Major smartphone manufacturers are continually striving to improve the battery life of mobile phones that hit the market, but Charging our smartphone every day is still common. Although more and more smartphones have wireless charging, the most normal thing is to charge your phone via cable.
If you have been using your phone for a while, you may have encountered problems charging the battery at some point. This is something quite common: You put your phone on charge and the battery does not charge. After a few tries, it will probably work as usual, although it can sometimes be quite difficult. Fortunately, we are usually faced with an easy-to-solve problem.
It’s a good idea to try cleaning the charging port before considering other options.
If we go to charge our cell phone and we notice that the battery does not start charging, no matter how many times we connect and disconnect the cable, it is normal to think that it is a major problem. I had this same problem some time ago: Overnight, my cell phone’s wired charging stopped working.
It is true that The cell phone had been warning me for several weeks.: When I went to check if it was charged, I sometimes found that the charging had stopped a long time ago. More than once, it happened to me that my phone hadn’t even started charging and I didn’t realize it, so it was barely charged despite being connected to the charger for hours.
In any case, everything seemed to indicate that the problem had gotten worse since then. Despite all my efforts, I couldn’t charge my phone.. The first thing that came to my mind was to try other chargers, but the result was the same. I didn’t have a wireless charger at home to rule out a battery failure, but everything indicated that it had reached the end of its life.
Before you give up on the battery I thought about trying to clean the charging port.. There was no obvious sign of dirt, but I had read that it could help with these types of issues. Although I didn’t have much hope, I tried cleaning the charging port with a wooden toothpick: I managed to remove some lint and when I put the phone back on charge, it worked without any problems.
The whole process didn’t take me more than a few seconds and the phone hasn’t had any charging issues since. Of course, it’s important to be extremely careful and not use anything that could damage the charging port: avoid using sharp utensils, such as paper clips, pins, or similar objects. It is safer to use a wooden toothpick or a soft toothbrush..
Battery charging problems caused by dirt in the charging port are more common than you might think. This is normal considering that most of us usually carry our cell phones in our pockets, where It is easy for small textile particles to enter the charging port. If your phone starts having problems while charging, now you know a trick to fix it.
Cover image | Sergio Asenjo (Xataka Android)
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