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Hello, I should be getting my first N900 real soon now and already have been hearing horror stories about people ripping USB ports off. Those who have soldered it down good as in those pictures I saw... does it really work?

The reason why I am curious is that I have not seen the failure mode of these connectors, does it just rip off of the solder or does it take the pads off with it (indicating the copper foils on the board aren't well attached to the FR4)? If it's the latter it seems like I should add epoxy to the connector onto the board versus adding solder, such that a bit of the epoxy will grab onto the bottom side of the board. Adding a bit of solder wouldn't hurt as it will have a bit more copper to hold on to...
 

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