I bought a USB charging cable for my Samsung mobiles from Germany and Thailand.
The cable says “USB-C17” (what does 17 mean?), “適用 type C” (what does type mean?).
The plug looks like a Thai or German USB-C plug but it does not fit into the phone’s socket.
The seller doesn’t know why, Samsung hotline tells me to ask the seller, Google in Chinese or English is no help.
Are there different standards of USB-C for Taiwan (US standards?)?
Simple fact is that is a universal standard so it doesn’t matter where you got your devices from. USB-C is USB-C.
But okey I have an Samsung phone bought in US, my GF uses a Sony phone she actually got in Japan, I have some sort of airbuds I got in UK, my GF has a portable Sony speaker she got in Taiwan, I have an ASUS battery pack (highly recommended). I use a Philips USB-C cable from family mart or 7-11 in Taiwan and because it’s USB-C it works with all devices.
USB is a spec for the plug itself, so (as myiple people have said) there’s no other type of usb.
If you’ve tried more than one usb cable and they don’t fit, I’d be looking at your phones socket to see if there’s any debris in there, or if something is bent.
If it’s just the one cable on your picture you’ve tried, or you’ve only tried similar ones, I might suspect that the housing is interfering with it fully seating.
Good idea. I asked Samsung, they don’t tell me the specs of their connectors. In the written specifications they write “USB C” and “USB 3.1”, they use both words as if they were interchangeable.
The ports look like USB C. But I cannot insert 3 plugs from 3 different brands in 3 different ports from different Samsung models… They slide in for 2mm, then hit an obstacle (it is not just tight, and i cannot just press them in), so the last 1mm cannot slide in.
Googling “USB C” and “compatibility” opens a pandora box of incompatibilities, but they seem to talk about electrical issues and protocols, not a simple mechanical misfit.