Do this. It worked for me.

Have you tried cleaning the port out, mostly it's crap built up in the port.

That's a tiktok thing. In the videos it's satisfying to pull out all the glue and pre-staged gunk from the port in one solid go, but in reality you have no idea how much dried glue is being left behind or how it's going to interact with the lint and dust in the port. You could potentially render the port unusable. Better to go with a soft pick and some compressed air.

Don't do this, just clean it out gently with a small scraper.

I only used Apple for a very short time, but their connector seemed pretty neat. Small and with satisfying haptics. Too bad they are so shitty about patents and standards.

I have yet to have a USB c port be ripped out of a device, I have had this happen to two USB micro b devices (ultra cheap). (USB c cords die relatively frequently though)

Ugggg I was so close to pulling to trigger for one on my last phone death. But I was doing all this comparison and pricing, and at the end of it all, realized they arent sold in my shithole country and had like a extra 200 hundy shipping price. So im still android and the ogle. But next time... pretty sure itll be fairphone.

By the way, any users of the Mint mobile service who have a fairphone who see this comment, please respond to me. Im still only like 90 percent sure I use one with that plan.

As long as the parts are available.

Haven't needed them myself, but I've heard stories where they couldn't get a replacement part because it was sold out for a long time. Which kind of defeats the purpose.

Still, it is such a robust phone.

Pocket lint + port with no cover = clogged ports that chargers can't plug into all the way. It's very common.

I almost completely ruined the charge port on my last phone by digging out lint and scratching the contacts. I don't use cases without port covers anymore.

If you want a sketchy but simple solution you can use the back of a sewing needle to poke the stuff out of the port. Be careful tho, you can very easily break the port.

I had one phone where it was the port, but I'm pretty sure it was water damage. It took one too many falls into puddles while fumbling with kids, carrying stuff and opening doors all at once

In my case it was actually the port, well not really the port, but a lot of pocket dust had gotten into the port. I spend some time with a toothpick to clean everything out and it was fixed. When you think you got it all there is probably more.

The cable is designed to break before the port.

Or the port is just full of pocket lint

I just started buying cheap xiaomi phones. Mine cost 120€ and it can do everything I want it to do.