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Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.

NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Yeah… be incredibly careful about shoving something with metal bristles into your charging port.

Maybe once a year I get a bit of gunk in my port (hey-oh!). Samsung (presumably all usb c androids?) are generally really good about losing their shit and yelling at you to remove the cable immediately and clean your port.

So when I get home? I just get one of my flossers (for teeth) that tend to have a cheap plastic toothpick attached to it. Works perfect, no liquids, and very minimal risk of damaging the port.

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Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’ve always used wooden toothpicks because

Common

Made from cheap soft wood: more likely to deform or destruct against metal than most plastics

Cut with the grain: especially soft to anything raking against the sides (like delicate pins)

The uneven “splintery” sides happen to be pretty good at snagging tiny fibers of lint to pull them out as one big ball, requiring fewer swipes

More techniques:

clean with port facing straight down to get gravity assist

blow across the opening of the port: mild negative pressure + agitation inside cavity vs blowing directly into port (which is generally warned against explicitly)

focus on “pinning” lint up against each of the two corners and holding gentle pressure during extraction: these corners of the port have no exposed pins, and happen to be where lint tends to accumulate anyway
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