It gets weirder the longer you look at it.
Sure, let’s just say the guy was overzealous with the (silicone caulk? lol) adhesive compound. Maybe the white cord is DC power, replacing the battery… but the red wire that’s right beside the ‘power’ wire is a USB cable plugged into the phone’s USB port.
What is plugged into the other end? It’s Zalgo isn̴̝̂’̶̯̾ṭ̷̆ ̶̫̈i̷̹̚t̴̩̉?̶͊͜
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Probably some hack to make it look to the OS like it is charging the battery.
But yeah, why all the silicone? 😱
tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It looks like he’s split out the individual USB wires, run the power to the USB port, and the signal wires to different places on the exposed board, maybe to force fast mode in the charger. Then just buried everything in silicone for insulation and to keep wires from pulling loose.
un_ax@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
They removed the Battery Management System from the battery and wired it up to power as an alternative to soldering directly to the small phone board. Turns out this phone also needs usb charging at the same time because otherwise it assumes the battery is dying even if it’s not?
If anyone else is curious, they documented it here:
crackoverflow.com/…/turn_android_phone_to_battery…
old.reddit.com/…/what_do_you_think_about_my_new_h…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f8SliNGeDM