Anyone try a generic lightning cable yet?

3cit

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Got on on amazon for 8 bucks with prime... Two weeks later still works... Who knows how long it lasts?
 

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I bought three cables from Amazon.com: USB lightning cable for iphone 5: Cell Phones & Accessories for $2.58. Also bought a 30 pin to lightning adapter Amazon.com: Generic Lightning to 30 pin Adapter High Quality for Apple iPhone 5 - OEM: Cell Phones & Accessories for $5.45. They are all working great. I wound up repeating the order so that I can keep cables everywhere.

They took a while to arrive from China, but I'm very happy so far.

The reviews from people are pretty mixed. Do you know what seller you got the first ones from?
 

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Alli, have you noticed any difference in charging speed with the cable\adapter? Thanks

I bought three cables from Amazon.com: USB lightning cable for iphone 5: Cell Phones & Accessories for $2.58. Also bought a 30 pin to lightning adapter Amazon.com: Generic Lightning to 30 pin Adapter High Quality for Apple iPhone 5 - OEM: Cell Phones & Accessories for $5.45. They are all working great. I wound up repeating the order so that I can keep cables everywhere.

They took a while to arrive from China, but I'm very happy so far.
 

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I ended up trying my luck with this generic cable from eBay https://forums.imore.com/e?link=htt...866686929%26globalID%3DEBAY-US&token=BVNxJ31O and I got it 2 days ago. I've charged in the car (not full charge) while running errands and I used it to fully charge overnight once and haven't had any issues with it except that a couple of times it gave me the this accessory is not supported and I just flipped the connecter piece over and it works again. For $4.92 from NJ I said why not
 

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I just bought two of the cables from the link Alli posted. I will let you all know what I think when they get here.
 

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I bought two different adapters on eBay and both work fine. The adapter with the pigtail fits with my LP Fre case on my IP5.