welcome to The Grok Shop! in this video I'll be talking about iOS devices of the
modern ilk that charge with lightning cables that fail to charge when you plug
the charger in and you get a screen that looks just like this so first of all I
recommend that you check out Apple's web site on this issue I'll put a link to
this below and there's one little section in here in particular that deals
with this problem that I'm going to talk about and make sure that you read this
in detail but the takeaway is the the jack on the device where you connect the
charging cable should be very clean and also the cable should not be damaged and
everything's plugged in securely I actually saw a video on YouTube some guy
was pulling out pocket fuzz out of his iPhone from the jack and that seemed to
solve it for him but in this case I'm gonna be talking about where your Jack's
clean and your charging cable appears to otherwise be fine as well as the adapter
so if you see this problem immediately try another charging cable and I'm going
to show why that might be the case here's the pin out from the Wikipedia
article on lightning adapters if you notice pin 5 is the power for these
adapters so on the left here I have the original lightning cable that came with
this iPad which my daughter uses I never really use it and the all the metal the
big fat metal that goes to the plastic that's all the ground and all you have
to do is basically find pin 5 and touch it and you'll see here actually it's not
showing hardly anything it might have point one or point two volts but usually
it just shows 0 and on the right here I have a new cable and I'll show how it
should look when you five you'll see five 5.1 5.2 votes
that's the normal USB voltage and then here again no volts on the old cable
though these cables are reversible I could do the same thing on the other
side and which I did and just to make sure it's not oxidation on this one pin
or something but the takeaway here is without any voltage on the on the pin
five on this lightning cable it certainly is not going to charge your
device so here you'll see when I plug in the new cable I don't get the little
lightning bolt next to the home button
and then here again with the old cable you'll see the little lightning bolt
with the lightning cable and just it stays present as if it's telling you
eight I still need to charge here so as long as you see that you know it's
you're never going to charge and then when it looks like this
you're definitely charging so how does this happen well I mean if your kids
four or five years old they probably haven't figured out yet to not pull on
the cable part instead of course you should always pull on the hard connector
part so you're not pulling the cable loose you see the ring here where it
used to be all that's about a millimeter or two that has pulled loose and that
and when you're dealing with these cables that's really all you need to to
break the connection inside so good luck teaching the kids how not to pull on
cables the new cable I'm using is made by anchor and it's about 17 or 18 bucks
I think and much better quality than the stock cable I would recommend it and
I'll put a link to it below for you so that's how it's done thanks for watching
guys