• @cordlesslamp
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    1213 days ago

    My phone is almost 7 years old but in pristine condition. People often praise me of how careful I am when taking care of my belongings.

    But the truth is I’m just poor AF. If something broke I don’t know how long till I can replace it so I just have to “babying” everything I own.

    • Unless taking care of it means you’ve replaced the battery, there’s no way it is performing at the same battery life retention which is what he was referring to.

      • @cordlesslamp
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        13 days ago

        Nope, original battery, still got 7 hours of Screen-on time.

        AccuBattery report 81% capacity remain based on ~900 charge cycle recorded.

        I NEVER let the battery get below 20% and NEVER charged pass 80%. It took A LOT of effort to maintain that for years, but it was worth it.

        I don’t have my phone with me right now, but here’s my 4 year old tablet. It got abused a lot more than my phone.

      • @taiyang@lemmy.world
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        413 days ago

        Indeed! The sad thing is, I got this phone because someone was giving it away because it has a “spicy pillow” battery. Samsung fucking glues their batteries into their phones, but I was able to carefully remove it and replace with a lot of work (and a new screen cause it practically shatters when touched).

        It was still cheaper than a new phone, but given it’s on its second life, this phone is getting on in years. Those batteries basically just become bombs after a few years.

    • @uis@lemm.ee
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      112 days ago

      People often praise me of how careful I am when taking care of my belongings.

      I had used same phone for 8 years and the only thing why I stopped using it is vurned pixels.