Poll: How old is your smartphone?

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Just wondering.

My Huawei P20 lite is very nearly 4 years old

Mrs is using her Moto Z2 (I think) which is also 4 years old.

My phone is fine, the battery has degraded a bit but still not bad, accubattery states 92% if I'm honest I don't believe that I'd say maybe 75% my gut feeling.

Mrs reckon her phone "plays up a bit" but otherwise ok.

I've got no intention of changing this anytime soon.

 

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P20 pro
Screens a bit scratchy battery a bit under performing but I treat it like dirt and it's still basically perfect for my needs...
Crazy.
I'd have to treat a new phone with respect

I got the urge to upgrade to a xaomia 11t but it soon went....

I might look at the next gen... But tbh I do t see huge improvement in the mid range category over the p20 for my needs.

I must admit I like my P20 (lite) does everything I need, only criticism is the camera isn't great.

Like yours battery is starting to fade but still not bad for a 4 year old phone.

I'm not planning on replacing this anytime soon unless it gets broken or fails. Reckon the battery will be good for at least another year.

 

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Well, a year on from starting this thread and my Huawei P20 lite is booked in for some major surgery.

It's 5 years old now, and just ordered the parts to do:

- New battery
- New glass rear cover
- New charging port
- Camera lens cover


All the above less than £30 in parts. The battery isn't too bad but worth doing, it's the charging port that is really the issue, you have to get it in at just the right angle for it to fast charge, also the rear glass cover is smashed.

I have done replacement screens and batteries on phones before with no failure rate so far, so fingers crossed, I figure for less than £30 it'll be worth a go as it'll give this phone a nice refresh and should give me further years yet, bit if it goes wrong I won't be too upset and it'll be new phone time, probably a Google pixel 6/6a.

 

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OnePlus 7 Pro. Accubattery says the battery is at 75% health.
3,001mAh Vs the original 4,000mAh

I might look at just getting a new battery put in it if that can be done at a fraction of the cost of a new phone I'll keep it.

I'm amazed there isn't a law saying batteries have to be user replaceable. They don't want us having to buy new chargers all the time but happy for us to buy new phones purely because the battery degrades.
I long for the days of my Galaxy S3 I went through 4 batteries with that.

They are generally not that hard to do, and most of the time when you buy the battery it comes with all the little tools.

You don't need a heatgun either for the glue, a hairdryer will work perfectly fine, in fact I prefer using a hairdryer over a heatgun as you can literally start melting stuff with the heatgun if you are not careful.

The most involved job I did was a replacement screen on a Nexus 5x, basically dismantling most of the phone, usually... batteries are not to bad.

 

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I'd do it at work, got a heatgun you can set the temperature on.
I'll have a look and see what is involved, any good sites with guides?

Just look on YouTube.

 

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Well major surgery performed on my P20 Lite.

New battery, charging port and rear cover.

Part success, battery and charging port fine, the charging port in particular was important as the old one was pretty knackered and it works much better now.

Rear cover unfortunately not great, this phone has a glass rear cover, the phone is basically bowed or banana shaped a bit from age, so trying to put a thin, flat, glass cover onto something that isn't completely flat doesn't go. Managed to crack it and it's not stuck on particularly well, had to resort to superglue around the edges.

So basically functionality wise, vastly improved, but it still looks tatty, oh well.

 

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After replacing the battery a few months ago, I didn't glue it back it because the old glue was still sort of tacky, and also (at least I thought) it was a relatively tight fit.

Now if I shake my phone I can feel the battery moving around in there

Thing is this phone now being 5 and a bit years old, I sealed up the back thinking by the time I'd ever need to open it up again that would definitely be new phone time.

I reckon at sone point if it keeps flexing with movement the connection will brake, but time will tell....