Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)

• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yep, loops to heat up the CPU, in combination with fast charge to make it hot quicker.

  CPU loses contact with the board or something like that making it not able to read modem, efs, and whatever is the responsible to transmit data through the USB port (charging works normally, even fast charge), it needs a reflow or reballing to fix this for good, but technicians nearby are… Simply put, thieves lmao.

  So I’d rather keep doing this until the phone dies (the workaround makes it work for an undefined amount of time, which can be hours, days or almost a week) or change the motherboard myself.

  I got the idea along with ChatGPT when a user in telegram told me that he got USB data transfers working again (in order to escape from MIUI once again) by heating up the SOC with a hairdryer, yes, that worked for me too to fix all above, thus I decided to create a software solution in the meantime 😅

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I hope you already got all your data off the device. While this might work in the short term, this will very likely fail very soon.

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    • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I have been like this for a month with this workaround, and yeah, I backup with Google backups and rooted Swiftbackup nightly 👍🏻

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      • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s longer than I’d expect something like that to work.

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