Phone not charging or charging very slow has been a problem for many of us at some point – it often very frustrating when your smartphone at the end of a long day is on the brink of dying and you connect your phone to power source just to discover that the phone is not charging. That can be frustrating enough, but trying to diagnose the issue can be even more so.
There are a few problems that could be the cause why your phone is not charging – your device could be refusing to charge completely, or it could simply be charging really slowly; sometimes so slowly that it’s actually using power faster than it’s gaining it. If you’re experiencing any of these problems, we’ve come up with a few ways to diagnose your battery woes and to help you fix the problem.
Download Ampere
If the number in the app shows up green, the device is charging, but if it’s an orange minus number, then your device is using power. Try using the app after you’ve completed each of the steps below and see what changes occur.
Try a different power source
Check the charging cable
Try changing the USB cable to see if the problem will be fixed, Chances are you have a few charging cables lying around, so try switching out the cable for another to see if that helps.
Check the wall adapter
Just like the cable, the easiest way to check if the adapter is at fault is to simply try charging with a new adapter. However, if you don’t have access to another adapter you can also try plugging into your computer. If it charges with the same phone and cable, chances are the adapter is at fault.
Turn your phone off
Check the USB socket
To fix this, switch your phone off, and remove the battery if you can. Then take a pin or something similar in size and straighten the small tab inside the USB port on your phone. Make sure you’re not too rough with this process – you could end up doing more damage than good. Then, put your battery back in, power on your device, and try charging again.
Another possible issue could be something inside the USB port, like pocket lint. Getting a can of compressed air and blasting whatever is in the USB port out of there should fix the issue if that is indeed the issue.
You may also try brushing the USB port with petrol or sprite liquid, it is possible that the USB is some how rust.
Replace the battery
Sometimes faulty batteries are easy to diagnose as they’ll leak battery fluid or start to bulge a little. Of course, most of the today’s phones don’t have removable batteries, so unless you have one of the few models that do you’ll probably have to actually take the phone to a repair shop to see if they can look into the whole battery replacement situation for you.
Update or roll back your OS
If you find that the charging issue started around the same time as a software update, you may need to roll back to an older version of Android — although keep in mind that installing the latest operating system always keeps your device more secure. There are plenty of guides out there to help you roll back on your version of Android, and you may need some technical know-how. I have experienced this problem with Infinix hot 2 while I upgraded it to Android 6.0.
Alternatively, if you’re running an older version of Android, it’s worth upgrading to see if that helps with the charging issues.
I hope this tutorial will help you diagnoses your charging problem, please let us Know in the comment how it goes with you or if you have other sugestion on fix phone not charging.
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