Our old Google Nexus 5 phone concerns me a bit. Look:
This must be the battery swelling up, and it’s getting worse – so much so that by now it’s hard to even switch it on or off.
And since that’s a Lithium based battery, this could mean danger – we’ve heard often enough that these things can catch fire. I’ve looked up spare parts, and while LG doesn’t sell original batteries (or whole phones for that matter) since a few years anymore, 3rd party offerings at Amazon & Co. start at around 20€. Which means that it’s probably not economically viable anymore to invest that much into a 10-year-old phone, even if with LineageOS it has the latest and greatest Android 13 on it.
Too bad. But I think this one has to go into recycling then. Can’t give it away to anyone else, and probably endangering them…
Like always, thanks for reading.