So, when I received my uConsole last year I immediately noticed that my battery life was very poor. At first I blamed the cheap Panasonics I order for a ~10€ a piece but swapping to a more expensive XTARs that were reported with solid over 4 hours use — that didn’t fix the issue. So for a year my console was collecting dust in a top shelf box.
But after reading cloclworkpi forums recently I noticed people reported faulty battery units and most importantly misaligned power pins.
Long story short – my uConsole was working from a single cell, the second one wasn’t reaching the motherboard unless I press and hold the battery unit with my finger. So the fix was to stick a pressed down cooking foil ball wrapped in an electrical tape, not to short anything on the motherboard.
And voila! I get 5+ hours of playing Shadowrun now 
Now I feel like taking it on a vacation and trying some projects I had in mind for a long time!
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