Is there one strong enough? Pulling the battery straight up seems like a good idea. I’ve been afraid that the end opposite the tape had some kind of tongue and groove thingy, gut now that it is out, it doesn’t look like it. Maybe it would be good if Purism put a tape handle at both ends so that it could be pulled straight up.
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With a suction cup or my adhesive picture-hanger suggestion, I guess you can only try and see.
It might be a good idea to stick a band of painter’s tape or something under the bottom end of the battery from side to side, with enough length overlapping the sides to help with lifting the battery out next time.
Assuming it doesn’t create a heat or fit problem.
It’ll be concealed with the backplate on.
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What about to use Butter?
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Had to do that to get a clothes washer thru a basement doorway once . . .
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https://yt.chocolatemoo53.com/watch?v=ERxMM27k0KA
Random thought, here is an invidious link to a YT vid that I uploaded a year ago where I remove my Librem 5 battery with one hand at high speed while holding another Librem 5 or something as the camera in my other hand
Why do all my Librem 5 batteries come out this fast (even one handed) and yours do not? Maybe can you use the open source part files and 3D print yourself a new chassis for the librem 5?
If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all.
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Based on my very recent experience, it might be because all y’all’s L5s have been at least warm when you removed the battery. Late yesterday I was doing my first ever uuu/jumpdrive (my reason for wanting to remove the battery in the first place) and was in that mode for quite some time. When I put the battery back in, it slid in very smoothly and easily. I decided to try swapping batteries and both came out with a simple tug on the tape as though they had been “buttered”. I guess the L5 frame has a significantly larger thermal coefficient of expansion than the battery. The ambient temperature was between 20C and 25C when I was having trouble, so it might still be that my L5 is an outlier. Surely someone has removed the battery from an L5 in chilly conditions when it has been powered down for a while?
@amarok , thanks very much for all your suggestions, creative thinking, and patience, but I’m going to have to switch to this post as the solution. Also thanks to everyone else for your reports and suggestions. This community is wonderful.
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I don’t think that’s it. Over the years I’ve probably had a fair range of conditions from chilly to hot, and never had a problem removing the battery. Unfortunately I didn’t see your post early enough in the day in order to test “chilly” today. (Because of the metal frame with no case, I feel like I am more in tune with the phone’s temperature at any given time.)
I guess temperature could be one factor but combined with manufacturing tolerances and yours is just tighter than usual.
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Now I’m almost as confused as ever. With the L5 having been off for hours and the ambient temperature really close to 20C, I removed the battery with the tape with moderate difficulty. My current best guess is that if it is not removed “often enough”, (whatever that is), it gets kind of stuck. I also think temperature is a factor, but not as much as I previously thought. And there must be some unit to unit variation. So, I’m going to have to say the question is still unresolved, but no longer a crisis for me.
The phone repair kits I bought have a suction cup about the right size connected to a SIM ejector pin thingy. I tried that after I had removed and reinserted the battery with the Purism tape strip. It barely worked and I think that it would have failed when I had been unable to remove the battery with the tape strip.
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For the record, I tested this for you here. Phone switched off overnight. Ambient temperature in room where phone was left dropped to 17⁰C.
For me, no discernible difference in difficulty in removing the battery (as compared with a more pleasant, say, 22⁰C when I tested yesterday).
Doesn’t require significant force to remove. I’m never worried that the tape strip will break rather than the battery come out. Requires enough force so that the battery doesn’t just fall out.
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Thanks for doing the experiment.
I guess I was in the twilight zone for a few days and am now back in the “normal” world, at least with respect to removing L5 batteries.
I just got done with an exercise in booting crimson from an SD card wherein the L5 got quite warm. When I was finished, removing the battery was easy enough but no easier than with much less warm temperatures.
I am ready to move on from messing around with batteries.
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