[301/366] charging
Oct. 27th, 2020 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistI've mentioned how my phone has been charging slowly and unreliably lately.
There's this cultural understanding that it's pathetic to be so attached to your phone that you live and die by its battery, but like on Tuesday night when I spilled water on the electrics meant that even when I plugged it in Wednesday morning before I went to work it only charged to thirty-some percent and it lost about five percent of that when I was walking to work and not using it.
And my whole day at work was going to revolve around waiting for and then having a really important phone call that'd be made to my phone, at some unpredictable point in the next three hours. It was to make up for a big stressful fail of the same important, difficult phone call two weeks ago so it was extremely important for it to not mess up this time. My job was supposed to be helpig my employer with the stressful thing, not worrying about my damn phone. But even though I tried borrowing a charger it didn't work because the damn phone only works with two (2) specific cables these days (one of which is nearly frayed through itself, so that's awesome).
So I spent an hour and a half increasingly stressed. It sucked a lot! (But it worked out okay, phew.) So that's the kind of battery-reated misery I've had: stuff like that and "I can't always make good use of the covid app because the Bluetooth and location drain the battery," not like boomer stereotypes of millenials as glued to instagram or whatever.
diffrentcolours had offered to look at how difficult it'd be to take my phone apart so he could replace the charging port himself, and in the process he learned that my phone has the ability to do wireless charging! Which I didn't know. I'd never thought about wireless charging, which seems pointless and weird to me -- you still need to plug a charger into a wall? and it seems hideously inefficient -- but very useful in this circumstance! Suddenly a solution easier than diffrentcolours trying to dissemble my (complicated-sounding, it turns out) phone and cheaper than paying a shop to do it was just trying a wireless charger. It was waiting for me last night when I got home from work.
I took it out of the package, I found the instructions woefully inadequate to many of the things I was wondering about, but I plugged it in and put my phone on top of it and...the screen did that thing it used to do when the phone started charging! I'd almost forgotten about that, because it never happens any more when my phone barely registers that charging is happeing and the charge that used to happen in two hours now fails to happen in an entire day, all the while saying that it'll take five and a half hours.
And, honestly, just seeing that happen was such a weight off my mind that it surprised me. I've still found myself glancing fretfully to the top right corner of the screen where the battery percentage is. I still can't use my phone without fumbing at where my muscle memory now apparently expects a charger cable to be dislodging itself constantly. It's so weird! And so bad how used to that I've gotten without even noticing it!
I don't think the wireless charging is an awesome primary solution but it's nice to have one less thing to worry about for a while.
There's this cultural understanding that it's pathetic to be so attached to your phone that you live and die by its battery, but like on Tuesday night when I spilled water on the electrics meant that even when I plugged it in Wednesday morning before I went to work it only charged to thirty-some percent and it lost about five percent of that when I was walking to work and not using it.
And my whole day at work was going to revolve around waiting for and then having a really important phone call that'd be made to my phone, at some unpredictable point in the next three hours. It was to make up for a big stressful fail of the same important, difficult phone call two weeks ago so it was extremely important for it to not mess up this time. My job was supposed to be helpig my employer with the stressful thing, not worrying about my damn phone. But even though I tried borrowing a charger it didn't work because the damn phone only works with two (2) specific cables these days (one of which is nearly frayed through itself, so that's awesome).
So I spent an hour and a half increasingly stressed. It sucked a lot! (But it worked out okay, phew.) So that's the kind of battery-reated misery I've had: stuff like that and "I can't always make good use of the covid app because the Bluetooth and location drain the battery," not like boomer stereotypes of millenials as glued to instagram or whatever.
diffrentcolours had offered to look at how difficult it'd be to take my phone apart so he could replace the charging port himself, and in the process he learned that my phone has the ability to do wireless charging! Which I didn't know. I'd never thought about wireless charging, which seems pointless and weird to me -- you still need to plug a charger into a wall? and it seems hideously inefficient -- but very useful in this circumstance! Suddenly a solution easier than diffrentcolours trying to dissemble my (complicated-sounding, it turns out) phone and cheaper than paying a shop to do it was just trying a wireless charger. It was waiting for me last night when I got home from work.I took it out of the package, I found the instructions woefully inadequate to many of the things I was wondering about, but I plugged it in and put my phone on top of it and...the screen did that thing it used to do when the phone started charging! I'd almost forgotten about that, because it never happens any more when my phone barely registers that charging is happeing and the charge that used to happen in two hours now fails to happen in an entire day, all the while saying that it'll take five and a half hours.
And, honestly, just seeing that happen was such a weight off my mind that it surprised me. I've still found myself glancing fretfully to the top right corner of the screen where the battery percentage is. I still can't use my phone without fumbing at where my muscle memory now apparently expects a charger cable to be dislodging itself constantly. It's so weird! And so bad how used to that I've gotten without even noticing it!
I don't think the wireless charging is an awesome primary solution but it's nice to have one less thing to worry about for a while.
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