(Video) PS Vita’s USB, the worst design ever?
Ok, please tell me I’m not the only one who’s been annoyed by that thing since the day I got my Vita.
You know how innovative hardware companies like Apple designed cables that almost plug themselves into the device, or stuff that can charge without even being plugged in, or, recently, data cables that can be plugged both ways without any issue?
Well, the Vita has such a great system, with one minor detail: it’s not actually a feature, it’s a design bug, oh, and obviously, one of the sides will not work. I heard this issue was fixed with recent models (not sure they fixed the cable or the units…). But, please, tell me, am I completely dumb, or is everybody else constantly running into the same issue?
A typical session will go like this:
- Plug in cable to PC and Vita
- Run the Content Manager
- Content Manager complains that I am not connected to any computer
- Check that the content Manager client runs fine on the PC
- Make sure that I didn’t mess up my OpenCMA install
- Check that the cable is actually plugged into the PC
- Reboot the console
- Try again…
- Realize the cable was plugged in the wrong way
- Yell some 4 letter-word, and promise myself I’ll write a blog entry about how a multi million dollars hardware company can’t even get a cable design right. Well, at least that one’s done.
Hopefully the video below will show you I’m not completely making that up… How wasn’t that tested?
oh your not alone i completely despise the usb plug for the vita i mean cmon sony just use a standard usb for the vita do you really need to make loyal fans buy special plugs for quite possibly the biggest failure of a console you have ever made.
Do you really need more money?
i swear sometimes i think about sucking it up and just selling the vita and buying a psp again -_-
my vita and psp go are the only devices i have that havent had cable problems
my ipad has been replaced 8 times, damn piece of over priced *** there
if your having issue with plugging it in backwards, you just need to mark it better, like use some elmores glue to make a bump on the front of the plug so you can feel the front
ive never plugged it in backward yet
i think sony *** when they see a firmware changer
bloging about the ps vita, because you cant insert it the other way…. (A Sony designer, do’s it fit, you got it the wrong way xD) it’s just a change to the input, why cant we
change like the other ones? i always ask my self…. is it
because there Hygiene or NOT Have it for others?, besides sony dont you have the revenue at the trillion? release the ps vita
signed execution please! i wanna play N64 Portable!.
and like 3gig downloads are boring because you change to the other what 2.5 gigabyte downloads? it looooooong!!! and gameplays are short, not much environment to go to.
Now we know your name is Erwan. 🙂
Hehe 🙂
I’ve never had this problem. Mine has to be forced in the other way. It’s really not that hard to figure out which way to plug in your usb.
The problem I have is keeping it upright while watching Neflix or videos. Which is seldom.
If y ou where stupide wololo what should we do forme y ou mothherfuuckef ???
HAahaha. If that was supposed to be an insult to wololo, you failed miserably in its execution.
If you are going to insult someone, at least be smart enough to write a coherent message!
this is a rant uidiot!!!
Yeah Sony always has to be special and use proprietary designs in each new product. In any case I just make sure the PS symbol is facing up and I have no problems.
🙂 . . Erwan is your name wololo?
I just got a brand new Vita, and the cable WILL NOT go in if I try to do it backwards, so it must be an issue with earlier models.
Never really had that much of a issue with that, mostly just my own mistakes and not double checking, which I still hate though. I wish it was just like any other USB or at least PSP type of hook-up and be able to charge my Vita with it plugged into the comp.
have u guys noticed its the same cable from the psp go?
I haven’t had a problem with the PS Vita’s AC/USB as you speak of it. Not once, but I’ve heard people who have.
Though I don’t like it much because, just like the PSP, when using it as a charger, it’s on the bottom of the device itself. Being on the bottom of the device the cord ends up getting more in your way, also not allowing you to be as far away from the plug as possible because it has to reach to the opposite side. If it was at the top of the device, it would be hanging off the back, away from where you’re playing, you’d also be able to play from further away, not too much further, just a couple/few more inches, but still, further. It wouldn’t waste two to three inches of cord going under the system. If you were playing the Vita upside down, then it’d be better designed, but the Vita isn’t meant to be played upside down.
