Bad cell phone ac cord?

[GNRick]

My cell wasn't charging as fast as it used to. Since it was over 4 years old I figured it was the battery. A new battery was $35 so I bought a new cell for $80. Plugged it in with old cord and it too took all day to fully charge just like the old phone. Switched to new cord that came with the new phone and it charged much faster. Anybody ever hear of a bad cord?

 

[TexasT]

Any of that electric /electronic stuff gets worn over time. With the wife and four kids we go through charging cords like breakfast cereal. I buy em off eBay or amazon several at a time and in different lengths to keep everyone happy. I think you over spent on the battery too but that's me. Ten or twelve dollars usually gets a "new" battery.

 

[GNRick]

Any of that electric /electronic stuff gets worn over time. With the wife and four kids we go through charging cords like breakfast cereal. I buy em off eBay or amazon several at a time and in different lengths to keep everyone happy. I think you over spent on the battery too but that's me. Ten or twelve dollars usually gets a "new" battery.

I bought a new phone instead of a battery. Today I had the phone with me for about 3 hours. When I plugged it back in I found the battery was still at 98%. Old phone battery would have been 75%. So I guess the new phone was worth it.

 

[WH1]

Try to blow out the charging port, maybe full of lint.

 

[seedling]

My daughters and my wife were going through iPhone cords like they were going out of style. So I bought them the mesh metal cords. Which lasted much longer. However, my phone has a life proof case which requires real iPhone cord.

So I decided to stop spending money on cords and fix the original. And while it's ugly as H-E-Double Hockey Sticks, however, this cord is 3 years old (and has been ugly ever since I got it).

All I did was tape a piece of cardboard on each end where you grab the cord ends to unplug them? And I tapered down the cardboard stock (making the wide part thumbs width up near each end). Then I used duct tape and taped that sucker real good so the ends wouldn't move nor get pulled on. And that's is, got this cord when iPhone six first came out and it still works perfectly.

They all tend to break loose connection at the ends from people yanking on em. And you can't get women to stop yanking on em so you may as well fix it. Oh wait that didn't sound good did it??


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[seedling]

Yes it's fugly as heck, but nobody wants to steel it and it has lasted me forever.


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[Jerryl]

I have experienced bad cords.

The primary enemy of electric equipment is heat. I took a cord and cross drilled a hole through both plugs to help dissipate the heat.