my pinephone battery is dead :/
02-12-2020, 11:17 AM
Pretty much what the title said, dead as in 0v on the multimeter
what happened was I was testing Ubuntu Touch, had the bug where the wifi drops and can't be raised again. I didn't know yet you could turn the chip off and on again by hand so I shut the phone down (via the UT power button menu IIRC), the battery was over 90% charged according to the charge UI. That was a few days ago, when I picked the phone again yesterday, oops
Not sure it's relevant but I should also mention that when I first got the pinephone it wouldn't recognize the battery (it booted fine when hooked to a charger), I have since read people mentioning having problem with adhesive residue on the pins or the battery being wrongly sitted so I assume that's what happened (it resolved itself after a few sd card swaps, I imagine I ended up putting the battery in the correct position).
could it be the wifi chip not being shutdown properly that drained the battery flat despite the phone being off?
question number 2, shouldn't this have triggered some sort of overdischarge protection circuitry?
what happened was I was testing Ubuntu Touch, had the bug where the wifi drops and can't be raised again. I didn't know yet you could turn the chip off and on again by hand so I shut the phone down (via the UT power button menu IIRC), the battery was over 90% charged according to the charge UI. That was a few days ago, when I picked the phone again yesterday, oops
Not sure it's relevant but I should also mention that when I first got the pinephone it wouldn't recognize the battery (it booted fine when hooked to a charger), I have since read people mentioning having problem with adhesive residue on the pins or the battery being wrongly sitted so I assume that's what happened (it resolved itself after a few sd card swaps, I imagine I ended up putting the battery in the correct position).
could it be the wifi chip not being shutdown properly that drained the battery flat despite the phone being off?
question number 2, shouldn't this have triggered some sort of overdischarge protection circuitry?