Re: 4.16-rc5 on Motorola Droid 4

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 16:31:49 EST


Hi!

> > Maybe get somebody to help you locally with the debug cable
> > soldering? :)
>
> I suppose people from your hackerspace can help you. It's really
> easy to do. Soldering can be avoided btw. You can just use a pair
> of scissors to cut a USB -> Micro USB cable and use a knife to remove
> isolation. Then screw each of the 4 wires into a terminal strip.
> There are USB-TTL adapters available, that have an attached cable.
> If you also cut the connector from such a cable and connect it to
> the other side of the terminal strip you are done. No soldering
> involved ;)

Hm. How big no-no is connecting USB-TTL adapter to D+/D- pins? Because
that's what I could do "easily" and seems to work ;-).

Pavel


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