{"id":4454,"date":"2022-10-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2022-10-14T21:10:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T01:10:04","slug":"editing-ftw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4454","title":{"rendered":"Old enough for a phone!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MonkeyLinkMega has entered his teenage years, my friends. Skippy, you may protest, didn’t he do that back in March? Yes, that is correct. Also get off my back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His mother and I had agreed a while back that he had proven himself responsible enough to have his own cell phone. On top of that, he’s in enough after-school activities that a phone would be useful for him to call for rides, and for us to call him in the case of “Where in the crap are you?!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My intent was to fix my Dad’s old Samsung Galaxy S6. Its battery would swell every time it was charged, and so I ordered the iFixit kit<\/a> to replace the battery. As most are, this cell phone was NOT designed to be serviced easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was able to replace the battery, but when I put everything back together, the screen just flashed at me. So, either the battery swell had caused damage to other parts of the phone, or I had damaged the screen somehow as I’d taken the phone apart. In all honesty, I think the latter is more likely. Into the electronics recycling it went!<\/p>\n\n\n

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That still left me with the need to get Monkey a phone. My recent trip out to North Carolina solved that problem for me (thanks Zeb!). Among the electronics Zeb was giving me to find a new home for was a bunch of old iPhones, ranging from a 5 to an 8. The 8 needed a screen replacement, so I set the 7 up for him. Little bit of Mint<\/a>, little bit of OS updating, some Apple ID password shenanigans, and it was good to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, my youngest son has his very first phone, and it’s giving old hardware new life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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