Your phone, tablet, or other gadget won't charge when connected to a USB-C cable? Here's why, and how to fix it.

In this video, I fix two broken speakers by replacing their damaged micro-USB ports with simple, modern USB-C connectors. I ...

There have been reports from Windows users getting a pop up error message with the exact message such as “USB device not recognized: The last USB device you ...

There have been reports from Windows 10 users getting “Power Surge on USB port” error when plugging the USB device into the USB port of the PC. Although it can ...

Now that it’s becoming clear to everybody that it’s distressingly easy to accidentally buy a USB-C cable that can damage your devices, the group behind the specification is taking some proactive steps ...

For a connector that was meant to rescue us from cable hell, USB-C has turned out to be unexpectedly frustrating in many ways. While in theory the interchangeable port should enable combinations of ...

I tried to reformat my USB drive with HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, but it says that there is no media in the specified device. It doesn’t even display total size and the free size of the USB. Then ...

Could really do with some advice please. I have a Seagate 1TB expansion drive and the mini USB connection has come away from the connection inside the housing.Its just rattling around inside and i can ...

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