So…
After a few years of having her LG enV the port on the bottom of my mother’s phone died, leaving her with no battery life and no way to charge her phone. So she decided to go get an Apple iPhone 3GS, but the problem was how to get her numbers off of her old phone?
A power supply, some wires, and a little bit of soldering later i figured it out..
If you were to look at the battery on the phone there are 4 connectors, two of them are for power, and the center two communicate with the phone (the level of the battery and state). If you try to connect 3.7VDC to the phone on the outside pins the phone will turn on and say “Not A Genuine Battery, Powering Off In 9..8..7…” So the next step would be to connect the two center pins (as you can see with the green and white wires), but then again i got the same message. At this point it occurred to me that you have to have some power in sync with the battery, so has the phone turned on i held a wire that was attached to the positive 3.7VDC to the positive side of the batter (you can see this wire coming out of the red alligator clip) After the phone powers on you are then able to disconnect this wire with no problems.
.. And of course you sit down with google docs and copy all the numbers into a spreadsheet..
