Question: Is my Evo eating my charger cables?

[AutumnLove]

Okay so I have had my Evo since launch and I have already been through 5 charger cables. The HTC one that came with the phone fell apart. So I went out and got a rocketfish charger, which lasted about 3 weeks and stopped charging the phone. I tried to charge my dad's Boost phone with it and it wouldn't charge that phone either. So I thought okay cable is dead.

I bought 3 USB cables to charge the phone. I figured I can have one at home, one at work and then just a spare. I am down to my very last one this week. None of them lasted more than a couple of weeks and then the phone stops charging with it. It doesn't even see if it's plugged into a computer unless I give it a brand new cable.

So is it completely silly of me to think somehow my phone is eating/killing the cables? The cables don't work with any other product after the Evo doesn't recognize them.

Is this some how a phone issue? If anyone has any information or any suggestion they would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Gekko]

1. are you putting the cables in upside down or sideways jamming them in until you get it right and thus damaging them?
2. rocketfish and other non-OEM cheap cables from ebay are garbage IMO and should be avoided. i only buy Sprint or HTC OEM cables.
3. what exactly do you mean that the HTC cable "fell apart"?

 

[AutumnLove]

1. No

2. I have never had any problem with rocketfish or other non-OEM cables. I usually by 1 or 2 as extra. So I can keep one in my bag and one at my desk at work. Sometimes I work 20 hours so I like to be able to charge my phone from where ever I am. The other two USB cables are from HTC.

3. The plastic around the mirco USB split apart. I guess it wasn't glued correctly or something.