Thursday, May 15, 2025

Armageddon delayed

Sorry, dear reader(s); I spent much of yesterday trying all the ways the internet tells me to get my Samsung mobile to charge, because it stopped.

One after another, I tried: different charging cables, connected to different outlets; using a wireless charger; cleaning the charging port with a pin and a clean toothbrush; forced restart; OS update. Nothing worked, and I was down to 27% battery.

Frantically I went to Samsung and looked up their “authorized” service, something called (I’m not making this up) ubreakitifixit (by Asurion). Then I spent about 15 minutes walking around the Clocktower shopping center in Herndon, because there are about 50 different business in the big building and all I had was a street address.

Fortunately, the very nice young geek used something more effective than a pin or a toothbrush to get out a crap ton of pocket lint, and restored my ability to recharge.

I spent the remainder of the day retiring to my fainting couch to recover.


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