Mobile phone USB C charging port belly button fluff

[Shortfall]

Think about a wirelessly charging mat instead for the phone and stick a port cover to only be removed when you don't have access to the mat.

This. Even if you don't have wireless charging its still worth getting some usb bungs from Amazon and removing to charge.

 

[T4tomo]

Common problem. But DON'T use needles. A cocktail stick is better, or tge aforementioned plastic bristle...

I get the concern of metal into a metal port, but a cocktail stick is actually too fat, more likely to damage by bending the middle bit. As long as you'e careful a needle is fine. A stiff plastic needle shaped object would be best, but they aren't a household item.

 

[Homers Double]

First world problems.

 

[Shortfall]

First world problems.

True but it happened to me with a handset that wasn't wirelessly chargeable and I had to scrap it because it wasn't worth the cost of the repair I'd been quoted. I was hoping to keep it another 12 months and ended up buying a new handset instead. The bungs cost pennies and save all that hassle and expense.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I used to be a teacher in a secondary school

This was a common problem with girls who kept their phones in their bag

exactly what it was that I dug out of their USB sockets was nobody's business!!!

(and no - they were not allowed to use phones in school at the time - but they were allowed to have them "for safety")

 

[ColinJ]

Thank you for confirming the bleeding obvious Colin, did you play the Major?

Ha ha. It prompted me to check when mobiles first came out. I would have guessed the early 90s but I forgot about those brick phones with external aerials that stockbrokers, billionaire businessmen, and rock stars used to flaunt in the 80s.

Think about a wirelessly charging mat instead for the phone and stick a port cover to only be removed when you don't have access to the mat.

I use wireless charging most of the time to save wear and tear on my phone's USB socket and charging cable, having had USB connections fail over the years. 30-40 minutes a day is usually enough to keep the phone at 50-80% charge.

 

[presta]

Ha ha. It prompted me to check when mobiles first came out. I would have guessed the early 90s but I forgot about those brick phones with external aerials that stockbrokers, billionaire businessmen, and rock stars used to flaunt in the 80s.

The Motorola DynaTAC was the first. We had one in the lab, it was like something from another planet compared to anything we were making.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynaTAC

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQJ1SRE0YN8

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The Motorola DynaTAC was the first. We had one in the lab, it was like something from another planet compared to anything we were making.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynaTAC

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQJ1SRE0YN8

First one I had was a brick on top of a very heavy second brick and connected by wires

I was given it when I went away for a weekend and "some people" at work were worried that they might need me
well - it had been booked off for months so they had to find an alternative

and that was it

not a lot of use - the battery was fully charged when we left the hotel in Swindon to get to RAF Fairford

2 hours into the show I checked and it was flat

apparently the company didn;t go bust so it must have been OK

but Gods it was heavy!

 

[DCBassman]

I get the concern of metal into a metal port, but a cocktail stick is actually too fat, more likely to damage by bending the middle bit. As long as you'e careful a needle is fine. A stiff plastic needle shaped object would be best, but they aren't a household item.

It's not about metal-on-metal but about possible short-circuits...That would really ruin your day.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Ha ha. It prompted me to check when mobiles first came out. I would have guessed the early 90s

I remember first seeing them in the early 90s

but I forgot about those brick phones with external aerials that stockbrokers, billionaire businessmen, and rock stars used to flaunt in the 80s.

Around here it was "business men": builders mainly
Still, I can't remember seeing any before the early 90s.

 

[Drago]

You need a new phone! I know of one for sale.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ha ha. It prompted me to check when mobiles first came out. I would have guessed the early 90s but I forgot about those brick phones with external aerials that stockbrokers, billionaire businessmen, and rock stars used to flaunt in the 80s.

I was oncall late 80s and originally I had a pager about the size of a harmonica. No display on pager, so had to call operations from a landline to find out who had paged me. In 1990 there was a Motorola briefcase mobile you sometimes got. If you were lucky you got a mobile similar in footprint to below. These are the analogue mobiles available in 1990 pre SMS etc. Now 36 years ago! They did have better battery life than modern smartphones. But then you only used them for calls.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I was oncall late 80s and originally I had a pager about the size of a harmonica. No display on pager, so had to call operations from a landline to find out who had paged me. In 1990 there was a Motorola briefcase mobile you sometimes got. If you were lucky you got a mobile similar in footprint to below. These are the analogue mobiles available in 1990 pre SMS etc. Now 36 years ago! They did have better battery life than modern smartphones. But then you only used them for calls.

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That is TINY compared to the first one I was issued with!!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That is TINY compared to the first one I was issued with!!!

The briefcase short straw made up for it. It was a briefcase you opened. You pulled up an aerial. Then a handset with cable to main unit.