Can picking the wrong charger damage your expensive new smartphone purchase? Here's the facts you need to know.

Can picking the wrong charger damage your expensive new smartphone purchase? Here’s the facts you need to know.

  • Uranium 🟩English
    16•2 months ago

    My friend has so far fried 4 or 5 steamdecks, ROG Ally and two power banks before he took my advice to buy a type c cable tester and to stop using any charger that didn’t come with the device until he could test them.

    Turned out it was a damaged cable, I think it was a CC line was no longer working.

    I’ve had a couple of cheaper Chinese type c and usb A multi port chargers fail; I manage to fry like 3 sex toys before I realised the type A ports were outputting 12v, and at some point something went wrong and the type c fried my phone (which I guess is on me for continuing to use the charger after the issue with the type A ports)

    • @[email protected]English
      23•2 months ago

      You’d think after the 3rd fried steamdeck they’d look to see if the problem is elsewhere

    • @solrizeEnglish
      7•2 months ago

      There was a famous incident of a badly designed PD cable frying Benson Leung’s fancy ($2000) Pixel Chromebook or something like that.