L5 cable to power adapter

The cable from the adapter to L5, IMO, needs a more flexible male at the L5. Reason being that the cable is too stiff at the L5 female port(?).

I notice it doesn’t take too much effort to move the L5 and have the cable apply more pressure to the female easily causing the cable to weaken and break inside.

I’ve seen this with laptops where people have the plug stressed while the male sits on a book or other item. I lend laptops out and to often that is the thing they bring back as broken.

I bought a separate cable with USB C males at both ends. to reduce the pressure on the L5 female USB C.

Wish list it came with a more flexible adapter cable.

Just a thought,
~s

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Yes the Librem 5 usb-c cable it just not right. Shame for Purism.

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I would rather have replacement cables listed from the Purism shop.

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Or both.

A more relaxed cable to start with.

But the possibility to buy a replacement cable if the cable is lost or damaged.

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I have a very short cable that I could put on the male adapter cable just before the phone and on that female end, use a more flexible male in to the phone.
i.e.:

Adapter----male usb C in to *flex cable USB C female----usb C-male* female on>phone 

Would the additional two plugs cause issues?
~s

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Probably not.

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Having more components introduces additional potential points of failure and increases the difficulty of fault isolation.

Even if they are just cables? OK. I’ll just buy a more flexible cable with required USBs
Thanks
~s

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Cables are the most likely component to break first, flexible or not, so you may want to acquire a spare for redundancy.

To be honest the Librem 5 cable it fine just if it support 100w, but Librem 5 do not support 100w either if cable support. :wink:

@Quarnero can you TEST the Librem 5 cable to talk with chipmaker if?

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Agreed. My concern is to how the cable needs a lot of it’s own space to make sure the connection male to L5 isn’t pushing the L5 female internal connection up or down, left or right. I remember reading some issues that some needed to re-seat the L5 internal having come loose. I want to avoid that.

This is how not to lay down phone to charge your phone. Constant up and down on the connection at phone may weaken it inside.

this-weakens-that

Just a thought - from seeing what staff can do, losing 2 laptops this way.

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Another important tip is to ensure the Librem 5 is on a flat surface for effective cable removal, and that there are no air gaps below it that could rock the device while unplugging the cable.

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