The connectors than Apple introduced as the company's standard with the iPhone 5 in 2012, it seems that they are causing more problems than those related to Apple's little intention of adapting to world standards that today are the bet of most manufacturers. It turns out that now a problem is emerging on the public scene that in reality, despite not being new, is beginning to be the majority among those who have terminals with Lightning cable connections.
In reality what happens is that the cable begins to fail, reaching a point that the device to be charged no longer receives power. In these cases, if you look closely at the Lightning connection, you can see as in the photograph with which we have opened today's post that the cable suffers from excessive corrosion, which is not normal if you take into account that some of the users who reported the problem had taken the new original connector and they detected the fault within a few months of use.
The explanations in this regard, unofficial at the moment, are offered by a user of the Apple Community who has taken images of the problem suffered by its connector on iPhone. The first thing you notice is that the corrosion occurs mainly on the VBUS / V ++ / Power pins. Your explanation to understand why this failure occurs that prevents the Lightning connector from functioning it's based on:
- Two gold electrodes placed in an aqueous solution with a positive voltage on one ground wire and applied to another corrode the positive gold electrode.
- That an electric arc is formed that causes corrosion (although this idea is rejected in principle by the user himself, because it is only a USB connection, 5 V / 2 A maximum.
Be that as it may, in principle, even without giving any official explanation, it seems that Apple would be accepting Lightning cables from users who have suffered this problem and replacing them with new ones.
I have had this type of problem, for the month of October. Which the cable had 3 months of use. Well, I went to an authorized Apple resale, and I had to wait 2 days for them to decide whether they wanted to change it or not. What if he had put it in the bathroom? What if he had wet it? Etc.
Well, for what it's worth, they could not have these defects!
I have two lightning cables (original 1mt), one from the fourth generation iPad and another since I bought the iPad Air and I have not had problems with either of them, perhaps the problem is not latent in all the cables manufactured.
I have this problem with my cable due to corrosion, now I only charge my devices on one side and I am supposed to charge on both sides and not on one