Re: iPhone battery replacement

On 6/2/2024 6:08 AM, Martin Brown wrote:

I've offered her either of two phones that I use but "they're too big".

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It is not difficult, check ifixit com and countless YouTube videos. Over

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Yes, I figure there must be a relatively large market and most "customers"
are relatively unskilled in this sort of activity.  I had hoped, however,
that the batteries would be shit or the phones would look cosmetically
damaged (to give me an excuse not to undertake the activity  :<  )

 It is doable but be very careful separating the parts.

It's the adhesives that will pose a problem as you don't know what they
are adhered to (and the sorts of forces that separating them might impose
that could damage those other things).

Sharp tools and a moderate amount of force in exactly the right places is involved. Newer models tend to be much more difficult to dismantle reliably. You can sort of tell which are most difficult by looking at how much third party repairers charge for a battery swap.

The case is already swelled open so it will just be a problem of
sorting out the parts inside.
As they likely weren't designed with "casual" disassembly in mind,
I am sure the goals were more of how to get it together cheaply
and efficiently.
[I have made NO plans for my current designs to be repairable.  It's
just not worth the labor involved for things so small...]

My friend that does it a lot has a specially sharpened wallpaper scraper for applying the right amount of force over a long joint. Various YouTube videos show how to do it - there is scope to devaluing it if you break the glass or injuring yourself if you slip with a sharp blade.
 The ones with copious amounts of hot melt glue inside are very tricky. I think the 6s will be old enough not to have that problem. Other option might be to find one secondhand from the likes of Cex or whatever the US equivalent is called. A 6s won't have much resale value now.

ISTR seeing them in the $30-40 range -- which struck me as a lot
for such an old device (with a battery that is likely in the same
overall condition as this one).
I have an activation locked 8 that I can possibly pilfer a spare
battery from if the "new" one doesn't pan out.  It's just annoying
to be dealing with something like this and, at the same time,
being beseeched to make another 450 Benne Wafers...  <frown>
(sigh)  And all for a *phone*??  We REALLY avoid using the phone,
prefering email or face-to-face meetings (where you don't have to wonder
as to the availability of the other party or their CURRENT time zone)
and, receiving calls is just an imposition for the convenience of the
*caller*!  <frown>