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If your phone is having trouble and won’t charge, the solution may not be to simply change the charger. Follow these steps to find the root of the failure, whether physical or software
There is nothing worse than the feeling that the mobile is running out of battery. And there is nothing better than the feeling of coming home and connecting it to a network to ‘feed’ it and bring it back to life. But if it happens to you that no matter how much you connect it to the network, it does not charge the battery, or it gives you the feeling that it does not charge when in reality it is doing it very slowly, try doing the following:
Check the Charging Cable
The first thing is to take a look at the cable to which we connect the phone. In itself, it is one of the parts that usually suffers the most, since we fold it, roll it up for when we go out for the weekend, or we leave it permanently connected to the same place, perhaps near where we work, with the danger of being able to pass a chair to it. office above. It may be a thousand things, or just heavy use that the cable is stripped at the base of the connector, or along its surface . And if it is one of the new USB Type-C and you have bought it on Amazon, watch out.
Check the Adapter
The other half of a charging cable is the wall adapter, which with models like the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge + comes with fast charging elements that make them more efficient as well as suffer more wear and tear. The USB adapter may have a broken connection, a frayed or burned internal cable. The test is to connect the mobile phone to the PC with the cable, and if we see that it charges, then it is almost certain that the fault lies with the adapter.
Check the plugs
What if we are blaming the mobile phone or its peripherals when the problem itself is at home? If the mobile does not charge in one light source and it does in another, we already know that it is time to remove the plug or call the electrician. And the same if we load it by connecting it to the PC and it works on a USB and not on another.
Check the USB port
Another element that suffers the most when recharging a mobile phone is the USB port, since it not only collects dust (be careful, that may be the problem), but it also faces hundreds of wrong attempts when we try to plug in the power cord. reverse and insist until we realize it. Often the problem is physical in origin and concerns the metal plate in the port hole . If we want to try we can turn off the mobile, remove the battery if it is removable and try to straighten the plate with a clip so that the cable fits again.
Turn off the terminal
With increasingly complex games demanding more processing power, it is possible that even connected to the light the mobile uses more electricity than it charges. The test would be to turn off the mobile and connect it to the load again. Or if we don’t want to turn it off, simply remove the app, put the terminal in Flight Mode and check if it loads normally.
Check the battery
Sometimes that the mobile does not charge it can simply be due to the fact that the battery is dying. In this case, if the battery is removable, we can even look for physical signs such as a bulge in it and / or that it is spilling fluid . If the battery of our mobile is not removable, the thing is more complicated and technical service or a friend’s shop if we are not crafty.
Check the operating system
When it comes to thinking about a charging problem, we tend to associate it with a physical problem. But in itself it may be the operating system , since although the new Android are usually optimized to save battery, the most recent versions in older mobiles demand to use all the resources of the phone and therefore drain the battery more. At the same time, if we are on an Android version that is too old, we should update to a new one.
See if it’s really charging
To reliably check the amount of energy that the terminal receives connected to the light, nothing better than the Ampere application, a tool to check if your mobile is charging or not charging, and if so, how much it is charging or if it is actually using electricity, not charging it.