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Re:iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-... by Rjevski on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:27PM (#16803187)
> don't implement a very specific charging protocol designed to prevent metal migration between the pins and the pads on the connector

Any sources for this ? I'd like to learn more.

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Re:iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-... by axoltl on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @03:47PM (#16804584)
I linked some patents below:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170272058A1/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170124010A1/

But a quick search yields some interesting research:

http://www.te.com/documentation/whitepapers/pdf/p313-89.pdf

I bet there's much more to find, I'm not a metallurgist.

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