Cursed USB problem: I have a USB-C charge cable next to my bed that only charges my phone in one orientation. Flip it over and nothing happens.
What single contact failure could cause this? Vbus and grouhd are redundant and it charges fine the other way around. If one of the CC pins failed open but vbus is present it should fall back to 500 mA 5V legacy usb slow charging right?
Andrew Zonenberg
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2026-06-04 22:53:46 UTC
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