USB Type-C: Don't Buy the Wrong Cable! By Jon Rettinger

This episode of Techno Buffalo is brought to you by domain. com PSA time guys. We've got a little to talk about so once you go and have a seat. There is a problem right now in the USB situation. Obviously, lots of new devices are coming out these days with USB type-c ports, but there's been a little of confusion about this new kind of universal standard. Over the weekend, I spent a lot of time on Reddit, as I tend to, and I happen, to see that an engineer from Google Benson, Lung I, hope I'm, saying his name correctly was on a bit of a crusade, and he was running around Amazon, leaving reviews on cables, specifically USB type, a 2 type C cables since we're using a lot of those these days and leaving positive or negative reviews on them, depending on whether they meet USB type-c spec, which, if you know anything about it, you know that Google is in charge of USB.

Type-C spec means that you need to be able to handle a certain amount of output and input and for the resistors in the cables to be able to. Let the phone know exactly how much power it should be able to pull cables that don't meet spec. Don't correctly use a 56 kilo, ohm resistor to let the phone know how much power it should be pulling, and what that means is that you're going to wind up pulling more power on your phone, then your charger can actually accommodate. For, since the cable isn't telling your phone, how much power it can actually pull when you plug a type-a to type C cable into, let's say a 2.0 amp charger and a Nexus 6. What's going to happen? Is the Nexus 6, since the cable is telling the Nexus 6 that it can pull power as if it were a USB, c2c cable that can handle all the way up to 3 amps, your phone is going to say: ok, cool, cable, I trust you, and it's going to start pulling power at that rate, despite the fact that the charger can't actually handle it.

What that's going to mean? Are you risk doing significant damage to your charger? You can actually blow out the USB port on your charger entirely, which means you're going to have to buy another one of those. Now Benson was kind enough to leave good reviews on the good cables. So if you head to Amazon you're looking to buy a USB type, a to type C cable for yourself for all your brand-new type C devices, you can head to Amazon and do so. You can pick up a cable from they do great stuff. You can pick up a cable from Welkin, obviously very trusted name in the industry, and you can pick up a cable from I or enjoys a handful of other cable manufacturers as well, but you can go ahead and check.

All of that information will be in the description and probably hovering above me at some point as well. You might also be sad to learn that basically, my favorite cable of all time, the one plus cable that they make uh from Taipei to type C, is not us types, USB, type-c compliant, which I'm really bummed about, except really love these cables. Unfortunately, the other thing you're going to have to keep an eye out for is cables, are not the only thing you have to pay attention to. Of course, adapters are basically just short cables. So if your adapter doesn't support the same spec, then you're going to be at risk of the same problem.

Now, what if you're asking yourself look? Man I already bought some cables? I, don't know if these are okay to use well you're. In luck, one developer has been very smart and gotten ahead of the game by making an app called checker. All you got to do is pull up checker plug in a cable to your phone, and it'll. Tell you if it's good enough to use it turns red and got an X, then don't? Do it doesn't plug it anymore, I! Don't know why you would think to do it, but if it's green- and it's got a check, then you're good to go just a heads-up. This is indeed the Nexus 6 cable that it came with and that isn't B the Nexus 6 charger checker is not built to check C 2 C cable.

So when you plug it in still going to give you an X, don't be alarmed totally ok use checker to check any USB type, a to type c cables in your home and definitely check the reviews on cables before you buy them in general, anything less than 10 bucks is probably not going to be up to spec anyway. That is your quick PSA for this week in November. Thank you guys so much for watching and as always be kind of another, and I'll catch you in the next video. So while I was on the Internet is weekend I found myself with a couple of good ideas. So, of course everything domain, so I had to domain.

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Source : Jon Rettinger