Anyone use one of those charging cords with the magnetic base that stays in your phone? Primarily for in car use.

I use a wireless charger overnight, as I've worn out a charge port on a prior Samsung. Hindsight, I think it may have had enough lint in it to prevent a good seat of the plug.

Seems one of these would both protect the port, and prevent wear from repeated plug/unplug cycles.

As a 2nd question, do any of them work with AndroidAuto/CarPlay?
In our Expedition my wife has a phone mount on the AC vent, and a solid bump in the road with jostle the cord enough to disrupt the AA connection.

I looked into these a while back as they seemed like an ideal solution. But what I found was lots of warnings online about the risk of frying your electronics (and actual stories of fried electronics).

This is because they apparently bypass the grounding/electrostatic dissipation safeties found in standard fixed USB-C plugs, which apparently as you insert them connect the ground first and then the power and data, to prevent static from being discharged into your device's data plug. Whereas these detachable magnetic tips connect all of them at once, and thus you risk frying your device with electrostatic discharge into the data input.

(Or at least that's my half-remembered, non-electrical-expert recollection of the dangers.)

This is why no major manufacturer has released them, only no-name, fly-by-night Chinese brands.

I have been using one from Pro-Clip in my car.
Will post pic when I get to my car.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

Anyone use one of those charging cords with the magnetic base that stays in your phone?

Not sure what you're referring to. Got a link to anything that shows one?

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

Anyone use one of those charging cords with the magnetic base that stays in your phone?

Not sure what you're referring to. Got a link to anything that shows one?

Something like this. The male part of the plug stays in the phone & has a magnet that allows detaching the cord.

http://amazon.com/Magnetic-Cha...F7-b1T92ZVyXoBW5gdbg

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Originally posted by Chowser:
I have been using one from Pro-Clip in my car.
Will post pic when I get to my car.

Magnetic [wireless] charging phone mount? Or a magnetic detachable cord?
I only see 'traditional' cords [2 options] on the proclip site

So it's a Lightning/USB-C to MagSafe adapter. Apple has been using MagSafe on their laptops for more than a decade without notable occurrences of static disruption, but I suppose it is possible as well as a voltage mis-match (although I'd be surprised if this wasn't anticipated).

I'd hope the data pins aren't even connected through the adapter in which case this would also be effective against "juice jacking." For those unfamiliar with this term, there are public and semi-public "charging stations" that attempt to compromise a phone/tablet/laptop via the USB port, interrupting the data lines prevents this.

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Originally posted by architect:
So it's a Lightning/USB-C to MagSafe adapter. Apple has been using MagSafe on their laptops for more than a decade without notable occurrences of static disruption, but I suppose it is possible as well as a voltage mis-match (although I'd be surprised if this wasn't anticipated).

It was anticipated and incorporated by Apple into the design of the proprietary ports for their similar Magsafe laptop chargers.

But not in the design for standard USB-C ports.

sorry. magnetic cordless mount with charging

I use the magnetic cords for my GoPros and other cameras. One thing you'll run into is that they are typically charging cables, not data/charging cables.

Unless they explicitly claim to also be data cables, I'd assume they are power only.

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Originally posted by fwbulldog:
I use the magnetic cords for my GoPros and other cameras. One thing you'll run into is that they are typically charging cables, not data/charging cables.

Unless they explicitly claim to also be data cables, I'd assume they are power only.

That was part of my main interest, to still be able to use AA/ACP