Whether my Galaxy Nexus phone is plugged in or not, it always thinks it’s charging. At the same time, I’m losing 20% of my battery life every hour. Visions of having to re-Jelly Bean a replacement unit wake me in the middle of the night. Everything turns black.
Then it occurs to me that I could fix this myself. If the phone’s discharging that quickly, there’s a short somewhere. If I look at the bottom of my phone, I see only one pin in the charging port – a tongue, really – so that has to be the culprit, right? Let’s say I’m right.
I took a piece of cardboard1 and slipped it under the tongue, and bent the tongue up, away from the bottom of the port, thusly:
The phone hiccup’d, and went back into a non-charging state. I am relieved.
- I could just as well have used a toothpick or a straw. As long as it doesn’t conduct electricity, it should be fine. ↩
a technology job is no excuse 
Thank you! It worked for me as well. Something (very small) was stuck between the tung and the bottom. Lifted the tongue with a toothpick and phone is back to non charging state. Gracias!
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My phone does this too, the fix I’ve found is to shut the phone off and pull the battery out for a second after disconnecting a USB cable….
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