Picked up a Treedix while they were on sale. Slowly going through my Big Box Of Cables™. Some of the high-spec cables I bought are duff.
Picked up a Treedix while they were on sale. Slowly going through my Big Box Of Cables™. Some of the high-spec cables I bought are duff.
Do you need such a specialized device for that or could that be tested via some software on a computer/phone as well?
You need a specialised device. I couldn’t find any software which could read this from an Android phone or Linux machine.
Take this with a grain of salt.
I think if your device has the right hardware and the right application with the right low-level access, it can tell you most of these things. But a dedicated tester can tell you more.
You could just use the cable and see if it charges or transfers data at the speed your devices are supposed to but then you don’t know if its the devices or the cable causing the bottleneck until you try more cables