Ancestors

Written by digitalfox on 2025-01-14 at 01:53

My Pixel 4 XL's battery connector partially broke so the phone can't tell what charge the battery has, but I don't want to replace my phone yet, dang it!

Fingers crossed I can successfully swap the battery (and thus the connector) with the parts from iFixit. Tonight, digging out a teeny-tiny broken piece of copper and adding a bit of extra pressure behind the connector seems to have made the current battery work for now; I'm hoping this doesn't damage anything for the new battery's connector.

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Written by digitalfox on 2025-01-15 at 07:04

It's weird using a smartphone without a working battery meter/percent charge gauge.

I have no idea if it's full or about to turn off. I just have a rough sense of how quickly I remember it draining and how long it's been since I've charged it.

(New battery arrives next week… Fingers crossed I can install it safely and that this fixes the issue.)

EDIT: Reseating the broken battery connector gets the battery meter working for a few more hours so far.

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Toot

Written by digitalfox on 2025-01-17 at 09:18

Welp, replacement phone it is.

I reseated the broken battery connector yet again while waiting for replacement (as it slowly drains to shutting off during the times the phone can't tell that it's safe to charge), and I must've messed something up elsewhere because now the side power button is stuck activated, infinitely rebooting.

I can work around that by unplugging the side buttons from the motherboard inside, but that's not a sustainable option - I'm using my phone partially for work so it's gotta be reliable. 5 years in, I guess I'll make use of the weirdly conveniently timed Pixel discount from Google.

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Descendants

Written by digitalfox on 2025-01-23 at 18:02

Two involved days later, and I think I've gotten everything set up. Many things are nicer (e.g. no more green tint at low brightness! root-level charge limit got easier), some things I'll miss, and I s'pose I now have a project phone to low-stakes try to fully repair as time permits.

I will remember coral fondly, it got me through an eventful 5 years (pandemic, family matters, meeting folks, etc).

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Written by Müllermeier on 2025-01-17 at 10:09

@digitalfox getting new pixels you say? :vlpn_blep:

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Written by digitalfox on 2025-01-17 at 13:52

@muellermeier A whole 9 of them! 9 Pixels!

But I'm upgrading from only having 4 Pixels, so that's pretty good.

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Written by Flits on 2025-01-17 at 13:53

@digitalfox @muellermeier That's more than a 50% increase!

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