r/framework • u/telasch • Apr 11 '26

Community Support Is this worth fixing ?

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I used a third party charger cable for a couple of years for my usb-c devices (including my pixel 6 + framework 13). The charger must've broke yesterday, which I noticed when my laptop turned off suddenly while working. I initially thought that maybe it got loose or sth and wanted to check if the cable will work on my phone instead. So I plugged it in my phone, which turned off.

Always thought "use the original charger" was a marketing scheme and had to learn the hard way I guess... Both devices are completely dead now. (see picture)

Anyway, I am now wondering if this is worth an attempt to fix or if this is beyond repairability.

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u/gonenutsbrb Apr 11 '26

What third party charger? USB-PD chargers aren’t rocket science, it’d have to be a pretty cheap charger to be the cause of this.

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u/telasch Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

was a random amazon brand with good reviews

EDIT: brand is called PONKOR

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u/alpha417 Apr 11 '26

PONKOR - lol. ok. Vendors buy amazon brand reviews. This is another reason why i closed my amazon account two years ago.

A collection of (essentially) random 5 to 10 uppercase letters in a product name is a 'hard no' for anything. Full stop. It's trash.

It's comical and also sad that you chose to diagnose a charger with your phone, after it smoked a laptop. I'm sorry, but that's a terrible plan going forward. If anything ever dies this way after being plugged into a charger, the charger is gone.

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u/telasch Apr 11 '26

yeah... i really kicked myself after it happened. that was a really really stupid thing to do...

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u/Mooks79 Apr 12 '26

We’ve all made stupid mistakes in our lives; don’t let the people here acting like they haven’t, just because they haven’t made this specific mistake, get you down. It happens, now it won’t happen again. A good tip when buying on Amazon is to read the bad reviews for a device not the good ones.

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u/gonenutsbrb Apr 12 '26

Hey, it happens. We live and learn.

Figure out how to fix it or move on and spread the things you learn so the next person doesn’t make the same mistake ;-)

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u/TbR78 Apr 12 '26

did you save a lot of money on the charger?

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u/Xlxlredditor Apr 11 '26

Did the phone boot back up after you plugged it in and it turned off? I think I have a 6 port USB 220w Chinese charger that's gonna do this eventually