Any way to "tighten" a usb port

muffins

Like it says my top usb ports on my case dont grip things tightly resulting in a shit connection and i have to kinda wiggle stuff for it to work any way to tighten em up so the clamp inserted things better?

TLV

Not really, you're better off buying a case with USB ports or a PCI card with USB.

fanglekai

You could buy a USB hub too.

Jack

You could probably just stick a bit of paper in there for filler since the contacts are on the inside right?

Katzenklavier

Do you know how to solder?

http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/392063-conn-usb-jack-type-a-horizon-r-a-690-004-621-013.html

Dysgraphia

You're better off purchasing a hub like said and using a sturdy port for it or crazy gluing it to the port.

muffins

Katzenklavier wrote: »

Do you know how to solder?

http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/392063-conn-usb-jack-type-a-horizon-r-a-690-004-621-013.html

That picture helped me greatly, I took a precision screwdriver and pryed the matal tang behind the white piece out some and it tightened right up! Thanks for all the help guys:D

Katzenklavier

Wasn't expecting that, but okay!

Martialshot

Answer was already given

Unknown

That's pretty awesome actually. I've been needing to do this to a USB port on my laptop for about a year.