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Merry Christmas! My son's refurbished Pixel 5 phone is not charging using our existing cables and adapters...it was sold as fully checked/validated. Is this user error? Does it need a super powerful charger? Iphones and Huwaei phone are fine with the adaptor we have. Thanks for any help as this is not great on Christmas day.
Dunno.
I have a Pixel 4a and it used to be temperamental with charging until I updated the OS.
Can be fussy with cables but takes pretty much any charger (mine normally charges out of a Lenova Google clock).
I use all manner of chargers with the pixels I've had/have.
Leave in on for a good while as it might have been shipped totally flat. Always try another charger and lead of course though, a known working combo.
If no joy there are special boot up modes available,I think, to allow further diagnosis. I think...
I had this a while back with an apple product. It needed a very high power apple charger, and new cable, to "shock" it into working. Now it charges fine using any charger. But is still very sensitive to cables.
Thank you. A chromebook powerpack seems to have worked for now.
Sometimes takes 3 or 4 clicks of the cable with both my work iPhone XR and my old (personal) S10 galaxy when they are allowed to go completely flat.
Or dropping them on a charge pad for an hour
Leave in on for a good while as it might have been shipped totally flat.
This. My Pixel 6 took about 10 minutes to start charging the first time, apparently down to the Adaptive Charging self-calibrating in the first use after a factory reset. Been fine ever since.
Mine is a pocket lint magnet. Wooden Tooth pick or cocktail stick pulls out all manner of crap. As I use a wireless charger 99.9% of the time the problem normal obviously normally surfaces when overnighting in the mountains and it's a proper issue.
Recent OS changes seem to have made it more sensitive to moisture in the port too, disabling it until it dries out.
My pixel 5 is a bit iffy with charging, any lint in the charging port renders it useless.
Came here to point out that the USB c sockets are a fluff magnet. A good, productive pick with a non conductive, non scratchy thing is always both productive and satisfying for me.
USB c sockets are a fluff magnet.
This is my biggest problem with this socket design. Lightning sockets are a doddle to hook fluff out of with a bamboo toothpick, but because USB-C has the contacts on the blade in the middle of the port, there’s so little room either side to get anything in there, unless you carefully shave the sides of a toothpick with a very sharp blade.
I used to use a Samsung tablet outdoors in all winds and weathers, and it wouldn’t charge because water had got into the socket. I used to bring it home because other people on an earlier shift, who hadn’t charged theirs overnight would just take mine and leave a nearly flat one, and I’d spend at least half an hour with a hairdryer and little twists of tissue to dry it enough to charge!
Not looking forward to Apple adopting it. Agree that it’s quite satisfying when large lumps of fluff get extracted from the port.
More satisfying than bellybutton fluff, certainly.