How to get a broken charging tip out of an appliance
When the tip of a plug snaps off inside an appliance, it completely blocks the connection and leaves you unable to tell what's wrong with the internal contact. This prevents the device from charging and makes standard cable replacement impossible without first removing the lodged piece.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Splicing or soldering the thin wires directly to the board inside the device
- 2Bypassing the battery and wiring a DC supply directly
- 3Testing with another wire or plug
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.