Had to go through four USB cables in my car before one worked reliably with my current phone. A “10Gbit/s certified” USB-C cable did the trick, plus two layers of aluminum tape on the lower outer side of the car side USB plug to make the connection less wiggly.
The phone before that worked fine with any cable, but apparently some combinations of head unit and phone have relatively thin error margins on the actual physical layer of the connection.
Imagine having a job where you can spew buzzword-y bullshit like this all day and never have to show anything for it.
If I promise something in a daily, I better have at least an experimental implementation for it a week later.