I would have hooked the smartphone to a small solar panel. The natural daylight cycle would have made sure that the smartphone kept having charging and discharging cycles.
I doubt the traffic hitting it would be sufficient to drain the battery overnight.
While I’ve seen plenty of swollen and deformed phone batteries, I’ve never personally seen one that has burned. Obviously it’s happened in the past with certain phone/battery models, but I’d imagine that it’s actually very rare now days?
On the other hand, I have seen cheap 18650s spontaneously start smoking even when they weren’t plugged in to anything…
These days it is rare for a phone to be able to be used without a battery. The reason is that the max energy consumption when the CPU and GPU are running 100% exceeds the wattage that the device can accept over USB PD.
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No actually, it is a Fairphone after all.
The name likely comes from “fairphone” with the “i” scraped off - see the photo: https://far.computer/
On the other hand, I have seen cheap 18650s spontaneously start smoking even when they weren’t plugged in to anything…