Dongle might be broken. Does this give Cubase issues?

Cubase
#1

Hi everyone.
Today I travel with my laptop on a train to work. I totally forgot to get the dongle out of my laptop when I had to rush out of the train. I just put my laptop with the dongle attached in my bag. Very stupid I know.
When I arrived at work I noticed the dongle was a little bit bend and the cover (plastic) was a bit open. I pushed the plastic back bit still saw the usb connecting is not straight anymore. Cubase still runs but somehow I can’t freeze any tracks or bounce my mix as a wave or mp3?
Does this means I have to get a new dongle?

Hope to hear from you

Thanks!

Timothy

#2

Hi and welcome,

I don’t believe that these issues are linked to the USB-eLicenser. If the USB-eLicenser would become broken, you would get an eLCC error message (most probably missing license).

But if you don’t feel save with the USB-eLicenser, buy a new one and transfer the license to the new one.

#3

Thanks for the response. Cubase is running again, thank god. But now my newest project freezes when it is starting up.
I use my soundcard at home and when working on my track in the train I use the Steinberg asio for the soundcard of my laptop.
It freezes when I get the pop-up that there are no connections selected. And then it freezes.

I updated to the latest version the day before

EDIT: I reinstalled Cubase again but the problem is still there.