Reminder: check your old phone graveyard!
I’ve worked in mobile-related IT on & off for nearly 20 years. I keep every phone I’ve ever had. Today when rummaging thru a shelf bin looking for something the plate in the first photo ended up in my hand.
“Is that the backplate of a phone?” *rummage*
“Oh fuck”
This phone (Samsung Note 10) was replaced in 2020 and probably hasn’t been charged since I reckon. Just sat, in a dry, moderate temperature room for years. It’s impossible anything got into the charging port to cause a short given the way I store phones (protective case on backwards and upside down - covers the screen and the port). It was just a Samsung doing Samsung things!
I have so many phones, as do probably all of you. Time for a quick check, friendos.
It finally happened to me, girls, boys and everyone in between! I have been visited by the spicy pillow gods and escaped unscathed - so far.
In another note, where the hell do I chuck this thing? Don’t want to put it in our bin… if the almost inextinguishable Li-ion catches fire in the equally inextinguishable plastic wheelie bin, I’m a bit, er, cooked.