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Billie
@Billie@social.tchncs.de  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

My #oneplus3t died. Did not start, did not charge. Cleaned the usb-c port, still did not charge. (It has a notification #led which remained dark, indicating that nothing was happening.) Nevertheless, I left it charging for >24h with no effect.

TL;DR: 100% dead.

As a wild guess with a completely dead phone, I put it for approx. 10h in the refrigerator (roughly somewhere around 5°C), as some urban legends around this exist.

After getting it out, it started booting and went off after some seconds.

After connection to the pc ( #adb, you know) it booted successfully into #lineageos and I was able to do a backup followed by a factory reset.

The battery stayed at 0% while the phone was on. After the factory reset, it even seems to charge properly.

Question: what did the low temperature do?

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@suetanvil@freeradical.zone replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@span Billie

A thing I learned in high school electronics class (back in the 80s, maahhhhhn) was that one failure mode for certain electronic components is that their tolerance for high temperatures declines. So maybe it's that?

(The way to diagnose this at the time was to spray them one by one with compressed Freon until the device starts working again, at which point you have your culprit. Which, at the time, was a discrete part you could replace.)

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