Comment on Part 3: They said a phone can’t run without a battery. Unfortunately, Pettyl didn’t get the memo.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My old Galaxy S5 would work without the battery, including bootup. So it’s not entirely unexpected that other phones could also do so. I would say I can’t imagine who would take the time out out of their day to just talk out their ass and claim something like this wouldn’t work without trying it first. Except then I remember this is the internet, and people do that all the time.
Regardless, good on you for making this all work!
tradicije@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Hahaha, thank you for defending me! 😄
Just to clarify though, the “they said it couldn’t be done” part was mostly me being ironic and unnecessarily dramatic for the post lol. The comments on this whole project have actually been overwhelmingly positive and helpful.
People here are the reason I even tried some of this stuff in the first place.
But I genuinely appreciate you having my back. And the S5 being able to cold boot without a battery is really interesting — Pettyl unfortunately needs its battery as a starter motor. 😂
Bansh33@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The HTC Aria at least could also cold boot from USB power. The first method developed for bootloader unlocking on it required an SD card with the unlocking software be inserted at a particular time during the boot process. And the SD card slot was under the battery!