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Phone battery replacement at your door

Dying by lunchtime? I come to you and swap the battery at your door. From $120.

A swollen battery lifts the back clean off the frame. This is what it looks like, and what it looks like fixed.

A worn battery is the repair people live with longest. You start carrying a cable, then a power bank, then planning your day around outlets — and none of that feels like a broken phone, so nobody fixes it. It's usually the cheapest way to make an old phone feel new again.

How to know it's actually the battery

You don't have to guess, and you don't have to take anyone's word for it. Your phone already knows.

Check the number yourself

On an iPhone: Settings → Battery → Battery Health & Charging. The Maximum Capacity figure is what's left of the battery you paid for. New is 100%. Once it's in the low 80s or below, you feel it in the afternoon. Below that, iOS usually starts telling you itself.

It shuts down with charge still showing

The phone says 30% and dies anyway. That's a battery that can't hold voltage under load any more, and it's the clearest sign there is. The percentage is an estimate based on a battery that no longer behaves the way the estimate assumes.

It falls off a cliff in the cold

Every battery is worse in winter. A healthy one dips and recovers indoors. A worn one goes from 40% to dead crossing a parking lot in January and doesn't come back until it's warm and on a charger.

It gets hot doing very little

Warm on a video call is normal. Hot in your pocket doing nothing is not, and it's worth having someone look before you spend anything.

The one you shouldn't wait on

If the screen is lifting at the edge, there's a new gap along the seam, or the phone rocks when you put it flat on a table — the battery is swelling.

That's a battery physically pushing your screen out of its frame. Once the seal opens it doesn't stabilise, it keeps going. Stop charging it, don't press the screen back down, and don't puncture or bend it. A swollen cell that gets punctured is a fire, not an inconvenience.

What it costs

Battery replacement starts at $120, and the exact price depends on the model.

One flat total before I leave the house — repair plus travel, nothing added afterwards.

The message nobody warns you about

This is the part most shops let you discover on your own a week later, so here it is first.

On iPhone 11 and newer, iOS checks whether a battery was installed and paired using Apple's own service tooling. If it wasn't, you get a notice in Settings — a Service message, or Unknown Part — and the Battery Health percentage may stop showing at all.

What that message means: this battery wasn't paired by Apple. What it does not mean: that the battery is faulty, unsafe, or going to underperform. It's a parts-pairing notice, and every independent repair in the country runs into it. Apple's own authorised network is the only route that avoids it.

You'll hear from me whether your phone will show it before I start. Not after, and not when you go looking in Settings three days later wondering if you've been sold something dodgy. If that notice is a dealbreaker for you, that's a completely reasonable position and I'd rather you tell me on the phone than find out in your driveway.

How it works

Every battery replacement carries a 3-month battery warranty on my work.

When the battery isn't the problem

Sometimes a phone that dies fast has a healthy battery and something else going on — an app misbehaving in the background since an update, or a charging fault that means it never really filled up overnight in the first place.

That last one matters, because it looks identical from the outside. If your phone charges slowly, stops and starts, or only charges at an angle, you may be looking at a packed charging port rather than a worn battery — and that starts at $35 instead.

I check the health figure before I open anything. If the number says your battery is fine, I'll tell you that and we'll go looking somewhere else.

Is it even worth fixing?

Two numbers: what the phone is worth working, and what it's worth as-is. If the repair costs less than the gap, fix it.

Batteries usually win that argument, because a battery is the one part that makes an old phone feel genuinely new for a fraction of replacing it. But not always — and on a phone that's also cracked and slow, I'll say so and may make you a cash offer instead.

Phones I carry batteries for

iPhone 8 through iPhone 17 Pro Max, plus Samsung Galaxy A and S series and Google Pixel.

If I have your battery in stock I come the same day. If not, it arrives next day (three days over a weekend) and I come once it lands — and you're told which before I come out, not after.

Cracked screen too? That's a separate job I can do in the same visit, and you only pay travel once.

Where I come

Scranton · Dunmore · Dickson City · Clarks Summit · Carbondale · Pittston · Taylor · Moosic · Old Forge · Throop — and everywhere between, out to 55 miles.

Questions, answered

Phone dying by lunchtime? I'll come to you.

Free diagnosis. Fixed at your door — or told straight.

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