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Part 3: They said a phone can’t run without a battery. Unfortunately, Pettyl didn’t get the memo. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by tradicije@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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This post is an update of the second part of my Moto server series: https://lemmy.zip/post/72142441

Rumor has it that keeping an 8-year-old phone permanently plugged in with its equally ancient Li-ion battery might not be the greatest idea ever conceived.

Some even claimed that a phone needs a battery to work.

Very negative people.

Anyway, I removed it.

Pettyl did not care.

nginx: UP PHP-FPM: UP MariaDB: UP WordPress: UP cloudflared: UP sshd: UP

The battery is currently sitting next to the phone, contributing absolutely nothing to the project.

Pettyl is now running entirely from USB power, at around 37°C, while continuing to serve the website like this is completely normal.

There is, however, one tiny detail the haters may enjoy:

It can’t boot without the battery.

So the official Pettyl disaster recovery procedure is now:

Insert battery
Boot Pettyl
Connect USB power
Remove battery
Pretend this is enterprise infrastructure

The battery is no longer a battery.

It is the starter motor.

I see no problems with this architecture.

Anyway, Part 3 is going great.

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[–] Bansh33@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The HTC Aria at least could also cold boot from USB power. The first method developed for bootloader unlocking on it required an SD card with the unlocking software be inserted at a particular time during the boot process. And the SD card slot was under the battery!

Edit: now I have to double check myself; signing back into some old posts maybe I'm not remembering the process correctly. It was maybe 16 years ago, and I'm getting old! :-)