ANDROID: Why are my new phone cables bad but my old ones good?

Still an unity issue but I found a working cord. If anyone can figure that out it would be nice.

Okay so, for some reason, unity never detect my Samsung galaxy s5 when I used any cable other then this old damage one that I had to plug in at weird angle to even use as a charger. I was fine with that until someone decided this cord was no good and threw it out. Now I have no working cord to connect my phone to test out my mobile games on.

All I want to know is why did this old cord work so I know what to buy to replace it.

Also, if I haven't made it clear, I know everything is set up right and has worked before with the old cord and if you still don't believe me. I have debugging mode on, I make sure my phone is connected with unity remote 4 on and running before I start unity on the computer, I have the editor set to use any device, I have the build set to android, and, if you for any reason you still think it is not the cord, I will say it again I have been able to connect with the old cord before and I have all the same settings except the old cord. So the issue has to be the cord.