Its all a Scam! - Before Replacing Your Phone Battery Watch This - Scams Explained
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My iPhone 13's are still not here yet... Soon, I promise. Next video will be out before next Sunday.
watching on my 13pro
Ok
Take your time its okey ☺️
Great
hopefully it will be far easier to repair but knowing apple, i doubt it will.
And all of these scams could be prevented, if manufactures sold replacement parts directly and made their products serviceble
They do. You can change iPhone battery without any problems. But people wants $10 replacements.
So then what would be the point of a warranty? Or should companies not offer warranties since you can repair your own device? Not everyone is tech savvy to repair their own devices. I know people who in 2021 had to be taught how to delete and move an app. Let alone open up their own device.
@@andrewilliams6367 warranties are still good, but the OPTION to repair it yourself if you have the skills is also a great thing to have. Having FULL FREEDOM to add or improve the device YOU bought with YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY, and having the option for a warranty, would be great in a perfect world. But this ain't a perfect world. :v
I Officially labeled you as a propagandist now for not saying the most obvious reason why cell phone manufacturers make their batteries impossible to access! If you pull out the battery then they cannot know your location even when your battery is dead it is still pinging location to the cell phone towers! They don't want you being able to pull out your battery and keep them from pinging your location! It's all about full spectrum domination FSD! I'm officially unsubscribing and blocking you it was so easy to say this and you didn't say it you are a propagandist! That's why your video got recommended to me and that's why you have subscribers because you push BS propaganda!
@@nnnnnn3647 no, apple won't sell you the battery
Imagine not being allowed to change the battery's in your remote control . Vote for RIGHT TO REPAIR!
An apple tv, probably
Some are rechargeable with non user removable batteries. It's a scam. Same with electric vehicles. There is NO reason other than greed that the packs can't slide out like on industrial equipment, toy and model vehicles. The ONLY thing that will get their attention is the loss of money from people not buying their stupidity.
Or maybe, just maybe, vast majority of people simply don’t care. You guys are vegans of tech.
@@tophan5146 Maybe some of us aren't rich and wasteful.
@@tophan5146 Maybe they should care.
European Union has now imposed that if manufacturers want to sell here they have to make easy for customers to change batteries and retrieve old ones.
So how’s that working out? Anything yet? Lol
Manufacturers have time till 2027. And there are some exceptions too. So it's not that great.
@@rarplayeddecks2710 thanks for letting us know bro appreciate it
@@is4c_ You're welcome. From 2027, manufacturers will all have to offer replaceable batteries, but unfortunately not if the batteries still have a remaining capacity of 83% after 500 charging cycles. This shouldn't be a problem for the manufacturers. So it probably won't have much of an impact, at least on smartphones.
@@is4c_ You're welcome. From 2027, manufacturers will all have to offer replaceable batteries, but unfortunately not if the batteries still have a remaining capacity of 83% after 500 charging cycles. This shouldn't be a problem for the manufacturers. So it probably won't have much of an impact, at least on smartphones.
It amazes me how these phone companies claim to go green and yet all they want is to increase their profits. Selling a new phone is all they want. The real reason behind making it harder to replace the battery yourself.
And on a perfectly good phone, what a waste !!!
The green agenda is there to make your life worse, not better.
Apple is a fraud. But apparently people just love being defrauded, so what are ya gonna do?
It’s because they don’t want to be green but they want to appear green…
It’s the same for everyone claiming that, it’s a grift.
Gold coloured batteries last 90% longer, that's just science.
It also works way better if every word on the battery is misspelled.
What about batteries with RGB
That's how it works in fallout 4! Better paint job, means better stats!
Gold ones are the best 🤣
R i c h b o i
It's so hard to source original batteries for phones. Effectively it's planned obsolesence. We need law where manufacturers have to provide spares at reasonable price for 10 years or something like that. It's protecting consumers and the environment.
I've heard the EU are bringing in a law that forces smartphone/tablet manufacturers to use the same charging port to cut down on e-waste and to prevent people having to buy a new charger for each device they use. Not sure how Apple will deal with it as I'm assuming the EU will go with either micro-usb or USB-C.
What do you imagine happens when a smart TV updates its software?
@@MrHowardMoon It's USB-C and it passed. And Apple HAS to give a non proprietary option. As MagSafe is proprietary, and there is no wireless charging standard that everybody uses right now, Apple is FORCED to use USB-C ports on their new devices at around late 2023.
This is like EXCACTLY what the EU has decided in March this year. At least 10 years availability to repair and repair parts from day of release.
yeah. a law will fix it! lmao.
Good, I found your video while searching for a battery replacement for my iPhone 7 and I am very glad I did. I live in the US and like you, we are just inundated with these all over eBay and Amazon claiming every kind of "TGTBT" claim. You just saved me from getting scammed so I just ordered one through your US storefront. Thanks for saving me and many DIY'ers from one more scam
Love your vids. So interesting and honest. You cover topics that are diverse. With your help I hope to finally have the confidence to replace the old, almost dead, battery on my old Galaxy S8 for my 10 year old grandson andv6 year old granddaughter to play on. I really could not afford to get it done at a shop. I think I will enjoy having a go. Thank you.
Lifting up that 2017 sticker and seeing 2010 just sums it all up! Classic!!
2017 means the day the sticker was printed
@@apache1120 See, the Chinese DON'T lie about everything! lol
The right to repair is so important, States must take a stand to support legislation to allow people to fix products they own with legitimate OEM parts and thereby shutting down the fake parts sellers. This in not just electronics or batteries; It includes mechanical parts for appliances, cars, and farm equipment.
