Hi, I have an iPhone 6 that I've owned since December 2014.
In the past few months I've been buying chargers pretty much weekly for it because the thing destroys them somehow.
After anywhere from a day to 3 weeks of use, the charger starts to do that thing where it disconnects then reconnects, with that annoying double vibration. This gets more and more frequent over the course of 2-3 days, and then the charger stops working altogether.
It's been doing this for quite a while, I don't remember when it started but I'd say a year ago or so.
I've tried all different kinds of charger cables, from $1 eBay ones to $25 Apple Store ones to braided cables and mesh cables to AmazonBasics and Best Buy cables, they all have the same exact problem.
I know it's not the little AC to USB box that does it because I've tried with 3 or 4 different ones.
It's not the outlet or the house because I have 2 houses and it does the same for me at both houses, and doesn't do it for my brother or anyone else in my family.
I'm pretty sure it's not my style of use (some people have said that bending the charger at either end too much could easily cause this) as I never bend the cable too much and I've tried going out of my way to keep the charger almost perfectly straight on both ends and the same problem still occurs. There's never any visible physical damage to either end of the cord.
The only thing that's left is the phone itself that could be causing it, but this really doesn't seem to make sense to me, I've never heard of a phone destroying chargers repeatedly.
Any thoughts on this? At this point I've basically settled for buying a 3-pack of chargers for $7 on eBay approximately every month, and I'm probably just going to order 10 so I'll have 30 chargers to last me longer and just use them like they're disposable, but it's wasteful and kind of ridiculous to be doing that.
Thanks
-George
In the past few months I've been buying chargers pretty much weekly for it because the thing destroys them somehow.
After anywhere from a day to 3 weeks of use, the charger starts to do that thing where it disconnects then reconnects, with that annoying double vibration. This gets more and more frequent over the course of 2-3 days, and then the charger stops working altogether.
It's been doing this for quite a while, I don't remember when it started but I'd say a year ago or so.
I've tried all different kinds of charger cables, from $1 eBay ones to $25 Apple Store ones to braided cables and mesh cables to AmazonBasics and Best Buy cables, they all have the same exact problem.
I know it's not the little AC to USB box that does it because I've tried with 3 or 4 different ones.
It's not the outlet or the house because I have 2 houses and it does the same for me at both houses, and doesn't do it for my brother or anyone else in my family.
I'm pretty sure it's not my style of use (some people have said that bending the charger at either end too much could easily cause this) as I never bend the cable too much and I've tried going out of my way to keep the charger almost perfectly straight on both ends and the same problem still occurs. There's never any visible physical damage to either end of the cord.
The only thing that's left is the phone itself that could be causing it, but this really doesn't seem to make sense to me, I've never heard of a phone destroying chargers repeatedly.
Any thoughts on this? At this point I've basically settled for buying a 3-pack of chargers for $7 on eBay approximately every month, and I'm probably just going to order 10 so I'll have 30 chargers to last me longer and just use them like they're disposable, but it's wasteful and kind of ridiculous to be doing that.
Thanks
-George
