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I currently have the PowerPort 2 from Anker, and the plugs are loose. I have to move the charger before the it can charge my devices. Does anyone know how to open this?

I haven’t found anything online but I suspect that it is a clamshell type design, glued together something like this. You should see a seam all around the charger. Take a sharp utility knife and start to cut through it and eventually you should be able to pry it open. Let us know how it works out…you could even make a guide yourself for the benefit of others!

I drop it often the foldable plug broken.

  1. use cutter start to cut seam.
  2. use metal spudger and hammer knock seam horizontally.
  3. plastic open tool pry it. here is inside Anker Power Port 2

Thank you for your post. I was hopeful to open my Powerport 2 yet after cutting around the ‘seam’ I could not really get the pieces to separate. After some frustration I considered the main problem, the loose contact of the prongs, but from the perspective of the hammer in my hand. Was tapping the housing with a hammer hoping to loosen the glue or friction bond holding the pieces together. Then I decided to tap the prongs back downwards into the unit. After some light affectionate tapping the prongs seems a bit stiffer. (can’t overstate, I did not hit the device very hard at all, but pretty lightly on the prongs) That fixed my immediate problem and now for a week the Powerport 2 is working flawlessly again. Maybe next time I’ll have to go further and disassemble and fix from the inside out. But in summary, perhaps before gutting try a light hammering of the prongs to try and restore a solid connection. cheers

Thanks to the hints on this thread, I took my Anker IQ charger apart and built up the back end of each prong with solder (I also used the soldering iron to “plastic weld” the connecting pieces to the plastic piece). I reassembled it and that stiffened the prongs so that they no longer fold. But they do work!