You do understand ( or maybe you don't... ) that the trend is already to the contrary. In Britain they've already tried ( and maybe have by now ) made it an offense to make modifications to a motorcycle. Have you ever heard of the state named California? It's their more-strict restrictions on virtually everything ( except children selling their bodies on the street ) which have inexorably begun to spread like a cancer throughout other states. Either through their influence with their market-share of sales on manufacturers eager to lower inventories who just say "heck with it---make everything we make CaCompliant and pass on the costs" or through their unwitting emissaries who go to other states to escape the Californian regulatory/taxation excesses but in their new lodgings immediately insist that the Californian plugged-nose pig occasionally found some acorns and that's why you had Texans sitting in their barkaloungers succumbing to hypothermia because those "green" wind-turbines which work perfectly well in the California climate don't function when the temperatures go so low that you observe a type of snow you've never seen B4 in your whole 3score&7. This whole you-can't-because[fill-in-the-blank] cancer has long-ago metastacized. I don't think it's legal for me to effect a whole host of home repairs I've been doing all my life in the heart of the midwest unless I hire a licensed contractor to do them. I'm the guy who has sat there and watched licensed contractors "fix" things and then, when they weren't fixed fixed it myself and had the major appliance work longer afterward than it did to it's first mean-time-to-failure. But legally, i can't do that now. And it's not because the local taxing authority gives a rat's ass if I suffocate on CO or get electrocuted because my non-GFCI-protected outlet is too close to a faucet. It's because they believe this to be a way of forcing upgrades to real property improvements and keeping their tax base up. And what better way to destroy the element of self-reliant can-do HR nature of our unique national culture, eh? To hell with "great". Make America AmeriCAN Again. But don't hold your breath waiting for that to start appearing in campaign literature or signs. Not unless you find yourself to look particularly "fetching" in your cyanosis-blue birthday suit.
@@diogeneslamplit6573 As long as these companies continue to rake in billions a year and the gov't backs their shady practices....nothing will change.
Just wait until you are forced to buy electric cars and have to replace the batteries in them.........Remember Cobalt(battery material) is NOT a renewable resoruce.
@@diogeneslamplit6573 you don't have to press the spacebar multiple times...
And let's applaud Louis Rossmann the man behind the Right to Repair movement. ;) kzhead.info/sun/ZMNsdrymqJeLo4k/bejne.html
I refuse to buy another iPhone or Apple product until I can easily replace the battery myself. Apple started the non replaceable battery scam.
I bought a "high capacity" battery for my iPhone 6s in China many years ago. It didn't make any outrageous claims, I think it was just 10% more than the original. It worked like a treat, and easily got me through a full day in Beijing's harsh winters, where the original battery gave up after a few minutes. So, I guess it is all down to luck.
That Samsung battery you don’t want belongs to a Note7 N930F, so yeah, definitely avoid that one, thanks for the video Hugh, too many fall for these scams so it’s good to unearth their scrupulous practices :)
Is that the exploding version?
@@XxUltimateGodzXx Yeah sure is.
Yahtzee!
@@ryansheen523 phone go boom lol
I want a Note 7 for my collection, that would be so funny to show off even without a battery installed
It is stunning how simple battery swap nowadays could qualify as "repair" and should have to do something with "Right to Repair" initiative.
It’s not green to have people repair their phones. How do you make sure they will dispose of the parts correctly? No, only way is to remove all ports (Jack, lightning, etc) serialize parts so they don’t work outside their OG device, and then charge 75/80% of a new phone for any kind of repair. The world is save, thanks Apple!
@@Neonregenesis Aplle is such good of a seward to the environment that they conviniently forget to add a charger to your iPhone kit (knowing that many will buy unfit charger resulting in truncated battery lifespan, LOL).
@@Neonregenesis safe. or saved.
I Officially labeled you as a propagandist now for not saying the most obvious reason why cell phone manufacturers make their batteries impossible to access! If you pull out the battery then they cannot know your location even when your battery is dead it is still pinging location to the cell phone towers! They don't want you being able to pull out your battery and keep them from pinging your location! It's all about full spectrum domination FSD! I'm officially unsubscribing and blocking you it was so easy to say this and you didn't say it you are a propagandist! That's why your video got recommended to me and that's why you have subscribers because you push BS propaganda!
@@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler Stop spamming your nonsense on unrelated comments.
Replacing battery is like buying a lottery with investing all of your wealth 😂
Hugh, you are doing the KZhead community a tremendous service. To some of us, this is not news, but to the majority it is. Keep up the good work!
Yes! Right to repair should be everywhere, I'm really hoping it starts spreading more and more
Same, it makes me sick how many broken stuff I had, always tried contacting the brand and never had luck with any company yet, they just say the regular blah blah blah thank you and we sell no parts... In my opinion almost every product should have been like cars where everything or at least almost everything is made to sell as parts, however they still sadly have the problem of costing a damn lot which suck.
Start by not buyng apple peoducts
@@UnipornFrumm Never bought and probably never will😎. They are really some of the most overpriced piece of garbage out there that just having that eaten Apple logo makes them charge pretty high while at least on most of their laptops they have many design flaws that keep breaking and apple continue to launch them with a ton of problems and they don't give a dam because they keep buying it👏💰💸
@@guily6669 and when they do brake there is no way to fix apple divices
@@rustyshackleford7200 it's not opinion it's everywhere... Apple is the company on the entire planet who charges far more for extra memory, they refuse to fix some devices and do not sell parts either and are against repairing. Their modern computers using intel and whatever known hardware would always end miles more expensive than the same specs from any brand without an eaten Apple logo and probably with their defective design fixed... They made so many defective designs and even blame the users... Then everyone pays a lot to them thinking they must at least pay well to workers that have all the proper conditions yet not many time ago apple workers in China wanted to commit mass suicide from the poor conditions and bad salary, apple "fixed it" and some time later a similar situation happened which mean they haven't fixed shit. Do I really need to buy a product with a eaten apple to know all of this? Ps: or is it that shitty Mac OS that is worth the extra BIG price difference? Because I don't want it not even 4 free, garbageware that look like it's made 4 kids and I hate their design, I hate the UI, I hate their icons...
