Bought a charge cable in service station - 8% in almost two hours

quad_red

Hi folks,

I bought a lightning cable in a local service station because I forgot my charger at home over the weekend and my iPhone 6 battery is shattered by lunch. Bloody bought it last summer.

Anyway - the charge cable is useless. Plugged it in at one pm when at 32%. It's now 2:50pm and the phone is at 40%.

I've used my other cables (an official one and an amazon one) with this USB charger before with no issues and they charge really quickly.

Is this to be expected with cheap cables or is it faulty?

Cheers,
Quad

Andy Magic

I'm amazed it even worked :eek:

Sad Professor

They are very cheaply produced and untested, so it's a lucky dip with them. But they are generally unreliable if not dangerous. I'd always advise getting an official cable.

Heisenberg1

Sad Professor wrote: »

They are very cheaply produced and untested, so it's a lucky dip with them. But they are generally unreliable if not dangerous. I'd always advise getting an official cable.

I second this for such an expensive device I would always buy official cables and chargers.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I bought one a few months ago also when I forgot my charger when away overnight. I plugged it into my laptop and into the phone and nothing, phone wouldn't register a lead plugged and laptop also failed to register anything plugged in. I returned it for a refund.

Senecio

The only cables I would trust that aren't Apple are Anker.

quad_red

Senecio wrote: »

The only cables I would trust that aren't Apple are Anker.

Not even Amazon own brand ones?

mass_debater

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

I bought one a few months ago also when I forgot my charger when away overnight. I plugged it into my laptop and into the phone and nothing, phone wouldn't register a lead plugged and laptop also failed to register anything plugged in. I returned it for a refund.

The USB port on a laptop does not supply enough power for a smartphone. If it does detect it it will barely charge it. A wall charger for a smartphone us usually 4 times more powerful

Sad Professor

quad_red wrote: »

Not even Amazon own brand ones?

AmazonBasics anything are rubbish. I bought 5 HDMI cables from them when I only needed 4. I figured at least 1 of them would fail. I was wrong. 2 of them did.

I know they say their Lightning cables are Apple-certified, but… I don't believe them.

Senecio

quad_red wrote: »

Not even Amazon own brand ones?

No. Apple or Anker. That's all I'll trust my devices to.

Creamy Goodness

mass_debater wrote: »

The USB port on a laptop does not supply enough power for a smartphone. If it does detect it it will barely charge it. A wall charger for a smartphone us usually 4 times more powerful

Depends entirely on the laptop of course.