The real question is "what the hell is a farphone"?
by kccqzy
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These days it is rare for a phone to be able to be used without a battery. The reason is that the max energy consumption when the CPU and GPU are running 100% exceeds the wattage that the device can accept over USB PD.
by Reason077
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While I’ve seen plenty of swollen and deformed phone batteries, I’ve never personally seen one that has burned. Obviously it’s happened in the past with certain phone/battery models, but I’d imagine that it’s actually very rare now days?
On the other hand, I have seen cheap 18650s spontaneously start smoking even when they weren’t plugged in to anything…
by poolnoodle
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So the Fairphone 2 runs on just a USB cable with no battery inside?
by charcircuit
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Why not just have the charge controller "unplug" it if the battery is full?
by prmoustache
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I would have hooked the smartphone to a small solar panel. The natural daylight cycle would have made sure that the smartphone kept having charging and discharging cycles.
I doubt the traffic hitting it would be sufficient to drain the battery overnight.
by allenrb
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I would’ve expected a hardware-based lithium-ion charge controller which would continue to work regardless of what software runs on the main CPU(s).
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