So, my phone stopped charging all of a sudden Wednesday night and I couldn’t figure it out. I thought maybe I just needed a new charger, so yesterday I went out on a mission: to procure a new charger while avoiding Wal-Mart at all costs.
I went to the closest Family Dollar, but if there’s one thing I have learned in this life it’s that Family Dollar is junk. And this particular Family Dollar is pretty much the junkiest that ever junked, to put it mildly. So I decided to try CVS next.
CVS had the chargers under lock and key, and while I was kiiinda tempted to buy one there just because I’d get to press this cool little doorbell looking thingie and summon one of the employees to me like I’m some VIP customer, I really didn’t want to pay $24.99 for the pleasure. Because dude, for a charger? Just…no.
Then I went to yet another Family Dollar and struck out yet again. Why did I not remember that Family Dollar is junk? 😛
Finally, at Walgreens I found the Holy Grail: Type C USB charger, and only $9.99. Huzzah! I felt a little bad because the cashier asked me if I had their card and I told her, “No, I don’t usually come here often enough.” Don’t take it personal, Miss Cashier, you were actually really nice and you smiled at me and everything, which is, like, Unicorn level for a Springfield store cashier… it’s just CVS is closer, you know?
Well! I get the charger home and I’m down to less than 10% power and getting kinda antsy to put this whole thing behind me but it was not to be… because when I plug in the charger my Galaxy starts wailing at me like a fire alarm, “Moisture detected, Moisture detected!” Nothing I do can stop it.
So I wipe the port with Q-Tips and paper towels and whatever else that’s dry that I can find and it’s still doing it and I’m despairing as I frantically search the internet for help. I see there’s something called a wireless charger, where you put your phone down on this little pad thingie and it somehow charges through the Force or whatever… these are magical times we live in, kids 😁
Unfortunately, this means I have to drive to freaking Wal-Mart after all. It’s 7:00 at night and Wal-Mart is packed to the gills and I hate busy stores so much that I try to only go during off-peak hours when the store is open “just for me”, but hey, I did manage to score a wireless charger. Plus bananas, because…bananas, hello 💜
However, the wireless charger was not my friend either. I don’t know if it just didn’t recognize my phone or what but I put it on the pad and the blue light started blinking… and at first I got all excited because I thought, “Oh, hey, it’s working!” But it turns out it totally wasn’t. See, according to the instruction sheet squished in with the charger you want the light to stay solid, not blink. The instruction sheet also assured me the charger was compatible with Galaxy phones, but hey, we can’t win ’em all 😝
I thought maybe if I took off the case it would somehow recognize my phone. And that’s when I discovered that my good old Galaxy did know what it was talking about when it was blaring, “Moisture detected! Moisture detected!” at me. Because the back of my phone was all wet. I have no idea how this happened but I’m going to blame my cat Millie 😁
But anyway, I dumped my poor little phoney that had been through so much already into a bag of rice to dry it out overnight and I’m happy to report that it worked. As of this morning at 9:53 AM my phone is at 63% charge and climbing. I get panicky when the charge drops below 70% so this has been quite the ordeal 🙃
If you take nothing else away from this post I hope you’ll remember that Family Dollar is junk.
Always 😛