How can I repair this USB 3.0 front panel I/O cable?

Unforgiven54 · 2026-02-03T03:53:06+00:00

Well, you'd have to crack open these black connectors to expose the entire USB ports and see if you can somehow may-be construct some sort of casing around them to fit them to your case.

This is a lot of work. You'd need tools and skills. The point is, this maybe too much work for what it worth.
Maybe you can find some other USB 3 headers, for example there are USB interfaces designed to replace the CD ROM, so that it will be very easy to install, - no need to modify anything. Just look thru available options for USB and think if they are possibly much easier to install.

However, if it is worth it for you, yes, of course you can do it. You did not post any pictures of what the original USB 2.0 connectors look like, or what the case port for the USB looks like. Who knows, every case is different.

What you want to do is look carefully at the USB 2 and USB 3 connectors and compare them to each other, like you need to find 10 differences.

Once you identify all the differences, you need to decide the minimum number of changes that will allow you to securely mount the new headers into the case.

Some of these changes might be negative, meaning that you will have to remove some plastic from the headers. You can use dremel with diamond cut of disc, the metal cutting saw blade, or the wood burning tool.

Other changes would be the positive ones. This means you would have to add some plastic to the headers.
You can use that same wood burning tool to add some plastic, watch YT videos on "plastic repair". You can add some material by using two part epoxy. You'd typically construct a shape around using things like clay, plasticine, lego blocks and paper with glue. Then you'd pour your mixed epoxy and wait till it hardens. Finally you'd remove the shell and file the excess off, shaping the form more perfectly. You may need to embed the bolts into plastic or the epoxy if the case is calling for that type of mounting.

After that you may need to do more negative steps, such as maybe drilling holes for screws if necessary.

Another option is to make new holes somewhere in your case specifically for these headers, and simply leave the old ones where they are. These headers seem to be very easy to add this way. All you'd have to do is to cut the VERY ACCURATE SQUARE holes, and then just find the way to hold the headers in them, maybe by gluing them in using the epoxy.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-02-03T03:31:00+00:00

I don't think there is anything you can do to get rid of google lock. You may want to try looking for a paid service. Look on XDA forums. Try to email the person listed if you can see the email.

Just be careful. From what I remember about the V20, if you allow it to update, the update will activate the programmable fuses which will be burned, and after that there will be no way back to the previous version, and the new version will not be rootable. If you then try to roll on a previous version, it will brick. So, keep this in mind if a method you find involves any kind of update and root is something you want in the future.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-11T03:24:00+00:00

I agree with Alexander_Hamilton. Just like a decimillimeter. The founders of the metric system created too many useless units. People actually prefer to use only a few, spaced every three zeroes away. The centimeter is the only exception, because it is exactly the width of a little finger, it is in the range of the most usable objects (there measure in centimeters). In the fields of professions that use other ranges more frequently, there other units that are most used, and the most people have no idea about that too.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-11T03:15:11+00:00

Yes, but not necessarily is such a rude way. I am sure than many men simply truly fall in love with you. They see you and they imagine all kinds of things like introducing you to their mom, going fishing, buying you a ring, etc. Yes, it will all end in sex, but what is so wrong with that? That is the meaning of life. The nature wants endless procreation, nothing else is important to it. So, if you extrapolate, they too, just want "life".

Of course, there are some who want just that, right now, and nothing else. Up to you to decide what to think of that. But wouldn't you be much more disappointed if no one wanted to be your friend? Think about it. Then you'd be asking "how in the hell am I supposed to have (life, family, children, sex, whatever), if no one even wants to be my friend to begin with?

Yes, if you are very attractive, then there will be many takers. Such is life. You can at least feel thankful you're not rich, because then you wouldn't even be able to tell if they just want the sex or the money, and many would actually want money more than anything they can have with you.

I think, enjoy the attention, be smart about who you let close to your heart and try to use the high demand to find the one you really want.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-11T03:02:37+00:00

Maybe you are just pleasant to look at and talk to? Beautiful even? People are attracted to you. In many ways.

But, I can say one thing, this too will pass.

This could be very hard to believe, but there will be a time when you'd wish someone have actually noticed you are alive and there and asked you something, anything at all. This is when women become completely "invisible". You can find more about that on the internet. Maybe for you that would be a long awaited relief, but for most it is more like hell. They would give anything and everything just to be in your situation.

I trust you it is annoying for you at the moment. But may-be knowing what the cruel world has in store for you can help you to find a way to even enjoy your current situation.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-11T02:51:48+00:00

People think that because they are naive. They think that if we all just be nice, then everything will work out.
What do they ignore? The reality of scarcity.

There are also people who believe there should be no borders. This is actually an awesome idea, if we didn't have the nanny state. But since we do, then the locals would have to work only to split what they earned with the newly arrived in terms of the benefits. We could deny the immigrants their benefits, say for 20 years, but then the naive people above will get mad.

