Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.

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• 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  i never trust shops to fix a phone after working for one. they will purposefully damage other components or take your OEM screen and put an aftermarket screen.

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  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you have tech-savvy friend, try ask them a good repair shop.

    Sometimes, Google review or any online review are not helpful as most of the reviewer are casual users that might be get tricked by the shop.

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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      i am tech-savvy. and again, after working for a phone repair shop, i would never trust one to fix my phone.

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      • hurricane155@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Why would that be? Getting parts replaced and/or broken? Or would it be a matter of trust with your phone/data?

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  • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t understand how it could be worse than a phone that you can’t turn on?

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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They will harvest what they can (not talking Louis Rossman types) and then either A)offer either OEM or aftermarket and be honest with the part replacement or put aftermarket and claim it’s OEM parts.

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also, how come they need to unlock the phone to replace the battery … like, I guess they’re running diagnostics?

    But like, can do that without getting access to bloody everything on my phone?

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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      they will usually find an excuse to unlock your phone, also, they will have tools to dump what they can as well. they can even do it without unlocking your phone, but good luck proving that.

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      • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah :/ my password manager and everything is accessible! I have no defenses!

        The thing is my phone is already in a dire state by the time they get it. I can’t pre-emptively wipe my phone :(

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• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Impossible for iPhone users

  • sent from my iPhone that I regret buying in some ways

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  • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Doubtful. This might be an issue in countries that don’t require iPhone to use standards or that have terrible anti-consumer laws.

    In any case, if that’s you, its not impossible. Just need to take it with you the next time you go on a trip overseas to a country that isn’t run by corporations

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    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Or better yet don’t buy some anti consumer locked down phone that’s intentionally made hard to repair by a shitty company, I’m going back to android in the future where something as basic as replacing a port would never be a issue, but with Google fucking with the sideloading in android I’m concerned they are on a path similar to Apple, I wish some truly open source phone OS would be available like Linux so is for PCs

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      • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Google’s fuckery is impotent against phones without Google.

        Just install your own OS and don’t jnstall gappa (by default its absent) and Google can’t stop you from installing apps from third party app stores.

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• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My last phone had this issue that sometimes it wouldn’t charge. Tried different cables but it still sometimes wouldn’t charge. Bought a pcb with antennas and charging for my phone, replaced it. Sometimes still had this issue but much less. I kept this phone til it couldn’t compute anymore. Twice shattered screen, twice replaced.

  4 years. Not a flagship, but had a decent hardware. In the end it couldn’t do anything. Wifi worked half assed. 5g couldn’t connect sometimes. Android Auto would reboot constantly or outright not work. Battery would occasionally begin to loose charge rapidly and even charging with a power bank phone would still lose charge. It almost like I got an update that cut my phone’s balls and removed organs. But in the end, 400euro for 4 years - not so much. My new phone is better at less than half price. Hope it’ll work next 2-3 years no issues.

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  • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When wifi stops working, that’s a reasonable reason to retire a phone.

    But not screen or port breakages

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