Dying by lunchtime? I come to you and swap the battery on the spot. From $75.
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.
You don't have to guess, and you don't have to take anyone's word for it. Your phone already knows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Battery replacement starts at $75, and the exact price depends on the model.
| Battery replacement | from $75 |
| Travel, under 5 miles | $15 |
| Travel, 5 to 12 miles | $25 |
| Travel, 12 to 20 miles | $35 |
| Diagnosis | always free |
One flat total before I leave the house — repair plus travel, nothing added afterwards.
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.
Your phone and roughly what it's doing. Two taps and you get a price up front.
Home, work, a parking lot — wherever's easiest. Free diagnosis when I arrive, and if the battery isn't your problem you hear that before I start.
Thirty minutes to an hour after I arrive. Before I hand it back I run through cameras, speakers, buttons and signal with you, and we watch it take a charge together.
Every battery replacement carries a 90-day warranty on my work.
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.
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.
iPhone 8 through iPhone 16 Pro Max, plus Samsung Galaxy A and S series and Google Pixel.
I keep the common batteries with me, so most are done the same visit. Anything I don't carry is usually next day — 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.
Scranton · Dunmore · Dickson City · Clarks Summit · Carbondale · Pittston · Taylor · Moosic · Old Forge · Throop — and everywhere between, out to about 20 miles.
From $75 depending on the model, plus travel based on distance — $15 under 5 miles, $25 to 12, $35 to 20. The diagnosis is always free and you get the full total up front before I come out.
On an iPhone, open Settings → Battery → Battery Health & Charging. The Maximum Capacity figure is the honest number. Once it's in the low 80s or below you'll feel it, and iOS will usually say so itself. Sudden shutdowns while the phone still shows charge left, and dying much faster in the cold, are the other two reliable signs.
On iPhone 11 and newer, iOS flags any battery that wasn't installed and paired using Apple's own service tooling. It's a parts-pairing notice, not a fault, and it doesn't mean the battery is bad or unsafe. It does mean the Battery Health percentage may stop displaying. Every independent shop in the country hits this. I'll tell you whether your phone will show it before I start, not after.
Treat it seriously. A swelling battery is pushing your screen out of the frame, and once the seal is broken the pressure keeps building. Stop charging it, don't press the screen back down, and don't puncture or bend it. Get it out of the phone sooner rather than later. This is the one battery job I wouldn't tell anyone to put off.
Thirty minutes to an hour from when I arrive, and you keep the phone the same visit. There's no drop-off and no waiting days.
A battery replacement doesn't touch your storage, so nothing should change. Back the phone up beforehand anyway as a matter of habit, the same as you would before any repair.
Yes. Home, work, or wherever's easiest across Scranton and Lackawanna County. I set up in my vehicle right outside. If you'd rather sit in and watch, you're welcome to.
Free diagnosis. Thirty minutes to an hour at your door. Fixed — or told straight.