Android phone won't charge on laptop

[Cinque8]

Hello,

I have an Android 11 cell phone and a Dell Inspiron 3520 laptop computer..

For a few years, I would charge my cell phone, using a USB cable, on my laptop. But for some reason, my cell phone will not charge on my laptop anymore. I have tried using different laptop ports. But my phone still charges using a portable charger or a wall socket.

Has anyone else had this problem?
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Thank you.

 

[ocnbrze]

what about cables? have you tried different cables? what phone do you have? do you have current drivers installed on your pc for your phone?

 

[AugieTN]

Your USB connection is set to something other than charge, i.e. data transfer

 

[maggiem2481]

Maybe your laptop's USB ports have been damaged. You can try to charge another phone using the same PC to confirm it.

 

[Milo Williamson]

Charger, or clean out the USB ports using the system cleaner on windows ten, I have a few things that could help you out, Disk Clean up on your OS, also try to see if your phone is healthy for a clustering app that can disable it.

 

[Cinque8]

Hello Richard,

Thank you for your response. I am tapping on Build number, but nothing is happening. In the past, I have tapped on Build number, and Developer options and USB Debugging have come up.

 

[Cinque8]

Hi Richard,

Just to give an update. I did eventually get USB debugging up and running, but that didn't solve the problem. I tried everything from using different ports, using different cables. I cleaned the port on my phone with a toothpick and compressed air, but nothing fixed the problem. I did have a repair warranty on my phone with T-mobile, so I took the phone back to them to see if they could repair it. But they just gave me an identical pre-owned phone. Well, this phone works perfectly, and charges on my laptop. So now I am wondering if the way that I disconnected the phone from my laptop was the reason that the port failed?

 

[Dannydet]

No. Ports fail and that's probably what happened, nothing that you did wrong.

 

[Milo Williamson]

Yeah some ports just stop working almost altogether, other ports will last forever..