[Swansea Hackspace] Battery replacement/upgrade for phone

[David Davies-Day]

Chiming in late but, my course of action in this respect would be to find a bare cell or another battery like a Samsung that Ceri mentioned.

Then transplant the cell only onto the little protection board and ribbon cable of the original battery,  the lipo cell itself will just have two tabs.

I used to do this quite a lot back in the early days of coaxial IR helicopters, before quad copters became all the rage.


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From: Shaun Woodrow <swoodrow at gmail.com>
Date:15/10/2018 09:57 (GMT+00:00)
To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Battery replacement/upgrade for phone

Have you visited time2talk in swansea

https://www.time2talk.co.uk/

they have always been great with every question I have asked and repairs are reasonable...

they may have a source or some information if you take the phone in?

Shaun


On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 07:48, Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com<mailto:ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com>> wrote:
There are lots of companies in China that make custom batteries.

There might be a 'sample' Avaliable.

But look in RS Farnell CPC. Digikey

Also.
You might find a Samsung battery that might just fit

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:26 Alex Duffield, <alexmduffield at gmail.com<mailto:alexmduffield at gmail.com>> wrote:
The manufacturer of my phone does not sell replacemenr batteries.. it is a lipo 3800mah near square single cell lipo... How feasible would it be to produce a high performance replacement battery. Say out of a higher cell count battery with the right dimensions or even find the right shape single cell... Id need to wire it in to the ribbon cable that's on my existing battery. The reason for this is my batteries rated capacity is now at 1500 mah instead of the original 3800 mah... I have found and ordered an AliExpress clone but don't trust either it's peak charge voltage or its actual capacity.
Thanks
Alex
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