Get some needle-nosed tweezers or something very thin and use it to dig out the obscene amount of pocket lint that compacts itself down in there. Keep trying even if nothing comes out at first. This works for me every time.
I’ve found that a plastic toothpick is the perfect tool for this. It is a soft enough material not to scratch the phone but it digs out the lint. A normal wood toothpick also works, but the plastic ones tend to be thinner making them easier to scrape with.
If the phone is still having issues after that or looks visibly inside, some contact cleaner applied and scrubbed with a pipe cleaner will remove gunk.
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
Get a dental pick and use it to pull the lint out of the charging port
I’m just looking at this picture of the Hulk wearing himself as a hat.
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
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.
Hey. I’m going to ask why? Like if you are extremely tight financially I get it. But why make yourself suffer every day if it’s not needed? It’s going to be annoying and a slight negative to your day every day.
Two reasons:
Because I’m a filthy hippy and I don’t want to throw a brand new cord in the landfill because I fucked up.
Dealing with it for a long enough time period will make me think of how I wrecked it and I won’t haphazardly leave my cables lying on the floor any more.
Ultimately it’s your life yah.
But I can’t help but think that adult humans don’t need to do penance and suffer for a year just because they made such a small mistake. It’s like a 12th century religious act.
I believe that adult humans can just learn not to do something without religious style self imposed suffering. If I burn my hand on the stove I don’t need to keep the wound in pain for a year in order to remember not to burn my hand again.
This all being said I am a humanist materialist. If people come from a spiritual background where self imposed suffering helps the soul I can see why they would do such a thing.
Calling it penance was a joke.
Ok. I’m curious now though. Do you choose to suffer unnecessarily as a joke on yourself? Is there a reason you choose to suffer when you don’t have to?
Like I can’t relate to your choice at all here and am very curious.
I don’t know what to tell you. It still works and I don’t need to move my phone while I’m working or sleeping.
I don’t consider minor inconveniences suffering.
😂
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 little pin that comes with phones to open the sim tray works well.
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.
Dry air can does the job pretty well too.
This is the one thing that sucks about Apple going USB-C. Lightning is easier to clean for me and my pockets are a lint factory apparently.
I have never been an apple user, but that lightning port always seemed like a good design. Seems way more durable than usb-c
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.
Clever, I haven’t come across that.
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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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
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.
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 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 my phone is in this stage, so I mostly charge it wirelessly now.
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.
This is funny?
Sadly funny, because everyone can relate at some point of their smartphone ownership.
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.
Same. Never had this issue on any phone, actually…
I’ve had it happen to plenty of USB-C devices, but I had far more issues with previous USB generations.
Wireless charging tho is clutch as a backup charging method. Key word being backup.
I have had multiple micro USB ports break, I have not yet encountered a broken USB C port.
Part of the spec for the USB-C port is to not have any moving/flexing parts because that is like 1000% easier to design waterproof/water resistant portable devices for. So to keep with that, to implement your solution the prongs would have to be on the cable. And in that case it should be pretty doable. There’s nothing stopping someone from designing an improved cable connector and throwing them on a new cable.
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
