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.

krakenx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• starman2112@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Toothpicks are WAY too thick. A sewing needle did the job for me though

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  • Artoink@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t use metal to clean it. A sewing needle is surely hard enough to scratch the coating on the pins. Plastic or wood would be less destructive for repeated use.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The old Reddit trope

  The real LPT is in the comments

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kinda, you really want to use a soft brush and 90% isopropyl. A tooth pick is only useful if you are EXTREMELY gentle. Otherwise you might cause more damage.

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    • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are a worrying amount of people going at the charger port hammer and tong?

      Lemmings really don’t have a lot of common sense do they

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