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I thought of buying a used iPad but was worried about running into the same issue (swollen battery). I will give some thought to walling off this device, maybe
by josefresco 1y ago
I thought of buying a used iPad but was worried about running into the same issue (swollen battery). I will give some thought to walling off this device, maybe on a guest network if I go the cheap Android route. There's also the Amazon Fire devices which I've owned a few of, and are reasonably easy to jailbreak. I probably have a niece or nephew with one lying around unused!
- leakycap 1y agoThere was a recently discovered issue with the tape layer (IIRC) on many lithium ion batteries across dozens of battery manufacturers. I think this was about 3 years ago now; batteries from any device manufactured more recently than that likely has the tape layer issue resolved and no longer will balloon up again. Be sure you do something like an outlet timer to let the battery discharge to at least 40% once a week, even keeping a device at 80% constantly is not great.