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> This never happened to me with micro USB or lightning ports This happens regularly to the lightning ports among my family&friends. "My iPhone keeps stopping

> This never happened to me with micro USB or lightning ports This happens regularly to the lightning ports among my family&friends. "My iPhone keeps stopping charging" "did you clean out the lint with a toothpick?" "Oh" > Otherwise you can brick your Switch The bricking was happening due to a faulty third-party dock that was sending 9V on a 5V line. Nothing to do with the Switch itself. You can use any old USB-C charger with the Switch, as long as it's not faulty. https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/ckaiiv/an_engineers_pov_on_the_3rd_party_dock_switch/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/ckaiiv/an_e...

longblack 7y ago
I previously worked in an environment where iPads were distributed to staff; the team responsible for supporting them had toothpicks on hand for this exact reason. An argument may exist for lint etc being harder to clean out of a USB-C port once it had made its way in there, but haven't witnessed it myself yet. Anecdotes can be given all day, but I would suggest it's a potential problem for any port of similar size being placed in pockets and bags.
pier25 7y ago
> You can use any old USB-C charger with the Switch, as long as it's not faulty. But you cannot use any USB-C to HDMI adapter. https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7qgy9d/has_anyone_tried_a_usbc_to_hdmi_cable_with_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7qgy9d/has_...
Dylan16807 7y ago
> sending 9V on a 5V line. From what I could find after an hour of digging through USB specs is that that line is actually supposed to use 2V signals. (Though it's possible I misread.) So the faulty dock is even worse! For the switch to tolerate 6V on that wire is already a healthy buffer. How hard is it to keep things 5V or less on the data wires of a USB device?
rtkwe 7y ago
I don't think it was just docks I had my switch brick and I never used any 3rd part docks and the chargers I used were all either Anker (both wall and battery packs), Google phone, or Nintendo chargers.

longblack 7y ago

I previously worked in an environment where iPads were distributed to staff; the team responsible for supporting them had toothpicks on hand for this exact reason. An argument may exist for lint etc being harder to clean out of a USB-C port once it had made its way in there, but haven't witnessed it myself yet. Anecdotes can be given all day, but I would suggest it's a potential problem for any port of similar size being placed in pockets and bags.

pier25 7y ago

> You can use any old USB-C charger with the Switch, as long as it's not faulty. But you cannot use any USB-C to HDMI adapter. https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7qgy9d/has_anyone_tried_a_usbc_to_hdmi_cable_with_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7qgy9d/has_...

Dylan16807 7y ago

> sending 9V on a 5V line. From what I could find after an hour of digging through USB specs is that that line is actually supposed to use 2V signals. (Though it's possible I misread.) So the faulty dock is even worse! For the switch to tolerate 6V on that wire is already a healthy buffer. How hard is it to keep things 5V or less on the data wires of a USB device?

rtkwe 7y ago

I don't think it was just docks I had my switch brick and I never used any 3rd part docks and the chargers I used were all either Anker (both wall and battery packs), Google phone, or Nintendo chargers.