If there's dust/hair/lint in the connector (and there almost certainly is; I've seen Apple Geniuses fish an enormous amount of junk out of those connectors. Sticking a Lightning plug into the socket just packs the gunk down into the socket until you can't charge at all), then it's much safer to get it out with a plastic tool, which won't carry a static charge. Like this one:
Detailing pick
I wish Apple would come clean about this issue, because this is a problem that can occur with normal use. If you stick your phone in a pocket or purse, small particles and lint will go into whatever opening the phone presents. Isn't that how everybody carries their phone?
Unfortunately, Apple's support note has a 'refer to qualified service personnel' disclaimer:
"If your battery doesn't charge, or if your device shows a low-battery image, black screen, or "accessory not supported" alert, follow these steps.
Inspect the connector at the bottom of the phone:
Make sure that there are no bent pins in the connector.
Make sure that the connector is free from debris.
If there are bent pins or debris, please contact Apple Support.
Otherwise, continue troubleshooting."
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1476
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Mine started doing the same sort of thing.....it has gradually gotten worse and worse.
Bought the proper Apple brand cable and some off brand longer USB/Lightning cords and wonder if that caused some sort of mechanical wear to the internal connecting fingers that rub against the lightning connector tab...
Not really much help for an answer but I have decide to change out the lightning connector.
- de brian62
Same here. At first, it wasn't charging at all on any cable. Then I did a reboot and it started charging but on one side only.
I'm calling Apple and I suspect they'll swap out the phone. You shouldn't have to have a phone that only half works!
- de Kathleen Puls Andrade
Unfortunately mine has been doing the same thing for several months. Just about the time that I had upgraded from jailbroken iOS 6 up to the beta iOS 7s. I have an old 30pin clipusa car passthrough mount that has only a forward orientation and thus with the 30pin-lightening adapter can only mount the iPhone 5 forward. This is a problem for me as the iPhone will only charge from a backward orientation. No physical or water damage at all. One day it was working, the next it was not. Pretty crappy. I also tried several cords and adapters just to see if it was the hardware and each and every one will only work in the 'backward' orientation.
- de ncharlebois
OK - so here's a low budget fix. The graphite pencil fix.
The port on the phone can be cleaned out with a wooden cocktail stick. I spritzed a little Maplin £3.99 electrical contact cleaner in there for good measure.
That leaves you with the cable itself. You'll likely see that one of the little gold pins has gone black through oxidization on one side of your cable. This seems to be a weakness of the lightning design.
All you need to do is to colour-in the gold contacts with a normal graphite pencil, then wipe the excess graphite of by using the rubber on the other end of the pencil! Hey presto. The cable works again on both sides!!
This works because graphite is electrically conductive and slightly abrasive. So it cleans off some of the oxidised gold plate and replaces it with a new conductive layer of graphite.
- de facebook
I too have a problem charging iPad Pro !!! An really expensive problem...
All the cables I have including original Apple bought recently , are useless. They are not recognized by the tablet.
Fortunately I still have an old cable that I bought time ago but did not use it regularly because it wasn’t long enough. By accident I did ‘t throw it in the garbage.Desperate I searched for a solution to charge my iPad Pro fo witch I payd a lot of money. I take my old short cable and surprise. A little lightning apeared beside almost empty battery icon. . All those brand new cable recently bought did nothing. The 2 years old worked. Then I went to a store and asked if they still have lightning cables from two years ago. They flipped through the warehouse and gave me the last three pieces they had. Surprise again . ALL HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED BY THE IPAD .
Conclusion ? Either the old cables have something extra or maybe the recent production one has something missing .
1 hour ago by Dni Tm
- de Dni Tm
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