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Unauthorized Third-Party Chargers May Damage iPhone 5 Charging Circuitry
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Check that lint hasn't collected inside the Lightning port preventing the connector from making a clean, reliable connection. Authentic cables should work reliably.
This is why I only buy and use accessories from Apple or reputable third parties like AmazonBasics and Belkin. I have a Belkin charger in my car that's probably almost 10 years old (got it as part of a set of accessories for a 1st gen iPod Shuffle). I've gone through two original lightening cables, but luckily my iPhone 5 still works as expected after almost 18 months.
It's not as simple as Apple vs. Third-Party. After a quick glance at the Anker website, it definitely appears that their chargers are well-designed and well-built, so you should have no problem. The real problem is low-quality third-party chargers, and there's too many of those being sold.
Apple redesign needed
Apple should accept that people are going to use third party chargers. If third party chargers are causing a problem, Apple needs to re-design the circuitry in the phone to make it more robust. The cause is a design fault in the phone not third party chargers.
Apple should accept that people are going to use third party chargers. If third party chargers are causing a problem, Apple needs to re-design the circuitry in the phone to make it more robust. The cause is a design fault in the phone not third party chargers.
Don't bend them too much where the cord meets either connector. I have three I use (one in the car, one at home, one at work) and as I never bend them at those points I have yet to have to replace one. This is also because I don't have to use my phone while it's charging, so it's not bending and contorting into weird angles.
Are they less durable than the 30-pin? The circuitry within the cable is different in the Lightning, to accommodate faster charging, syncing and (I'm speculating on this one,) the chip within the cable's communication with the iPhone.
Of course, every product has the occasional defect, so assuming you just got unlucky and received two faulty cables, and aren't one of the many who is glued to their phone 24 hours, it still falls down to at least two of those cables out of however many millions of cables they manufacture failing without any contribution from the user.
The good news is, your warranty covers Lightning Cables, and even if you buy one a la carte, it has its own one year warranty.
I'd agree, but I think the problem lie in the use of a 3rd party charge brick. The USB cable is just two wires. If you want a longer cable I'd suggest finding one and using the Apple branded plug in the wall. As for in the car it's a bit harder but I know you can find adapters what will go in the 12v smoke lighter that out put to USB then you could use the Apple USB cord. :\
Right, Apple should curb their engineering around third party companies that make crappy products. They design their products around their own standards, and provide schematics to companies that want to develop for Apple. It isn't their fault that other companies out there don't want to play by the rules and are okay with releasing a subpar product.
Apple does support third party chargers. Go to an Apple Store and you'll see Apple approved third party chargers there, on the wall.
I swear, for every fanboy on this site (guilty!) there's at least two or three anti-fanboys who jump at any opportunity to blame Apple, in spite of continuously buying their products.
Apple has an official 2m cable you can also buy - about six and a half feet or so - Apple stores also provide third party car chargers (both with and without an attached USB cable.) I asked once about Apple's stance on their third party products, and was told that if it's sold at an Apple Store, Apple has given the product a thumbs up.
This really isn't as disastrous as some people are making it out to be.
While I agree that Apple needs a car charger, I also believe that Apple needs to make a car USB port instead of a cable charger. So that way if the cable breaks, you can go out and get another one to replace it.
I imagine if Apple made a car charger it would just be the plug for the lighter, BYO USB cable.
There are USB specs and Apple itself doesn't follow them.
The USB spec says 5VDC on the power pins and 0VDC on the data pins.
But that's not what Apple does.
Apple chargers do put voltage on the data pins and it's that voltage that tells the iPod/iPhone which charge rate to choose.
If 3rd party manufacturers are trying to mimic Apple's non-standard operation Apple has only itself to blame.
Great link.
The thing about electronics is that you can't tell quality by looking at the package. Long ago I tore open some cheap wall wart power supplies and was amazed/terrified at what I saw.
It is curious that the iPhone chip is getting fried. Perhaps the iPhone is just attracting a batch of egregiously bad fake chargers that overwhelm the protection circuitry.
Same thing happen to my iPad Air. After 7 months, it wouldn't charge past 1%. I sent it in for warranty replacement. I was using a third party charger, but it was an authorized charger from Amazon, purchased directly from Amazon, so it's not only unauthorized cables causing this problem. Btw, I've always used the white charger that came with the iPad, but went with the Amazon cable for the added length.
Those things follow the USB spec, so they're not the problem.
The problem are the ****** knockoff chargers from China that can literally kill you if they develop a ground fault, or simply damage your phone if you're lucky.
Those are the sorts of chargers being talked about here. Not authorised third party chargers, or standard devices that provide USB regulated power.
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There has to be a voltage on the data pins or no data would flow. How do you think signals are send along data lines?
Apple identifies the charger to the device by shorting those data pins with a particular resistance, so the phone can measure this and determine if it's a 5W or 10W charger. So they "put voltage on the data pins" in the same way a computer does when it reads and writes to a USB device, just in the case of a charging accessory it's not sending or receiving data, it realises one of the pins is shorted to ground at a particular resistance and thus detects a charger is present.
It's not about being able to "afford" them. It's about finding it the costs absurd. Accessories are some of the highest margin products in the PC industry. I'm not interested in padding Apple's coffers on them (I do this enough with the hardware).
Your logic is faulty, because you incorrectly assume that non-Apple is inherently poor. Instead, what we're talking about here are a small fraction of non-Apple products that are problematic and the fact that consumers cannot differentiate between "quality" non-certified third-party cables versus "non-quality" ones. None of that is tantamount to an argument that consumers "should just buy Apple approved charges" as you claimed.
I use the Apple charger in my nightstand but in my car I use an amazon-basics branded lightning cable and a PNY USB power adapter....
I hope my phone isn't fried(((
The AmazonBasics cable is MFi certified, so it's an "approved" cable. The PNY charger though, I'm not sure.
There shouldn't be any data flow when all you're doing is charging.
If Apple simply followed the spec and reserved the data pins for transferring data then there would be no problem and the iPhone would draw 500mA like any other USB device that does follow the spec.
Yes, the phone would charge slower but it's this non-standard 5W/10W switching that others try to mimic that is most likely causing the problem.
Apple compounds the problem by repeatedly adjusting these voltage and resistance levels which is why some chargers start or stop working when new iOS versions are released.
They needlessly created a system that demands more precision than the USB spec allows for.
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False Positives
I have been using only Apple branded or certified cables. They worked for about 8 months and after some wear and tear, I started receiving the message that my cable might not be supported. It's been acting up in the past week, so I haven't been able to troubleshoot it more. But I believe it may be possible to get false positives (you have a legit cable, but you get this warning). Anyone else experience this?
I have been using only Apple branded or certified cables. They worked for about 8 months and after some wear and tear, I started receiving the message that my cable might not be supported. It's been acting up in the past week, so I haven't been able to troubleshoot it more. But I believe it may be possible to get false positives (you have a legit cable, but you get this warning). Anyone else experience this?
wow, this stuff is getting dangerous..
Before if was only a third party charger with an iPhone 4s I think it was regarding that article.
But, now its the circuitry ?
What does this mean ? Apple's loosing focus on the hardware ?
Just don't use third party accessories, period... Solves my solution..
FYI.. the duck is cool
Before if was only a third party charger with an iPhone 4s I think it was regarding that article.
But, now its the circuitry ?
What does this mean ? Apple's loosing focus on the hardware ?
Just don't use third party accessories, period... Solves my solution..
FYI.. the duck is cool
