phone repair

[JohnD]

I have a Samsung smartphone where the USB charging socket n the base is worn out and has intermittent contact. I have tried several new cables.

Any recommendations of a repair service?

I'd probably have a new battery as well.

I've seen utubes of people opening the case using heat to melt the glue and prying it off, but I (a) can't be bothered (b) might break it if I had a go myself.

 

[secureiam]

did it once myself and it wasn't too bad, most town centres seem to have a shop or two doing these sort of repairs and shouldn't cost the earth.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I've seen utubes of people opening the case using heat to melt the glue and prying it off, but I (a) can't be bothered (b) might break it if I had a go myself.

Leave it to the experts, they are well practised in opening them and such fine soldering as needed to fit a new socket, plus the tools needed. Rather than suffering the constant wear and tear of plugging and unplugging my Iphone, I use a magnetic adaptor. A tiny adaptor plugs into the phone, the charge cable has a magnet at the plug end, just bring the two together and they connect. They do identical ones for most phones.