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Step 1: clean out the lint from the charging port
Step 2: make sure you actually got all the lint out and there isn't any hiding to the side.
~~The sim ejector pin that used to come with phones can sometimes just barely fit between the center blade and connector housing. Otherwise a paperclip with a slight hook bent into the end can work well.~~ Flosspicks work well to dig out the lint.
Also consider getting a wireless charger for nightly charging if your phone supports it.
I prefer a toothpick. Wood won’t scratch the metal or cause a short, but it’s still stiff enough to scrape any lint that’s stuck. And lint sticks a bit to the toothpick, so that helps get it out.
Neither will the plastic of a floss pick. And the floss pick is narrower so there is much less risk of deforming the interior parts of the plug. Also, less risk of splinters.
Toothpick is absolutely the best solution for this. 3d printed cleaning picks are also usable but aren't as strong in my experience
Sometimes the toothpick tapers too quickly though and I have break it or shave a bit off to make it fit all the way into the port
The port on my old phone broke entirely but it still had wireless charging so I got three more years out of it. Then the display failed and since phones have switched to USB C I figured it was time to upgrade
A comment like this one saved me from giving up on my aging phone.
No matter how convinced you are you definitely cleaned it, there still could be a little bit more stuck in there.
I switched over to magnetic charging cables a few years back, and would never look back. Keeps the port protected, protects against wear out, and the cables are now universal with Micro USB and lightning devices.
I use the ones that add on to an existing cable, that way I'm not bound to one cable type. Snatched like 25 of them when they were $2 on AE.
It's me! New Cable!
New cable was ineffective against bad port!
Holup, is this real or fan art? When did they make Cable a twink?
I hear a lot of people saying to clean the port and I agree. I've found with usb c it's often very difficult to find something thin enough, but I've found a staple to be surprisingly good at the job
Sewing pin
The sharp end of a safety pin did it for me
I use a disposable dental floss pick. The toothpick side is very narrow and no concern scratching too hard down in a port since it is plastic.
The little pin that comes with phones to open the sim tray works well.
Dry air can does the job pretty well too.
I'm just looking at this picture of the Hulk wearing himself as a hat.
Get a dental pick and use it to pull the lint out of the charging port
I have had this happen so much more with USB-C than microUSB connectors. I think it's just a matter of how it locks in place. MicroUsb would very often (though not 100% of the time) have some prong like things on one side that held it in place better.
USB-C just kinda snaps over a tiny PCB and has room to wiggle around, which, at least in all the devices I've had break on me this way, the PCB itself becomes loose or even snaps off from constantly being flexed or jostled around by the cable.
They should put those little prong/wing things on the top and bottom (in a way that doesn't mess with the omnidirectional nature of the cable) of the metal oval to lessen this, IMO.
Strange.. My experience has been the opposite of yours. I've actually not had a USB-c cable do this yet.
I have had multiple micro USB ports break, I have not yet encountered a broken USB C port.
This is funny?
Sadly funny, because everyone can relate at some point of their smartphone ownership.
When we had real headphone jacks the phone lasted longer because you didn't use the same port for both audio and charging, wearing it out faster.
...did you try cleaning the port?
I rolled over a brand new cable with my office chair. Now it does this. I’m forcing myself to use it for a year as penance.
A thin wooden toothpick (those rounded, not those flat), can do the job.
For me:
USB-B : always doing this rather quiclky
USB-C : never does this
What about you?
Get a wireless charger. If your phone is less than ~6 years old it probably supports wireless charging. Can find them for as cheap as $10-15...
my phone charging port has been inoperable for years. wireless charging is the only thing keeping it alive
I just used my new phone to take a picture of my old phones charging port, which worked only with some cables at certain angles, and, yeah... It's a horror show up in there