What I miss about old phones, is when your phone died, just being able to take the battery out and put in a fresh one really fast. LIKE HOW IT SHOULD BE!!!!@
I still use my cheap old flip phone that I can easily swap out battery in seconds. I like this phone because it is NOT internet capable....I use an Android for internet. I do not store any identifiable personal info on it...never use it as a phone.
Phones today do have a good reason for being sealed though. That is, they’re IP68 water resistant and can survive a drop in the pool.
@@TylerN945 That doesnt matter, they could still make the battery easily removable and also have the phone be water tight ha
@@VashStarwind It certainly does matter. A phone with a removable back simply cannot have the water resistance that let’s say the iPhone 13 Pro max has. You need a strong water tight adhesive to get an IP68 rating for 6 meters up to 30 minutes. Besides, with all the software that apple implements into their phones, you can easily get a battery to last 3 years+ without noticing a significant decrease in the battery’s efficiency. $70 to change the battery at an apple store 3 years from purchasing an iPhone isn’t bad either. People usually upgrade their phones by then.
@@TylerN945 You sound like an apple employee lol
Totally agree phones should be able to replace batteries. It is such a throw away world in this day and age.
Excellent video. Combustibg lithium batteries keep me up at night, so I'm very glad to see some sensible advice being spread.
those sorts of spelling errors look like they were by an OCR reader misinterpreting e and o, i and ls
Yeah, that especially happens with low quality cameras.
That tonds to happon. a iot.
@@HeadsetGuy 🤣
The new iphone has only a 3000ma/h battery????
@@AndroidFerret So you have to recharge them more often and thus reduce the overall lifespan of the battery and the phone! Gotcha... have a bite of another apple! I have a Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro that meets US MilSpec for water resistance, drops, and heat (to certain limits, of course). But what's best: I can open the cover myself and replace the battery (I have two batteries). Phone will last years and years with the two batteries. It's a "business" phone, so the phone stores don't have it "in stock" for "average American" consumers, and it's half the price of the $1000-plus phones they want to sell you (and that they just happen to have in stock), so I order my phones directly from Samsung. AT&T online order price for a locked phone: $510 and a $30 setup fee; Samsung direct price (where I actually ordered the phone): $424 (set it up myself and saved $30 ripoff fee!). Samsung direct phone is also unlocked. What a bargain! Phone works great.
Note 7 baby! what an explosive release! Really FIRED up the crowds! Left customers BURNING for more!
Couldn't have said it better myself
The phone smoked the competition.
I really wanted that phone when it releases till I found out it went kaboom
Samsung really "exploded" the market with that phone
Such a heated statement, watch the comment section blow up.
.... so which one should we buy?
The spelling mistakes were fantastic. Love it.
You can actually find genuine "new" batteries for older phones. "new" meaning never unpacked since manufacturing date years ago, and as result, completely discharged through self-discharge and dead as a doornail.
almost true. they dont make extras for sale so its out of a doa fone like from a carrier. most parts are stripped carrier returns that are icloud or google locked . otherwise somebody reverse engineers and makes the parts. takes about 6months to get a good working aftermarket part. in some cases the aftermarket part is better because its newer tech and not ripped out of a dead fone
@@bermudaguy03 Apple makes extra batteries for sale to Authorized Repair Centers and Authorized Service Providers. How these would make it into the hands of other people I'm not sure but I've personally swapped out an iPhone 7 battery for one with a manufacturer date of 2020
A few years back I purchased a replacement "genuine" battery for my Nexus 5 and the capacity was significantly worse than the original worn out battery lol, I wish it was easy to get a quality battery for an affordable price.
This is even more sad considering they actually did sell original ones. At least the one I got was. Behaved just like new on day one and degraded just as quickly as the one the phone shipped with, going from one charge every two days to 30% at the end of the day in about 30 months.
Order from Taiwan or Hong Kong and your chances are much better to recive what you paid for, maybe Ameica will get off their DUFF and start manufaturing again, OH I forgot their are few if any left in our country that have the required knowledge to make anything of old country standards when we were very near the number one in the World. Thank GOD Japan is still around to supply us with first class quality and South Korea seems to make decent products as well.
Original battery worked for 5 years in my iPhone 5s, then each new one worked about a year. One worked for several months before making phone scorching hot when discharged. I’d say it is impossible to find a good one, so now I’m going to replace my devices as soon as battery degrades😾
i knew these things were garbage! changed out so many and hardly ever solved the issue. Never thought to pull off those labels. well done!
Thank you for creating awareness about this issue. The right to repair and replaced parts that is worn out is crucial, especially on electronic products. We are saving significantly on the earth's resources, if we extend the life of consumer products. Today we have passed the threshold of consumption, by overusing planet earth's resources.
This video just confirms that we have to take a stance to the huge corporations, and claim our Right to repair. Not being able to buy a genuine replacement battery is (almost) criminal. It's one step up from the 3000 euro per liter price for printer ink.
This video just helped me make my decision on buying a replacement battery for my 6S Plus even though I have a 13 I like to keep my 6S Plus going just as a backup with a backup number almost like a house phone but way better and only $35 a month to keep it functioning. I guess you can say a piece of mind sorta thing as it’s on a prepaid system and not the same carrier as my 13. Anyway thank you sir for making my replacement battery something to do more research on versus just the first thing I find either on Amazon or Walmart online.
