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		jonatron on March 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Reasonable Effectiveness of Using Old Phones a... If you don't mind disassembling and finding connectors or soldering, you can connect a power supply with the same voltage as the battery to the battery connector on the main board.

Retr0id on March 30, 2024 [–]

This doesn't always work nicely - sometimes the phone estimates the battery capacity and thinks it's depleting, even if the voltage is constant.

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