Not every USB-C cable will work with FP3

[Lidwien]

Just go to a shop and try out a cable before buying.
I bought a cable through Fairphone and one in a computer shop for charging in my car.
The one from the computer shop doesn’t charge fast, but good enough.

[AnotherElk]

@Paski

I don’t have any cable USB-C and the one in FP shop is Out of stock!

Just buy any USB-C cable which explicitly has “USB-IF certified” in the specs (that’s important).
Or try whether a micro USB → USB-C adapter works with your existing cable(s).

[Lidwien]

Only when you want to use Quick Charge 3.0 you need a “USB-IF certified” cable.
Yes with Quick Charge 3.0 you can charge quicker, but normal charging is better for the battery.

[AnotherElk]

@Lidwien

Only when you want to use Quick Charge 3.0 you need a “USB-IF certified” cable.

If you follow my link you can see that I personally had non-USB-IF-certified cables with which charging was almost not possible. Better safe than sorry .

[Lidwien]

Well I didn’t post a link, but I can charge my phone with a cable from Delock for 10 euro’s without any problem.
So it’s try before you buy, which I did.

[AnotherElk]

Ok, so it’s try before you buy … or if you can’t try because you want to or need to order online, go for USB-IF certified .

[johnnyzg]

My friend got FP3+ and bought Huawei USB to USB C cable. This cable doesn’t work. This is the second time that I saw Huawei cable not working so my advice is to stay away from all Huawei cables. With this cable FP3+ when turned off is constantly going into reboot loop. I didn’t dare to try to plug it in my FP3 when turned off.

[Antoine]

FYI, I went to Ikea when I received my Fairphone 3 (I already had a Nintendo Switch charger but it turned out not to be convenient to use it for both devices, plus it’s big and can’t be used as a cable only), and bought their USB-C cable, and it works like a charm. Not really fast charging (it’s not USB-IF), bit for 5€ you get a good quality 1.5m cable.

[mpolito1969]

I’ve got a doubt on two cables that are sold in the shop, can you check this please?

Out of stock: FP3 USB cable

There are two USB cables in the shop (none of them is available at the moment): https://shop.fairphone.com/en/usb-c-cable-2 (name: USB-C 2.0 Cable) https://shop.fairphone.com/en/usb-c-cable (name: USB-C Cable) Price is the same and both are compatible with FP3/3+ and not with FP1/2. According to the description the second one is also compliant to USB 2.0 so I can’t understand what’s the difference between them. Does anybody know? Thanks. Regards, Max

Regards,
Max

[AlbertJP]

While I can’t answer the question about the difference between the cables, you can safely assume a cable sold in the Fairphone shop works with an FP3 or FP3+.

The FP3(+) uses USB 2.0 over a USB-C connector to communicate with a computer in any case, so a ‘USB 2.0’ cable is an oxymoron here. It would be interesting to know though whether any cables would support USB 3.0/3.1 data transfer, but the FP3(+) won’t take advantage of that if available.