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My cousin's iPhone 6 stopped charging a few days ago. Everything works, but it seems like the port for charging is worn out or something and wouldn't recognize/

My cousin's iPhone 6 stopped charging a few days ago. Everything works, but it seems like the port for charging is worn out or something and wouldn't recognize/charge when being plugged in. He is visiting from Australia and he took a lot of pictures lately with his phone. So he went to the Apple store in New York to get it fixed (in the hope to save his photos/data). They told him that they'll give him a discount for a new iPhone 6 (same model) for just ~$270 or there's no way to fix it. I thought changing the charging port should be relatively easy. Now it is certain that my cousin will lose all of his photos in the old phone unless he gets it fixed at an unauthorized repair center.

bpicolo 9y ago
I've had to pick dust out of the port with a paperclip a few times
- k-mcgrady 9y ago
  This. They cleaned it for me at the store but it sounds really similar to what's going on here. It is a very common problem though so it would be weird of them to miss it.
- programmertote 9y ago
  Yeah, he told me that he did similar thing in the past before and it worked. Now that trick no longer works for him unfortunately... Thanks for the tip though!
  - Majora320 9y ago
    Try buying a spray canister of compressed air, works wonders for cleaning dusty electronics.
scarface74 9y ago
With all of the things that can happen to a phone -- damage, loss,theft etc. I would never trust any data that I cared about to remain on the phone. I would be auto syncing like crazy over iCloud or Google Photos.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  Why i love having the SD there, because it allows me to yank the storage out in case i didn't have time to get the sync going before something died (syncing over the mobile connection can be expensive and unreliable).
icebraining 9y ago
In the smartphones I've seen (not iPhones), the port is directly soldered to the main board. It's not hard to replace if you're handy with a soldering iron (I've done it myself, and I'm no pro); my uninformed guess is that Apple only allows replacing full parts, rather than do invasive fixes.
chiph 9y ago
Have him take it by Louis Rossman's shop. He does board-level repair on Apple products. https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ https://www.rossmanngroup.com/

bpicolo 9y ago

I've had to pick dust out of the port with a paperclip a few times

k-mcgrady 9y ago
This. They cleaned it for me at the store but it sounds really similar to what's going on here. It is a very common problem though so it would be weird of them to miss it.
programmertote 9y ago
Yeah, he told me that he did similar thing in the past before and it worked. Now that trick no longer works for him unfortunately... Thanks for the tip though!
- Majora320 9y ago
  Try buying a spray canister of compressed air, works wonders for cleaning dusty electronics.

scarface74 9y ago

With all of the things that can happen to a phone -- damage, loss,theft etc. I would never trust any data that I cared about to remain on the phone. I would be auto syncing like crazy over iCloud or Google Photos.

digi_owl 9y ago
Why i love having the SD there, because it allows me to yank the storage out in case i didn't have time to get the sync going before something died (syncing over the mobile connection can be expensive and unreliable).

icebraining 9y ago

In the smartphones I've seen (not iPhones), the port is directly soldered to the main board. It's not hard to replace if you're handy with a soldering iron (I've done it myself, and I'm no pro); my uninformed guess is that Apple only allows replacing full parts, rather than do invasive fixes.

chiph 9y ago

Have him take it by Louis Rossman's shop. He does board-level repair on Apple products. https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ https://www.rossmanngroup.com/