Charge cable deadzone mitigation

A charging cable is configured to rotate freely while attached to a cable plug on a chargeable device. The plug has contact pads separated by an insulator, and the matching cable head has pins for contacting the pads of the plug. There may be a 'deadzone' position where one or more pins of the cable head rest of the separator and do not make contact with the charge pads on the cable plug. The examples include pins in the cable head for redundant charging paths that are complimentary such that only one of the power paths will be on at any given time. When the cable enters a position where one of its power paths is resting on the "deadzone", circuitry in the cable will over to the second power path which will be capable of providing power to the device.