What the heck? Did Creality come across a sale on Temu for absolutely the worst USB interfaces possible for next to nothing? I swear that the USB connector on the sonic pad to connect to the printer is so shaky that if you look at it the wrong way it will prompt you that it’s lost it’s connection.
Have you guys had the same experience, and if so, what did you do to resolve it? I don’t think I’m the only person - since I’m pretty sure I have read about other people complaining about the printer to pad USB interface.
Funny that you mention it ! I was thinking that they used Temu also for the USB socket (or worse, they made it themselves)…
I gave the plug a bit of a squash and also “carefully” prized the socket to do the same.
I then used a strip of gorilla tape to finish the securing of it.
Where do you go in the UI to define the usb ports? I thought I read somewhere else that was an option - but that you had to change a config to say 3/4 were to be used for the printer?
I didn’t have to change any config. I connected them to 1&2 first for initial flashing then added them to 3&4 after deleting them, just worked.
The thing that has helped most, especially for my Ender 5 plus is to block the 5v of the USB, also added a ferrite that has helped, since then that printer hardly ever drops connection with a key1 error.
Nice. Thank you for the suggestions! I was in the last 45 minutes of a nearly 2 day print, and my wife’s cat jumped up on the table and brushed the sonic pad. Good times.
Ooh that is irritating, i’ve brushed it myself and thrown an error which is why I use 3&4, in my setup they are well protected by the Ender 5 plus framework, almost impossible to get to them. I can actually move the pad without it now throwing an error. Those side sockets are rather shonky.
I tried moving the connector over to the rear USB interface - which did detect it. But it did not detect it as being the same printer. In other words I had to go into the connect printer screen, tell it which port to look for, and then it saw it. The earlier configuration remains, showing the printer as disconnected from USB1.
I assume this means that I have to run all of the initial setup things like the autotune shapers scripts again, because the configurations are relevant for the now “disconnected” printer from it’s perspective?
I have been on the hunt for the mid mount female 4 pin USB type A Connectors for 3 weeks! Bought when they first came out. Got tired of dealing with it and the ineffectiveness of their technical support to resolve the issue. Pulled it out a month ago, same issue. Called them and they sent me a new one. When I first opened it, heard a rattle from inside. A single screw was rolling around inside. The plastic housing was broken off. When I find the correct ports,I will update.
I received an email regarding the USB ports. THey are sdending me a new board to see if that solves it. I told them if there has not been a revision to the USB ports, it will more than likely not work.
