I know this may be obvious to most in this community, but it saved me $1,000+ and wanted to let everyone know that it is in fact worth your time, effort, and hassle ordering the tools, watching or reading a quick tutorial or 2 and spending the time to clean you phone-s charging port.
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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (25 children)

And if that doesn't work, take it to a shop to replace the port.

Don't thow out a perfectly good phone just because the port stops working..

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    i never trust shops to fix a phone after working for one. they will purposefully damage other components or take your OEM screen and put an aftermarket screen.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    If you have tech-savvy friend, try ask them a good repair shop.

    Sometimes, Google review or any online review are not helpful as most of the reviewer are casual users that might be get tricked by the shop.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    i am tech-savvy. and again, after working for a phone repair shop, i would never trust one to fix my phone.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why would that be? Getting parts replaced and/or broken? Or would it be a matter of trust with your phone/data?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    they take genuine parts from the phone you bring and put in aftermarket or shit ones that are almost on their way out, and they will (especially women) dump any data they can get from the phone.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Really good to know. Thanks for the quick response!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    if you can, try to make friends with someone you can trust to fix your phone, and if you do, anything sensitive, backup and delete from your phone and cloud. if you want me to really be specific, im talking about photos, but i didnt want to sound gross.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No I got that alright. I have generally had a policy of it it's broken, then trying to repair it before replacing was something I would throw my hand at. Fixed a good few thing and learnt a lot over the years. (Broke a few things along the way too)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    yeah of course, and tbh, ifixit has some good guides on how to fix phones. you might be able to try your hand at fixing it, and then not even worry about having to rely on someone else doing it, and then closing that security loop.

    trust me i also do the same with my stuff, i can i fix it i try to (unless its beyond repair)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Also, how come they need to unlock the phone to replace the battery ... like, I guess they're running diagnostics?

    But like, can do that without getting access to bloody everything on my phone?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    they will usually find an excuse to unlock your phone, also, they will have tools to dump what they can as well. they can even do it without unlocking your phone, but good luck proving that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yeah :/ my password manager and everything is accessible! I have no defenses!

    The thing is my phone is already in a dire state by the time they get it. I can't pre-emptively wipe my phone :(

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    hmm fair. what model is your phone?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh, the last one I took to the shop was my Pixel 7 with water damage. I traded it for a Pixel 10 now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh perfect there are repair guides for that. So if you ever need to fix it, you can get all the tools yourself and fix it!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm scared to hell of fixing it, but you're probably right. It's better to lose my phone to repairs than lose my data to a random individual!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    there are step by step guides, and im sure you can do it! you know what would be a good idea if you plan to keep the phone for awhile? see if anyone sells a broken pixel 10 or similar, buy the kit to open the phone, and at least when you screw that one up opening it, you know what to do next time!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Impossible for iPhone users

    • sent from my iPhone that I regret buying in some ways
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Doubtful. This might be an issue in countries that don't require iPhone to use standards or that have terrible anti-consumer laws.

    In any case, if that's you, its not impossible. Just need to take it with you the next time you go on a trip overseas to a country that isn't run by corporations

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Or better yet don't buy some anti consumer locked down phone that's intentionally made hard to repair by a shitty company, I'm going back to android in the future where something as basic as replacing a port would never be a issue, but with Google fucking with the sideloading in android I'm concerned they are on a path similar to Apple, I wish some truly open source phone OS would be available like Linux so is for PCs

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Google's fuckery is impotent against phones without Google.

    Just install your own OS and don't jnstall gappa (by default its absent) and Google can't stop you from installing apps from third party app stores.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    My last phone had this issue that sometimes it wouldn't charge. Tried different cables but it still sometimes wouldn't charge. Bought a pcb with antennas and charging for my phone, replaced it. Sometimes still had this issue but much less. I kept this phone til it couldn't compute anymore. Twice shattered screen, twice replaced.

    4 years. Not a flagship, but had a decent hardware. In the end it couldn't do anything. Wifi worked half assed. 5g couldn't connect sometimes. Android Auto would reboot constantly or outright not work. Battery would occasionally begin to loose charge rapidly and even charging with a power bank phone would still lose charge. It almost like I got an update that cut my phone's balls and removed organs. But in the end, 400euro for 4 years - not so much. My new phone is better at less than half price. Hope it'll work next 2-3 years no issues.

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