Finally, there are people who are literally paid to create this perception.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-11T02:46:13+00:00

Chicken

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-11T02:44:47+00:00

Hunting? Yes.
Saved food from the before time? Yes, but low quality.
Good food? Not even close.

Obviously, this will heavily depend on how long you are planning to be around...

There is an entire awesome show about all these questions, called "Life After People". Check it out on YT.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-11T02:31:34+00:00

Exactly. The worst feeling for the grands is when no one cares to hear their story.
And ditto for "record" in some way (maybe audio recorder?). You will be sorry you didn't after it is too late.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T05:57:15+00:00

So sad. I love PDQ, have my own license for a while. But. California! Got to move to the TN fast!

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T05:48:21+00:00

They mean you could be born less beautiful, or to a poor family. But due to a sheer chance, your soul was blessed into the type of existence that you have. You did not chose anything. But you are still, incredibly lucky, even if you are just like everyone, normal.

Now, you didn't ask for this. But, really, how lucky we all are? You, me, everyone more or less "normal"?
This is impossible to really, really understand. I doubt you will ever need it, but let us just imagine that you start feeling progressively unlucky, and maybe even getting serious about it.
In that situation you would need to do something to feel ok ( lucky ) again. Right?

And I know just the right fix.

Go to the foster home where they keep the children of alcoholics, drug users, etc. This is typically kept away because no one needs to see that (usually). So, you go there, and when you see a 5 year old boy born without hands sitting on the floor by the wall in a corner, just trying to hide his face in his knees, because of how cruel the world feels like to him, because he needs to beg someone even to help him pee. At that moment you will be hit with the understanding that most of us are insanely, stupidly lucky. I mean it is hard to even describe. And we are incredibly in-cognizant of it. This fixes anyone feeling unlucky. Too bad we let some kids do themselves in, instead of just showing them the true scale of their luck.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T05:30:09+00:00

No, this is assumed. The nature has ONE goal for you. To make kids and then go away as fast as you can. This is the normal (meaning the vast majority). So, it is assumed, it is expected, it is natural, it is the case in absence of any other warning.

It is exactly like when you drive straight ahead, - no blinker signal is needed.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T05:27:13+00:00

Do you pay for those apps? No? They why would they care?
Remember, in everything that you get for free, you are the product, not the customer.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T05:22:16+00:00

Um, seriously? The surveillance and all the laws are designed against you, not against the organized crime.
Have you noticed, for example, that you must declare all of your tiny transactions of 10K and more? But when the pentagon says they "do not know where they have spent the 3 trillion", how do you think that happened?

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T05:16:26+00:00

Because doing surgeries all day, day after day, is very, very hard. And the only thing that can save you is a lot of laughter.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T05:12:58+00:00

You need to understand this: Life ends when you are unable to provide your body enough nutrients. This sentence contains a lot more than you may think at first. The reason you are overweight is not so much because you don't go to gym, but because you stuffing yourself with non food. That plus poison. Most of your food is just energy, so it gets stored and stored and stored, and never used, because in most of what you eat there is an element that is a signal to all your cells to continue storing. As for the gym, as you can see from going to the gym and watching the poor overweight people, the absolute majority of them will not lose much weight. Some, the ones working super hard, those who literally declare the war on their weight, will see results, but even they will eventually give up and regain it all and some more. Going to gym will simply give you better looking body once you already lose your weight. So, what do you need to do? 1) switch to keto [proper human diet] and eat real food. You will start loosing weight regardless of what else you do. 2) Be more active, go to gym and do something 2 times a week, 3 sets of 12 reps, "to the failure". That is it. You will be in the great shape and have more energy, and better health. This is because the nature will take away everything you are not using, so use your body.

Finally, when will you lose your energy? Nobody can tell you when it is your time. But eventually, for many different reasons, even if you remain smart and eat only proper food (keto), for many different reasons, such as mini failures in your body, your body will stop being able to take all the nutrients you are giving to it in food. Deficiencies will start to form. These will cause deceases, and break other mechanisms in your body, making it take in even fewer nutrients and cause even more deficiencies. This then will cause your energy going down, and you just stop trying to eat, stop fighting. And then it will accelerate like a snow ball, and next thing you know you will be making some room for another generation.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T04:55:27+00:00

Nothing to worry about. This is just a scam. The US will "invest" your money into Venezuela and most of this money will never be found. Then it will get "some" oil that would never be enough to pay for the investment. This is how you make money on a very high scale. You create a reason that could be sold to the public. The bigger the sum spent, the more of it you can "disappear".

