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Just cleaned out six years of crud from my phone's charging port (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by Tyoda@lemm.ee to c/casualconversation@piefed.social

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For way too long now I have had to plug it in and not let a breeze pass it lest it stops charging. I went at it and it quickly got a lot better where I didn't have to wiggle it around to the right position to start charging.

But I kept going, dug out a lot more stuff than I expected, and when I tried it again, get this, it actually went in. It doesn't just slightly penetrate to establish contact. It proper locks in.

Charging while on the go has been impossible for a long time, but I think it should now be easy as ever.

USB-C btw

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[–] Bags@piefed.social 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

I am so glad that the USB people got USB C right... I have so many memories of the micro-USB ports on my old phones being the most absolute asinine garbage.

I remember seeing my very first USB C port in 2015, it was on a friend's new Google Nexus 6P phone, and we were sitting in a hotel room in Florida somewhere... I ended up buying a 6P in August 2016. it was my first smartphone.

What phone do you have? It's nice to see people who keep their phones around. It's crazy how much progress was made in the phone world from ~2015 to 2019, but my phone from 2021, a similar 4 year age gap, feels just the same as phones made today. Truly a massive plateau.

Also, 2019 being 6 years ago is giving me serious vertigo lol

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I am so glad that the USB people got USB C right.

In some sense, I kind of wished they are shaped as a straight jack like Apple Lightning instead of what we have. Type C male end is a jacket of sorts going into a port that has a thin wafer. A big ass hole like the Apple Lightning, while would make it collect more crud easier, is also easier to clean because it's a big hole. Not having to work around the thin thing inside.

Despite this particular complaint, and all the confusion of power rating and data transfer speed, I'm still glad Type C exists.

[–] Bags@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Part of me wonders what's next... But that likely won't be for a very long time, as USB C seems to be pretty good (at least for power-delivery and some decently high speed data transfer), lacking in customer complaints (as far as I'm aware).

I remember getting my first wireless charger with my Galaxy S10e and thinking "This is the future, you'll never have to plug your phone in again!"... But that certainly hasn't come to fruition, so I'll refrain from making bad predictions lol.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah wireless charging is a lot more fragmented. Mainly because many Chinese brands have their own protocol. Like Oppo, Xiaomi, Huawei have ones that somehow achieves 50W or more. But then again, even wired charging some of them don't support USB Power Delivery and will get some basic 5V 2A if not using their proprietary charging block and cable.

Wireless charging helped me from throwing away a phone lol. My LG Wing port is broken and nobody wants to take a crack at it to repair it locally, and I'm not about to take a crack at it to repair it. But with wireless charging I got to still use it.

So it's imperative that I have wireless charging in my phone. And that's what I got to replace it. I don't trust Google's past and current Tensor chip to survive my equatorial climate (local forums seems to validate that). Maybe in 5 or 6 years after they change to TSMC, if we survive that long. So I got a Galaxy S24U on sale BNIB. It is at least US and Korean spyware, not Chinese spyware 🤐🤐🤐

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