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Originally Posted by haertig
If your charging port is grunged, you can clean it out with a sharp toothpick. The plastic ones are generally thinner than the wooden ones. If that's still too big to get in there, you could use a very small straight pin or needle. Yes, you really shouldn't be sticking metal down in there with the contacts, but you are probably not going to do any damage because it is a power input, not a power output. What are you going to do instead? You have to clean it out somehow. Maybe you could break off a plastic bristle from a toothbrush or a paint brush to use as your cleaning tool. Think creatively!
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This post raises an excellent point - lint/dust in the charging port is a strong candidate for why a device won't charge properly.
That said, sticking a toothpick or pin into the charging port is a very bad idea and can cause irreparable harm to the device. A far better suggestion is to use a new, dry soft toothbrush.