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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by buescher »

saturn8601 wrote: post #25

Any chance that the AirTag could have a software memory leak that would normally be masked by cutting power once a year? Its possible right? The code must be written in something low level like C. Would be kinda funny if 10 years from now the author gets his stuff stolen again and then discovers said memory leak crashed the Airtag 9 years ago. As Elon Musk likes to say: "The most ironic outcome is the most likely" .…

I would also imagine someone with a fleet of these would be pretty cheesed if Apple rolled out an update that drained some fair fraction of users' batteries, no matter how fast they fixed it.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by kube-system »

omgwtfbyobbq wrote: post #79
kube-system wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you do that they will still notify a thief with a notification on their iPhone.

I think that's ok though, right? As long as you do a good job placing/hiding it, the thief can't easily find and remove/disable without the speaker.

How big is your item and how hard is it to search? If you know a bag has an airtag in it, it won't take that long to find.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by Grazester »

echoangle wrote: post #84
kube-system wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you do that they will still notify a thief with a notification on their iPhone.

Only if a thief has an iPhone or manually installed the Android App.

The latest version of Android shows this now. I had to install nothing on my phone for this(I get a full map showing the tracking behavior)

From a year ago https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/newest-android-feature-aler...

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by Osyris »

jmull wrote: post #81

I know this is useful (for something), but I'm stuck on the plot holes in the motivating story... Why didn't they replace the battery when the app complained? How long would a thief really keep the AirTag anyway? If the thief did keep the AirTag and you tracked them down, then what? A confrontation has a fairly high chance to have a worse result than losing some equipment. You could try to get the police to do it, bu…

I've been wanting exactly this for so long. I want to bury an AirTag in my luggage, backpack, etc. and never think about it again. In those scenarios, it doesn't _need_ to be tiny. I'd rather trade compactness for longevity.

However, an AirTag attached to my keys _should_ be small and it's easily accessible so I don't mind swapping the battery as needed.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by wholinator2 »

kube-system wrote: post #92
omgwtfbyobbq wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's ok though, right? As long as you do a good job placing/hiding it, the thief can't easily find and remove/disable without the speaker.

How big is your item and how hard is it to search? If you know a bag has an airtag in it, it won't take that long to find.

True, a suitcase could be quickly dispatched but you could hide it very very well on something like a car.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by Grazester »

xattt wrote: post #89
Grazester wrote: post #88

Who leaves 10K worth of anything in their car? I get antsy leaving my $200 laptop hidden under my seat! This person is crazy. There is also no guarantee they person who stole the bag wouldn't dump the bag(with the hidden AirTag) and just keep the gear or that the police would help recover it even if you gave them the location(many times the don't).

Usually, cars are worth more than 10K and they are often left out in the street!

Yeah but someone can't pick up my car and walk away with it on their back, can they now, genius?

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by conductr »

MisterTea wrote: post #80
Brajeshwar wrote: post #35

I'm OK with the One-Year-ish battery life and happy to change them yearly. I try to do them in batches (the fours usually die together within about a month). The irritating ones are in the bags/check-ins I stashed/stored snugly, and now I have to take them out to replace the battery. Of course, the bearable thing is that the battery lasts for about a month after the warning, so there is that. I think I'm complaining…

Well look at in in terms of batteries deposited per year in the landfill: 0.1 or 1.

GAAP requires you to accrue your batteries deposited in landfill, so back to 0.1 per year (/s if not obvious)

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by nine_k »

xattt wrote: post #89
Grazester wrote: post #88

Who leaves 10K worth of anything in their car? I get antsy leaving my $200 laptop hidden under my seat! This person is crazy. There is also no guarantee they person who stole the bag wouldn't dump the bag(with the hidden AirTag) and just keep the gear or that the police would help recover it even if you gave them the location(many times the don't).

Usually, cars are worth more than 10K and they are often left out in the street!

Cars are impractical to carry by hand, while a lot of expensive computer / photo / audio gear can easily be carried in a tote bag.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by IncreasePosts »

kube-system wrote: post #68
carlgreene wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but only if you remove the speaker which is well documented on YouTube

Even if you do that they will still notify a thief with a notification on their iPhone.

I wonder with customizations like in OP you could bypass this. For example, if the alert comes after 20 minutes of being near an air tag - if the power to the circuit was automatically cut for 1 minute every 15 minutes, would the alert still activate?
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