Phone not charging?

Hello, I'm here to help you out with your phone not holding a charge. There can be three problems with your phone. Those three problems can be any one from your charger might not be working properly, your battery might be overcharged, or your phone could have a faulty charging port.

The cheapest problem to diagnose is your charger. See if you can get another charger and see if your phone will charge with that charger. If it does, that means you just need to buy a new charger. Chargers can die relatively easy and quickly. A new charger would only set you back any where from 10-20 dollars.

If a new charger isnt the problem, see if your battery is distended. You can tell by removing the battery and seeing if the battery bulges in the middle. This bulge is from overcharging. Overcharging is when you leave your phone charged in overnight and leaving it on even when your phone is already fully charged. Most of the newer phones don't run into this problem but I see this problem a lot too. Common symptoms of your battery being overcharged is you only get 5 - 10 minutes of talk time on your phone. Your battery might say that its completely full but when you use your phone, the battery dies out almost instantly. In this case, you need to buy a new battery. A new battery will set you back anywhere from 20 - 30 dollars.

If neither of those solutions helped, you need to buy a new phone. This is because you have a faulty charging port. Since the charging port is located on the main board, repairing is often expensive. Most of the times, repairing would be just as expensive as buying a new phone.

I hope you keep this in mind the next time you ever run into this problem. This might save you the trouble to diagnose this problem or have someone mis-diagnose this problem.