{"id":395101,"date":"2019-02-04T05:24:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/freezing-temperatures-can-cause-your-phone-to-shut-down\/"},"modified":"2019-02-04T05:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:24:31","slug":"freezing-temperatures-can-cause-your-phone-to-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/freezing-temperatures-can-cause-your-phone-to-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing Temperatures Can Cause Your Phone To Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You may have noticed that your smartphone tends to abruptly shut off when it\u2019s used outside in the cold.<\/p>\n

When that happens, there\u2019s not much you can do, since the phone is temporarily dead as a door nail.<\/p>\n

This occurs because the extreme cold is too much for your smartphone\u2019s battery.<\/p>\n

Many users have also reported similar issues with other battery powered gadgets, such as bluetooth headphones \u2013 which also contain batteries.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fairly simple as to why smartphone batteries quickly become unusable in extreme temperatures \u2013 both hot and cold.<\/p>\n

Most smartphones nowadays run on a Lithium-Ion battery.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Lithium-Ion batteries require liquid electrolytes, which sit between the two types of electrodes in the battery, in order to provide power.<\/p>\n

When smartphones with a Lithium-Ion battery are exposed to extremely temperatures, these liquid electrolytes effectively freeze, reducing their ability to send energy to your phone.<\/p>\n

If it gets cold enough, the battery will stop providing energy completely, which leads to your smartphone turning off.<\/p>\n

\u2018Lithium-ion batteries suffer so badly in freezing temperatures because they have very little internal resistance,\u2019 Hanumant Singh, an electrical engineer at Northeastern University told\u00a0Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Singh added that a Lithium-Ion battery\u2019s reaction to the cold can be \u2018very dramatic,\u2019 with devices typically dying in about 5 minutes when exposed to temperatures colder than -35 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n

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You may have noticed that your smartphone tends to abruptly shut off when it\u2019s used outside in the cold. When that happens, there\u2019s not much you can do, since the phone is temporarily dead as a door nail. This occurs because the extreme cold is too much for your smartphone\u2019s battery. Many users have also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}