(In other words, using a device that can be powered using a modern phone charger to charge your controller.) Given what you can squeeze into the connector of a USB cable nowadays, it may even be possible to create a charging-only cable for a PS3 that will make it work with a phone charger, where said embedded device is small enough to fit into the connector on one end of the cable. It is also well-known that plugging a PS3 controller into any old computer (like, say, your PS3) will perform the negotiation and thus charge the controller (meaning that perhaps said negotiation is nothing more than that done by any other ordinary USB peripheral today), so in theory you could repurpose a cheap USB-powered embedded system that itself has a USB port, and use it as a 'charging dongle'. Quick Charge) can charge a PS3 controller. The PS3 controller will only charge when I have it connected to the PS3 and the PS3 is powered on. It was my assumption that any USB cable would work. Ive got a ton of USB mini and USB micro cables, but the only one that the ps4 or PS3 will recognize are the OEM cables, for some reason. It's not well documented what kind of signalling is done over the data wires in that respect, so we don't know if, say, a Type A Apple charger built for charging an iPhone (which negotiates power over the data wires in a non-standard but widely adopted way) can charge a PS3 controller, or if Type A charger using some proprietary protocol (eg. I have this same issue with my PS3 and PS4 controllers.

It's well known that PS3 controllers require negotiation over the data wires, so Type A chargers that short the data pins in order to be compliant with USB BC 1.2 will not work. I don't think this has anything to do with a conflicting power requirements recall that the PS3 controller predates USB battery charging standards.

Ps3 controller charging cable