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Originally Posted by odamizu
It sounds like most of you are comfortable using unofficial or "universal" chargers with your devices, but don't want to tell me it's 100% safe, just in case. Okay, that's fair. I get that  Thanks for all the info! |
It is virtually 100% safe. Here are the highly, highly unlikely, but theoretical, circumstances that are just never going to happen.
- excessive drain and you can't restart your device. This might happen in an extremely rare circumstance to an extremely rare person who tries to charge the device for days (even though the charging light is not on) and the charger/device combination drains the battery, and then that person doesn't try hard enough to wake the device up from completely dead. Just not gonna happen to you, because you'll notice the device is not charging, know that can happen to chargers (incompatible or just went bad), and simply try some other charger.
- some idiotic manufacturer doesn't adhere to USB specs and makes a device with a micro-USB jack that takes a micro-USB charger that puts out, say, 12V, and you use that charger on your e-reader. Just not gonna happen.