I one bought a high capacity battery for my 3ds and I was not disappointed with its battery life. It still lasts many times longer than the original even after like a decade. It's also about 10 times the size and came withan extended back plate, but I love :D
Bad spelling in labels usually occurs when the printer is asked to do stuff that’s outside their duties-skills (writing, translating, designing, etc). Printers comply in order to get the job and those extras are not charged.
I saw a cartoon where the printer's assistant told his boss "You only told me to proofread it...you didn't say anything about correcting it".
The EU wants all phones to be charged with a USB-C cable. I'd rather see the return of the removable battery so you can get it replaced easier l, faster and cheaper.
Companys will argue with - it looks ugly - its not waterproof then And Tbh. Otherwise the phones will die because they fall in water
@@feuerherz007 have them explain phones without the removable battery OR water resistance
@@feuerherz007 most right to repair supporters say you can have an internal battery, but at least sell the genuine battery or allow suppliers to sell them
I dont have a problem with glued backs,its not that hard to remove if you are carefull,but i m for right to repair,we should be able to buy the battery and glue template from the manufacturer and other conponents,or at least have them avalable for repair shops
Usb c should be standard for every device not just phones
Happens here a lot at the markets and phone repair shops (TH) with fake Samsung covers or real covers from original applied over cheap battery. I replaced my Samsung battery with so called genuine battery, paid premium, found later that cover started to peel to expose fake. Now I feel that the retailer wanted to keep my original battery for the cover. I replaced with a mainstream company at around 40% of original price that makes good replacements and does not advertise that they are the original. So far on my 2 units they have lasted nearly 3 years.
Very sound presentation there are plenty who will do that. When I worked at Qld Main roads as a P3 engineer working on product approvals; I noticed the amount of un-tested and non-approved product creeping into the Qld Main-roads network. I reported my suspicion to management then to the CMC and they referred it back to TMR for investigation; Snow job investigation ! the Evidence I'd collected wasn't looked at as they had some other agenda? I got added to Premier Campbell Newman's 22,000 public service cull & haven't worked since.
I'll never forget how the look on my Grandma's face made me bust out laughing after she asked what my wife's recharging brick was and I explained to her that wife's iPhone battery was glued in (she's seen me change the battery in my phone a bunch of times) and the look on her face clearly communicated what she was thinking, which was "well, who's the idiot who designed that?"
@@thomasturner8093 wtf are you talking about, where's the connection?
The idiot whose salary is paid by a 2+ trillion market cap company
Substandard corporate thinking led by self serving dummies that require Golden Parachutes before becoming CEO's.
@@greebj by screwing over its customers and nickel-and-diming them to fucking death. You can thank Android that you can now just make a short sound clip your ringtone without having to use your Mac to do it we've been doing that forever while iPhone bozos have been paying a dollar for each little download ridiculous
@@gadgetsage Thomas Turner has spammed that exact same reply to almost every comment on this video.
You are absolutely right phone companies thought why sell battery when they can sell a whole new phone, by adapting battery internal technology and making repairing more complex and hard day by day. Need to work more hard on right to repair movement.
And cheaper in the manufacturing process on the way as well...
its harder to replace only because of water proofing, not to intentionally make you struggle. they probably sold more phones due to water damage than battery issues.
We might finally have a solution to this long standing issue. Smartphone batteries must be "removable and replaceable by the end-user," meaning it must be easy to replace a battery without any kind of technical expertise. Manufacturers have until 2027 to adapt the design of their smartphones in order to comply with the EU law.
They should never have allowed Apple to stop you replacing your batteries by sliding off the back.
We need to learn how to boycott !!!!
Yeah blame all the suckers that buy those pieces of s.
The idea of an internal battery opened the doors for scammers... The ones that put a non-removable glass cover on back of your phone and don't let you replace the battery at all.
It's a sacrifice for water resistance I think
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle No, it's so you have to open the phone through the screen, significantly increasing the chance you will damage it.
@@venturoes1912 dude that's fucking stupid no company designed a phone to be opened through the screen even now in the time of phones being a bitch to open you still do it from the back
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle ever opened an iPhone 6s?
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Try about any Samsung the past few years, pry the screen off without breaking it then remove the frame screws holding frame to the back. I recommend removing the motherboard from the frame one the back is removed then you can wrestle with the adhesive holding the battery to the frame. Might want to test the capacity of your replacement battery, it might be weaker than the used original.
that cheeky little "oh actually this is about right to repair" at the end was awesome. great video mate!
It reminds me of the *_mold in this video_* kzhead.info/sun/lq6pnpSvopueiqM/bejne.html&.klrra
My iPhone 4S battery died just outside of the warranty, so I bought a battery off of Amazon. It required the smallest Phillips size in existence and I've had less trouble replacing motherboards. Several months later, the battery exploded in my car, igniting the interior and nearly catching my house on fire. The car was a total loss and I had to take the loss. That was my last iPhone.
Didn't Apple also have EXPLODING laptops a while back?
Wow!
Oh.
This is good video. The issue thou is that you cannot find batteries anymore anywhere. Manufacturers themself are probably limiting the production and genuine 3rd party manufacturers don't bother to cover enough models. Its horrible.
Remember, every phone can have a 15,000 MAH battery. Trust me. Oh, and spelling mistakes help in improving capacity.
Yup just like those 90,000 lumen flashlights for $5.99
But people would rather seperate power bank and phone instead of having a power bank's weight permamently attached to your phone Until graphene battery are in mass production
I think they should just drop the "m" in mAh to make huge improvement on battery capacity!
