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Just cleaned out six years of crud from my phone's charging port (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 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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[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 4 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 🀐🀐🀐