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  2. Does Charging Your Phone To 100% Ruin Your Battery? Here's ...

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    Charging your phone battery to 100% consistently can damage the life of the battery over the long term. Klaus Vedfelt via Getty Images Many of us are in the habit of plugging our phones in to ...

  3. Brick (electronics) - Wikipedia

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    Soft bricked devices can usually be fixed relatively easily; for example, a soft bricked iOS device may display a screen instructing the user to plug it into a computer to perform an operating system recovery using iTunes computer software. [3]

  4. AC adapter - Wikipedia

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    A battery eliminator is an adapter intended to allow a device intended for battery operation, such as a radio, to be operated from an AC outlet. [15] All radios, except crystal sets, used inconvenient and messy vacuum tube batteries until the mid- to late-1920s. Battery eliminators that plugged into light sockets became very popular. [16]

  5. What Happens If You Never Charge Your Plug-In-Hybrid Car? - AOL

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    But what happens if a plug-in hybrid doesn't get plugged in? TL, DR: Nothing. ... when plugged in to charge its battery, a plug-in-hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) can operate as an EV for 20 to 50 ...

  6. Telephone jack and plug - Wikipedia

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    A telephone jack and a telephone plug are electrical connectors for connecting a telephone set or other telecommunications apparatus to the telephone wiring inside a building, establishing a connection to a telephone network. The plug is inserted into its counterpart, the jack, which is commonly affixed to a wall or baseboard. The standards for ...

  7. British telephone socket - Wikipedia

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    However, although rarely connected in practice, Irish phone jacks also contain a ringing capacitor circuit very similar to their UK counterparts. This is carried on pin 5. Or, if wired for two-line service (rare), a second ring wire is carried on pin 2 for line 2, with the outer pair, pins 1 and 6 carrying the second line.

  8. Booting - Wikipedia

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    The IBM 701 computer (1952–1956) had a "Load" button that initiated reading of the first 36-bit word into main memory from a punched card in a card reader, a magnetic tape in a tape drive, or a magnetic drum unit, depending on the position of the Load Selector switch. The left 18-bit half-word was then executed as an instruction, which ...

  9. Phone connector - Wikipedia

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    Phone connector, phone plug, or phone jack may refer to: Telephone plug , used to connect a telephone to the telephone wiring in a home or business, and in turn to a local telephone network Phone connector (audio) , an audio jack, jack plug, stereo plug, mini-jack, mini-stereo, or headphone/phone jack