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Shout out to your local phone repair guy (feddit.uk)
submitted 3 months ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/casualuk@feddit.uk
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They're singlehandedly keeping the whole country running.

New screen and digitizer for £50 and 20 mins work, I'm so happy my phone lives on!

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[–] florge@feddit.uk 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately they also usually sell vapes

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

eh

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

And also as money laundering fronts.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

eh, I'm sure my local chinese takeaway has been serving as a front for decades. They still make delicious takeout

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Meh I don’t know; took my daughter’s phone in for a new battery. Came out on same battery max capacity percentage as it went in. He argued “it takes a while to go up”, I argued that a proper chipped battery would show up immediately.

We didn’t agree and I got some money back. But it all felt pretty sketchy tbh.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

It could have been a software thing, the max capacity of batteries are decided by the driver header file, and these have been known to be wrong as Pixel 4a users found out when Google clobbered their battery life overnight