Hi Alan,
I have I think two Amazon Basics 6 foot cables and two Monoprice 10 foot cables. I have an iPhone 5S and my wife has a 6. Apart from the fact that one Monoprice cable doesn’t work any more after two years of regular use, all of them seem to plug in securely into both phones. My wife now has an Otterbox defender case on her iPhone 6 and it’s design unfortunately only allows the Apple cable to plug in with the case on since the Apple cable has a super slim connector and both the Monoprice and Amazon Basics cables are two thick to go through the small opening in the case. The defender case on my 5S is designed differently and I can use them. Anyhow, to make a long story short, I put a USB mal to female extension cable both behind her side of the bed and in the living room by the sofa and plugged a 3 foot Apple original cable into each. Both work fine to charge, but the difference is that we don’t use a PC to charge but in the case of the bedroom an Anker dual USB wall adapter so we can both charge at the same time and in the living room just the Apple wall adapter. I only plug into the laptop when I want to sync since using a wall adapter charges a lot faster and in any case, my laptop usually sits in my office. I definitely don’t feel it is necessary to use a cable made by Apple, as long as it’s got the Made for iPhone or whatever it’s called certification it will work just fine. One of these days I’ll try to plug one of the phones into the laptop with the USB extension cable and Apple cable to see what it says. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 3:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Survey of Member Success with non-Apple Lightning Cables I'm curious about the success of others on this list with lightning cables other than those coming from Apple. I only use Apple MFi certified lightning cables so those are the ones I'm curious about others' experience with. Here's my story with lightning cables and my iPhone 6. When I purchased my iPhone 6 last February, it would give me an error message about an unsupported product whenever I plugged its 3-foot Apple cable into my USB extension cable connected to my computer in order to charge it. I never got such an error message when charging my iPhone 5 in the same manner. I decided to purchase a 10-foot lightning cable to use with my iPhone 6 since I needed the length as my mid-tower computer sits on the floor. Apple does not sell a lightning cable of this length and even their 6-foot cable is expensive so I decided to get an Apple MFi certified one from Amazon. I found one for about $13 and have never gotten an error message while charging with it. However, starting a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the lightning connector on this cable does not stay plugged in solidly to my iPhone 6 any longer. It's almost as if it's become malleable and can't maintain a good connection even though I plug it in securely. I put a lot of faith in Anker external batteries and cables so I purchased a 9-foot Anker lightning cable from Amazon but I'm also getting this connection problem with that one as well. I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing this sort of issue with any of their lightning cables and whether it's specific to particular iDevices or cables. I really don't want to hear from those who are going to say 'only use Apple cables" because they don't offer a length I need at a price I believe is reasonable. Thanks for any experience you can share with your non-Apple cables. Alan Lemly -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . 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