if you take care of it and are fine with not having the latest and greatest.
Also as long as they can get a battery replacement, it should go the distance. I would source them now, rather than in a few years when they may be hard to find.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S5. (with 3 more replacement batteries in the desk draw)
Eh, charging twice a day isn’t such a hassle. As long as the phone isn’t losing significant charge when its in sleep mode, it’s still a good daily driver.
Sounds great until you get that battery out and realize it’s dead because it was slowly discharging over the years and has gone below the recovery level.
Buying new batteries now means the batteries will be sitting on dead for years, which is terrible for them. By the time you go to install them they’ll be in worse quality than your original.
Also as long as they can get a battery replacement, it should go the distance. I would source them now, rather than in a few years when they may be hard to find.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S5. (with 3 more replacement batteries in the desk draw)
Eh, charging twice a day isn’t such a hassle. As long as the phone isn’t losing significant charge when its in sleep mode, it’s still a good daily driver.
Sent from my Samsung S3 mini (w LineageOS)
Which Android version do you have?
Lineage 18, which I think is Android 11
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Ack I loved my s3 mini. Are you really still using one??
Sounds great until you get that battery out and realize it’s dead because it was slowly discharging over the years and has gone below the recovery level.
Buying new batteries now means the batteries will be sitting on dead for years, which is terrible for them. By the time you go to install them they’ll be in worse quality than your original.
Sorry but no.
Every replacement battery I have used is charged to ~50% when first installed.
I have had batteries sitting like this for years and they work fine once put in use.
That’s not how batteries work.
OK…I’ll tell my phone that.
Cuase that is how it has worked for years.
Guess you got some of those magic next gen batteries that don’t do physics and chemistry.
Ok… I guess the OEM S5 replacement batteries must be what you describe…