I miss replaceable batteries.
EU forcing manufacturers to all have removable batteries again by 2027.
Nothing like “upgrading” your phone’s life back in the day by buying a bigger battery replacement
Replaceable batteries. I don’t think it means popping open a battery cover like the old days, I think it means a way to DIY repair to replace the battery.
I am pretty sure the free market forces will cause phones without re moveable batteries to not sell as well
If only batteries where still that easy to replace. I’d never buy a new phone again.
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
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
What kind of settings do you need to use, to optimise for battery service life?
I wonder what this is gonna look like on AirPods. I think (?) this applies to them too.
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.
Know any banking apps that work with a custom rom?
What about your national governments designing an identification or tax related app that works on a custom rom?
Good luck with that.
The EU has mandated that every phone should have an easily replaceable battery by 2027
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 🤷♂️ 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.
So idk where your get your stuff serviced, but, where I am in the US it will cost at least 100 dollars to replace this part. If the glass back breaks in the process, a lot more. Phone companies have shown we can manufacturer phones with same quality, same features, same durability, and still have a serviceable battery. We can screw instead of glue the thing together.
Paying someone 10 dollars isn’t bad, but, thats typically not the case. As I mentioned about the glass backs they can break easily no matter how good you are.
Funnily enough, this made the phone less likely to break, as it would offload a bunch of the impact force onto the battery.
At least the phone still works after one drop.
Just like my 🎤
My old phone explodes into three parts when it falls down: Cover, battery and SIM card. You know what? I’ve thrown that shitty old thing dozens if not hundreds of times on the floor and it still works. Unlike your precious $3000 smart phones that can’t handle a single face plant.
IF YOUR DEVICE IS HAND-HELD BUT CAN’T WITHSTAND A FALL FROM HAND HEIGHT, IT’S BROKEN BY DESIGN
