[conspire] Warning: You'll never get your time back from this thread

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 15:20 -0700, Mike Higashi wrote:
> I got it at a trade show, so it wasn't branded with the manufacturer,
> but it looks exactly like this:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Charge-Transfer-Protection-Switch/dp/B00Y42IE76
> 
> The one I have always defaults to data off when plugged in. Pushing a
> button turns a LED from green to amber and enables data transfer.

Waste of money. Pre-USB3 devices DIScharge faster when charging without
a data connection, which is _required_ for actual charging. The cables
with no data connection are for devices that simply use a USB connector
but don't do data in any way.