Hi all,

I’ve had a 3a for some years now, and I like almost everything about the phone (though I sincerely wish they’d used more durable glass, holy canoli). However, the battery has started to fail, and I was wondering if it’s worth replacing? It would cost about 80 USD to have it professionally replaced.

I know the device is no longer supported by Google, but I was thinking of running GrapheneOS instead of Android, anyway.

Any thoughts or insights? I’m far from a genius when it comes to cell phones, so I’d appreciate anything you have to say.

Thanks!

  • @amenotefEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I wanted to do this with my Pixel 2 (currently my mother’s phone). But the Pixel 2 is so hard to replace than in this case I decided to not do it. In the PIxel 4 (my wife’s phone) I did it and it improved a bit because the previous battery was staying at 1% for like 40 minutes so there was something wrong with it (I always blamed the NFC charger I used with that phone).