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For those unaware yet, I am the author of the over-5000-word article **.

When I was around 8 years old, a children's news channel named Logo! reported printers being deliberately designed to quit functioning properly after a predetermined number of pages.

This idea already sounded repugnant to my 8-year-young brain.

If a device is designed to fail and difficult to repair, it feels like not actually owning it.

In 2010, the iPhone 4 was released. I already heard of iPhones before then, but that was the first time I realized they have non-user-replaceable batteries.

From a Nintendo DS Lite user manual, I already knew batteries only last for a limited number of recharging cycles until they lose their ability to output power and store energy.

And what has it come to a decade later? Mobile phones with user-replaceable batteries have been fully usurped.

The few remaining ones with replaceable batteries such as the Galaxy Xcover Pro have low-tier technical specifications such as the same resolution and frame rate for video recording as the 2011 Galaxy S2: 1080p@30fps.

For those unaware yet, I am the author of the over-5000-word article *[Benefits of user-replaceable batteries](https://en.EverybodyWiki.com/Benefits_of_user-replaceable_batteries)*. When I was around 8 years old, a children's news channel named *Logo!* reported printers being deliberately designed to quit functioning properly after a predetermined number of pages. This idea already sounded repugnant to my 8-year-young brain. If a device is designed to fail and difficult to repair, it feels like not actually owning it. In 2010, the iPhone 4 was released. I already heard of iPhones before then, but that was the first time I realized they have non-user-replaceable batteries. From a Nintendo DS Lite user manual, I already knew batteries only last for a limited number of recharging cycles until they lose their ability to output power and store energy. And what has it come to a decade later? Mobile phones with user-replaceable batteries have been fully usurped. The few remaining ones with replaceable batteries such as the Galaxy Xcover Pro have low-tier technical specifications such as the same resolution and frame rate for video recording as the 2011 Galaxy S2: 1080p@30fps.

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It is getting very hard to find used phones too, especially forward thinking and without updates. All these recycling programs take them out of circulation. And those that survive are susceptible to engineered killer software that is designed to work properly the allowed phone but will kill the old forward thoughtful phones. I used to have one such phone and it was killed by an app. Once the app killed it there was no fixing it. I tried everything short of sending back for repair. It needed a new charger chip or reprogramming the charging chip.

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That's weird, it must have done a microcode update. The charger device is typically it's own little circuit.

What application did you install? I'd be interested in looking at that to see if I can figure out why.

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I don't remember that now, it was a long time ago. But yes it something to the battery charging chip, either tried to add code or erased the chip. I can't even get it to stay on if I hotwire it. I might get it to stay on for 5 or 10 minutes. It was kick ass phone too.

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No worries, but if you happen to remember sometime shoot me a message.

I didn't realize you could do that to a charger chip. I do now...