{"id":238,"date":"2014-06-17T16:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2014-06-27T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:42:56","slug":"iphone-self-destructs-with-bulging-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"iPhone self destructs with bulging battery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My iPhone 4 has dangerously self destructed, with an unexplained bulging of the battery which broke off the rear cover and cracked the front display.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Recently my iPhone 4 has been playing up. It would hold it&#8217;s charge all day without trouble, but then at night would completely discharge from full to empty and switch itself off. Then, when I attached the charge cable it would come back to life a few minutes later with 30% or more battery charge showing.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I had the phone in my pocket when I thought I felt it vibrate. In fact it had popped open and the front glass was broken. I couldn&#8217;t image how this had happened since it was not knocked or banged or dropped. It turns out that the battery had bulged &#8211; i.e. swollen up. It was about 3 or 4 mm thicker than it should be, which resulted in enough pressure on the screen to break it, and pop the back cover off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0525.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0525.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"IMG_0525\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0525.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0525.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0525.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0524.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-239\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0524.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"IMG_0524\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0524.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0524.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wphost.spider-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0524.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This is a bit of a worry, as it means the battery is not healthy, and I&#8217;ma \u00a0bit concerned it could explode, overheat or even go on fire. I think the best thing to do is disconnect it and take it to Apple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seems I am <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/5902192\" target=\"_blank\">not alone<\/a> either.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My iPhone 4 has dangerously self destructed, with an unexplained bulging of the battery which broke off the rear cover and cracked the front display.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,51],"tags":[67,66,68],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-hardware-2","tag-battery","tag-iphone","tag-self-destruct"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42WEU-3Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}