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.
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.
Heung decided to warn other buyers of the product and made a poston Google+
- 10 k?
resistor instead of 56 k?
ArsSebastian Anthonydug out this paragraph from the product description page of Surjtech.
source: www.techworm.net