iPhone - Just caught fire!

alexx · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:03

A word of warning to you all.

Don't buy cheap 3rd party iPhone charger cables off ebay.

If you ever charge your iPhone via USB on a laptop or desktop I'd recommend being near it whilst it's charging and unplugging it when not... (that's if you already have a cheap cable).. even better than that - bin it!

This morning whilst at work I noticed a weird smell - turns out my iPhone charger cable was melting before my very eyes.

Mr-White · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:11

Start queuing lol

MW

PiKe · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:11

So your cable melted, your iPhone didn't actually catch fire?

StonedPenguin · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:12

alexx · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:42

cable did melt yep - but it would have surely been a fire if I wasnt sat right next to it.

FutileBreadMachine · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:45

The thread title is a lie.

Marky · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:50

So your iPhone charger caught fire... not your iPhone as the title suggests

PiKe · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:54

alexx said:
cable did melt yep - but it would have surely been a fire if I wasnt sat right next to it.

How can you be so sure?

Quint · 21 Sep 2012 at 13:01

cable? where from, more info, lets not let others buy if true.

alexx · 21 Sep 2012 at 13:24

it was one of the buy 2 get 1 free jobbies off ebay - I'd avoid all of them.

and how can I be sure? I can't but an educated guess says if it carried on that way it would have... look on google - quite a few badly melted cables and phone bases

PiKe · 21 Sep 2012 at 13:28

Yeah but it would have melted and stopped working, it wouldn't have necessarily have caught fire.

alexx · 21 Sep 2012 at 13:41

how can you be so sure?

PiKe · 21 Sep 2012 at 13:42

It's just my opinion.

alexx · 21 Sep 2012 at 13:50

Explains how you got to so many post counts anyway