Re: Alternate OS for LG V20?

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-06-12 20:58, VanguardLH wrote:

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-06-11 15:46, VanguardLH wrote:

 
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While I will use my old phone a little longer, I am looking at new
phones with new batteries will get updated many years into the future.
I'm not buying an old phone, and then realizing I've reached its end of
lifespan prematurely.  The Moto G52 and G62 came out 3 years ago.
Improvement in hardware has been incremental, and disappointing.
Meanwhile the door keeps moving with new OS versions.

 
Sure, if I were purchasing now I would look at the most recent successor
of the G62. I personally like Motorola, and the G62 has all the features
I need. But I would choose a newer version. The newer the better, for
longer support.
 
Soon the mandate to have replaceable batteries should come into effect
in the EU, and that should change things.

Yeah, I read about that a little while ago, and also hoped that phone
makers would be required to provide user-serviceable batteries.  After
all, for a phone to be water resistent does not mandate the battery
cannot be removable, just that the seal be more than just 2 plastic
shell halves that snap together.  The past argument was that
non-removable batteries afforded larger-sized batteries for longer
up-time.  Really?  Has anyone contested or verified that premise?
Versus, say, making the dimensions of the battery bigger, but thinner,
and attaching to the back plate to have a battery almost as big?  I've
even seen where you could buy a new back plate with an integral and much
bigger battery to significantly increase up-time.  Of course, that was
back in the heyday of smart phones that had replaceable batteries.

I think the EU's deadline is April 2027 for smart phone makers to come
up with new designs that permit user-serviceable batteries.  However,
I'm sure the definition of user-serviceable may not necessitate easy to
replace, just possible to replace.  "Easy" depends on expertise and
equipment.  It's easy to replace BGA chips if you have the equipment.

The EU requirements are a bit of gobblety-gook, as noted at:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Feu-requires-all-phones-to-have-replaceable-batteries-v0-vgzc4grwdpdb1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D667%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D4f3c72ef414c9f9b405a92603b50bb002847b720
(I tried shortening the URL, but Reddit wants many args in their URLs.)
short URL: https://tinyurl.com/yc889pd2

By then, the smart phone makers might be introducing graphene batteries,
which are considered eco-safe, chemically inert, and sustainable.  But
that probably won't happen until the mid-2030's when EVs have moved to
graphene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko9V4i2HQ6o