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| Thread ID: 125027 | 2012-06-02 06:00:00 | USB cables | pcuser42 (130) | Press F1 |
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| 1279247 | 2012-06-03 06:38:00 | If the device gets a fault and you happen to be using a different cable then you have voided their warrenty and they do not have to replace it. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1279248 | 2012-06-03 06:48:00 | If the device gets a fault and you happen to be using a different cable then you have voided their warrenty and they do not have to replace it. They would probably try to argue that, if you told them you had been using a different cable. But it think that would carry about as much weight (or less) as that "3rd party ink will kill your printer" rubbish. (CISS excluded!) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1279249 | 2012-06-03 06:58:00 | Yeah but the point is that they will try to avoid warrenty as much as possible and addign a few lines to the warrenty probably saves the malot of money. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1279250 | 2012-06-03 07:50:00 | In recent times I have met up with apparently standard cables that most definitely are not compatible with standard parameters. Three examples come to mind: The USB cable for Navman GPS units, the cable for charging one of the low-range Samsung phones, and the cable for a DSE 40-in-1 Card Reader. In each case, both ends look the same as other USB cables, but they most definitely do not work. I have had to colour-code the non-standard cables to key them to their respective devices. I think that the device end is called a 5-Pin mini-B. It is very frustrating when two leads that appear identical in all respects are quite clearly incompatible, but there is no marking on any of them to suggest that they are different. On top of that, only Navman have the decency to tell you that you must use the supplied cable, and it has a white tag on it. By a process of elimination I found that the Navman lead would work on the Card reader and vice versa, but the third example seems to use a unique configuration that is not compatible with anything else. Cheers Billy 8-{) :mad: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1279251 | 2012-06-03 23:57:00 | I have multiple devices with mini USB charging cables (or is that micro "shrug"). A couple of them don't have the data leads wired in the cable so they only supply power but won't work for anything else. I actually find them quite handy for charging my smartphone without the windows pop-up etc. | dugimodo (138) | ||
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