I always had trouble with the charging cables. Sometimes I keep the cable in the unit [either a battery pack or my HTC One (M8)] (on the way from A to B within the living area), It happens that the device from slipping out of your hands (awkwardly) and the cable stuck (with a jerk). The cable regularly damage by the connections break down and / or cable breaks occur. Here (with the cables from cable direct) it happened to me again times. The processing provides quality because the ports are stable. I also (for battery pack) inferior to a 0.5 m long cable of the 1.5 m cable in anything. The connectors are gold-plated and invite also decent (no message of the M8 due to slow charge). For data transfer, I can not write anything. Shipment arrived punctually in the envelope!