How to store swollen iPhone til appointment

[Kododile]

I have an appointment at BestBuy Thursday at 5:20PM, obviously that's 48 hours I have to keep a swollen iPhone with the side split. Is there a safe way I can keep it from spewing battery chemicals in my room, and be able to sleep tonight and tomorrow without being scared it'll catch fire in the night? Thanks for any help! The water bowl is there incase it DOES catch fire, so I can put out the fire (if that's bad to do, blame Google).

[Dedayog]

1 minute ago, Kododile said:

I have an appointment at BestBuy Thursday at 5:20PM, obviously that's 48 hours I have to keep a swollen iPhone with the side split. Is there a safe way I can keep it from spewing battery chemicals in my room, and be able to sleep tonight and tomorrow without being scared it'll catch fire in the night? Thanks for any help! The water bowl is there incase it DOES catch fire, so I can put out the fire (if that's bad to do, blame Google).

Freezer bag and freezer, or on your back porch if you're worried.

[asdasdasdasdasdasd]

Put it in a glass jar, maybe?

[OhYou_]

dont put it in the freezer, you can mess up the internals with water damage

just dont worry about it.
do not charge it or store it near heat sources, if it is charged still turn it on and let it run until it shuts off to discharge it, do not try to make it discharge faster just leave it on the home screen. 

if it was at a significant risk currently, the whole world would operate differently than it does now

If you are still really concerned, go to the store and buy a bag of play sand and a 5gal bucket. put the phone in a ziplock bag, half fill the bucket with sand, place the phone with the bag sealed tightly shut with as little air as possible in the middle, and fill the rest of way with sand

[Jatzu]

Uuuuuuh, I would not put it in the freezer as that could trigger the things in the iphone that show water damage was done. That would give them plenty of reasons to basically tell you this was your fault. Which you should probably avoid as I assume you are trying to get this replaced under warranty.

 

Truth be told, you're probably fine. Just don't plug it in. My mother had a Samsung phone do that and did not tell us for months and her house never burnt down. (she never charges her phone)

 

The main risk comes if you start poking it,  prodding it, plugging it in or subjecting it to heat. 

 

That being said, if you paid for one of those fancy extended to questions asked warranties, Dedayog's suggestion will certainly keep it cold enough that the chance of it combusting due to heat wont be an issue.

[Kododile]

1 minute ago, Jatzu said:

Uuuuuuh, I would not put it in the freezer as that could trigger the things in the iphone that show water damage was done. That would give them plenty of reasons to basically tell you this was your fault. Which you should probably avoid as I assume you are trying to get this replaced under warranty.

 

Truth be told, you're probably fine. Just don't plug it in. My mother had a Samsung phone do that and did not tell us for months and her house never burnt down. (she never charges her phone)

 

The main risk comes if you start poking it,  prodding it, plugging it in or subjecting it to heat. 

 

That being said, if you paid for one of those fancy extended to questions asked warranties, Dedayog's suggestion will certainly keep it cold enough that the chance of it combusting due to heat wont be an issue.

Yeah I got Apple care with it when I got it through tmobile. So I just gotta wait til then

[Jatzu]

6 minutes ago, Kododile said:

Yeah I got Apple care with it when I got it through tmobile. So I just gotta wait til then

I would still double check the apple care terms to confirm what it covers before subjecting that phone to anything that could potentially cause more damage to it.

[StDragon]

At least that's not a LiPo. You should be fine as long as you don't drop it or try and charge it again.


For all you RC enthusiast with LiPo packs, there's always the bat (battery) safe.
https://www.bat-safe.com/product-page/bat-safe

[Kododile]

4 minutes ago, StDragon said:

At least that's not a LiPo. You should be fine as long as you don't drop it or try and charge it again.


For all you RC enthusiast with LiPo packs, there's always the bat (battery) safe.
https://www.bat-safe.com/product-page/bat-safe

I had to charge it to setup the appointment and i need it to have some charge to turn off find my when i get there. and incase the job i'm about to start on the 18th messages me

 

that seems neat but sadly i dont have $70 to spend 

[StDragon]

3 minutes ago, Kododile said:

I had to charge it to setup the appointment and i need it to have some charge to turn off find my when i get there.

 

that seems neat but sadly i dont have $70 to spend 

I was being somewhat facetious.

Your phone doesn't have a LiPo cell  . But on a serious note, a battery will fail hotter and more violently the more it's charged.

Just to be cautious, only charge with the minimal you need. Ideally just don't charge it at all and have a friend or relative go with you if you need a phone while yours is turned off.

[manikyath]

just power it off and dont use it, ESPECIALLY dont charge ituntil full..

past that, the risk of spontanious explosion isnt all that big, realisticly.

 

about the bowl of water: it's good and bad.. in different ways:

- if you dunk your split open phone in water, it will most likely make it unfixable.

- presuming you've got at least a liter of water or so, it should be enough to keep things under control.

 

1 minute ago, StDragon said:

a battery will fail hotter and more violently the more it's charged.

this. in an extremely dumbed down version a battery is just "a lot of energy" in a very small place, and when that catastrophically fails, that energy comes out uncontrollably, the more energy is there the more energy comes out. when a lithium battery is deep discharged, it's actually surprisingly inert.

[Kododile]

19 minutes ago, StDragon said:

I was being somewhat facetious.

Your phone doesn't have a LiPo cell  . But on a serious note, a battery will fail hotter and more violently the more it's charged.

Just to be cautious, only charge with the minimal you need. Ideally just don't charge it at all and have a friend or relative go with you if you need a phone while yours is turned off.

Oh yeah. I'm just letting it go to 100 and just leaving it. today it ate through 20% in like 10 minutes (before realizing it was screwed)so i'm just letting it get to that then not touching it outside of messages. i'm watching it very closely tho

[Dedayog]

27 minutes ago, Kododile said:

I had to charge it to setup the appointment and i need it to have some charge to turn off find my when i get there. and incase the job i'm about to start on the 18th messages me

 

that seems neat but sadly i dont have $70 to spend 

Uhm, that's an odd statement to make when talking about an iPhone.  

[Kododile]

17 minutes ago, manikyath said:

just power it off and dont use it, ESPECIALLY dont charge ituntil full..

past that, the risk of spontanious explosion isnt all that big, realisticly.

 

about the bowl of water: it's good and bad.. in different ways:

- if you dunk your split open phone in water, it will most likely make it unfixable.

- presuming you've got at least a liter of water or so, it should be enough to keep things under control.

 

this. in an extremely dumbed down version a battery is just "a lot of energy" in a very small place, and when that catastrophically fails, that energy comes out uncontrollably, the more energy is there the more energy comes out. when a lithium battery is deep discharged, it's actually surprisingly inert.

i put it outside 

[Kododile]

1 minute ago, Dedayog said:

Uhm, that's an odd statement to make when talking about an iPhone.  

wdym? sorry i dont have $70 to drop on an item