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At some point, it’s an issue that many of us have experienced where your phone is on the brink of death at the end of a long day. You get home, you plug it in, and there’s nothing happening. That can be annoying enough, but it can even be more annoying when you don’t know what to troubleshoot
There are a few issues that may happen to your device making it refuse to charge completely, or it may simply charge really slowly; sometimes so slowly that it actually uses power faster than it gains it. We have emerged with a few ways to troubleshoot your charger issues if you are experiencing either one of these problems and to help you address the issue.
Download Ampere app
Ampere is a quite great tool to check whether your phone is trying to charge and how much it’s being charged. Essentially, when it charges, it defines how much current is drawn in from your smartphone as well. As a result, not only is the app great for seeing whether your device is charging at all, but mostly for seeing which method of charging is the best.
If the number appears green in the app, the device will charge, but if it’s an orange low number, the power will be used by your device. After you have accomplished each of the steps below, try using the app and see what changes are taking place. You can get the app from app stores
Try out a different source of power
In fact, it is completely possible that your phone or charger is not the problem at all, but instead the power source from which you are trying to charge. Try another socket or charge straight from your pc if you’re attempting to charge from the wall. Try using a power bank or Switch to a different port if you’re charging from the USB port on your PC. You have discovered the problem when your device starts charging when you change power sources, and you may need to consider hiring an electrician or fixing your computer port.
The charging cable is checked
Before you begin rebooting devices and attempting to fix USB sockets, there are two components that you should check: the wall adapter and the charging cord or cable. By far the most common charging problem is the charging cable, which makes sense as they suffer a lot of unpacking and rewrapping, stretching, and people attempting to plug them in at strange angles. The cable can be damaged by all of these things.
Chances are that you have a few cables around you, so try to switch the cable to another one to see if it helps. You might want to borrow one if you don’t have another cord to test out before you move on to a more radical approach.
Check the charger
Before you begin toying around with your phone, the other component to check is the wall adapter or charger. This is doubly important if you use an adapter where it is possible to remove the cable. It’s completely possible that it might have broken the USB port on the adapter. You can also read on how to fix fast charging not working on IOS devices.
The simplest way to check if the adapter is at fault, like with the cable, is to simply try charging with another adapter. However, you can also attempt to connect to your computer if you do not have access to some other adapter. If it charges the same phone and cable, the adapter is likely to be faulty although you might need to try several electrical outlets too.
Turn off your smartphone
While attempting to charge your phone, if you’re playing a graphic-intensive game, it’s possible that your phone uses power more quickly than it does charge, making it seem like it’s not actually charging. If you turn off your phone while charging (or at least turn off the screen), there’s little chance you’re going to be able to use power too quickly. You could sincerely speed up your charging time even by having to switch over to airplane mode. If you use an iPhone, you can also try to clean up your device to boost charging.
Check the socket for the USB
It is time to move on to a more technical thing once the cord and charging adapter is being ruled out as problems. The problem is often the tiny metal connector in the USB port, which can be slightly bent in a manner that implies that the charging cable does not make proper contact.
Switch off your phone to fix this, and remove the battery, if you can. Then take a pin or something of a similar size and straighten up the tiny pin of your phone inside the USB port. With this process, make sure that you’re not too hard on it as you could end up doing more harm than good. Then put the battery back in, then start your smartphone, and try to charge again.
Anything inside the USB port, like dirt, could be another potential problem. If that is indeed the problem, obtaining a can of pressurized air and blasting everything else in the USB port out there should fix the problem.
Replace the battery
It might be time to think about buying a new phone if you’ve gotten to the point where your battery is running out of life span. If that’s not an alternative, then it might help to replace the battery.
It is sometimes easy to diagnose faulty batteries as they will leak battery liquid or begin to swell a little. Of course, most phones today do have in-built batteries, so unless you have one of the few models that don’t, you’re probably going to definitely take the phone to a technician shop to see if they can help you in the whole battery replacement situation.
Update your OS or roll it back
Alterations to the software that runs on your machine can have a larger impact than you could think on the battery life. While newer Android versions are generally optimized to save battery life, the new software or how it handles battery life can sometimes not be handled by phones that are a little older.
You may have to roll back to an earlier version of Android if you discover that the charging problem started around the same time as a software update, although keep in mind that the installation of the updated operating system always keeps your device safer. To allow you roll back on your version of the software, there are plenty of tutorials out there, and you may need some technical expertise. You can also read on how to fix to allow access error on iPhone
Alternatively, it’s worth upgrading if you’re running an older Android operating system to see if that makes it easier with the problems of charging.
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