There is a surprising amount of free space in this phone, I have other mods in the works. Especially if I can find a replacement battery. It’s a surface Duo 2.

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    11 months ago

    This is the way.

    And on the plus side, your new printed cover will be significantly less likely to shatter again. Unless you try really, really hard, anyway.

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      11 months ago

      I have the other side to print as well, and if I ever find a replacement battery I was thinking about making the battery removable. There’s a lot of wasted space in this phone.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah, there’s approximately 3mm around the battery, which was almost free floating in the phone. When the back glass fell off, the battery came out with it.

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            11 months ago

            That space may be there for safety reasons. Aging or mishandled lithium-cobalt batteries tend to swell. Giving them space to swell into reduces the chance of a fire or an explosion.

            If you’re going to cram a larger battery into that space, be very careful of what kind you use, or you may find your phone literally burning a hole in your pocket.

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              11 months ago

              I’ve had plenty of swollen batteries, the double sided tape I’m using would give way pretty easily to that luckily.