Beware cheap usb cables

[steslatt]

I recently purchased 2 new micro usb cables from amazon. The one that the phone comes with was too short for me.
I tried one of the cables last night and left my phone on charge all night. In the morning the phone was only up to 74% I tried the other one on my pc at work and it seems to be just connecting and disconnecting every few seconds.
The original cable works fine and so do HTC ones.
I thought maybe the cables could be faulty so I tried a friends phone at work and the cables work fine for them.
Has anyone else had this experience with any usb cables?
Here is the cable for reference.
Invero

 

[desarenezitic]

I've used my wife's wall charger to charge it (came with her old LG phone) it charged quite slowly but assumed this was because of bigger battery? Used the supplied cable to connect to my old laptop at home when unlocking bootloader and to my work PC when transferring some files from my old phone. The connection did keep dropping at work and I assumed this was because I was using a front USB port?

 

[OverByter]

Some of the cheaper cables are data only, the outside pins are grounded so you can't use them for reliable charging.

 

[steslatt]

Some of the cheaper cables are data only, the outside pins are grounded so you can't use them for reliable charging.

OK but that doesn't really explain the constant disconnect re connect problem when connected to a PC.

Does anyone know where I can get a working 2m cable from in the UK?

 

[desarenezitic]

You could try Maplin USB 2.0 A to Micro USB Leads : USB Cabling : Maplin Electronics 3.0m for

 

[gonzo8402]

I recently purchased 2 new micro usb cables from amazon. The one that the phone comes with was too short for me.
I tried one of the cables last night and left my phone on charge all night. In the morning the phone was only up to 74% I tried the other one on my pc at work and it seems to be just connecting and disconnecting every few seconds.
The original cable works fine and so do HTC ones.
I thought maybe the cables could be faulty so I tried a friends phone at work and the cables work fine for them.
Has anyone else had this experience with any usb cables?
Here is the cable for reference.
Invero

 

[steslatt]

I had a work around for my problem. I needed the extra length because I use the usb cable to power the phone while using the hdmi out to watch movies on my TV upstairs. The TV is wall mounted and the plug is near the floor so the original cable was about 30cm too short. I just swapped my HDMI cable for a longer one and used the original cable and it works fine now. Don't know why I didn't just do that in the first place :/