My experience is that quality matters almost always, and definitely matters for 
UBS cables. 

I learned this when I bricked my cell phone while trying to flash the 
bootloader.  Finally traced the problem to a faulty cable.  I don't know 
anything about what error handling or retry limits are in the USB spec, but 
that bad cable did work to charge the phone, AND transfer small files; but any 
large transfer would fail. 

Some cables are missing the data wires for cheapness and/or fast charging, but 
that's fairly rare.

My 2 cents: Test/trust you cable before critical transfers.

On May 18, 2016 10:32:54 PM GMT+02:00, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>Am I correct in assuming that if I buy a USB cable with the
>appropriately
>sized plugs on each end it can be used with any device and a computer?
>
>   If I buy a cable with a USB A-type male end for the computer and a
>Micro-USB B female end, that terminal should fit both the Canon Rebel
>T3
>camera and the Garmin Oregon 450 GPS receiver. Yes?
>
>Local sources? Amazon has a vendor selling them for $0.99 + $2.99
>postage.
>
>Rich
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