I wonder if my pixel 7 pro that dies suddenly can do the same. I suspect the battery just packed up
I have a simillar setup but i kept the battery it acts like a ups
Why not connecting the battery with a cable and put a switch in it?
Remember the days when hou could just pop the back off and take the battery out?
And it would still run when you had it plugged in. I could remove the battery from my old Galaxy S2, plug it in and it would work. And if I remember correctly, the same thing went for most of the phones I had before that.
That's where I am today with my Fairphone.
I honestly held on to my old Nokia, replacing batteries and cases until Fairphone came along and then I jumped from 90's tech to modern day.
0-->100% in 10 seconds (with a 2nd battery)
Now plug the phone into a UPS so if the power goes out you're good for awhile.
This is obviously ridiculous.
So I’ll do it.
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Perhaps replace its aging battery with a new one. Then you have a built in UPS for ideal disaster recovery
Nah, an actual UPS with 7kg batteries is way cooler.
But I really appreciate the feedback!
Inefficient tungsten gravity batteries are so cool tho
Perhaps then some solar power as well. I think those ecoflow battery + solar can act as UPS too. Could power that server indefinitely 😂
Now we're speaking the same language!
Can you get a second identical phone. Or a third? I’m thinking perhaps load balancing and failover
Maybe not an identical one, but I did find an interesting Note 9 for around $40...
I guess this is foreshadowing...
Definitely take the battery out of that one
Yeah, for 40 bucks I get a phone with good specs and a free pillow!
Since when does a phone need a battery to run? It needs power, doesn’t matter where the power comes from.
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Unfortunately Pettyl is stupid enough to need the battery to boot, but smart enough to forget about it immediately afterwards.
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Since their burst power consumption started using more current than a capacitor in the charging circuitry could provide
Fun fact, this is also why Macbooks, at least some models, throttle the CPU if the battery is missing. My old Macbook went from 2.4 GHz to 800 MHz without the battery.
Yeah, what he said. I was just about to say the exact same thing…
When the battery in my wall mounted android tablet swelled i had to add a 10k resistor to the sense line, inject the 5V directly into the battery port and add a few capacitors to get it to work. But at least it won't cause a fire now.
Damn, I wish they still made phones with a removable battery
I just got a fairphone 6. Removable battery!
I'm still using my fairphone 5 :)
I used to keep a charged spare on me. And this was back when a phones battery life was like 3-7 days.
Stop making phones thinner God dammit. I don't want a thinner phone. I want longer battery life and a removable battery so I can fucking double the shitty longer battery life I get.
Didn't EU pass a regulation regarding that? If I recall correctly all portable devices sold in the EU after February will will need to have a user replaceable battery.
i'm curious to see how apple will workaround the regulation
Well... I was obviously wrong. Sorry.
Don't know if my knowledge was just outdated or plain wrong from the start, but good on you for still trying and respect for pulling that off.
AFAIK it depends on the device. I believe it's simpler to have a battery management system which keeps the battery charged when power is attached, and then a second separate system which powers the phone from the battery. That does lead to more wear on the battery though, so the better solution is to have a power management system which monitors the battery and keeps it within a set charge range, and additionally can supply the voltage needed to run the phone. Only when power is not connected does the battery power the phone.
From a quick google though, it seems that's only part of the picture. High-end modern phones will often require a battery present, as they use it to smooth out the power coming from the adapter, even though most of the power for the phone when the charger is attached comes from a direct power path.
You are absolutely fine!
People here, including you, have been very respectful and thoughtful, and I am all for feedback.
I don’t have the knowledge of the whole universe, do I? So please, by all means, I want to hear your critiques, it makes the project better and I learn along the way!
Anything made to be run from battery can work fine without one. Worst case scenario requires you to spoof some I²C communication to properly emulate a battery, but most devices and batteries are far dumber than that. DC is DC, and sometimes you just need to graft something on top for the other pins.
Source: My old laptops charging circuit failed, so I soldered the charger onto the battery pins instead. Then I replaced the actual battery with an Adafruit Itsybitsy 32u4 (because that what I happened to have available) that emulated the battery status of "Charging, nothing to see here, move along" and sent it via I²C
DO NOT skip step 5. It is VERY IMPORTANT.
My old Galaxy S5 would work without the battery, including bootup. So it's not entirely unexpected that other phones could also do so. I would say I can't imagine who would take the time out out of their day to just talk out their ass and claim something like this wouldn't work without trying it first. Except then I remember this is the internet, and people do that all the time.
Regardless, good on you for making this all work!
Nice.
There is often a check for battery that is effectively a check of resistance between sense and ground. Looks like that battery is labelled, you might be able to bodge a resistor between sense and ground on the phone and get it to boot without the battery?
Update! Apparently removing the battery also removes half the CPU lol.
I’ll keep you posted!
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