August 09, 2024
It lives!
Before I got my first smart phone, I was looking at maybe getting a drone, but they all seemed to require your phone to run. I never did get a drone, but I did pick up a cheap, $40 Naxa Android tablet.
It promptly died. Recently I popped it apart and discovered it had suffered from fatal battery bloat syndrome, like all super cheap Li-Po batteries are wont to do. In fact, I was also in the market for a replacement battery for my current (2nd) smartphone (A $30 Wal-Mart TracPhone, which does what I need it to do, which is virtually nothing). That had a nice, separate battery pack that was easy to pop out and replace. My first smartphone was NOT designed for replacing the battery. The pack in that one swelled up to the point that the screen popped out of the case. Still works, oddly enough.
So while I was shopping for a battery for my phone, I needed to fill my order up to the free shipping point. So I cracked open the old tablet, read off the numbers, and found a $10 battery with the same specs. It eventually got here, and I eventually got around to breaking out the soldering station, and I soldered the new pack in. And what do you know, it booted! It's sucking up a charge right now.
And I'm faced with a small dilemma. Should I just log in with my one and only Google account, or should I take the opportunity to create a new one on a device I doubt Google remembers I ever used....
(I still needed something else to fill out the order, so I grabbed a $10 endoscope camera. Apparently if one is stupid enough to follow the QR code in the manual, it gives you Chinese scam software and will sucker you into giving up your credit card # for "ID Verification". There's other software that will make it work with a phone, but it's not good with Android 11. Guess what my phone runs. Yeah, that was part of the reason for reviving the tablet. I wonder if it will work with phone #1?)
(I still needed something else to fill out the order, so I grabbed a $10 endoscope camera. Apparently if one is stupid enough to follow the QR code in the manual, it gives you Chinese scam software and will sucker you into giving up your credit card # for "ID Verification". There's other software that will make it work with a phone, but it's not good with Android 11. Guess what my phone runs. Yeah, that was part of the reason for reviving the tablet. I wonder if it will work with phone #1?)
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