Enthusiast improves Pixel 4a battery life by installing battery from Pixel 5a

Sooner or later, many people face a situation when their favorite smartphone stopsDelight with autonomy

Due to the drop in the capacity of a worn-out battery, it forces you to make a choiceFinding these options boring, the Reddit enthusiastdecided to go ahead and install a 5G battery in my Pixel 4aAnd we are not talking about pseudo-enlarged batteries from AliExpress, but about the original battery from... Pixel 5a.

This is what a Pixel 5a battery looks like inside a Pixel 4a 5G

The needleworker noticed that despite the noticeablelarge capacity (4680 mAh versus 3885 mAh for the Pixel 4a 5G), the physical dimensions of the battery are almost identical (it is 4.5 mm longer, 0.4 mm thicker and 1.4 mm narrower). With years of experience designing and repairing chips, he redesigned the layout of some elements of the Pixel 4a, and was also forced to remove the NFC chip, which allowed him to gain an extra 1mm in thickness. The enthusiast claims that its design takes into account the physical expansion of the battery when heated, and the increase in autonomy was about 17%. And although this looks like a pretty attractive idea, we do not recommend such manipulations for inexperienced users due to the banal fire hazard.

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