[ale] [Semi-ot rant] Why is obtaining a cell phone battery such a degrading experience?

[dev null zero two]

towelroot works on all Androids < jun 3 2014

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 10/07/2014 02:17 PM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> > Am I the only person that keeps their android smartphone more than a
> > year?   Because the new ones aren't any better and I'm grandfathered
> > into an unlimited Verizon data plan?
> >
> > But try to get a battery - sheesh.
> >
> > After looking all over, I call BatteryMonster and they swear these are
> > new OEM batteries.
> >
> > So, I order 2 of them.
> >
> > Today they showup:
> >     The color of the label is wrong.
> >     The label doesn't fit snugly on the plastic case.
> >     They BOTH have the SAME serial#.  My two genuine HTC batteries
> > have different ones, and the later one has.......wait for it....... a
> > higher serial#.
> >     That Serial number is LOWER than the serial number on my original
> > battery which is now three years old.
> >
> > In short, these are obvious counterfeits.  They copied the same label
> > from years ago and slap it on every one they crank out.
> >
> > I dunno.  What do I expect.   I call HTC and they say they aren't
> > making replacement BTR6425B batteries anymore.
> >
> > But given that these batteries are known to sometimes explode and
> > burn, one would like to avoid unknowns.
> >
> what kind of phone is it?? I have my Galaxy S3 still.. wish I could root
> it, never have been able to find instructions that work. at least it got
> Kit Kat recently..
>
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> Paul Cartwright
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