Help charging port is damaged ;_; what do I do..

[TuBitMittens]

I started getting the message in my notifications "slow charging, to charge faster use orginal charger" or something similar, whenever I plug in my phone using the charger that came with my phone. This has been a problem for awhile now but I didn't decide to address it until now. Recently i noticed that whenever I plug in my verizon charger that I'm getting the same message. I took the phone to the verizon store, and as a lady who worked there discovered, the inside of the charging port (bottom slot where the charger plugs in) is slightly damaged. I think part of one of the tiny the metal pieces is missing, or chipped or something but it's slightly hard to tell.
Could anybody enlighten me?? Is there any place in New York City that can fix this?? I KNOW that this cannot be extremely difficult to fix but as expected, the verizon store cannot help me. The phone still charges, but it doesn't do it properly and the battery life ends up being shorter when it goes down to 100%. Hoping somebody could enlighten me here.

 

[jackroo]

I started getting the message in my notifications "slow charging, to charge faster use orginal charger" or something similar, whenever I plug in my phone using the charger that came with my phone. This has been a problem for awhile now but I didn't decide to address it until now. Recently i noticed that whenever I plug in my verizon charger that I'm getting the same message. I took the phone to the verizon store, and as a lady who worked there discovered, the inside of the charging port (bottom slot where the charger plugs in) is slightly damaged. I think part of one of the tiny the metal pieces is missing, or chipped or something but it's slightly hard to tell.
Could anybody enlighten me?? Is there any place in New York City that can fix this?? I KNOW that this cannot be extremely difficult to fix but as expected, the verizon store cannot help me. The phone still charges, but it doesn't do it properly and the battery life ends up being shorter when it goes down to 100%. Hoping somebody could enlighten me here.

I'm not sure how much the part is but I know it's a very easy fix. I replaced one before and the main thing I had to do was just keep track of all the tiny screws. There are online repair videos on YouTube if you want to DIY but if not there are definitely phone repair shops in NYC

 

[lotus49]

You have three options.

You could buy an external battery charger and remove the battery to charge it. This will be cheap and effective but you might get a bit fed up of having to do this every time you want to charge your phone, especially if you only have one battery (so you wouldn't be able to use the phone while charging).

You could try to repair it yourself. This may well result in doing expensive damage to the phone that will prove to be very expensive. Modern phones are generally very difficult to work with due to the tiny parts but at least the power socket appears to be accessible without taking out the screen.

The option I would go for is just to bite the bullet and pay someone to fix it for you.