Re: Icky Projects
Posted: 09 Jun 2023 13:50
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Yikes, I'm surprised it didn't pop itself apart!!Icky wrote: 13 Aug 2023 09:35 Well I think I caught the battery in time on my old Huawei Smart Watch 1. I haven't used the watch in a few years and put it on the other day and the charge lasted 5 mins.
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It sort of did pop apart when I unscrewed it. At first I thought there might be some sort of spring mechanism to hold it together but it was obvious it was the battery.rubber_jonnie wrote: 13 Aug 2023 09:48Yikes, I'm surprised it didn't pop itself apart!!Icky wrote: 13 Aug 2023 09:35 Well I think I caught the battery in time on my old Huawei Smart Watch 1. I haven't used the watch in a few years and put it on the other day and the charge lasted 5 mins.
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I had a similar issue with my nVidia Shield tablet, but I woke up one morning and it was powered off and the back had popped of!!
Good job it didn't burst!!Icky wrote: 13 Aug 2023 10:02It sort of did pop apart when I unscrewed it. At first I thought there might be some sort of spring mechanism to hold it together but it was obvious it was the battery.rubber_jonnie wrote: 13 Aug 2023 09:48
Yikes, I'm surprised it didn't pop itself apart!!
I had a similar issue with my nVidia Shield tablet, but I woke up one morning and it was powered off and the back had popped of!!
Repairability is definitely low on many manufacturers agendas.stephen_usher wrote: 13 Aug 2023 12:32 My Dad's Google Pixel XL had similar battery issues, when it was about 18 months old. I replaced the battery with a NOS (as, of course, the battery and the phone were considered obsolete by then) and that lasted less than a year until that one did the same thing.
It seems that most manufacturers are just throwing in batteries which only have a couple of year life assuming that the consumer would replace the devices annually anyway.