[chbot] Mobile phone battery replacement

[Mark Atherton]

Mark,

How on earth did you figure that out ?? !!

-Mark

On 14/09/2022 12:59 PM, Mark Beckett wrote:
> Mine was using battery power with nothing running and it turned out to 
> be a dirty screen.
> 
> Cleaned it with an alcohol wipe around the edges and it seemed to stop 
> using so much battery.
> 
> However it does sound like your battery is past it's use by date.
> 
> 
> Mark B
> 
> 
> On 14/09/22 12:40, Mark Atherton wrote:
>> I have seen this sort of behaviour with laptop batteries more than 
>> once, so I personally would suspect the battery first.
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>> On 14/09/2022 12:18 PM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>>> Can anyone recommend a mobile phone repair shop in Christchurch that
>>> knows what they're doing?
>>>
>>> My phone sometimes looses 30-40% charge when restarting, at times not
>>> even starting on a 2% charge, when it showed 50% before reboot. It
>>> doesn't always happen though. It's had 4 years of use. Motorola, repair
>>> places for Apple or Samsung are easy to find. I'm thinking it's time for
>>> a new battery.
>>>
>>> I'm not really interested in a new phone because this one does
>>> everything I need and a repair is still likely a fraction of the cost of
>>> a new one.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Volker
>>>
>>
>>
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