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juiceme	2018-11-05 , 08:13
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Originally Posted by ste-phan

Interesting question.

I never worried about the CPU, even overclocked not surviving me by decades.

You should be; electromigration will eat your chipset soonet or later. Very much sooner the more heat you pump into it by overclocking

Originally Posted by ste-phan

My concern is about the "hard disk" , it must have a certain limitation in write cycles it can support, no?
Especially with heavy swapping going on.

Yes, this is the main thing that will kill your device.
Swapping to emmc should be forbidden by law IMHO.

Originally Posted by ste-phan

32GB is still standard today, and Nokia generously provided it in 2010, I suppose either all 32GB sizes were pretty high end or some corners other than it not being the fastest one around must have been cut in the process.
So far no issues though: only one GPS down and one "all telephone functions have been desabled.

I suppose the ATFD problem is most often caused by temperature cycling on the chipset BGA since some people have been able to fix it by reflowing.

Originally Posted by ste-phan

And of course the batteries.

Well yes; one day those will not be available any longer so I suspect we'll have to start hacking batteries by converting some other type to BL-5j's, just like people have hacked batteries to fit the SBJ1

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