Time for a new cable or a clean

Step 1: clean out the lint from the charging port

Step 2: make sure you actually got all the lint out and there isn't any hiding to the side.

The sim ejector pin that used to come with phones can sometimes just barely fit between the center blade and connector housing. Otherwise a paperclip with a slight hook bent into the end can work well. Flosspicks work well to dig out the lint.

Also consider getting a wireless charger for nightly charging if your phone supports it.

I switched over to magnetic charging cables a few years back, and would never look back. Keeps the port protected, protects against wear out, and the cables are now universal with Micro USB and lightning devices.

It's me! New Cable!

German has a word for this: Wackelkontakt

I hear a lot of people saying to clean the port and I agree. I've found with usb c it's often very difficult to find something thin enough, but I've found a staple to be surprisingly good at the job

I'm just looking at this picture of the Hulk wearing himself as a hat.

Get a dental pick and use it to pull the lint out of the charging port

I have had this happen so much more with USB-C than microUSB connectors. I think it's just a matter of how it locks in place. MicroUsb would very often (though not 100% of the time) have some prong like things on one side that held it in place better.

USB-C just kinda snaps over a tiny PCB and has room to wiggle around, which, at least in all the devices I've had break on me this way, the PCB itself becomes loose or even snaps off from constantly being flexed or jostled around by the cable.

They should put those little prong/wing things on the top and bottom (in a way that doesn't mess with the omnidirectional nature of the cable) of the metal oval to lessen this, IMO.

When we had real headphone jacks the phone lasted longer because you didn't use the same port for both audio and charging, wearing it out faster.

This is funny?

I rolled over a brand new cable with my office chair. Now it does this. I’m forcing myself to use it for a year as penance.

...did you try cleaning the port?

A thin wooden toothpick (those rounded, not those flat), can do the job.

I just used my new phone to take a picture of my old phones charging port, which worked only with some cables at certain angles, and, yeah... It's a horror show up in there

my phone charging port has been inoperable for years. wireless charging is the only thing keeping it alive

For me:

USB-B : always doing this rather quiclky

USB-C : never does this

What about you?

Get a wireless charger. If your phone is less than ~6 years old it probably supports wireless charging. Can find them for as cheap as $10-15...

I know that from microUSB but not from USB-C. You have dirt in it? Try to scoop it out with a paperclip.

If your port is clean and the cable isn't messed up, maybe consider replacing the charging port or just get a wireless charger.

I just bring it to a phone repair place, and they spend about five minutes in the back cleaning it for free.

Yeah my phone is in this stage, so I mostly charge it wirelessly now.

Get some needle-nosed tweezers or something very thin and use it to dig out the obscene amount of pocket lint that compacts itself down in there. Keep trying even if nothing comes out at first. This works for me every time.

Meanwhile my phone lowers the volume by itself an I'm thinking how to fix it. I assume it's because of dust or something. Annoying ah with this random popping out and lowering volume when I want sound.

Used to deal with this a lot on my old phone (micro usb) cleaning the port out helped a lot, but it is hard if you don't have something thin enough to fit in, personally I used ESD tweezers I have on hand for electronics work, but even then I started having to do it once a week to get my phone to charge.

My steam deck just started doing this....

For my old phone I would put a drop of super-glue on the face of the USB-C cable, and let it dry.

Don't you have to replace the device if it's USB C because the compliant mechanism is in the port, not the cable?

worst case scenario, the usb port is replaceable on most phones without soldering