My wife has an LG "flip" phone, a basic voice and text device that serves her needs.
We've always charged it from a cube USB power converter plugged into a wall outlet, with a USB cord connecting to the phone. Up until yesterday, that worked fine.
Yesterday, she got a notice that she had to use the charger that came with the phone, and also that the unit would no longer charge from the power cube.
I don't know where the charger that came with the phone is - no doubt, somewhere in the "wall of warts" that decorates my ham shack tool bench, each with two prongs for an AC outlet, and a cord dangling down to a connector that only fits one particular (battery charger|alarm clock|router|walkie-talkie|clapping monkey). I was able to combine a different USB cord with a different USB cube so that the phone stopped refusing to charge, but we'll see if the complaints start up again.
Why, I wonder, has this particular phone started demanding to go home to suck juice from it's mama's tap? Why, I wonder, does this happen after five years of fault-free service while charging from a USB cube? Could it be that Verizon has decided I've been away from their store too long?
Bill