One day I was mindlessly scrolling through Twitter and got someone having a dig on people who still remove their smartphone battery to replace their SIM cards. It has become a common design practice in almost all modern phones to come with an inbuilt or non-removable battery and SIM card on the side either micro or nano-sized cards.
At the same time, they come packed with a lot of issues that disturbs most users and we have taken the liberty to curate a list of the top four things you should care for when using a phone that has a non-removable battery.
1. How to Handle Overheating
Since you can’t remove the battery to cool, you can completely power it off and place it on a cool surface like a cold sachet of water or a piece of a wet towel. After some time, the phone should have cooled down and ready to use it.
2. How to Handle Unresponsiveness or Hanging
Unlike a phone with a removable battery, you can’t remove an inbuilt battery to fix when your phone is hanging up.
When your phone hangs for over 10 minutes without responding, kindly reboot it by holding Volume down + Power button, at the same time, for about 30 seconds. Your device should reboot and unfreeze. I remember when I was using my Itel P33, I had trouble with hard rebooting my phone but a couple of my friends would do it for me easily without any hiccups.
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When your phone freeze temporarily, kindly wait for it to unfreeze by itself and afterwards clear running apps and reboot the phone.
3. What if your Phone does not Power On?
This can be scary but it can be handled. Kindly hold the power button for about 2 minutes, your phone will come on but if it doesn’t, kindly charge it up. Most times the worst thing that makes a phone fail to power up is the most obvious one and that could be that the battery had no power.
4. Never let your Phone Fall Inside Water
Unlike phones with replaceable batteries that you will quickly remove the battery, an inbuilt battery is allergic to water. There’s no guarantee that your phone will survive if it falls into the water unless is a water-resistant phone like the Samsung Galaxy S9 and other phones that are.
