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Nexus 4 battery bloating
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Re: Nexus 4 battery bloating
#42Had the battery on my S4 replaced because of exactly this issue, battery performance was also dramatically affected too.
Aparently this is/was a common issue with a certain batch of Samsung batteries causing them to replace batteries with this problem for free outside of warranty (in the UK at least).
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#43Interestingly enough, my beloved Nexus 4 just died this past month. I noticed it getting extremely hot, and then one day started a boot loop that I could not fix. I figured some hardware broke. My uncle also picked up one around the same time, and is going through similar problems - overheating and rebooting, though has no boot loop issues. I will warn him of this battery issue. On another note, I just purchased a Ze…
My Nexus 4 screen started to turn yellow due to the discoloration of the adhesive between the lcd and the digitizer caused by heat.
Unfortunately my phone developed a dead sport on the digitizer and no longer registers touch input there.
I just ordered a new screen. I would most likely end up giving the phone to a friend whose phone is dying
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it was just random luck that all their nexus 4 devices demonstrated the same fault ?
No, but its a phone from 2012 and its battery has reached or is near EOL by any reasonable metric assuming daily use. Of course you're going to have some battery issues. How many three year old phones work flawlessy? I find by year two they're all fairly roughed up in some way, especially if they're owned by techies who run they harder than most people. Its not surprising considering the age, and perhaps being from t…
> its battery has reached or is near EOL by any reasonable metric assuming daily use.
Someone tell that to the battery in my Nokia 6230i from 2007, cause it's been used daily and it doesn't seem to mind :)
Seriously, though, what makes you think that a 2-3 year battery is at or near EOL? Battery life depends on a lot of factors and even then it should lose capacity not swell and explode.
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#45I stopped placing so much brand premium on "Made By Google", at the end of the day, you are at the mercy of the manufacturer. My google nexus phone was clunky, slow, randomly freeze and restart during phone conversation. When you dropped it the battery and back lid would fall out or not fit properly. I nearly gave up on Android. Then my asus nexus 7 screen shattered when I dropped it with replacement cost that made i…
I have a Moto G mark 2 (4G capable) as well, cost ~GBP100 and I agree, the bang per buck is high on this model. Previously I had a HTC Desire I bought in 2010 which eventually fell apart in 2014. I chucked it into my "man drawer" [0] and forgot about it. Then luckily one day I had occasion to dig it out to grab some files off of it. I was somewhat alarmed to discover that its battery had "bloated", it now lives outside until I get around to disposing of correctly.
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#46I stopped placing so much brand premium on "Made By Google", at the end of the day, you are at the mercy of the manufacturer. My google nexus phone was clunky, slow, randomly freeze and restart during phone conversation. When you dropped it the battery and back lid would fall out or not fit properly. I nearly gave up on Android. Then my asus nexus 7 screen shattered when I dropped it with replacement cost that made i…
I have a Moto G mark 2 (4G capable) as well, cost ~GBP100 and I agree, the bang per buck is high on this model. Previously I had a HTC Desire I bought in 2010 which eventually fell apart in 2014. I chucked it into my "man drawer" [0] and forgot about it. Then luckily one day I had occasion to dig it out to grab some files off of it. I was somewhat alarmed to discover that its battery had "bloated", it now lives outsi…
I don't have a man drawer so I just kick stuff under the bed when I don't like it (lol).
after reading your comment now I feel anxious and have moved it to another unused room's closet.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, but its a phone from 2012 and its battery has reached or is near EOL by any reasonable metric assuming daily use. Of course you're going to have some battery issues. How many three year old phones work flawlessy? I find by year two they're all fairly roughed up in some way, especially if they're owned by techies who run they harder than most people. Its not surprising considering the age, and perhaps being from t…
> its battery has reached or is near EOL by any reasonable metric assuming daily use. Someone tell that to the battery in my Nokia 6230i from 2007, cause it's been used daily and it doesn't seem to mind :) Seriously, though, what makes you think that a 2-3 year battery is at or near EOL? Battery life depends on a lot of factors and even then it should lose capacity not swell and explode.
Because modern smartphones, unlike your Nokia, work batteries very hard. They discharge more, get charged more often, have more capacity, have less room in the case for cooling, run hot in general, etc.
I don't think its controversial to say that 3 year old phones may start having problems. If this was the new Nexus 6, yes, then there would be a lot of concern, but telling me a budget phone from 2012 is having battery problems in 2015 really isn't saying much.
tldr; the Nexus 4 has a 1 year warranty for a reason.
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#48I just replaced the battery in my Nexus 5 due to earlier stages of the same issue. The battery failure was causing a lot of random device shutdowns that I had initially thought were related to the rollout of Lollipop. There's a long support thread of people with similar issues at: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/IJSOuc7... Several of the posters there noticed that their battery had started bulgin…
It seems to be very difficult to find a genuine Nexus 4 battery that isn't already a year or two past manufacture date.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's actually a cut of a longer video. What's missing is the beginning, where they stab the battery with a knife. Unless you pierce a battery, that kind of combustion is unlikely to happen. If it swells up to the point where the casing fails it could, but you'd probably notice that before it became a dangerous issue.
There remains an apparently powerful explosive device a couple inches from my testicles.
A battery is very literally power storage. That's its only purpose.
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#50I stopped placing so much brand premium on "Made By Google", at the end of the day, you are at the mercy of the manufacturer. My google nexus phone was clunky, slow, randomly freeze and restart during phone conversation. When you dropped it the battery and back lid would fall out or not fit properly. I nearly gave up on Android. Then my asus nexus 7 screen shattered when I dropped it with replacement cost that made i…
What's funny is that your Nexus phone & tablet weren't made by Google, but the Moto G actually technically was (Motorola Mobility was their subsidiary at the time).
That's a legal fiction though; Google had no effect on Motorola Mobility beyond shuffling finances and patents.