This is so cool you've actually inspired me to try out the same thing. Ive just finished setting up port forwarding and got the nginx page, but this has been fun as my first time hosting a website
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I have a simillar setup but i kept the battery it acts like a ups
in my experience phone batteries plugged 24/7 will increase in size
Sweet. Free capacity increase
also: free temperature increase :)
It not plugged in 24/7. It runs 1.5 days without charging so no issue.
Can you wire the USB power to the battery contacts...?
It sounds like a good idea until you remember that USB provides 5V and the battery contacts are designed for a Li-ion battery and its management circuitry.
Wiring USB directly to the battery contacts would basically be like noticing your car runs on petrol and pouring it directly into the engine instead of the fuel tank. The general concept of “engine needs fuel” is technically correct. The implementation leaves something to be desired.
The USB port and the phone's power-management circuitry exist for a reason, and bypassing them could damage the phone or make it behave in exciting new ways.
A properly regulated dummy battery, however, might actually work. Unfortunately, that means I now have another terrible idea to investigate.
Yeah yeah, the project is cool.. but can we talk about those absolutely banging tunes?
Is the moto serving them? Please say yes.
Lol, indeed. The music is stored on the Motorola, and it's being served by the Motorola.
And thanks for the compliment about my music! The mix is shit, but on the other hand, it was made by my own two hands — no AI involved.
Well...if you're looking for an idea for the second moto phone... can I suggest "Google in a box"
How many "Google-like" services could your phone server serve at the same time?
- Google Photos <-> PiGallery2
- Google Keep <-> Memos
- Google Drive <-> Syncthing
- Google Calendar <-> Radicale
- Google Contacts <-> Radicale
- Google Tasks <-> Radicale
- YouTube Music <-> Navidrome
- Google Password Manager <-> Vaultwarden
- Google Reader <-> FreshRSS
- Chrome bookmarks <-> linkding
- Google Analytics <-> GoatCounter
And, if it still has RAM left:
- Google Docs <-> Etherpad
- Google Search <-> 4get
How far can 1 GB actually go?
Great idea! Just can't promise I get everything setup any time soon lol. But I will try for sure.
I wonder if my pixel 7 pro that dies suddenly can do the same. I suspect the battery just packed up
Why not connecting the battery with a cable and put a switch in it?
Since when does a phone need a battery to run? It needs power, doesn’t matter where the power comes from.
well ACKSHUALLY 🤓☝️
Unfortunately Pettyl is stupid enough to need the battery to boot, but smart enough to forget about it immediately afterwards.
I don’t make the rules, I just host WordPress on an 8-year-old Motorola.
Since their burst power consumption started using more current than a capacitor in the charging circuitry could provide
Fun fact, this is also why Macbooks, at least some models, throttle the CPU if the battery is missing. My old Macbook went from 2.4 GHz to 800 MHz without the battery.
So the way I see it, the root cause is dogshit design that relies on the battery
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Remember the days when hou could just pop the back off and take the battery out?
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Damn, I wish they still made phones with a removable battery
All batteries are removable once
Just like all mushrooms are edible once...
They do. They're generally just.. not very good or are very expensive.
Samsung had a good one in the Xcover. I'd get one but... well... Samsung.
I used to keep a charged spare on me. And this was back when a phones battery life was like 3-7 days.
Stop making phones thinner God dammit. I don't want a thinner phone. I want longer battery life and a removable battery so I can fucking double the shitty longer battery life I get.
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I just got a fairphone 6. Removable battery!
I'm still using my fairphone 5 :)
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Anything made to be run from battery can work fine without one. Worst case scenario requires you to spoof some I²C communication to properly emulate a battery, but most devices and batteries are far dumber than that. DC is DC, and sometimes you just need to graft something on top for the other pins.
Source: My old laptops charging circuit failed, so I soldered the charger onto the battery pins instead. Then I replaced the actual battery with an Adafruit Itsybitsy 32u4 (because that what I happened to have available) that emulated the battery status of "Charging, nothing to see here, move along" and sent it via I²C
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My old Galaxy S5 would work without the battery, including bootup. So it's not entirely unexpected that other phones could also do so. I would say I can't imagine who would take the time out out of their day to just talk out their ass and claim something like this wouldn't work without trying it first. Except then I remember this is the internet, and people do that all the time.
Regardless, good on you for making this all work!
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When the battery in my wall mounted android tablet swelled i had to add a 10k resistor to the sense line, inject the 5V directly into the battery port and add a few capacitors to get it to work. But at least it won't cause a fire now.
Now plug the phone into a UPS so if the power goes out you're good for awhile.
This is obviously ridiculous.
So I’ll do it.
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