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.

Great idea! Just can’t promise I get everything setup any time soon lol. But I will try for sure.

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.

Your contribution is noted and landed you a new position at Pettyl Industries!

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Just like all mushrooms are edible once…

Yeah, for 40 bucks I get a phone with good specs and a free pillow!

Maybe not an identical one, but I did find an interesting Note 9 for around $40…

I guess this is foreshadowing…

Now we’re speaking the same language!

Thank you for the kind words 🎩

You are absolutely fine!

People here, including you, have been very respectful and thoughtful, and I am all for feedback.

I don’t have the knowledge of the whole universe, do I? So please, by all means, I want to hear your critiques, it makes the project better and I learn along the way!

Nah, an actual UPS with 7kg batteries is way cooler.

But I really appreciate the feedback!

This is obviously ridiculous.

So I’ll do it.

Update! Apparently removing the battery also removes half the CPU lol.

I’ll keep you posted!

And we’re live!

Yeah, what he said. I was just about to say the exact same thing…

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.

Aye aye, captain🫡

Hahaha, thank you for defending me! 😄

Just to clarify though, the “they said it couldn’t be done” part was mostly me being ironic and unnecessarily dramatic for the post lol. The comments on this whole project have actually been overwhelmingly positive and helpful.

People here are the reason I even tried some of this stuff in the first place.

But I genuinely appreciate you having my back. And the S5 being able to cold boot without a battery is really interesting — Pettyl unfortunately needs its battery as a starter motor. 😂

Lol thank you so much, and I absolutely love what you said: “MOTO ÜBER ALLES”

I want to use it on the website instead of the boring copyright text lol, if it’s cool with you, I’ll even credit you!

I did not need to fake battery presence, just needed the battery as a starter, once the phone is booted just removed the battery.

Although the real test is yet to come, I have to leave it like this for a day or two, to see if it powers off when CPU spikes…