Funnily enough, this made the phone less likely to break, as it would offload a bunch of the impact force onto the battery.
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Maybe don't drop your phone
"maybe just don't have accidents"
-lowleveldata, 2024, solved all traffic accidents forever
Hey don't put words in my mouth. It's way easier to prevent dropping your phone than traffic accidents.
The only way to prevent ever dropping your phone is by gluing it to the table, and it still only a matter of time.
I mean... If people were routinely crashing all their cars to the point they must put them in protective rubber bumpercart material, yeah, maybe stop being so reckless.
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Huzzah!
if only someone had said it sooner. So many lives....
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Fairphone moment
Can't reproduce. My FairPhone is an indestructible tank.
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If only batteries where still that easy to replace. I'd never buy a new phone again.
It's why I haven't bought one since 2016.
You could easily spend a half hour getting it replaced for the battery+ $10 in labor if you actually cared and weren't trying to score internet points.
But people here will bitch like it's impossible to have a guy look at your phone for a half hour.
Why are you bitching about people wanting better, more servicable products? Fucking insanity...
I don't think they are better ๐คทโโ๏ธ and it takes 10 minutes to replace a battery every 3 years.
Most others didn't either. It's some nerd rallying call. It'll change nothing consumption wise. And I'm forced to fall with the downgrade.
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IME the battery isn't the issue, especially if you get a phone with a big battery to begin with.
It's the lack of updates that's the issue which means you can no longer use certain critical apps (banking, government, etc.) on your phone.
The phone becomes obsolete before the battery ever dies.
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With many phones its still somewhat easy, but you need to take the risk of e.g. breaking the back-cover (specially when its made of acryl or glass).
I swirched to fairphone almost exclusively because their phone has an easily swappable battery (it's very modular and easily repairable on top of that)
But if I'm not mistaken then there are new EU regulations coming that demand all batteries be replaceable, so hopefully this won't be an issue for much longer
I wonder what this is gonna look like on AirPods. I think (?) this applies to them too.
The first thing I did with my Fairphone was to root it, and tweak the internal BMS/charge controller settings via a terminal. My ~4 year old device battery pretty much still runs like new, still get 2 days of standby.
From what I read on the FP forums though, users running stock tend to swap out their batteries every 1-2 years, like I had to on my old Galaxy S5. Most manufacturers' default battery charge profiles target the longest runtime, causing batteries to really degrade quickly.
For consumers that upgrade every 1-2y they won't notice this issue, but for those of us who want their phone to last longer than that, we notice this really quickly... in these cases having a swappable battery is a must
On the topic of modularity, I had my FP's vibration motor die on me, that was a very easy fix of literally opening up the device, swapping the module, and done. Absolutely love it!
You were able to limit the charge/discharge to stay within 20/80% or something like that? That's awesome, i should look into doing that myself
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Yesss Fairphone is pretty awesome and still powerful :)
2027, iirc
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