I have left my phone outside (-12°C/10°F) for 15 minutes and when I took it back, screen was "lagging" and it showed battery temperature = 0°C/32°F. I've turned out off for 5 minutes and warmed up to 8°C - screen was fine. In next 10 minutes battery reached 19°C.
Tell me, could I damage anything?
.czarodziej said:
I have left my phone outside (-12°C/10°F) for 15 minutes and when I took it back, screen was "lagging" and it showed battery temperature = 0°C/32°F. I've turned out off for 5 minutes and warmed up to 8°C - screen was fine. In next 10 minutes battery reached 19°C.
Tell me, could I damage anything?
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You should be safe, li-ion batteries can handle below zero temperatures, they just have trouble charging when too cold. Heat is generally a bigger issue than cold, as it degrades the batteries by speeding up the chemical process inside. The cold slows it down, basically preserving the battery.
As for other components, they should be fine too.
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Im skiing with my titan and the battery doesnt get along with the cold. it just gets completely drained everytime i turn it on, and as soon as i go back in and plug it in or let it warm up it shows like ~60% left.
anyone have any ideas or suggestions about what i can do about this?
i know its not a problem with the phone and is just the nature of batteries, but im looking for some suggestions that others might have.
thanks
Could your battery be draining faster because your phone is searching for the best signal. The Q that I had would drain the battery quicker when going from EV to 1x signal.
i dont think so, even if i leave the phone off, then turn it on when its cold, the battery drains really fast. like a minute or two till i get a low battery warning
Maybe get one of those 8hr hand warmer packets and put it in the pocket you keep the phone in...although we went tobogganing for 6 hrs in 20 degree weather and my seidio 3500maH didnt budge on my mogul without any heat.
gbenj said:
Im skiing with my titan and the battery doesnt get along with the cold. it just gets completely drained everytime i turn it on, and as soon as i go back in and plug it in or let it warm up it shows like ~60% left.
anyone have any ideas or suggestions about what i can do about this?
i know its not a problem with the phone and is just the nature of batteries, but im looking for some suggestions that others might have.
thanks
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No ideas, but I also experienced a very fast battery drain this morning when I was outside shoveling snow. I had about 60% when I started, I was outside for 1.5 hours at -5F. I have the phone in a holster on my belt under my coat. When I came in, the phone was in an alert state at less than 5%. It was cold to the touch. This battery is just over one year old and is my best one. It is a Seidio 1650mAh.
I have not seen this before, but I should have more chances to repeat the experiment before this winter is over.
LiOn batteries don't like extreme cold. I use cordless drills with LiOn batteries and I get the same thing when I leave them in my truck. I will go to use them and maybe get one screw or hole drilled. If I leave them warm up they are almost full charge as the charger only takes 5-10 mins to charge them. I suggest to maybe take the battery out and put it in your pocket inside your pants. It should stay quite warm there!!!
I picked up a wireless charger for my Nexus 4 from here gadgets4geeks.com.au/product/qi_wireless_charger
The problem is that the phone reaches 130 degrees fahrenheit (54 celsius) and stops charging (due to the overheat cutout) before the phone is fully charged.
Once it stops charging, it cools down a little, then starts charging again before it overheats again. This results in the battery level remaining around the same level. It is also annoying at night, as every time it starts charging, the screen turns on (unless I turn on a daydream).
I use a TPU case and it's summer here.
Anyone else have this problem? Any thoughts on how to keep it cool to achieve a full charge? I was thinking about raising the phone above the charger or something like that?
Thanks.
Here are some screenshots of it charging then stopping when it got too hot:
i.imgur.com/d60Kq.png
And the temperature:
i.imgur.com/RFyWr.png
PS: Apologies, for the non links. I'm a new user and now allowed to post outside links.
In the word, no. Mine never gets much beyond 37°C using the LG charger, but it is Winter here and I never heat the house above 68°F.
My phone has serious temperature problems... If I surf in the internet and Facebook then my S4 is almost always at 40°C . When playing games then it can reach over 60°C (where the CPU is under the screen, measured with optical IR thermometer) It randomly starts heating up in my pocket till it is so hot that I cant hold it in there anymore.
Battery life is around 8 hours with LIGHT use!
I bought my S4 on first may and that problem appeared after summer holiday.
In November I sent it to warranty, It took them like 20 days and they did basically nothing to it. I haven't had any time to send it back there because I need my phone.
