I just want to share my bad experience with 3rd party usb cable.

I bought a brand new iphone 2G from US in January (dont ask me how but I have receipt from apple store to prove it). It's just the phone itself without cable, dock, etc. I have a genuine usb cable but I have to share it with an ipod used by my wife, so I need to get another cable.

I eventually got a 3rd party cable from a guy from LYN. Initially he claimed to be selling genuine cable for lower price in his ad. but when I get to his store in Subang, he said only got the cheaper 3rd party cable. I bought the cable because I drove all the way there at night just to get the cable, and also I thought there is no difference since's it's just a usb cable.

I was wrong! a month later, I couldnt charge my iphone. Even putting it to DFU mode also itunes couldnt detect the phone. I thought it was software problem so I wiped off everything and reset to factory default.

I just sent the phone in to a friend who repairs phone. he found out that two of the pins inside the iphone connector was pushed al the way back until even using genuine cable also cannot get connection. So he has to replace the connector which will cost a few hundred bucks!!

Anyway, what I want to share with all is dont try to save a few tens of ringgit and end up having a damaged iphone like me.

What kind of info? I think I took some pics of it, will post later.

That's only true when apple was still selling 2G. As you all know, iphone 2G is no longer on sale. Mine is a special case which doesnt come with complete package. I was surpise also when they said it's brand new.

It started with some error message on my PC. After a few times, itunes cannot detect iphone. Whenever I plug in iphone to PC, XP says usb device is not recognized. So it cannot sync and cannot charge. I tried this with a few other PCs then I concluded it must be something wrong with the iphone. at one time, I tried using my friend's ori cable and it could still detect. After that, I still use the 3rd part cable to sync and charge without realizing it was caused by it. One day later, it just wont detect/charge at all, even with genuine cable.

Well, I dont really remember the name of the shop nor the guy's name. If you want, you can PM me and I will tell you where the shop is located. But that is not the reason I posted this.

I just want to share my experience with all iphone users and hopefully things like this can be avoid. It just doesnt worth it to go for 3rd party cable.. Only if I knew.

Well I specifically asked if it was refurbished, they insisted it's new. Anyway, there is no way I could check that.