I have the First Edition Bundle (3G), and I have plugged it in wrong, once or twice, but I tend to realize it is pretty quickly.
It is a design issue, since they did fix it with the newer bundles, but that’s what you get when you are a (somewhat) early adopter (japan got it first).
Wololo is ugly but he got nice looking hands. ^_-
Exactly, that’s why I rarely show my face 🙂
Every device in the world has some kind of flaw. lol
The first time I plugged my Vita in it was the wrong way, and I was freaking out that I was going to damage something.
Really bad design, they should have just went with either way works.
Relly bad design! Happens many times on my friends PSVita! It is really annoying when you get problem because the cable is plugged in the wrong way. My friend bought the PSVita few days ago but still have the same problem!
This has happened to me before but it is kind of obvious, first you can feel it when plugging it in because it doesn’t go in as smoothly. And I would not have checked all that stuff you did, the cable on the vita would of been the first place I looked. I also agree though that they should of made it to where it can only go in one way.
I just don’t have this issue, I got my Vita in June for my birthday and plugging the plug in upside down is a no go. It just WONT GO IN UPSIDE DOWN?!?! It really must be older units cause my unit stops the plug from being inserted the wrong way.
odd. i have a first gen vita and haven’t ran into this issue because it doesn’t fit backwards. it may be the regions. ya never know.
The first time I ever plugged my Vita up to the charger, it died because I had it in the Vita the wrong way. I totally agree!! Terrible design.
um…other cable types have to be plugged in the right way. its not a big deal. it won’t even go in upside down. if you try to force it, it might damage the vita, the cable, or both.
I watched the video and I laugh again xD It’s like me as each time i wanna plug this awesome USB cable 🙂
Interestingly enough, it appears that it’s absolutely impossible to place the charger cable into the WHITE PS Vita backwards. I tried intentionally after seeing this and just couldn’t get it to fit in there.
I guess they figured out the possibility of doing this and fixed it when they started releasing the AC3 bundle.
Agree, tried this on a white Miku vita and it doesnt fit.
mine does AC3L white bundle.. but it was pretty obvious it didn’t feel right going in.
Lol actually I haven’t plugged it in wrong yet ’cause I just look for the little logo first, but then again I can’t put it in wrong since I have the white Vita and I’d have to really force it in
Hmm well there’s a reason why the dock exists, it helps to connect the vita on an easy way, its miserable 10 bucks and it comes with a line out direct, why suffer plugin the vita in the air.
It doesn’t charge very well through the PS3 either
I wonder if it would be possible to hard mod a Mini USB port on this thing like how you could mod an original xbox for using thumb drives on it.
I have a release date vita (USA), and it really only fits one way. There are small guide tabs on the cable that fit with grooves on the vita itself. It probably COULD fit the other way if i forced it, but there is easily enough resistance to know “don’t do that”.. on my unit anyway.
Come on, guys. It’s not hard. The cord doesn’t go in very easily when it’s upside down. Even in the video. At the end. He had to like, force it in. His hands shook as he was doing it.
Maybe I’m the only one in the word that DOESN’T have issues with this? >_>
I use a dock so I run into no problems haha
I never had a problem with this really– I always notice the “PS” logo on the top of the connector, so I don’t think I’ve ever put it in backwards. As far as I remember, anyway.
i know!!! same with me
never happens to me
Holy *** Wololo. I came here for the Vita stuff, stayed here for the articles and Wagic. Thanks my friend.
I got the 1st edition middle in america, I pulls the usb in and you have to put a little force to make out go in upside down
Whaaaaat? is it possiable to plug it upside down? haven’t notice that yet
u must be use the CMA very often, so that the socket getting lose.
and Thank u for ur effort for homebrew&anything on PSVITA
I’ve never had that problem. Can’t plug the cable in upside down at all in mine.
I hav a first edition vita and i do that all the time. Its quite annoying actually
Clearley the guy in the video is a ***, just insert the cable with the ps symbol facing up it really isn’t that hard…hope this guy damages his vita’s charging port and when he breaks it he’ll be regretting doing this to the vita, just sayin
I agree with you,
the video speaks to itself…
sometimes wololo is a ***…
he should know the reason why sony put its logo on only 1 side of the cable.