> Just to be entirely clear: While a cheap cable may be wrong, good (i.e. fully featured) cables will always work in all combinations.
Per the spec, yes. But devices may have hardware design issues making this untrue, as in the article. As I understand it, the Pi 4 works correctly with cheaper cables, but not with more expensive ones:
> When combined with more capable cables (handling SuperSpeed data, or 5A power) this configuration will cause compliant chargers to provide 0V instead of 5V to the Pi.
Per the spec, yes. But devices may have hardware design issues making this untrue, as in the article. As I understand it, the Pi 4 works correctly with cheaper cables, but not with more expensive ones:
> When combined with more capable cables (handling SuperSpeed data, or 5A power) this configuration will cause compliant chargers to provide 0V instead of 5V to the Pi.