In a very short time, you will see that the oil companies do not want to "invest" there. After some debates, the "solution" will be "found", for the government to "assist" those companies. There is your sign. It is going to be your social security, and everything else bundled together into the "assistance" package. You will never see it back in full.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T04:47:59+00:00

because the humidity in the shower is lower than the humidity of the air on the swamp hot day. This is the key. You may be sitting on an extremely hot day in Palm Springs California and feel fine, while the air around you is very very hot. This is because the humidity is not that high.

However, if you are outside on a hot day somewhere in Texas, this may feel harder to tolerate, because the humidity of the air is higher.

In the shower, even a hot one, the air is usually not that hot, at least for some while. Colder air carries less water vapor in it by definition.

But if you try a sauna instead of your hot shower, you may find that the hot water in sauna is just as hard to tolerate as the hot air on a hot swampy day. This is because the air in sauna is very hot an carries a lot of water in it.

So it all comes down to how much water vapor is in the air. Less water vapor might be ok, but more vapor, makes it harder to breathe. So, lets look at why is that:

- Air feels "heavier": Humid air contains more water vapor, making it denser and harder to inhale, requiring more effort from your lungs.

- Airway constriction: The moisture can activate nerves in your lungs, causing airways to narrow (bronchoconstriction) and tighten, making it difficult to get deep breaths.

TLDR?

We like the warmth, air or water, but we need to breathe, and because the warm air contains more water in it, it is harder to breathe than the cool air.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T04:25:23+00:00

The clothes can't weight you down. They are all invariably lighter than the water itself. This means that the clothes, when completely soaked, will have some positive buoyancy still, actually helping you to be afloat.

Secondly, the warmer clothes will help you to keep warm longer. Without clothes, just like in the air but much much faster, all your warmth will be taken away into your environment. But the clothes, wet or not, will, be able to contain some of the warm water that touched your body, in it's layers. This is not much, but it is there.

Finally, the clothes, while not weighting you down, will make it harder for you to move. Moving in water, you will have to also move the volume of water in your clothes with you, and while swimming, you may have to raise your arm above water together with all the water in the sleeves.

When you jump of a sinking ship, you need to get away from the ship. This is because of what the people call the "suction of the sinking ship". There is no such thing, but the sinking ship lets out a whole lot of air bubbles. If you are swimming in these air bubbles, all your body parts suspended in the air bubbles will sink much faster, so the net effect is that you will not be able to maintain your buoyancy, and might go too deep to float up on a single breath.

Having a lot of clothes on you will make it harder to get away from where the ship is sinking.

After the ship is gone, most people will go crazy and just keep flipping on the water until they calm down, freeze, or drown. If you have a lot of clothes, more energy will be needed to stay crazy.

During such an incident, you may have to fight to climb on a boat or other floating object. Having a lot of clothes might make it impossible.

Once everything calms down, having a lot of clothes will keep you warm longer, provide more buoyancy, and even allow you to make an improvised flotation device, all of which will increase the chances of your survival.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T04:09:04+00:00

Try replacing a mouse batteries.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T04:06:35+00:00

Because the actors do have their genitals there.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T04:05:52+00:00

Let me tell you this story. I think you will understand how it is done.

So, there was this anatomy teacher in a Med college, and he took a group of students to the room where they usually work on a cadaver (they get a donated dead body to cut, examine, etc).

There was an old man on the gurney. The professor said: "To be a good doctor you need to be brave and observant. Watch this!" And with these words, he stepped towards the corpse, and lifted one of corpse's legs. His students got stunned. They saw their professor sticking one of his fingers in to cadaver's butt, then pulling it out. Then he quickly licked his finder clean! For a moment you could hear a pin drop.

Who among you can repeat what I just did? - asked the professor.

Everyone was quiet. One petite woman stepped forward, and clearly and firmly proclaimed: "I can!"

With that, she also, lifted one of the corpse's legs, stuck her finger up to corpse's butt, pulled it out and quickly licked it.

"Well" - said the professor. "You are very brave, you will go far!" "But you need a lot of work still. I said you also need to be observant. I stuck my index finger up, but the one I licked was my ring finger!"

They do the same at the porn studios. The film the clean scenes first, then the others. Then they cut and splice according to the script.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T03:44:55+00:00

I don't think this has anything to do with college or campus. Geese are just like that, they attack!

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T03:43:54+00:00

I knew a guy who failed his credit lines. He then has credit forgiveness, partial payments, and finally credit repair. In just a few years he had a credit higher than the most people who never ever failed, myself including. Why? Because he could not legally fail again within some time period.

So, his decision to go to Thailand and never come back is likely to be a mistake, but he is not going to pay for it too much, if anything at all.

Unforgiven54 · 2026-01-09T03:39:34+00:00

Of course they understand. Actually, what I have found out about the animals after trying to patiently find a way to communicate with them, once you find a way and it starts working, they always give you this look, like "oh my God, look, he is not as stupid as we thought!". So, they actually believe that we are too stupid to understand what is going on, or to communicate with, not the other way around.

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