@@user-dv6yo5bc4z nope, I'd rather have a bulkier phone that lasts for a few days on one charge. Have you ever used your phone attached to a powerbank on the go? Made a call holding both phone and powerbank to your ear? It's so freaking inconvenient! I hate powerbanks, I don't want to need those damn things in my daily life!
@@LRM12o8 Keep note the fact current limit of phone weight are 250-300 g and stuffing 8000 maH or above is not forseeable.
Even manufacturer replacements can be sometimes scam. I got my iPhone X battery replaced in an Apple Store. Previous battery capacity was 82% And current charge status was 11% New battery capacity was 100% (healthy) Current charge was 11% There’s 1 chance out of 100 the charge status would be the same on different batteries. Using the new battery felt exactly like the last one, and it reached 80% capacity again within months. While I don’t have any proof they simply reset the battery controller chip, I have strong suspicion. I didn’t note the battery serial number but I should have.
Great video, good to know. For my iPhone 5s, after 5 years, I replaced battery only once in reputable shop, and the new one still holds good already for 4 years. Wouldn't be touching these "business" batteries.
Excellent video, cheers from London 👍🏴🇬🇧
RE: The Samsung batteries, I'm guessing that used authentic battery came from a Note 7, the infamous exploding kind.
It reminds me of the *_mold in this video_* kzhead.info/sun/lq6pnpSvopueiqM/bejne.html&.jaqoa
Sony has had several major recalls because of flawed battery engineering and failed Quality Control and probably no field testing? What is it about corporations, are they to cheap to set up Quality Control or did they figure the consumers would find the problems with their failed products and someone elses expense? Next, explosions like commercial aircraft and Laptops???
To clarify the Audience, that'd be the OVERSTUFFED one (it almost didn't fit the cavity it supposed to go inside) they sold originally. There is a narrower (less capacity) one offered in the Fan Edition of the Note 7 sold in some countries after the debacle to get rid of the remaining components.
Thank you Hugh for making this video. Thanks for informing us on knockoff batteries and how they can literally scam people.
Great video with brilliant info, thanks I was considering replacing my iPhone 8 Plus, but by the end of this year, Apple will no longer update my phone, so there’s no point in replacing the battery, but your video is really good info to know 👍
Going back to easily replaceable batteries wouldn't help much unless manufacturers start selling original batteries. I remember the days when Nokia was on top and batteries were still replaceable but even back then it was next to impossible to find a genuine battery although they were doing a better job with the stickers at the time.
Great job on the right to repair push. I hope the “average” person gets behind this and it’s no longer just the people that do the repairs that understand how important this truly is 😊
It's too complicated.
@@Graeme_Lastname its not
It reminds me of the *_mold in this video_* kzhead.info/sun/lq6pnpSvopueiqM/bejne.html&.zlkga
@@Graeme_Lastname No its not
Right to repair!
Just when you thought you've heard the end of the Note 7 references...Hugh adds another indirectly!
You discovered hot water! Bravo!
Thank you for sharing and educating us! Now I know how to buy replacement batteries!
The fact that whichever company (likely based in China) making those unbranded gold batteries can just fake the wear levels like how similar scammers in the automotive industry would use custom devices to fake odometer readouts, really throws me off. I feel as though those kinds of companies make up most of what gives the Right to Repair movement a bad reputation, because they likely put fake labels on the batteries so they can make money without a care in the world. (This part invalidated due to the 5th reply to this comment) Faking the battery readouts could lead to the batteries exploding since the management chip wouldn't know that the battery cell already has tons of wear on it!
Sadly it also means that it gives Apple/Samsung etc the reason to lock their hardware so things can't easily be replaced without issues. They can now justify it's the only way to know you're getting genuine safe spare parts...only from them of course.
@@Dedubya- To be fair you can also argue that the only reason why they are buying batteries from third party companies is because they can't buy it from the companies themselves.
No an uncalibrated chip could never lead to an explosion. These old cells could barely make your hands warm when you short out the bare cell.
@@two_number_nines Oh.
dude, apples official batteries are also made in china, stop thinking all products made in china are boycott and cheap
Tip for Sony Ericsson batteries: they *always* have the full datecode on show. For example at 5:52 it says 17W07 on the fake and 10W05 on the real label, denoting 2017 week 7 and 2010 week 5 respectively. When Sony and Ericsson split, Sony kept the labeling scheme for their batteries mostly similar, including the yyWww datecode (at least to the point where they started gluing batteries in as well)
I had a sony Ericsson never a single problem... aside from the inability to use none Sony Ericsson apps. Even though it was android based.
Knaeckebrotsaege L00K closely at the battery and if you were paying attention, you would see that it is SONY and not Sony. Typically zombies have eyes bit cannot see --Ears and cannot hear. So learn to pay attention to detail. These names are written the way they are for a reason that is beyond your present ability to comprehend.
@@andrew_koala2974 Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?
It reminds me of the *_mold in this video_* kzhead.info/sun/lq6pnpSvopueiqM/bejne.html&.nyzda
@@thomasturner8093 feck off with your spam
It’s scary that improperly packaged batteries are being shipped on airplanes.
That's a really good video... very informative. As for the batteries needing to be replaced. Its the high Amp quick charge that's killing their capacity. I charge mine at a maximum of 500mA....takes longer but the charge lasts me about a week.. Also sealing the phone batteries inside the phone is just a way of selling you the next model when the internal battery becomes no longer functional.
Planned obsolescence in action!
Totally on board with Right to Repair!! So glad you talked about that. So many reasons to have strong right to repair laws - including climate change and reasonable costs for the consumer.
Still apple ripping off with their battery prices
I paid for it so I have every right to do whatever I want to it. If I want to repair it or throw it away.
