[EVO 4G Accessories] Childofthehorn:
There were no SBC kernels used, period. Grammar being scrutinized on the internet?Really? The link to my blog was done so that the two connected and can be sourced. My blog receives most of its hits from non-XDA affiliated sites and this is a place to bring up issues so that they can be scrutinized by other like-minded people. I want to be proved wrong here because then it means that something is perfectly safe and there is no potential harm to users.

I will go to say that I do product development and testing professionally and at companies that I have worked for we have had to send things back and dispose of new boards because cheaper materials and manufacturing processes were used. These were all 100% E-tested before installed as well. There was nothing wrong with the original design of these boards, but the materials used meant that they did not hold up to normal use cases after a short while. This is part of what reputable companies do. There is no way that HTC makes the cable and why would they?

The original post was emotionally charged, but how could it not? If you had two of the same item have the same issue and knew that there was a problem which was overlooked, would you not be angry and want to warn others?

For instance, if you went to a restaurant on two separate occasions and everyone in your group had fallen ill later; would you not infer that they had been doing something wrong at the restaurant?

I question whether they did sufficient stress or use testing at the manufacturing point. Simply plugging it in and seeing it works is not real use. You have to abuse something to find all the places it can fail for the user. The testing done on our Evo phones must be pretty high because a few drops later and my phone is still fine, even without a case. I once had an iPhone 3G and went through 4 phones in 1 year under warranty because of 3G radio failures. In fact, the first iPhone I had never even connected to 3G because the 3G radio did not work properly and it was brand new. My brother's iPod Nano 1G screen broke even though the acrylic front plate had not, an issue they acknowledged and fixed after many users complained/issue gained notoriety.

The Light mod is pretty safe. There are built in protection circuits (over-voltage 4.2V+, shorting, heat) in the Battery as well as the Phone itself. Also if the wires touch the one nearby contact, it will not harm anything as those are also on the same rails, but your Evo will show a warning and not charge. I did all the tracing and error testing before posting anything and had it running that way for 3 months before that post.

This is a popular cable that has an area where it can fail with normal use because of the rubber connector used. If it was rubberized on the outside and not made of rubber, this potential issue could be avoided.

I am not selling anything, nor will I. I have no stake in Micro-USB futures. The mere fact that Sprint Reps (as well as my local RadioShack) are seeing the problem and many Best Buy locations have started to hand out Generic MicroUSB cables with your Evo purchase says a lot more than a post does.

I do not know the details of the SBC issue, but given the way that the hardware is structured it seems that it would be difficult to cause the hardware to fail on the phone as it was very well thought out. When you mess with kernels though, it can be anyone's game.

With regards to laptops and phones and everything else, you get what you pay for. In my experience, it has worked better to buy the very best at the time with a 2-4 year warranty depending on the item in question. My company computer is a company-standard Optiplex desktop, my Home computer is an HP Envy 17, and my Boyfriend's computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad W510 (not the cheaper x-series). That being said, I do not expect HTC to support my modified phone!