I noticed the back of my steam deck feeling uneven yesterday. Opened it up to find a spicy pillow inside.
Replacement is underway, but I'm gonna remove this one now, already. Wish me luck...
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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Ehhh Iâve had some nightmare experiences with Samsung, LG (back when they made phones), ~~Xiaomi~~ (edit not Xiaomi, huawei), etc. a lot use pull tabs and when they work theyâre perfect but when theyâre old or you go just a bit too fast and they break youâre fucked and have to either heat it a ton, drown it in solvent, or slide a thin wire to cut it, all options suck
Funny enough the new apple phones actually have this weird electro conductive adhesive thatâs crazy simple to remove. The pull tabs are now terminals, you connect those to a standard 9v battery with alligator clips or whatever, and after a short bit of time (30 seconds iirc) the adhesive just releases and you can lift the battery out
There are videos of it on youtube, itâs pretty cool and the one adhesive I can potentially get behind. though I would want to see what people say about it after a few years of actual use. The initial teardown videos when the 16 came out made it look impressive but who knows if it holds up after 5-7 years
They also donât use it for laptops so far. They didnât even use it for all versions of the iphone 16 so itâs not exactly applaud apple time but if they roll that out to replace the nasty adhesives they were using for batteries across their product line it would be a great step in the right direction