Yesterday I put it in a warm glove mining Dogecoins using AndroMine (android CPU/GPUminer) with charger connected
After 15 minutes it was at 67°C and battery was down to 30% form 97%. About 5 minutes later I heard a vibration, it had turned off and it didn't boot anymore. I was very happy, because I thought I manged to burn it down. Unfortunately it booted after cooling down . Now the battery life is even worse...
I'm thinking of putting it mining in oven... oven at 50°C I know that S4 has temperature protections but sill it might work. And the battery inside definitely doesn't like heat, so it might pop .
If I mange to burn it then I will get warranty replacement!
All crazy ideas to burn it down are welcome !!!
Sounds like a defective battery. See this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2504093
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Sounds like a defective battery. See this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2504093
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The thing is that my battery serial is YS1D420JS/2-B
And how can defective battery make phone become hotter?
I don't know the exact rules on necroposting so I'm starting a new thread. When it came time to charge the battery, I got a "Charging paused. Battery temperature too high." message. The battery monitor read 70C even though I could feel that everything was room temperature. A memory wipe didn't solve the issue so Instead of ordering a new charging port assembly, I threw everything into the freezer. According to most sources, this will not hurt the battery and it can be safely charged slowly at that temperature. The phone would then charge till it reached room temperature. The problem appeared to be the phone, because the cold battery alone would not charge. So I put an it in on an ice pack and charged it to full. Powered the phone back on and it's been fine and I've gone through one charge cycle and everything is functioning normally again. If I had to do it again, I would have taken the battery out and let the phone sit for a day or two because internal condensation could have been an issue.
BoloTank said:
I don't know the exact rules on necroposting so I'm starting a new thread. When it came time to charge the battery, I got a "Charging paused. Battery temperature too high." message. The battery monitor read 70C even though I could feel that everything was room temperature. A memory wipe didn't solve the issue so Instead of ordering a new charging port assembly, I threw everything into the freezer. According to most sources, this will not hurt the battery and it can be safely charged slowly at that temperature. The phone would then charge till it reached room temperature. The problem appeared to be the phone, because the cold battery alone would not charge. So I put an it in on an ice pack and charged it to full. Powered the phone back on and it's been fine and I've gone through one charge cycle and everything is functioning normally again. If I had to do it again, I would have taken the battery out and let the phone sit for a day or two because internal condensation could have been an issue.
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Sth like this happened with me 6 months back.
My phone was under my pillow and I woke up at 3.
I read a warning and it said, phone too hot, cannot proceed charging.
Plus the brightness from the settings also read cannot increase brightness.
I just removed the battery and kept my phone near my A.C. and my phone was ice cold by morning. Since then everything has been fine. TouchWood
DeepankarS said:
Sth like this happened with me 6 months back.
My phone was under my pillow and I woke up at 3.
I read a warning and it said, phone too hot, cannot proceed charging.
Plus the brightness from the settings also read cannot increase brightness.
I just removed the battery and kept my phone near my A.C. and my phone was ice cold by morning. Since then everything has been fine. TouchWood
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That is normal as far as the temperature goes. There is one case where an S3 under a pillow caught fire but that was with a 3rd party battery. My problem was even pulling the battery and letting the phone sit for a day, it still reported a battery temp of 70C and would not charge even when it was off. It would just show a picture of a yellow ! triangle with a thermometer next to it.
I went skiing yesterday and charged my phone in the cold with a battery bank to 80% cap since its rooted. I went to go warm up and checked my phone after it warmed up from the cold and it was at 97%. I wish i had the thought to screenshot, i thought it was something that i would have found a post on the internet by now and never bothered, nothing about it on the internet.
I have a gopro i ski with also and lithium ion batteries suck in the cold, they dont produce a strong charge and can seem dead if temps get too low. warm them up a bit and then they are alive again producing charge since the internals are at optimal temps. I frequently rotate a couple of batteries after they freeze. My theory is that my phone was cold, the battery was producing charge but a weak one in the cold so when the phone thought it was at 80% it really was a weak 100 charge but when the phone warmed up, since it wasnt charging and whatever stops it from charging beyond 80 couldnt stop it because there was no current to stop and it reported its true percentage. I'm positive I saw it at 97 and i've never done any fixes or mods to change the 80 problem so Im going to try and reproduce it again.