Wearing out of Sony Ericsson charger connectors

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Kevin Reilly - 10 May 2004 22:26 GMT

Until last year I had an SE T68i, and after a couple of months of use I
noticed that the physical connection between the charger and the base of
the phone became somewhat weak, often requiring very careful positioning
if the phone wasn't to stop charging. I put this down to a one-off
defect with the charger.

In November I upgraded to a Z600 which came with a charger of identical
design. I now find that the combination of phone and charger is doing
exactly the same thing. To reliably charge the phone I have to plug in
the charger and wrap the lead over the back of the phone to keep it in
place.

Is anyone else seeing this or have I just been incredibly unlucky (or
heavy-handed) with my chargers? If it's a design flaw it needs serious
investigation; having your phone discharging instead of charging is a
recipe for trouble.

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PDA Man - 11 May 2004 01:57 GMT

First Ive heard of it. Let me ask you, do you just "pull" the charger out of
your phone in a straight out kind of way or do you kind of angle it out
while you pull, kind of like grasping the end of the charger and twisting it
down while you remove it? if u get my drift?

> Until last year I had an SE T68i, and after a couple of months of use I
> noticed that the physical connection between the charger and the base of
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> "We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container."
> Sign in Santa Fe gas station

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Kevin Reilly - 11 May 2004 07:39 GMT

>First Ive heard of it. Let me ask you, do you just "pull" the charger out of
>your phone in a straight out kind of way or do you kind of angle it out
>while you pull, kind of like grasping the end of the charger and twisting it
>down while you remove it? if u get my drift?

The latter. If nobody else is seeing this then it's clearly something
I'm doing wrong. I need to investigate it. It could well be
environmental (contacts tarnishing rather than a physical mismatch).
Damned annoying, though, when I put the phone on to charge overnight and
the next morning I have about an eighth of capacity :(

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Stuart Moore - 11 May 2004 16:50 GMT

>> First Ive heard of it. Let me ask you, do you just "pull" the charger
>> out of
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> Damned annoying, though, when I put the phone on to charge overnight and
> the next morning I have about an eighth of capacity :(

I've never had this problem with my T68. I also angle the charger to
disconnect it. Odd...

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d3lf - 11 May 2004 20:07 GMT

I havent had that problem with my T28, T39, T65, T68, P900 or Z1010,
although the charger with the t65 was a bit funny, (ie you could hear it
beep to charge as the connection was a little flaky - but that was out of
the box. the previous charger worked fine).

> >> First Ive heard of it. Let me ask you, do you just "pull" the charger
> >> out of
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> I've never had this problem with my T68. I also angle the charger to
> disconnect it. Odd...

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srv - 27 May 2004 19:15 GMT

> The latter. If nobody else is seeing this then it's clearly something
> I'm doing wrong. I need to investigate it. It could well be
> environmental (contacts tarnishing rather than a physical mismatch).
> Damned annoying, though, when I put the phone on to charge overnight and
> the next morning I have about an eighth of capacity :(

me too! But cleaning the contacts solved the problem

srv

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