Something as everyday and mundane as charging your cell phone should be the easiest task of the day. And yes, but there are important details that we must take into account to maximize the health of the battery and the cables and the charging port itself.
And no, I’m not referring to the controversy over the health of the battery if we use fast charging more or less, but to the physical health of the elements that directly allow charging: the pins of the cable and the port of our phone . And that’s it, it’s likely that many of us charge the phone incorrectly because we don’t consider the “right” command to connect the elements.
The correct way to charge the mobile is to plug in the charger first, then the phone
Currently, Mobile phones have several security systems to protect both its integrity and maximum battery life. The effects of fast charging are still being investigated (although some companies claim that after 1600 cycles at 150W 80% battery life is maintained), but in our mobiles we generally have options to ensure efficient charging.
In some models, like Samsung, for exampleyou can select whether or not we want to enable fast charging, but there are also options such as the possibility of setting a load limit so that it does not reach 100% or if we want it, with the cable plugged in there are no load cycles and dump. Other mobiles, on the contrary, do it automatically.
But hey, here we are not going to talk about software, but about hardware and our actions. A few months ago, my colleague Eva shared her experience with an iPhone Lightning cable that behaved strangely. If I placed it in an orientation it didn’t load, but it did load if I rotated it.
In the end, he discovered that one of the pins of the charging cable was corroded, and this is something that happened to me too, although more seriously: both sides of my Lightning cable have corroded pins. Why does this happen?
The first thing I can tell you is that I have several USB ports on my bedside table, but since I don’t like having cables around the house, I always have the cable in the drawer. When I take it out to charge the phone, I first connect it to the mobile, then connect the cable to the USB port.
My lightning cable. It is messed up and not charging.
It seems that there is the error. It’s something that, as I said, my partner experienced in her terminal, but searching Reddit we see that it happens to more people, with a completely black iPhone charging pin.
I have to tell you that I have also charged my Android phones this way at night (as long as they don’t need a quick “plug” throughout the day, for which I use the official charger with faster charging speeds), and none of this problem happened, but once I find out the causes, I try to be more careful.
And what happens is due to the pins with positive and negative voltages, when we insert the cable into the phone, a spark may occur. This is because air conducts electrical current and can cause nearby conductors to generate this spark. Due to the action of oxygen, visible oxidation and corrosion in the cables can be caused.
If the cable breaks, you can replace it with another one, but if it happens at the charging port, that’s another story. So knowing that one way to minimize this current jump between the pins of the charging cable is to first connect the cable to the charger and then to the phone is something to keep in mind. But, as I said, supposedly “poorly” charging my Android for years, I didn’t have the problem I had in Lightning.
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