Re: Can ;a USB chargiing cable be connected but bad?

micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

In misc.phone.mobile.iphone, on 11 Oct 2024 15:37:31 GMT, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
 

On 2024-10-11, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

 
A friend tells me there are 3 kinds of cable plug, USB-C, Flying Harpie,
and a third one

 
Is "Flying Harpie" a typo, or some kind of joke?

 
Almost a joke, but when I can't remember something my free association
is pretty wild.  Yesterday I couldn't remember Marjory Taylor Green and
came up with Mary Tyler Moore.

 
There are three kinds of connectors on iPhones:
 
- 30-pin dock connector (original iPhone up to iPhone 4s)

 
I've seen the docks but figured they used the same charging connector.
That's what my friend must is thinking of, and I guess even the docks
are not worth much anymore unless you have a very old phone.
 

- Lightning connector (iPhone 5 to 14)
- USB-C connector (iPhone 15 onward)

 
I got a second call from someoen trying to reach the owner of the phone,
and he was much more alert than the first caller.  He knows her other
phone number, called her and she called me.  She has two phones, didn't
even know she'd lost one, and couldn't figure out where she lost it. She
went to that drugstore just to pick up an Amazon package, but used her
other phone, thought that phone was left at home.   
 
(So she was not going to go to the police, and she already had no idea
where she lost it.  When she found it missing, she'd have even less
idea. So i think I handled this correctly.   She hasn't seen the email
the guy sent her yesterday.)
 
She's coming over in a little while on her way home. Since she called me
on the phone, she says her name is Sandra and the two other callers were
looking for Sandra, I don't feel the need for more proof that it's right
match, like I did for the earpod. Maybe I'll make her unlock it.
 

iPhones have FindMy which allows you to find your phone by logging into
your iCloud account. I’m surprised they didn’t use that to track it down.