tradicije

As a UI/UX hobby designer I absolutely understand what you are talking about and yes, I should add the ability of the carousel to move with fingers/mouse, just haven’t gotten into it yet

It sounds like a good idea until you remember that USB provides 5V and the battery contacts are designed for a Li-ion battery and its management circuitry.

Wiring USB directly to the battery contacts would basically be like noticing your car runs on petrol and pouring it directly into the engine instead of the fuel tank. The general concept of “engine needs fuel” is technically correct. The implementation leaves something to be desired.

The USB port and the phone’s power-management circuitry exist for a reason, and bypassing them could damage the phone or make it behave in exciting new ways.

A properly regulated dummy battery, however, might actually work. Unfortunately, that means I now have another terrible idea to investigate.

Your contribution is noted and landed you a new position at Pettyl Industries!

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Just like all mushrooms are edible once…

Yeah, for 40 bucks I get a phone with good specs and a free pillow!

Maybe not an identical one, but I did find an interesting Note 9 for around $40…

I guess this is foreshadowing…

Now we’re speaking the same language!

Thank you for the kind words 🎩

You are absolutely fine!

People here, including you, have been very respectful and thoughtful, and I am all for feedback.

I don’t have the knowledge of the whole universe, do I? So please, by all means, I want to hear your critiques, it makes the project better and I learn along the way!

Nah, an actual UPS with 7kg batteries is way cooler.

This is obviously ridiculous.

So I’ll do it.

Update! Apparently removing the battery also removes half the CPU lol.

I’ll keep you posted!

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well ACKSHUALLY 🤓☝️

Unfortunately Pettyl is stupid enough to need the battery to boot, but smart enough to forget about it immediately afterwards.

I don’t make the rules, I just host WordPress on an 8-year-old Motorola.

Aye aye, captain🫡

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. 😂

I did not need to fake battery presence, just needed the battery as a starter, once the phone is booted just removed the battery.

Although the real test is yet to come, I have to leave it like this for a day or two, to see if it powers off when CPU spikes…

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Thanks for the feedback, and here you go good sir/ma’am keychron.com/…/keychron-k5-max-qmk-via-wireless-c…

update: Now you can leave your thoughts on the website, as one commenter suggested, and I loved the idea so much I had to implement it immediately.

Note: I do not collect any of your data, the form is completely anonymous.

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I know, as I said I’m working on it, but thank you for your concern.

For now, it’s just sitting on a charger, until I find a solution on how to bypass the battery. The great thing about the Motorola E5 Play is that it has removable battery, so I just need to figure out how to turn it on without the battery inside.

Thanks very much! Expect more updates very soon!

That’s a great shout, I’ll make this as soon as I have some free time, I would love for all of us to leave something on that poor little server ;)

Cloudflare tunnel. cloudflared is running directly on the phone, so I didn’t need to open ports on my router

Thank you everyone for commenting on this, I didn’t expect this much feedback!

I will go ahead and start this project with an old phone, not sure yet which phone, and I’ll document everything and give you an update soon!

Yeah, I think creating a custom script for it won’t be an issue, for example when battery hits 80% it stops charging, and resumes charging when it hits 40%

Thanks! I’ll check it out

I get that, using phones as servers is a pain because of cooling, but I was thinking maybe wire a fan to a custom made 3d printed rack, and also create a script for batteries, so the phones are not charging not stop.

Creating a cluster could help me self host more websites I create as I want to move away from using hosting services, I do have 2 mini pcs as servers right now, but they are kinda shit.