my phone charging port has been inoperable for years. wireless charging is the only thing keeping it alive
…did you try cleaning the port?
For me:
USB-B : always doing this rather quiclky
USB-C : never does this
What about you?
B 2.0 or B 3.0?
B 3.6 x 3.2x3.2 version 6.1
So about 5Gbps as usual.
I’ve never had issues with my printer’s usb port.
German has a word for this: Wackelkontakt
There is a synth module designed specifically to replicate this effect for audio jacks:
https://bastl-instruments.com/eurorack/modules/wackel-kontakt
I have enough DIY Wackelkontakte already without ever trying…
Of course there is
Used to deal with this a lot on my old phone (micro usb) cleaning the port out helped a lot, but it is hard if you don’t have something thin enough to fit in, personally I used ESD tweezers I have on hand for electronics work, but even then I started having to do it once a week to get my phone to charge.
I just bring it to a phone repair place, and they spend about five minutes in the back cleaning it for free.
A thin wooden toothpick (those rounded, not those flat), can do the job.
I’ve seen a clip of someone putting a dab of hot glue then pulling it out as it cools. Been meaning to try it
Depending on the materials used in the connector, this will either work, or fuck up your phone completely. If the hot glue sticks to anything built in, it’s not going to come out coherently. Cleaning it out manually would be an absolute bitch.
Yeah but it’s a risk I’m willing to take
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.
It’s time to move on. It’s not coming back.
If your port is clean and the cable isn’t messed up, maybe consider replacing the charging port or just get a wireless charger.
This. Get super fine tweezers and clean the port. Almost always full of pocket lint.
I use a slim tooth pick for port cleaning. Works perfectly!
Will have to give that a go. Edit: doesn’t work so well as tweezers on a lightning port but relatively effective on USB-C.
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
I know that from microUSB but not from USB-C. You have dirt in it? Try to scoop it out with a paperclip.
Flat wooden toothpick is safer and less likely to damage it
Don’t you have to replace the device if it’s USB C because the compliant mechanism is in the port, not the cable?
Lint gets stuck in the base, so the cord will not properly seat. I’ve found that dental floss picks get in there great, and are non conductive.
Charging ports are the belly buttons of the digital world.
It could just be build up in the port. Throwing some sticky tack in there a bunch of times to pull out all the debris has “fixed” multiple devices for me.
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.
Same here… 6 years now and it’s great.
This exact type of adapter fried one of the USB C ports in my macbook pro, lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/motlhn/magnetic_usbc_cables_are_not_recommended/
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You should use the usb until you can’t, wireless charging will burn out your battery and you’ll be in the same place you’re in now, but if your port stops working you’ll have the wireless to fall back on.
You may have responded to the wrong comment.
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.
Clever, I haven’t come across that.
How do you the plugs eliminate fire risk?
Keep them clean. There’s no more inherent rush than a regular connector, since the magnetic ones are just the same with a magnet holding them in place instead of friction.
Also, if they were to break, it’s far easier to replace them instead of the port on the phone. I recommend the ones that are just adapters and not the whole cables though, since they let you use the cables you already own.
Do they break fast charging?
Nope, far charging works just fine, though you do have to be selective if you want video passthrough, since not all of them have that feature.
Apple devices also don’t always recognize that the cable is capable and will supposedly limit functionality for the data connection.
I’m having trouble seeing how this works and what difference it offers compared to a regular cable. Don’t you just plug a cable into the port regardless? Sorry for the silly question
I think that the magnetic thing sits constantly in the port, so there’s no risk the charging port gets filled with pocket lint.
Ah, right. Just like those little aux plugs with funny animals attached for phones and stuff but with additional functionality
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?
Fewer pouches, but still not zero pouches. This tracks.
I’m suspicious of those feet though. They look biologically plausible and therefore wrong for the character.
worst case scenario, the usb port is replaceable on most phones without soldering
I tried this on my previous phone, Samsung S9, it made everything worse. I bought and replaced a daughterboard with usb, microphone, antenna, and some other stuff. I was very careful, know my way around electronics, found a perfect iFixit video instruction, but afterwards my antenna didn’t work anymore. My partner told me to just take it to a repair shop and let a professional handle it. I tried two and they both said “we don’t do dat repair because it’s too difficult. It can’t be done without breaking something else in the phone”. So there it is
i applied that fix multiple times on multiple phones, never an issue.
maybe you got unlucky? and those are some shitty professionals that cant replace a dumb daughterboard.
