Hey everyone and welcome back to the Sawickipedia! Today we're looking at a
Google Pixel 2 which has some charging issues. Now a friend of mine gave this to
me and yeah it's not charging at all and now the battery's officially dead so it
doesn't even turn on. So we're gonna have a look see if we can repair it and
hopefully we can, but I'm gonna start off with the most basic stuff first so let's
get it on the bench and have a look. Okay so first thing we're gonna do before we
even try and pull this apart, and I recommend doing this with any phone
regardless of what it is - remove the case just to make sure that the USB cable is
not being blocked by the case itself. And I think as you can see here there is
actually a gap so the USB cable is not going all the way in, so
definitely the first thing you want to do is just make sure the USB port is
actually clear of any built-up gunk. If stuff like lint or anything gets in
there, you know the more you plug the cable in the more you're going to
compress that down. So I've just got a little toothpick here and we're just
gonna see if we can pull anything out of the USB port, and yeah already we can see
there's all kinds of crap coming out of there. Obviously try not to break off the
toothpick inside the USB port but I do recommend using something that's not
metal because you don't want to damage the USB port itself otherwise you'll
definitely have to replace it in the long run. But yeah there's definitely a
lot of crap stuck in here and it just keeps coming, nasty!
Where have you been? Actually I don't want to know where this
phone's been, probably got a rough idea,
yeah we won't go into that. It just keeps coming out and yeah like I said if
there's something stuck in there and you're continually shoving the USB cable
in obviously trying to get it to work properly it's only going to compact it
even more, so always do this before you go
pulling the phone apart and with any luck you won't have to even try to open
up the phone. I was prepared to do that but I'm hoping that now that that's
cleaned out we won't actually have to pull it apart, and yeah there's
all kinds of crap here, some of its even flown off out of shot. Oh that feels a
lot better, a nice snug fit. There it is, it lives!
So unfortunately sorry guys um we're not going to be pulling apart a phone today
but it's kind of a good thing, that's the easiest way to fix you phone if it's
not charging... oh hang on what's happened to my little charging symbol, see if
it'll turn on, no it's the screens just gone to sleep. Yep it seems to be working
just fine so yeah clean out you USB port before you go
pulling everything apart and potentially giving your phone away or paying
hundreds of dollars for repairs when you don't need to. Yeah what else can I say?
Thanks for watching, I hope this has helped you out, hopefully it saved you
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