Unable to charge battery

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Just a brief message to say I received the the Ansmann universal charger Powerline Vario X an hour ago. Initial impression: Its contact pins seem to reach deep enough into the contact canyons both of the FP3 battery as well as the FP4 battery to trigger the Powerline’s charging display (no vertical battery position needed to fit the contact pins). I will create a standalone topic once I can provide more experience with it. Update 06/02/2022. Find the topic here:

External universal chargers for Fairphone batteries

Pre-sermon: What for?

Those who have followed Fairphone for a long time know that the charging port of a Fairphone is – very much like in other smartphones – a neuralgic point. When it doesn’t work, the whole device is soon becoming unusable until it is fixed. We have seen the spare part becoming unavailable and available time and again, sometimes after 1-2 weeks, but more than once, it took months. The FP2 bottom module that includes the charging port was the first spare part that Fairphone had …