Comment by sudopluto
1 day ago
what a small world! i did the port bend thing after the issues first popped up, but eventually that stopped working as well.
interestingly, when i try to charge from right / thunderbolt port, it doesn't seem to work / the led doesn't turn on, and I saw another post with a thunderbolt flash guide that i might look into. thanks to you and everyone else who commented, i think i have a new sidequest to end the weekend with : )
There was an old version of firmware that would brick the thunderbolt port. Something about every connect/disconnect cycle would write tons to the port's eeprom eventually bricking it.
I don't think there is a fix, it's more a case of if your T480 still works, get a newer firmware installed asap.