As long as “anti-right to repair” is being pushed by manufacturers, people have little to no incentive to pay xx amount for a genuine battery, when they can pay x amount online, and get one… But on the other hand, if/when manufacturers start selling genuine parts, nothing stops them from charging exorbitant amounts to discourage people from repairing their devices… just so they buy new devices.
There only one issue I have yet to have a phone battery wear out before u was thinking of upgrading because phone was running slow and software updates weren't available any more
@@mattpolton3802 do you think that this is by accident?
@@adamjj001 no just hardware get out of data
Incentive for a genuine battery? What 'genuine' batteries?
@@danielyoung_ just a lot of people would upgrade phone in 3 or 4 years not replaced battery because cpu us too old
I recently got burned on a replacement battery I recently purchased on Amazon. I tried to pick a reliable supplier but obviously failed. The replacement battery performs 1/4 as much as the tired old OEM battery I replaced. I'm going to try another replacement but with more care in the selection. I'm looking forward to inspecting the battery with this knowledge you have so generously provided when I replace it and then edit my review of the battery with what I learn and a reference to your video. THANK YOU!
If you find a RELIABLE brand, would you PLEASE post on this channel, Thanks!
Ah.. 'Fabrique en Chin' is such a reassuring phrase Well done fellow Oz
Great video! I think this is an important topic for people to understand, regardless of how tech-savvy you are. Working in the repair industry, I urge people to use legitimate sources when it comes to getting a repair done, regardless if they do it themselves or not. For example, I had a gentleman come into our store today with a ZTE phone. His charging port went bad, so he went to some "repair shop" to get it looked at (he didn't know/disclose the shop). They tore down the device, desoldered the port, then said they couldn't get the parts and had this gentleman a box with his phone torn down. I'm disappointed that someone would put this guy in a position like this. Especially since he's older. I said to him that he should come to us in the future for any needs as we would never do that to a customer, regardless if we were able to resolve their situation. So again, I urge you. Do your research and only work with reputable sources. Doesn't matter if you're doing the repair yourself or outsourcing it to a manufacturer or an authorized repair partner.
How do you find a reputable source
@@akajessca I would just start with the products you see in PRG’s videos. He wouldn’t recommend something we shouldn’t use
Was it an Axon 7 by any chance? I had the same failure and put in an aftermarket board, that unfortunately did not have circuitry it needed to do fast charging. I knew that going in, but it still sucked being back on 500mA charge rates.
6:55 that's from a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, aka the exploding phone! the problem was that the battery was too large for the frame, hence the explosions. Reducing the capacity to 3200mAh (as seen in the Note FE) made them less explosive.
YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
The bomb phone
Less explosive?? Bruh
Yes of course "less". Every Lithium Batterie is a potential bomb. Any damage, even tiny ones to the internal separator will cause a chain reaction. Never an explosion but like magnesium or fireworks
Yes it did lessen the force of the explosion, using an official iPhone battery. I lost only 2 fingers instead of the rated 4.
I took my problematic iphone to an Apple centre and the smart salesman took it out the back and said it was unrepairable and proceeded to show me the latest model to purchase. I did not believe him. I took my phone to an Indian shop on the high street (UK) and the fellow put a new battery in for £20 and voila! good as new. A year later, all still good.
nice
Most OEM electronics companies do not make their equipment batteries available forever. This is true for Samsung & Nikon, for example. With non-removable and oddly shaped batteries the problem of replacement batteries is worse. It may be time to push for standard battery sizes for phones.
I've always been a proponent of standardization when it comes to things like this.
I'll be honest, I probably fell for one of these, I replaced my phone battery a year or two ago, and while it was certainly better than the well used original, it wasn't even close to what it was to begin with. I had just assumed OS updates were causing increased use on the phone, and that is why it still wouldn't get through a full day anymore. And I don't have the testing equipment you do, so I can't be certain either. But this seems to most likely (especially since I got the exact same bag of part to open the phone with it).
For my experience, I had my iphone 7 battery replaced by an Apple store last march. I was expecting to go back to full day and a half battery life i was able to get out of the phone back in 2017 when new. But evidently, 4 major OS updates took their toll on the processor power consumption. Despite the new battery, I cannot get through an entire day anymore. And I'm 100% sure that the battery is genuine.
I have also been a victim of this scam in the past.
@@loresign4933 that's just an apple feature
@@TheGuruStud Apple has been prosecuted and found guilty for purposefully slowing down older phones (aka sabotage) via updates in the past, so it's not outside their MO.
I Officially labeled you as a propagandist now for not saying the most obvious reason why cell phone manufacturers make their batteries impossible to access! If you pull out the battery then they cannot know your location even when your battery is dead it is still pinging location to the cell phone towers! They don't want you being able to pull out your battery and keep them from pinging your location! It's all about full spectrum domination FSD! I'm officially unsubscribing and blocking you it was so easy to say this and you didn't say it you are a propagandist! That's why your video got recommended to me and that's why you have subscribers because you push BS propaganda!
This makes total sense thank you. I bought a supposedly brand new battery at a cell phone repair shop and the battery was even worse on run time.
Subscribed to your channel as it carries a message and a warning that is highly relevant.
Forgot to add just how dangerous these knock off batteries are. They have no safety in place should they overheat which could end up with an explosion in your pocket.
Great video review - never even thought about looking under the sticker, but I also got hit by a scam battery once. Purchased it for an old Samsung (with a removable battery), needless to say, the battery was useless - was worse than the many years old original battery (which itelf had lost all abilities to hold a decent charge). Also I agree, we need to do something about Right To Repair, there are certain companies (one in particular) that tries to hinder 3rd party repair.
