I just dealt with this with my Pixel 3. Cleaned it out, now it charges perfectly and USB cables once again 'snap in' when plugged into the phone. Happened with my previous phone as well. I went weeks thinking my phone was taking a shit.
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My 3.5-year-old iPhone SE has stopped charging
- Thread starter benj
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Thats around the end life of batteries on smartphones if you use them frequently.
If you don't want to upgrade you might want to try cleaning the charging port as others have suggested and slipping in a new battery.
As for iPhone or Android the differences are pretty minimal now (IMO). It goes down to small things and basically boils down to which ecosystem you want to be in. You will be happy using either.
If you don't want to upgrade you might want to try cleaning the charging port as others have suggested and slipping in a new battery.
As for iPhone or Android the differences are pretty minimal now (IMO). It goes down to small things and basically boils down to which ecosystem you want to be in. You will be happy using either.
You can get a Mint condition iPhone SE for less than $100, if cleaning does not help solve the problem.
If you want continued iOS updates though you should probably look into an iPhone 7 or 8 though. I think this is probably the final year that the SE gets an operating system upgrade.
If you want continued iOS updates though you should probably look into an iPhone 7 or 8 though. I think this is probably the final year that the SE gets an operating system upgrade.
As has been said several times; Clean the port then try charging again.
Assuming the phone is faulty, you are being a bit unclear in your question. iPhone is a collection of product lines from one vendor, and Android is an operating system that is deployed over several vendors and product lines. On the software level, iOS is pretty good, but so is Android. On the hardware level a phone running Android can range from poor to superb in terms of quality depending on manufacturer and product line. iPhone is almost always pretty good in terms of hardware. With that in mind iPhone is a safe bet in terms of software and hardware, but Android can be too if you pick a flagship model from a respected vendor.
Assuming the phone is faulty, you are being a bit unclear in your question. iPhone is a collection of product lines from one vendor, and Android is an operating system that is deployed over several vendors and product lines. On the software level, iOS is pretty good, but so is Android. On the hardware level a phone running Android can range from poor to superb in terms of quality depending on manufacturer and product line. iPhone is almost always pretty good in terms of hardware. With that in mind iPhone is a safe bet in terms of software and hardware, but Android can be too if you pick a flagship model from a respected vendor.
When testing this recently, it simply popped up saying "This app requires iOS 10 or newer. Would you like to download an older version?". I simply hit download and it worked straight away. I don't recall doing anything specific to trigger this, though.
This happened to me because gunk had gotten up in the charger insert place. I just took a paper clip, bent it, and gently scrapped inside. Look up some videos on it.
Thanks for your response. I will investigate this later, but I don't remember seeing the 2nd prompt to download an older version. That's cool.
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Felt pretty solid about fishing out some bizarre crumpled/compacted piece of copper out of my charging port last night after my last post in this thread, which did indeed let it charge. Was less thrilled to see one hundred posts telling me to do that exact thing checking this thread again right now.
Anyway this gives the phone some longevity. Its battery life is pretty miserable (I unplug it around 6am and it's usually close to dying by ~4-5pm, and I don't use it much at all), but I'm going to get a third-party to replace that sometime soon, can get it done for like ~$30 in my city.
still, thinking of upgrading sometime soon, still interested in hearing about what I should replace it with
Anyway this gives the phone some longevity. Its battery life is pretty miserable (I unplug it around 6am and it's usually close to dying by ~4-5pm, and I don't use it much at all), but I'm going to get a third-party to replace that sometime soon, can get it done for like ~$30 in my city.
still, thinking of upgrading sometime soon, still interested in hearing about what I should replace it with
Heh. That's how my 6 died over summer. And yes we tried cleaning the port. Fixed it with a cheap aftermarket part off eBay since ifixit couldn't send one to me before I went on vacation and i swear that cheap port had wierd issues that ended up killing my battery and making my phone die randomly. So replaced it with an 11 pro. Which I love a lot more than I ever loved the 6 (my least fav iPhone and yet my longest kept).
morall of the story. If you fix your iPhone don't use cheap parts off eBay. Or do if you secretly want justification for finally replacing your phone ;).
morall of the story. If you fix your iPhone don't use cheap parts off eBay. Or do if you secretly want justification for finally replacing your phone ;).
Try a new charging cable and/or adaptor before buying a new phone.
Also - never insert anything into the charging port, or blow at it with compressed air. Use a vacuum.
Hmm...I'm on the verge of replacing my nearly 5 year old iphone 6 and think the battery's on its last legs. Not surprised (but never knew) that 3.5 years is an expected shelf life with heavy usage. Thanks for stating this.
you can replace the battery fairly cheaply. If it's fast enough for you then you can keep it until there next big redesign.
get an iphone 11 for the camera and then buy a cheap android phone for like $100-200 for game testing.
