So, I’m going to college up in the catskills of New York, meaning it’s currently about 7°F where I am.
I went on a walk the other day with my DAP, and noticed it randomly rebooted in the cold, but then worked fine inside. I figured that was just one of the perils of niche, low volume android devices, but just today my well-built smartphone died randomly at 50% battery and refused to reboot.
I get that this has to be something with battery, but I thought it was supposed to be heat that killed batteries. And besides, I don’t remember my Gameboy Advance ever dying of frostbite.
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Did it die for real or just die of no battery?
It’s normal for things to loose power in the cold, because the battery can’t pull as much energy out when it’s cold. But the cold doesn’t normally do permanent damage to devices (or batteries) like heat does, and your phone should work again as soon as it heats up.
I used to have to keep my MP3 player in my bra to keep it warm enough outside back in high school.
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