I converted my cable park to a USB-C cable (male to male) and lots of adapers (the short sort you can keep in a box) years ago. Yet i have still some devices with a mini-B female port.
Only thing i found online are cables and everything else. Heck, there’s even mini-DP > C and ethernet > C in that form factor.
To clarify, i look for something like this but mini-B instead of micro.
edit: Region is Swiss, Europe.
editedit: thanks guys, found one.
The USB-C (female) adapters are hard to find due to technically being non-compliant. If you’re interested about the reasons and some further context, I can recommend this article: https://hackaday.com/2022/12/27/all-about-usb-c-illegal-adapters/
In your specific case, it’s twice as hard to find such an adapter due to MiniUSB being so uncommon these days.
Ah, so that’s why the C to micro adapter to charge my old Galaxy S3 only works one side.
That’s a very interesting article, thanks!
I’m confused, I just did a quick search and found one on Amazon that’s listed for about $14. Am I missing something here?
Maybe the region, Swiss, Europe? Google and Duckduckgo found nothing.
But thanks, so they do exist.
Can you give me your search term or the brand?
I‘m also from the Swiss and for this stuff i always use aliexpress. Very good price and never had any issues. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtiKwFE Just search for „usb-c to mini“ and you find lots of options. generally you can say the higher the price the better the quality. also take note of the shipping costs, sometimes costs are „hidden“ in there. PM me if you need help or have questions.
Danke schön.
Check the amount of sold items for the listing check the shipping lrice and check the 1 and 2 star reviews. That way you make sure the item is genuine.
Do a search on aliexpress, you’ll get 10 for the $14 linked above
If you need a lot I believe StarTech or CDW can work out a shipment.
Do a search for fire starter… /s
Vs. the commonly found mini cable? Don’t think so.
Nearly every single port adapter exists. People will not upgrade their stuff until absolutely necessary and will get adapters in the meantime.
“amazon type c to mini usb adapter” is what I googled to get the same result as them. Maybe try the same query directly on your regional Amazon page if Google isn’t helping
This is on US Amazon. Brand JXMOX.
Ah yes. Good ol JXMOX… a household name in quality electronics.
So glad this is the world we live in where a cat that’s attacking a keyboard can provide company names that fart in and out of existence every month on the monolithic online shopping monopoly site we all basically are forced to use if we need anything since RadioShack, Fry’s, and every single other boutique electronics shop is gone.
This thread made me realise how awesome it would be to have a specialized search engine or storefront where you can describe a custom bit of cabling or donglage based on what you need to connect together and search whether anything like that exists.
Even more awesome if it could find the cheapest adapter chain in the case where it doesn’t have it directly
Ok, danke, die sind sogar hier verfügbar.
Search term “mini usb2 to usbc” on amazon UK came back with a good list… brands easyult and nfhk. No clue how good they are or if they would be available in EU/CH.
Thanks, but amazon can’t deliver them to switzerland. None of them, it’s crazy.
Maybe aliexpress? They typically have global shipping
Good idea. Amazon wants my phone number. :-/
thanks, that one too.
if you’re not too far from one of the borders you could maybe make it delivered in an Amazon box and pick it up there?
They are not common because it is possible to use them incorrectly and cause a fire.
How? Anything with a mini will be USB 2 at most and USB c defaults to lower power of USB 2 without any handshakes with the device which one with USB mini won’t do.
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Theoretically you could build a male to male contraption from multiple adapters and a cable. Also you could be providing too much current to a device, however this is specific to the combination of adapter, cable and power supply you use.
Theoretically you could build a male to male contraption from multiple adapters and a cable.
You already can as these exist:
letting you plug in any existing USB A to mini cables together to get a male to male device - nothing unsafe about that though. So this is not a very good reason to not allow USB C to mini adapters.
Also you could be providing too much current to a device, however this is specific to the combination of adapter, cable and power supply you use.
Current is pulled by the device - you cannot supply too much current. Devices take just as much current as they need or as much as the adapter can supply. The only way a device would take more than that is by badly designed or faulty - but that is a problem with the device, if the power supply can supply the power there is no issues on that side.
Also USB C connectors can and do by default operate with USB 2 power - supplying 5V and limiting the current to the USB 2 standards and so any existing charger with USB A or mini connectors on. Thus any USB 2 device will only have access to the power given by the spec. You would require a handshake from newer USB protocols to get access to more voltage/current that some USB C chargers can supply.
There is nothing unsafe about any other this baring faulty devices - but if we worried about faulty devices then we would not allow any electronics devices to exist as any of them could be faulty. USB C to USB mini does not dramatically increase any risk of fire or devices exploding no more so than any device using USB mini or USB C alone.
The real reason is there is likely just not much of a market for them so they are harder to find - but they do exist.
Of course those exist, but that does not make them standard compliant. Same goes for power supplies that don’t do handshakes. That’s not an issue if you exactly know what you need them for, but they’re not meant for the general public because you can use them wrong.
This will NOT cause a fire.
Is it because USB C can be host AND device while Mini USB is only device?
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I’m not too sure, my reply was a question. I fail to see how it could cause a fire.
Sorry, clicked reply on the wrong comment :)
I’m not sure that there’d be enough voltage to cause a fire.
You might be able to find a USB c male to USB b male cable and do without an adapter entirely.
Been there, always a fumbling behind the PC.
USB hub? I have a spare of USB c, mini, and micro running from a hub to a 3x cable mount on my desk. Makes connecting peripherals a breeze.