Recycling pinephone as home server
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(11-12-2025, 11:18 AM)biketool Wrote: There are instructions from maybe 3-4 years ago somewhere on the wiki, but there is a trick where voltage, I think 5v+ is fine, needs t go to a battery pad.

I was unable to find that. If connecting 5v to the battery pad is enough, it's probably easy (by picking it from the USB charger directly).

But I fear burning something (fully charged battery is still less than 5V IIRC), and I fear the reaction of the charging parts: we can hope thay by providing 5V the phone will never try to charge the "battery", but what if it tries? As said previously adding a diode could protect this, but am I forgetting something else that could go wrong?

Did someone ever tried?
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Recycling pinephone as home server - by mdk - 11-11-2025, 10:12 AM
RE: Recycling pinephone as home server - by mdk - 11-20-2025, 07:14 AM
RE: Recycling pinephone as home server - by mdk - 12-01-2025, 02:57 AM

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