bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2024 10:55 pm
Some corrections here...
Firstly, they aren't glued in. It's double sided tape like 3M contact strips and it's dead easy to get out. You just pull the strip and they come right out.
As for sealed phones, I'd rather have them. They are pretty heavily bomb proof these days and get a lot of abuse including immersion and fine dust. The trade off is an inconvenient battery replacement every 3 years or so. It's a poor engineering decision to add more unreliable mechanical devices and seals which are operated every 3 years or so. And the flat battery problem is solved by carrying a power bank or piggy back now if you really need it, which I doubt it seeing as everyone drives large power banks here.
Mine have been through hell and you know what? The moment they got rid of replaceable batteries and rolled out IP67 everywhere, these things have been considerably less trouble and I've had ZERO handsets fail on me (unlike the replaceable battery Nokia Lumia and Moto G phones which both failed on me due to liquid ingress despite being "water proof")
As for inflated batteries, this is ALWAYS because someone put the replacement off way too long. They degrade pretty rapidly way before that happens and start slinging battery warnings out (both Android and iOS). If you ignore the check engine light, it's your funeral.
Thirdly, the hilarious complaining about replacing the battery in a phone yourself versus the 99% of the time paying a car place to replace the one in your car just does my head in. It's almost as if the thing gets special treatment because it's smaller.
The finest one is where you regularly get some moron complaining about replacing his phone battery when their yearly dealer service bill for their Merc they only drive to Tesco in is twice the cost of a new phone...
Humans! I don't think people can see the forest for the trees. I only consider people are ignorant cheap arses who like moaning about things rather than leveraging them to do stuff.
Nah, I've never had a phone with replaceable battery die on me due to water ingress, you just need to treat the phone with some respect, you wouldn't just go driving your car through flood water without taking some basic precautions first, like checking the depth of said water etc, would you? Most of my phones have been ones with a snap rear cover and replaceable batteries, never had any issues whatsoever. Phones are like computer keyboards, treat them with respect, and they last for ages, provided you do due diligence in the first place and buy wisely.
Batteries in those flaming Apple phones have those blasted double-sided tapes, and I've changed many Apple batteries and never once have I succeeded by pulling the strips, the damn things just stretch to the point where they snap, and you then have to risk the fireball by the application of bleeding tools to try and prise the battery away from the remaining double-sided tape buried on the reverse side of the battery and noway to get the battery out other than thin bladed splodges hoping that you don't brick the phone or rupture the battery in the process. Compare that to a Samsung battery designed for user replacement, all encased in a nice metal case that does not need any force to remove from the phone so you get to see the battery bend like a banana because the double-sided tape refuses to let go.
Paying a car place to replace a car battery is also today for most cars essential as there are 3 types of car battery (4 if you count the Li-On ones in some EVs) as it is important to get the right battery, and also they will require having the ECU being recoded to ensure that the battery receives the correct charge currents. ECU's these days need to know the battery type, make, capacity and serial number in order to maximise the longevity of the battery. As the battery ages, the ECU and BCU units try to compensate for the effects of ageing by adjusting the charging characteristics. That means if you simply replace the battery yourself, even with the correct battery, the system will treat it as on older battery and thus shorten its life to maybe as low as 1 year. Of course, if you have the correct equipment, you can change and recode the management system in order to supply the correct amount of charge without knackering the battery. I can do myself, as I have a version of the manufacturer's computer diagnostics software and the interface to allow me to do that correctly.
Phones that are classed as waterproof are much like watches that sport a WR200 logo, really only meant to be treated as splash proof. I love Citizen Eco-drive watches, and they have as a standard a rating of WR200 meaning water-resistant upto a depth of 200 metres. This is fine for the odd accidental immersion in water, but is not 100% waterproof warranted. Whereas a Citizen or other equally good make divers watches are rated as 200M which 100% guaranteed waterproof at depths of upto 200 metres.
In short if you want a phone or watch to be 100% waterproof, pay the extra for one that is guaranteed to be so and has the correct certificates to back up the claim.
laugh.
