Hoping someone can help me out - the charging port on my F5 is knackered, need to charge up my battery so I can recover my data… (Hope it’s okay to post such a niche request. Grateful for any help)

I can’t find any communities or angels listed, and those places aren’t particularly near!

Perhaps it is an idea to go a local electronic shop. To see if an external charger could help you.

What do you mean by an external charger?

External chargers look like this :right_arrow: External universal chargers for Fairphone batteries . The FP5 battery is comparatively wide though, so a fitting one might be hard to find. In my own 250,000-inhabitant city, I did not find any such charger in a bricks and mortar store, but you might be …

Hmm okay, I’ll do some digging, thank you. And thanks so much for the share

Could even do London at a push, I’m there a fair bit…

So its good to contact the London Heaven via e-mail if not done already

Yes, Julian was very supportive but he’s got a Fairphone 4 so no good…

Anyone near Manchester UK with a Fairphone 5?

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Meaghan July 6, 2026, 12:09pm 2

Sure.
You could also try a local Angel - not sure which would be the closest: Edinburgh, London or Hanworth given it is virtually impossible to post batteries..

or try the local communities