Many thanks, Steve, for your interesting and informative reply. Does anyone else have comments? Best wishes to all, Ted.
On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 16:16 +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
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On 15/06/2019 16:17, Ted Harding wrote: [SNIP]
This is to do with wgat happens when the time comes (if it comes) to replace the battery of a mobile phone.
- I would seriously question if it is worth replacing a battery
nowadays. I have only ever replaced 2 phone batteries in the last 15 years. Many phones no longer have easily replaceable batteries. Given that you can buy a new one of these phones for £40 on Amazon, is it worth it? A whole new phone, or an old phone with a new battery and I'm guessing the price difference would be minimal.
The discharge/recharge cycle with rechargeable batteries leads in the end (but slowly) to loss of rechargeability, at which pointhe battery needs to be replad.
I basically have a couple of questions:
1: If say 40-80% of the capacity is used each day, with full rechaging at the end of each day (phonr switched off at nght), how long is the battery likely to last until it needs replacenent?
IME, battery life starts to decline around 2 years which is coincidentally about the length of a standard phone contract. As it's an older style simpler phone you might get a bit longer out of it, but I'd guess battery life of 4 years max.
2: During replacement, the phone is presumably totally without power for a short prtiod of time. Can this lead to information stored on the phone being lost?
Yes, but it depends where the info on the phone is stored and the type of memory it's stored in. Contacts can be stored on the SIM card, but it has little storage space. These would be safe. If there is internal memory where contacts and texts are stored, these may or may not be safe for a while - it's hard to say. It may say in the phone manual. Manuals can usually be found online. If the phone has a storage card (sd, or similar older technology), it is probably possible to store or backup the contacts and texts to this, and restore them after replacing the battery.
My recent experience of modern-ish android phones is that they'll keep the information despite no power. They can also store contacts on a google address book and backup to a google drive.
Specifically, my phone is a fairly basic mobile, a DORO 6520. (And it has so far been running happily for about 2 years).
I'd seriously look at getting a new phone. The only downside would be how easily you can transfer the info from the old phone to the new phone. Android and iphone make this quite simple, but some simpler phones might not be so easy. Some phone shops offer this as a service when selling a new phone.
Good luck Steve
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