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> Generally, as long as you keep the phone plugged in, the battery should be safe virtually indefinitely What is your source on this? I've replaced the batter
by crazygringo 11mo ago
> Generally, as long as you keep the phone plugged in, the battery should be safe virtually indefinitely
What is your source on this?
I've replaced the battery in always-plugged-in iPhone 3 times over 10 years because it was expanding into a spicy pillow.
I too want a way to run phones directly off of USB power, without a battery present.
- jvanderbot 11mo agoGo to ifixit.com, look up your phone's battery replacement steps, stop half way through :)
- crazygringo 11mo agoYeah the first two times Apple did it for me. Then Apple stopped supporting battery replacements on a phone that old, so I ordered a battery replacement kit on Amazon and did it myself, with ifixit.com's assistance. Never again. I was genuinely shocked the thing turned on once I closed it up. It's one thing to have a conceptual understanding of how tiny the components inside a phone are. It's another thing to actually be trying to seat a plug into a socket with tweezers and just have no idea how you're supposed to tell if it's fully inserted or not.
- akoboldfrying 11mo ago> I was genuinely shocked Could have been worse -- the sentence could have ended right there...
- jvanderbot 11mo agoI agree. But for removing batteries, could not be easier. The ifixit guides are especially good because they warn you of the stuff you could never anticipate when opening glued on cases.