Are you talking about the Micro-A plugs and receptacles, Micro-AB receptacles (which accept both Micro-A and Micro-B plugs), Double-Sided Micro USB, Micro-B plugs and receptacles, or 3.0 Micro-B SuperSpeed plugs and receptacles?
Yes.
Problem: There are 14 Competing micro-USB standards.
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I took one look at that cable after I had to grab one for an rpi and was like what the hell am I supposed to do with this?!
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Microusb has one feature over USBC. You can pull power from the pins without needing to solder a tiny 5kohm resistor to cc1 to tell the cable you want 5 volts.
You can buy connectors with a tiny PCB that already has it on.
You guys have Micro!?
I’m still running stuff with Mini…
As a 51 year old guy with 51 year old eyes, I’d rather mini that micro. Mini isn’t subtle.
Anyone else still use type B?
I have a camera that has a type b input.
I got my wife a MIDI keyboard a couple years ago that used B. Ended up getting a B to C cable for it so it can plug into her laptop.
Dude yes it’s a chonk on my midi keyboard but I love it. Satisfying.
Lots of musical gear uses USB B. My understanding is that the connector is more physically robust for on stage applications.
Yep, that why I still keep 'em around.
Had to use it for a thermocouple DAQ the other day. Only ever see them on some printers otherwise.
Yeah like every printer I have uses it
Do printers still use them?
Mini is much better. Micro is fragile and shitty, won’t hold in after a while.
An the size difference doesn’t even matter much…
Honestly mini was fine. But it wasn’t thin enough for some phones.
Me over here with my parallel ports
I was recently shopping for a Bluetooth speaker for the shower. At some point I realized that one of them used micro USB for power. Confused, I went back and looked at the others. More than half still used micro. Just… no.
I’m looking at you, RaspberryPi Pico2…
That’s not so bad. I have a few Arduinos with the square USB type B ports…
You reminded me to fit some tape in my phone`s MicroUSB port, so the cable actually sits in somewhat properly.
How to make the transition relatively painlessly:
- Buy a bunch of these, and tie one to the end of every USB C cable, now you only need USB C cables around.
- As you get more C-C cables, buy these for your existing USB A ports:
Should the C to micro cables always work for charging?
Think I bought a bunk one… I never cheap out on cables anymore, of course the one time in YEARS that I do…
Usb C has a default of 5V, 2A. This matches/exceeds the micro USB standards. In order to get a higher voltage, it negotiates up. (Or it’s supposed to! China can produce some NASTY exceptions!)
I’d recommend making sure whichever ones you buy explicitly say in the description that they support charging/data transfer (depending on what you want out of them) I usually end up using Amazon since it’s just harder to find these at any in-person retail stores, or other online retailers, so check their product images for those claims as well.
Most of them are sold by dropshippers, that don’t care much about the actual functionality of their tech, so when they explicitly put it in there, it’s usually because the original manufacturer listed that feature too.
If any of them don’t match the specs (don’t charge/transfer data) or don’t match the images (have a logo when it showed no logo), contact Amazon support and they’ll usually give them to you for free. In my experience (having bought 7 completely different adapters from various sellers) they usually work as advertised in the description, although I tend not to trust anything claiming it meets fast-charging standards. That’s usually bogus. (good thing to tell Amazon support to get them for free though 😉)
I coincidentally bought these ones recently. They didn’t have a logo in the photo. They arrive, whaddaya know, they have a logo. Contacted support, they gave me a full refund.
just be mindful of latency, so maybe you want to try a few
These are a passive component
You have to be mindful of the adapter standard to ensure you’re getting the data transfer speed you want, and from experience same standard usb adapters aren’t the same quality across makes
https://glidedigital.com/will-a-usb-c-to-usb-a-adapter-slow-down-my-data-transfer-speeds
I do not think this word means what you think it does.
I am using it how these guys are https://www.anker.com/blogs/hubs-and-docks/do-usb-hubs-add-latency
What’s a better word? Edit delay makes sense
In that sense, latency totally is the correct usage, but their use in your link isn’t anything you’d be using a usb-c to micro-usb adapter for. Latency would only matter if you were trying to mirror image from one device to another. Latency wouldn’t effect charge speed or data transfer rates, which is all you be using one of the adapters to do.
These are just glorified wires, there’s no possibility of latency. There’s a possibility of a loose connection, but not of latency.
It’s fucking hilarious to me that the USB consortium ever allowed Universal Serial Bus cables to be made without the serial part (data transfer)
USB-C anything requires a minimum of 2.0 which is how Micro should have always been.
my reaction when when
SMH my head
RIP in peace
PIN number
…for the ATM machine.
Does it have an LCD display?
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USB-A dude. There’s still things that ambush me with a USB-A and I immediately return it. Micro-USB too but nothing as foul as USB-A.
USB-A just feels like a more solid connection. I’ve never had a USB-A connector not work because of a miniscule amount of dust buildup in a port, nor have I accidently unplugged something.
*cries in music production gear*
Why in the fuck are they still selling audio interfaces with USB-A in 2024?!?
Printers too!
Maybe because they’re more resilient? I always worry about the micro USB on my Keystep
As a home recording absolute noob, I have a box full of proprietary cables and audio interfaces that I pretend doesn’t exist quietly mocking me in the corner.
Fuck those things man
The only time i was okay with micro USBs are on Oppo phones, which developed a Super VooC charging on micro-usbs that was so crazy fast tyeb irritation of plugging in correctly was worth it.
oppos currently at 90w charging speed, having moved onto usb-c
They’ve been ahead of the curve with charging for years now.
USB-C supports 240W charging. You don’t need proprietary charging standards anymore, USB-PD does everything you want
which phones support 240w charging? the new iphones and pixels don’t.
are you talking strictly about hardware capability?
fast tyeb irritatation
What?
haha thanks, fixed, I’m assuming i tried to swype micro-usb or something.
I have never upvoted something so hard.
I’ve used more usb gadgets than most people, as I deal with electronics a lot, but I never had a single problem with micro usb. Not sure why people hate it so much.
Microusb users: “I’m sorry, there was a slight breeze in my house and now my charger doesn’t work.”
So you’re a practiced expert and cannot understand how those who are not practiced experts can have trouble?
Well I’m not sure it takes an expert to master a plug.
But I’d understand the hate if it was universal (pun maybe intended), but everyone that hates micro-usb seems to adore usb-c, while I feel like it’s potentially much more fragile. When handling usb-c I always use a lot more delicate care than I ever did with micro-usb. Mostly because even though I’m pretty good at soldering very tiny things, I’m not confident I could replace most usb-c receptacles without messing it up.
Well I’m not sure it takes an expert to master a plug.
Micro-usb enters the chat.
Usb-C is way more robust. It’s thicker, stronger, goes in both ways, has no moving parts. Micro USB is thin, flimsy, has stupid spring tabs that weaken pretty quickly and result in a cord that just falls out of your device when you pick it up while it’s plugged in. Fuck micro USB.