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Yeah, on the iPhone 13 face id stops working when you change the screen even though they have nothing to do with each other
You're right. I think this is a business that came to stay. The sticker part also triggered me, hahaha. However, this will never change.
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I Officially labeled you as a propagandist now for not saying the most obvious reason why cell phone manufacturers make their batteries impossible to access! If you pull out the battery then they cannot know your location even when your battery is dead it is still pinging location to the cell phone towers! They don't want you being able to pull out your battery and keep them from pinging your location! It's all about full spectrum domination FSD! I'm officially unsubscribing and blocking you it was so easy to say this and you didn't say it you are a propagandist! That's why your video got recommended to me and that's why you have subscribers because you push BS propaganda!
Thank you very much for this excellent & honest review of phone batteries. This shows the truth about the world having so much corruption in business & political dealings. Like you said, it's best to get the batteries replaced from the manufacturers & not elsewhere just because you can save a few bucks!
When a replacement battery is £79 and the phone only cost £100. Sometimes it’s best to take your chances, do your research and get a battery from a reputable company, just not the manufacturer.
This works for Apple phones because of the HIGH replacement cost for a new phone. For those of US with lesser means who buy $200 Android phones, professional service doesn't make economic sense! So, we are stuck with buying "a pig in the poke" batteries!
Thanks! I have always been leery of replacement batteries. One of the well-known web sites is probably where I should have gone for my most recent replacement battery, but I didn't think of that, and it was a dud.
You take your phone to the apple store and they tell you that you need to pay $550 for a new one because they found something minuscule, but if you take it to a local repair shop, they'll give you a potential knock-off (acceptable battery) for the usual 80 pricepoint. Its a lose-lose but atleast the repair shop will extent the life of your phone if you choose the right one.
as soon as replaceable user batteries come by 2027 i dread to think the pump up price for the replaceable batteries....$100 a battery and they are 2000mah so you might need afew lol What leads me to believe they will be expensive is the price the fairphone 5 is charging for its replaceable battery....it will go up from there
Totally agree, there are plenty of scammers out there and honesty is not something they’re interested in but in making money out of people. When I need a replacement battery, I’d always go to the product retailer and pay more but I’ll know that it’ll be genuine and will have a warranty.
Apple products have "retailers", while CHEAP Motorola phones have NO stores to go to for parts and service at CHEAP rates! The "service" for my Motorola G phone consists of ME finding a "round" file and placing said phone into that file! LOL
I was literally a couple hours away from ordering a high capacity battery for my friend's Iphone, you literally couldn't have timed this any better 😂 This makes me question the legitimacy of the 3rd party battery in my 6s plus even though its been running for nearly 3 years no problem. In that case can anyone recommend brands for legit higher capacity replacement batteries for a 6s plus?
Damn
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@@frs-vr3mg no lol
@@karmakaze9972 why it's great
@@frs-vr3mg it’s one of the worst places you can go for phone parts lol
WOW, not surprised about this scam, Thank you for this info 👏👏🇨🇦🇨🇦 WOW. Scams are out of control
When I got tired of my phone's (LG V20) worn battery, I was delighted to find that LG had a replacement listed on their site, and it worked a charm. Have had this phone for 5 years now, and love it to bits still.
An advice that will be always safe for everyone especially buying battery: If it’s too good to be true, then it probably is.
Unless it's gold. Then it's definitely legit /j
Unless it's 5000mah sticker outside of 1250mah battery, it's safe /s
That's great advice for life in general, Don't believe your wishes - if it costs a third of the price then it's probably gonna die in a third of the time. And there are no such thing as amazing sale deals, only old stock nobody wanted ;)
I Officially labeled you as a propagandist now for not saying the most obvious reason why cell phone manufacturers make their batteries impossible to access! If you pull out the battery then they cannot know your location even when your battery is dead it is still pinging location to the cell phone towers! They don't want you being able to pull out your battery and keep them from pinging your location! It's all about full spectrum domination FSD! I'm officially unsubscribing and blocking you it was so easy to say this and you didn't say it you are a propagandist! That's why your video got recommended to me and that's why you have subscribers because you push BS propaganda!
*Scammers are the main villain in the tech world*
Scammers and big tech companies
@@ralphal7022 what's the difference?
Scammers arise when the real villian prevents you from using genuine parts
@@nayutakani2055 nah scammers just appear out of thin air when a new product comes out
They also give hope when company don't provide spare parts
Thanks for the clip. I almost about to buy a iPhone 6s Plus replacement battery from eBay.
Insightful, very difficult to get decent parts these days.
4:03 seing Hugh surprised even though he knew it's a knock off is sublime
If you know Korean or Japanese it's much easier to determine whether it's fake or not; since most of these counterfeit goods manufacturer does not understand both languages, phrases printed on the label often misspelled, or on very bad quality. e.g. Writing ソ as ン, ツ as シ in the Japanese context, and ㅊ as ㅎ, ㅏ/ㅓ as ㅣin Korean…
Another one would be using the wrong kanji in the case of japanese, specifically using a simplified version used in chinese but not japanese or vice versa. Although katakana and hangul should be easier.
It would like reading "do nut peel thE stickr" but if it was in another language
Misspells in English are a good enough indicator
Same story with laptop batteries. I needed a new one for my Dell latop - the 1st one I got from Amazon was below the advertised capacity, so I immediately returned it. I bought a replacement battery directly from Dell, and that one seems fine. It cost a bit more, but the capacity is what was advertised.
