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This is off topic for the subject of this group, but almost everyone here
will be faced with this eventually, and the people here are tech-savvy
folks fully capable of doing what I did, so I'm sharing it anyway.
Tonight I did something I've been planning (and to some extent dreading)
for several months. The buzzards have been circling for the battery in my
Samsung S10e smartphone for quite a while, but I didn't think paying
someone to replace it would be worth the money. So I replaced it myself,
using an iFixit battery and repair kit, plus their online repair guide.
And the job went fine. I've installed batteries in electronic devices
before, but modern phones are waterproof, which means the back covers are
glued on with heat-sensitive adhesive. The part I feared was removing that
cover, since you need to apply enough heat to soften the glue, but too much
heat applied to a lithium battery could do very bad things. (The warning in
red in this photo, and similar ones throughout iFixit's online guide,
definitely focus the mind).
The iFixit instructions for this phone are available free at

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and they're worth reading if you question whether you can do this job --
iPhones with glued-on backs have their own instructions but are similar
(There are also many comments in these instructions, including some added
by yours truly under the name "MikeT-NYC").
But I was frankly amazed at obliviousness of some of the others who did
this job including one commenter who keeps calling iFixit "criminals" for
providing instructions that were totally wrong -- it's fairly obvious that
he or she was trying to fix a different phone and was reading the wrong
instructions.
Also, there were many commenters trying to fix their phones without the
proper equipment, particularly for removing the cover. The iFixit kit
($38.96) includes an "iOpener" -- a microwave-heatable gel pack like the
kind sold in drug stores for sore muscles, but the size of a large hot dog.
Several people asked if they could use a heat gun instead. Of COURSE you
can, if you're a fool. I have several heat guns, but a heat gun puts out
about 500 degrees, and broadcasts the heat everywhere. The iOpener is a
slim little gel tube that gets to about 150 F -- just uncomfortable to the
touch -- and concentrates the heat in a thin strip, so you can nicely heat
the edges of the cover without cooking your battery or the electronics. The
iFixit toolkit is cheap and smartphones are very expensive. So why would
anybody with a three-digit IQ blast 500 degrees onto a phone (containing a
battery well-known for becoming an incendiary device) in order to save $39
on a repair kit?
All in all, this kit was complete and the instructions were thorough. And
so far the battery seems to be a good one. (I've "repaired" other devices
with eBay batteries that turned out to be little improvement on the one I
removed). So if your phone battery is dying and you're reasonably handy, go
for it.

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