Stop buying cheap Chinese charging cables - they are damaging your device

This video is about the cheap Chinese charging cables that have flooded markets around the world. Specifically it focuses on USB C & Lightning Charging cables as they are the most widely used. Typically in the USA these cheap Chinese charging cables are sold on eBay, Amazon and through Temu more recently. These cables are advertised as being the same quality as genuine Apple charging cables or other name brand cables, such as Anker, Samsung and Belkin to name a few. Consumers are attracted to these cables due to their low cost and often they have a ridiculous amount of positive reviews. I demonstrate in this video that these cables are not the same quality, they are being made with cheaper materials, which results in premature failure and often times they cause damage to the device they were being used to charge. I have repaired thousands of Apple devices as well as Samsung devices that use USB-C charging ports and the number 1 cause of the damage to the charging port has been the use of these cheap cables. Let me be clear, I am not suggesting that products made in China are no good. What I am suggesting is that these inexpensive $5 no brand or Chinese brand cables claiming to be the same quality as name brand cables are no where near the same quality.
0:01 Intro: charging cables are not all the same
1:15 Looking at 3 lightning port charging cables
1:31 $5 Chinese cable easily damaged with spudger
1:45 Anker cable not damaged
1:55 Genuine Apple cable not damaged
2:08 Why steel density matters in a charge cable
2:50 How lightning charging cables break and damage the device
3:52 demonstrating how the cheap lightning port charge cables fail
5:45 the reason not to save money buying a cheap charging cable
6:50 metal is very malleable, a spudger can break it into pieces with little effort
7:35 Outro
For additional resources & guides you can visit my website www.tzirf.com. It is a forum based website where I post all the repairs I am working on so that the resources are there for others to do the same repairs. If you are working on a repair and want to share it, or need help with your repair I encourage you to join and make a post.
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[@Tzirf]

My original post about this can be found at the following link www.tzirf.com/general-discussion/why-you-should-avoid-cheap-charging-cables-for-your-phone-or-tablet/

[@mistaBorg]

i have like 7 cables for lightning and 20 usb c ones, they cost me either less than 2 dollars or were included in device boxes. none of them are even close to being scratched.
I have no idea where you buy these trash cables.

[@Soundwave857]

I had more issues with my OG lighting cable than some 5€ usb-c cable from amazon

[@DeadHawk23]

I'd say that's more of an Apple problem. Like yeah that's a shitty cable for sure and is very cheap, but the weird locking mechanism is the problem.

[@donchaput8278]

Stop hating on those poor Chinese kids. They have to start manufacturing something before advancing to making bigger garbage products

[@realgeorgewbush]

Stop buying devices with proprietary connectors LOL

[@antipainK]

Way to go to find the worst cable you have and then conclude "all chinese cables are poorly made", while original cables are also from China...

[@xathridtech727]

He said don't buy the cheap Chinese cables. China is perfectly able to make high quality devices and cables for the right price. But it needs to be the right price

[@AriinPHD]

are you ok?

[@deamooz9810]

I have a cable from IKEA and it's good lol

[@DerrickJolicoeur]

The problem with using money as the deciding factor is that nothing stops these cheap cables from being sold at higher prices in big box stores.
Cost doesn't matter, reputability matters. A reputable $5 cable is bound to be plenty capable.

[@raindrop8061]

good video, bless up

[@typingcat]

5 dollars for a charging cable, what are you a millionaire? I pay $1 tops.

[@Boxersteavee]

i prefer ugreen. I don't trust Anker anymore.

[@CustardDonut]

100 000's of repairs, you must be a very very busy guy.

[@xathridtech727]

I've done 100,000s of repairs and I'm slow most of the time smartphones have been around for 16 years. If you have a repair job doing 10 repairs a day is pretty slow and there were devices charging since before then.

[@will9186]

Intersting video!!

[@frostilver]

Never had this kind of problem. Probably because these kind of low quality cables aren't too flooded.

[@frostilver]

Or possibly because I usually buy $5 cheap branded cables instead of unbranded.

[@e_xtech]

huge advocate for quality cables! i get mad at my co-workers that buy the $15 gas station cables when they could have spent the same amount of money from a reputable brand and is infinitely better quality

[@nitramluap]

Gee... it's almost as thought Apple's MFI specifications & approvals are well thought out after all!?!

[@oggilein1]

they may very well be, doesnt excuse them taking a 20% cut for every cable they sell

[@andrewhooper5933]

They arent. Buying cheap garbage is the problem.

[@urgaynknowit]

Good video, thumbs up for no ai narration and a sub for the algorithm, rock on bud

[@Tzirf]

Eff AI narration. Its rubbish

[@bazzatron9482]

Another reason to ditch apple and their predatory proprietary connectors.