Chosen Solution
When I plugged my phone into charge in my car charger yesterday on the way to work it didn’t start to charge so I plugged it out and tried again. I then started to get a smell of electrical burning, I immediately plugged everything out. The phone then proceeded to loose charge incredibly quickly over the next couple of hours. I had actually been planning to switch out the battery that evening anyway because it wasn’t holding charge very well anymore regardless of this incident. The new battery and a firmware update have definitely helped quite a bit but it’s still not right, it’s still loosing charge a lot quicker than I would expect. What else could be the issue? Oh and it will now only charge with certain lighting cables, ones that worked great before this won’t charge it anymore. So I’m thinking new lightning port?
A few causes and symptoms:
- Blown U2 Tristar charging ic from using non-MFI certified apple lightning cable with car charger
- Burnt out charging port which would require changing the charging port assembly
- Battery gone bad, if this is the case then just replacing the battery would fix it. You can check battery information using 3UTools which is an Windows application you download from the internet.
my wifes phone has had the same issue, from the research ive found youll need to replace the charging port (lightning port) sucks but there tutorials for it.
