Batteries are usually made up of cells. It is not unreasonable to open
the container and replace the cells.
You are right. Do you know of any company that actually does this for
cell phone batteries?
Other batteries contain an aluminum
pack. It is not unreasonable to replace this pack with a newer one.
I did
this with my iPod and the new pack had a much longer run time than the
original.
Isn't the "aluminum pack" the battery itself? So when you open the
iPod and remove and replace the "aluminum pack" you are not
refurbishing the battery. You are refurbishing the iPod by replacing
the battery.
On Jan 11, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
We did see advertisements on the web
for "refurbished" batteries. [Sure. They opened the battery and
renewed the chemicals. Uh huh.]
Batteries are usually made up of cells. It is not unreasonable to open
the container and replace the cells. Other batteries contain an
aluminum
pack. It is not unreasonable to replace this pack with a newer one.
I did
this with my iPod and the new pack had a much longer run time than the
original.
On Jan 11, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Alvin Auerbach wrote:
There' s been a great deal of discussion here about unlocking used
cell phones, and I assume that this means using the phones for
several years. Correct?
But what about obtaining batteries? My experience with a LG phone on
Sprint, and a friends ?? phone on Verizon, is that at about three
years of use we needed a new battery, and could not find a new
battery on the web or from the carrier. We did see advertisements on
the web for "refurbished" batteries. [Sure. They opened the battery
and renewed the chemicals. Uh huh.]
Is there a list of equivalent, new cell phone batteries?
What do you do about keeping a phone after the battery doesn't hold
a charge for very long?
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