I’ve had my Sony Ericsson K800i phone for over a year now and yesterday I found that my phone just wouldn’t charge at all. And as a result I spent the night disconnected from the world, well almost (thank the lord for Facebook). After spending over an hour trying to fiddle the charger connector into all kinds of weird and wonderful angles my phone was still as dead as a dodo. To add insult to injury it didn’t even light up once to say that there was power getting in at any time during the hour.

I’d just about given up on getting my phone charged without taking into the O2 store and having it set off to be fixed.

While at work on my hours lunch break, I thought I would have one last attempt at getting the thing to charge because I had an hour to kill. And by shear luck managed to work out what might have been the problem and got my phone charging.

So here’s how I did it:

Step One: Cleaning The Connectors

1. Get a staple (or a paperclip, thanks phil!)
2. bend the staple so it’s straight (extra length)
3. Now carefully scrape any dirt and fluff off the metal connectors on the bottom of the phone, be careful not to press too hard or you will scratch the metal off and prevent any connection being made.
4. Using the same method try to remove any dirt in the rim where the connection is made.
   
5. Now try to charge your phone – No luck? Read on..

Step Two: Cleaning The Charger Holes

Something that I completely overlooked when I was cleaning my phone of dirt was if there was any dirt stuck in the holes that the charger pushes into on the phone.

1. Using the staple try to get out all the fluff that gets trapped in the 2 holes either side of the metal connectors.
2. This requires some force as the fluff in my phone was well compacted.
3. Keep at this for 10minutes, getting into each corner of the hole and pushing hard.
4. Now try to charge your phone again.

This final step worked for me and allowed me to once again charge my phone.

I hope this works for you as it did for me. If so drop me a comment, it takes seconds and lets me know that my time wasn’t wasted.

Step Three: Charger Connector/Phone Angles

For those that are still having trouble trying different charging angles can sometimes work a treat. For this the best technique I have found is:

1. Place the charger into phone as normal
2. Now pull the left side of the charge out leaving the right side in to phone, not pushing or pulling to hard and with a lot of luck your phone might begin charging again.

Final Note

I hope that one or more of these techniques get your phone charging again because I know how much of a pain it can be without your phone. If there were any bits you are unsure of or any other techniques that got your phone working again then please leave and comment and I will add/correct/update anything that I can.

I hope this was of help.

All the best.