This is permanent damage.

Curious at the incident, Leung decided to inspect the dodgy cable.

Leung analysed the cable with a breakout board and a multimeter.

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What he found was really quite shocking: seems like they completely miswired the cable.

The GND pin on the pop in-A plug is tied to the Vbus pins on the pop in-C plug.

The Vbus pin on the pop in-A plug is tied to GND on the pop in-C plug.

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Heung decided to warn other buyers of the product and made a poston Google+

  1. 10 k?

resistor instead of 56 k?

ArsSebastian Anthonydug out this paragraph from the product description page of Surjtech.

source: www.techworm.net