely that the ID cable exists, but it would be easier that way. I see only the 4 wires of USB cable.
2) With a cutter (and very carefully) "clean" the microUSB connector. This is the hardest part because I didn't know how the conector was and it has to be done very carefully to keep connector and fingers undamaged. I can see all 5 terminal, one of which is unused.
3) Identify connector terminals. It can be done using cable colours. Terminals 1, 3 and 5 are on one side and 2 and 4 on the other.
4) Connect again the 4 wires I have cut.
5) Scrape the unused terminal because it is a little bit rusty.
6) Tin unused terminal and solder a SMD 120 ohm resistor. I didn't want to place a jumper in case I made a mistake.
7) Connect the other side of the resistor to 5v (pin 1) with a small cable
8) Protect everything with hot glue
9) Cover with shrinking tube
I have tested the cable and it works
Rebooting with the cable connected and using "Kindle Fire Utility v.6":
ADB Status: Offline
Boot Status: 4002
Fastboot Status: Online
Thank you!
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This will NOT work, as the female breakout boards from Sparkfun does NOT have a breakout trace for pin 4 present. Only the male breakout boards have all 5 pins/traces needed. I've purchased hundreds of both and sold thousands of download mode JIG's for Samsung phones, and was forced to modify the female breakout boards to include a pin 4 trace for special projects of mine. I do not know if they since added the trace or not and its been over a year now since I asked for this feature.Was just thinking. If you used a female breakout board with a male breakout board you could essentially ground the male boards ground to the male boards vcc. And the female boards ground to the male boards ground as well.
This way you could leave vcc hanging (capped of course) from the female source (computer) side.
Hope this sparks some good conversation.
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Is there even a market for these factory cables?
EDIT: I know this post used to be how to get a cable from me, but I ran out of the actual cables and never replaced them. With only about one request per week or month I decided to stop stocking the cables. I have everything else though (new micro ends etc) to build a professional one if you want to send a old cable to me.10There is a lot of information floating around about the factory cable but there doesn't seem to be a thread dedicated to the topic. I bricked my device today so I need to make a factory cable. I tried making a cable but I f'd up the soldering job so I am awaiting delivery of a breakout board. I just wanted to gather some information here on the topic because there seem to be a lot of bricks popping up around here. So for now I am going to post what I know and ask a few questions here and there so that I can get my cable done and hopefully help someone out along the way.
When I started messing around with soldering a jumper from pin 1 to pin 4 i melted the connector, blah, blah, anyway, I screwed it up. Hopefully I will have more luck with the breakout (see below).
From what I understand, using the cable is a simple a plugging it in so I guess that part is self explanatory for now.
I got most of my information about the cable and how to make it from here. Lots of good info with pics and diagrams.
Someone in these forums recomended using this breakout board. I ordered 2 of them today so I will let you guys know how it goes when they get here.
My one big question is about the the jumper from pin 1 to pin 4; I read that some people are using a resister and I am unclear as to where the resister is being used and the specs of the resister. Please enlighten me
I might add some pics to this thread just for fun. If you have built this cable please jump in a post any information that might help.
Thanks
BTW-You can buy a cable here but I have yet to see them listed as "in stock"6DIY factory cable out of a low cost microusb cable
I am really impressed with the images of SkOrPn but I didn't want to wait, so I tried to make my cable out a low-cost microUSB cable I bought on ebay and took some photos that can help other people.
These are the steps I followed:
1) Cut the cable. It is very unlikely that the ID cable exists, but it would be easier that way. I see only the 4 wires of USB cable.
2) With a cutter (and very carefully) "clean" the microUSB connector. This is the hardest part because I didn't know how the conector was and it has to be done very carefully to keep connector and fingers undamaged. I can see all 5 terminal, one of which is unused.
3) Identify connector terminals. It can be done using cable colours. Terminals 1, 3 and 5 are on one side and 2 and 4 on the other.
4) Connect again the 4 wires I have cut.
5) Scrape the unused terminal because it is a little bit rusty.
6) Tin unused terminal and solder a SMD 120 ohm resistor. I didn't want to place a jumper in case I made a mistake.
7) Connect the other side of the resistor to 5v (pin 1) with a small cable
8) Protect everything with hot glue
9) Cover with shrinking tube
I have tested the cable and it works
Rebooting with the cable connected and using "Kindle Fire Utility v.6":
ADB Status: Offline
Boot Status: 4002
Fastboot Status: Online4
Until I announce otherwise, I am still making them. Or until I am dead...3I simply used a jumper wire. No resistor used. I hear a 1k can be used as a precaution, but is not necessary. Without the resistor, it works like a champ. I turned off the Kindle, Plugged in the "Factory cable", and it went directly into fastboot.
PIN out is as follows on the SparkFun Breakout board:
VCC: RED
D-: White
D+: Green
ID: Jumper RED
GND: Black
