Accidents caused by exploding smartphones seem to have become too common in the current technological age.
This process will generate large amounts of heat and spread to other areas.
With the increasing number of smartphone fires and explosions, users should find solutions to protect themselves before incidents occur.
1. Replace battery without original owner
iPhone batteries or many types of batteries on other devices (vehicles, cars, etc.) are all lithium-ion batteries, so they will all become worse and gradually reduce their capacity over time.
Furthermore, replacing a non-genuine battery also poses many risks, causing other components in the device to be damaged or even explode.
This is also one of the reasons that major smartphone companies always require users to repair and replace device components at genuine authorized stores.
2. Throw your phone on the floor
Every time the phone is dropped (or thrown), the chemical or mechanical structure inside the battery can change, causing the fail-safe circuit to fail in situations where the phone is performing heavy tasks.
After your phone is dropped (or thrown) from a distance with strong force, take the device to a repair shop to have the battery checked.
At Istanbul Airport, Türkiye, a passenger, after arguing with security staff because he was not allowed to carry certain items, threw his phone on the floor.
3. Avoid picking up your phone when it has just fallen to the ground
Normally, when the phone falls out of our pocket, most of us will quickly pick up the device to check for damage.
Accordingly, in 2014, a guy fell on the road while riding a bicycle.
As a result, the guy suffered second degree burns.
4. Biting smartphone batteries
Earlier this year, at an electronics store in China, a young man shopping for a phone foolishly decided to bite into the battery to check its power source.
Through this incident, the lesson for everyone is not to bite or strongly impact the battery, because it will threaten health and life.
5. Using poor quality chargers
According to experts, a phone charger is a power converter from 220 VAC to VDC voltage (5 – 12V).
Furthermore, poor quality phone charging cables are often exposed due to package finishing, easily causing electricity leakage from the 220 VAC input to the phone output.
6. Talking on the phone while charging
In fact, fatal accidents due to electric shock or explosion while using smartphones while charging have become not too strange to everyone today.
Accordingly, when users charge the battery and use the phone, the temperature will continue to increase.
7. Using poor quality backup charger
Up to now, many people do not know that using poor quality power banks is the cause of tragic fires, typically the fire at the Parc Spring apartment building earlier this year.
The cause of the fires was due to unstable power supply to the phone.
8. Place the phone under the pillow
When you leave your phone under your pillow while charging, the phone can explode and cause a house fire.
Besides, here are things you should not do to avoid unfortunate situations:
– Charge your phone when it’s too cold or too hot.
– Continue charging the phone while it is hot.
– Let the phone charge continuously overnight.
– Place the phone directly in sunlight.
– Using the phone while bathing.
– Continue to use when the phone battery runs out too quickly.
according to Saostar