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Boot Loops with bad battery

I have an iphone 5 that I don't know the history on, that I bought off of ebay. When I first try powering it on, it boot loops if I plug a charger in it will sometimes boot but will reboot once in awhile.

I removed the battery and connected a power squid, and the phone does boot just fine. I also tried removing the power squid and connecting it to a charger and it boot loops again.

My question is should the iphone be able to power up with the charging cable and no battery. Just looking for info to see if I need to go further than just replacing the battery. I know the battery is bad because when connected to my power supply to charge it pulls high current and then the current drops and just continues doing this.

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You need a good battery to boot the phone. You can't boot a phone without a battery connected unless you are using one of those adapters that plug into a DC bench power supply.

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I have one of those adapters but was just making sure. I appreciate your answer thank you.

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