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Re:Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable ... by baz00 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @12:10PM (#37780437)
Usually no. If you damage the connector it tears the traces off the board irreparably. If it doesn't do that then there are two rows of pins which need to be resoldered. One row is under the connector. It is near impossible to solder those properly without non trivial equipment. Usually if you get a repair they solder only one pair of pins to the board and that means your USB connector only works plugged in one way up.

This is one reason amongst many that I'm not a particularly big fan of USB-C

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