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Originally Posted by HPsauce

I'm more worried about the colour, it looks like it was filled up sometime to a significant depth with rusty water!

Never had my current battery out, but when I replaced the battery on my previous S8 it was all clean and tidy down there.

I replaced mine recently and there was a small pool of water and a rather old elastic band, all cleaned up prior to new battery going in There was a strange thin brown wire not connected to anything too, probably some aftermarket thing since removed...

I don't like the look of those nails, would be worse if it wasn't for the protective battery tray.