Time to clean the lint out of the charging port

Mine started doing it too. Turns out the charging port was full of dust!

All these legitimately helpful fucking comments and no one’s pointing out that you can easily fix the problem by placing the smartphone in microwave and nuke it for a minute on high* to get your phone up to 80% charge.

*^Charging times dependent on microwave power output and your zodiac sign. Lower wattages may result in tastier special brownies. If unsure, please consult your primary care phrenologist.^

Huge thanks to people in this thread. USB-C stopped charging reliably on my phone a few months back, tried clearing the port with compressed air but no joy, so I started using wireless charging. Spent 5mins today picking out a surprising amount of lint with a narrow toothpick and it works like new!

Get a wooden toothpick and snap it in two (unevenly is better). Then use a pointy bit to clear out all the dirt, dust and grime from your phones port. I had the same problem a few weeks ago with my phone, after a good 20 minutes of careful scraping my phone is fine now. Best of luck.

I have nothing constructive to contribute other than I feel smug and superior because I have a fairphone, so I can change mine if that ever happens.

Caused by gunk in the charge port. It naturally accrues over time. Local repair stores will have the specialized tools to fix it.

Edit: people who are saying toothpicks havent actually done the job properly before, I'm willing to bet. Toothpicks don't fit properly in a USB-C port, and can barely get inside a lightning port. Not to mention that if it breaks, you're fucked and have to go to a repair shop anyway.

USB C? See if it isn't full of garbage accumulated inside. I had to use a needle to scratch it out. Shit was so dense it was pretty difficult to clean. Eventually (~20 min of intensive scratching), I managed to clean it and I got rid of the problem.

Until I found the problem, I ended up buying bs. Another charger and an inductive charger.

Take a tooth floss pick and dig all the pocket crud out of it, both the top and bottom side. try a fresh cable, if that fails try some deoxit on the port

Time to fish out the impacted lint from the charge hole with a pin! You’d be surprised how much lint can get jammed up in there.

If it makes you feel better, my phone just did the thing where it installed an update and now everything is running noticably worse.

1. Test the cable first if you have a spare.
2. Test the AC adapter if you have a spare.
3. If both fail, inspect the charging port with a flashlight. 4a) If it looks dirty, try cleaning it out with a toothpick (if you have a dedicated plastic tool for mobile repair, use that). 4b) If it doesn't look dirty, refer to 4a. What often happens is that lint from your pocket compacts over time as it gets in there and then gets pressed in by the charger.
4. If this doesn't work and you have a good, locally owned mobile repair shop nearby, they might look at the port for free just to see if there's anything you missed.

Only after all of this would I start to strongly consider the phone itself as the culprit.

sharp pair of tweezers or a needle or a toothpicks should be able to help. tons of instructions on how to do it in this thread, but I will add my 2 cents as a phone tech and say that if it's a lightening port, you want to keep your tool as vertically in the middle of the port as possible while scraping horizontally. for USBC, keep your tool as close to the walls as possible while avoiding the center "tab". this is so you don't scrape the contacts. if you do that, you will need a port replacement (usually 80-100$ on most devices). once you scrape as much as you can out. you can use an old toothbrush or whatever works to brush the port clean with some isopropyl to clean any dirt on the contacts, which will come off easily now that it's not being supported but the other debris you cleaned out with the tool.

That's the beauty of the Fairphone https://shop.fairphone.com/shop/fairphone-4-usb-c-port-25

even if it were broken, this would be such an easy fix if phone companies wouldn't make it impossible to repair their phones. its freaking infuriating.

I was happy when usb c came out because it looked like it had to be a significant improvement over micro usb, in terms of longevity and reliability.

It's looking like it's only a slight improvement though, which sucks.

This is why I try to use my wireless charger when I don't need fast charging, reduces the strain on my charging cable and the USB C port

I've had that for 2 years. It's no big.

go give business to your local repair shop.

I had a little plastic army guy go missing from my diorama. Turns out, he was in the charging port,of my phone. :)

Yea, I bought one of the induction chargers cause this happened to me about a year ago. My phone still works so i see no reason to buy a new one and quite frankly i just don't want to. Gonna ride this bad boy out until it dies.

So, the first thing you need to do is to figure out if the problem is in your phone or in the charger. Try either charging your phone with another charger or using your charger to charge someone else's phone.

If the charger is the problem, it's most likely broken inside and you need to get a new one. Tape might do the trick for a short time.

If the phone is the problem, try cleaning out the charging port. I personally use bamboo cocktail sticks that I crush with pliers to make them have small rough bristles. Lots of objects work for this (pretty much anything thin, preferably brush-like), just as long as you don't put anything wet there.

Possibility 1 the port is full of crap, clean the port with a thin stiff piece of plastic.

Possibility 2 the port is broken, treat your equipment better.

Possibility 3 the cable is bad, replace the cable and treat your equipment better.