Recent content by maccaroo

Woohoo. Out with the old and in with the new.

Thanks. I'll try some of the other cables at home to see how they fare. So far I've only tried the cable I had at work, which didn't work. I guess the other cable could be the non-standard one, and the S2 just tolerated it. To be sure about that I'd need to look up the required dimensions of...

Wow. The sheer weight of logical reasoning by thehatguy inspired me to figure out how to post some images. Thanks for making me a better user... Samsung connector: Standard connector: Clearly there is a difference.

The Samsung micro USB cable is definitely not standard. I've just bought an S4 and the only micro-USB connectors that fit the phone are the ones with 'Samsung' on them. The same is not the case for my previous phone, the S2, which seems to work with both. The difference is the size of the gap...