Thank you for exposing this scam. In my view this has come about due to the policy of the original manufacturers to discontinue supplying replacement batteries 1 or 2 years after the launch of a product; this holds true for phones, laptops, e-bikes, just about anything with rechargeable batteries. For example I have a Dell 7480 laptop that dates from 2019. It needs a new battery and the Dell manual and website stress that it should only be replaced by an original Dell product. The problem is that Dell no longer make this particular battery, which wasn't even available from them in 2021 when I first looked.
Hi Hugh, just wanted to thank you for this video, after watching it I managed to find an (almost) local manufacturer who puts their brand on the batteries. Immediately I felt more confidence in buying from them. (And the batteries are actually good - what a surprise) Unfortunately I'm still struggling to find a reputable seller for Android batteries, but there's a website that specialises in batteries so I'm hoping I'll finally get a good replacement for my poor dying Nokia 8.1. You're really helping my side hustle man, I will be forever grateful, I'm lovin' this hobby
Did you end up finding a legit supplier for android batteries? I would be interested as well for my phone.
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+1 I'm interested too
When I was young most TVs and radios used vacuum tubes and most tubes were one of a half dozen common types. The local drug store had a tube testing machine with a stock of the most common tubes. Anybody could take all of the tubes from their radio or TV down to the store and test them. The testing machine had a meter with a needle that pointed to a green, yellow, or red area depending on the tube's condition. Tubes that tested as red were bad, yellow were weak, and green were good. After replacing the bad tubes the radio or TV would usually work for a few more years. Equipment that operates for decades is probably better for the environment thant ones that are easily recycled.
Those "tube testers" could only be trusted if the meter indicated "BAD" . Just because you got a "GOOD" reading did not mean the tube was good. The only real way to test a "GOOD" tube was by substituting a KNOWN good tube!
@@TheOzthewiz Thanks for responding to my post. Are you sharing what you have experienced or what you have read? In my case it was actual experience repairing radios, TVs, and one HP VTVM. In many cases the heater would go open and the tube would not glow when it was in circuit and was usually bad. If the tube was glowing it could still be bad and the tube tester gave some more information. In my experience in about 95% of the cases replacing a tube that tested bad caused the device to return to operation. In less than 1 case in 20 all tubes would test good but the device still wouldn't work properly. In those cases the quick tube test was just the beginning of the adventure.
While staying in Shenzhen, China as an exchange students I used to go to the infamous Huaqianlu street. You would see hundreds of grandma's taking apart old phones and changing the stickers on batteries. They even had fake phones, my first phone was actually a fake S3. This was in 2013 mind you.
I was so surprised on the labels very much informative video and I feel much more educated so thank you for that I would’ve never known this was a scam
This is a much much needed video to spread awareness, not only these Chinese manufacturers lie about the capacity and wrap old batteries in new gold stickers they are also prone to swelling and combust due to old age, I had this happen with a Samsung Note 5 replacement (gold) battery. I am glad the right to repair movement is going to take off soon.
As a lifetime career service tech in several industries, it has been my experience that any replacement part that states, "professional quality" or "genuine part" ... ISN'T ! You might save some cash buying a knockoff part but will inevitably be disappointed. As the saying goes ... The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
It reminds me of the *_mold in this video_* kzhead.info/sun/lq6pnpSvopueiqM/bejne.html&.hwowa
True, but the multinationals, phone or other, won't allow you as a consumer to buy original parts in general. In the watch industry, for example, ( yes you Seiko-Epson) it is just as bad. And the Chinese, they are masters of fake products!
or as some say 'a pig in a poke ' ,
When I buy replacement parts, I look for "factory OEM" on the package. NOT, "direct replacement" or "direct fit"! You are going to pay more for the "OEM" part, but believe me, in the long run IT IS WORTH IT!!!!
Thank you, there is a need fore more content like this.
When companies make selfish decisions, such as removing the power brick from the box for "Enviromental purposes", they should also sell replacement parts for their phones for the same reason.
From the recalled Note 7 by chance?
that’s what i thought
True. This was the recalled infamous note 7
@@danteerskine7678 I miss the days of an easily replacable battery. My phone going on 4 years now and battery is still performing ok
@@12voltvids nah. Replaceable batteries aren't missing me that much. Besides that, the key secret to battery longevity is to use not one but more than one phone. I didn't know that until I found out that I didn't need to charge my galaxy j7 every day. I don't use flagship so, I prefer to use more than 1 budget phone. After 5 years of moderate use, I found out that my galaxy j7 battery which is a typical 3000 mah battery hasn't depleted and I still could get 2 days of use like when it was new. Batteries do deplete in one way or another but I found out how to use a phone much more longer without battery replacement, same thing for my older Redmi note 3, no battery depletion either. But sign of times, I replaced them by a Samsung galaxy a12, a redmi 9 prime, a Nokia G10 and a OPPO a53, which comes respectively with batteries of 5000 mah capacity. These devices are cheap and pack some decent ram and USB c, so why not. These phones I have right now could hold a full week and there's juice still left. So more phones, less battery cycles
the FE, Fire Edition
Valuable information, it’s no surprise the knock-off batteries are all over eBay. People need to wise up, you still don’t get something for nothing, even with a pretty label wrapped around it. Thank you for helping to expose this information.
I was lucky to find this video before I bought a battery for my partner's phone on amazon. i hope to find a reputable seller in my next search, alternatively i will try to send the phone to official repairers.
Thank you so much for the information! Unfortunately i started looking about this topic after i got supposedly scammed. Now i will try to buy and replace the battery by myself. Last time it was done in a shop 2 months ago while i was abroad. It was a good deal I thought because the guy assured me to put the original samsung battery in there which made everything about 5 € more expensive. So for 20€ I got the battery and the splittered back lid of the phone with oem parts 😅... Now I will try to get a battery tester also - I am curious what it will show me about the battery.. Thanks a lot sir!❤