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Maybe charge in your fridge?
by swader999 3y ago
Maybe charge in your fridge?
- scohesc 3y agoWouldn't that cause condensation problems with the phone? Not sure if that's a valid way to charge your phone or not. Would be interesting if it was!
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoIt's not a great idea. I've seen hardware fail because someone took it from the hot trunk of a car into an airconditioned building and the condensate from the hot air caused short circuits.
- colechristensen 3y agoThe new iPhones are rated to 30 minutes submerged in 5m of water. Quite a lot worse of course if damaged.
- saiya-jin 3y agoThat's about preventing water to come in via gaps in ports etc. Condensation is a different beast - unless your phone has literal vacuum, 0% humidity air or some other inert gas inside of it, in some thermal shock condensation gradient would form through it. Electronic circuits themselves would have to be protected somehow, pins of processors etc. We are not there yet, not with cheap disposable electronics like iphones or androids (compared to say military or deep diving or space-grade electronics where everything is built for massive redundancy and abuse from scratch)
- 4ad 3y agoYeah, it works just fine in the fridge, I have tried it. It also works with an old charger than can only deliver 5W.
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- klabb3 3y agoGoogle's Nexus 5x (IIRC) was given to Google employees as a holiday gift. It had such awful thermal, that a system update could overheat and shut down the phone. The official workaround (internally, at Google), was to put it in the fridge before starting the update. It was the most awful phone I've ever had. The polar opposite of the Nokia's and Ericsson's of my youth. I spent hours daydreaming about how I would destroy the phone as soon as I could get a new one. Throwing it into a wall, jumping on it, dropping it from a tall bridge.. It gave me a little bit of solace.