My Quest Pro’s USB-C port died a while back, and honestly I was pretty close to just throwing the whole headset away. I tried different cables, angles, chargers, and all the usual “maybe it’ll magically work this time” rituals, but it kept getting worse until it basically became an expensive paperweight. I couldn’t justify buying another headset when the rest of it still worked perfectly, so one night I decided to do something completely ridiculous and tore apart the charging dock to see if I could somehow feed power directly into the headset. At first it just made the screen go black because the headset thought it was docked, and I genuinely thought I had finally killed it for good, but after a lot of trial and error, soldering tiny wires, and making increasingly questionable engineering decisions with tape and zip ties everywhere, it suddenly worked. Now it charges while I play, and even though it looks like something salvaged from a sci-fi junkyard, I weirdly love it more now than when it was stock.