Tech Tangents

0x0011 - Phone in Switch Dock (2017x10)

Air date: Sep 21, 2017

I wanted to do a simple video today so here I'm just demonstrating what happens if you put a phone with a USB C port in the Nintendo Switch dock. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work. The dock probably negotiates with the phone(a Nexus 6P in this case) to see if it is a Switch. When it isn't it just goes into an error state. It may be possible to spoof the Switch ID in the phone, but you don't want the phone to get the 15V power shunted to it if it can't handle it. TL;DR: You should probably not try this at home.