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I've got a fairly new Lenovo Ideapad (14aph8) which up until yesterday charged just fine. Now the ports don't accept any charger at all, even their official one.

I've tried holding down the power button to dump static charge from the battery but at best I get maybe 2-3 seconds of it recognising the official charger before it goes dead again.

Is there a home fix or should I just reach out for warranty?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Have you tried a different charger? Over the years I've had many chargers die. But only once did the actual laptop refuse power from a perfectly functioning charger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Check with Lenovo. They had a large number of Thinkpads with bad usbc ports. They might cover it outside of warranty.

A really long time ago they had a bios bug where if you did a battery test it would never end the test and be stuck with a turned off charge port and a dead battery, with no way to turn the test off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

yup, I've got 3 that have worked on the laptop in the past but none of them even light up the power LED (they work for my other laptops and devices). Weirdly, since posting this it seems to be charging on its OG charger after dumping the static for nearly 5 minutes and leaving it to its own company

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Try hitting the port and charger with some contact cleaner (computer off, charger unplugged).