Bam

The Wif had been complaining about her phone battery during super fast and I’ve mostly figured it out now. Obviously the problem is the battery is munched and needs to be replaced, but the symptoms, now that was weird.
Friday night I met her downtown to commute home together. I traded her batteries right then and there to continue my previous troubleshooting which consisted of turning down the pete around and stuff. Day-to-day morning I started of just trying to discharge the damnable thing, and it wouldn’t. I left it watching video after video with gps, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth all on. Nothing. Yep hours later and I still was closer to 70% than it should have been based on her tales of rapid discharge. It seemed to dance around a little, but not just dying. Sunday, it was just another day. Thing never died. Then this morning on my commute to work, within 20 minutes of leaving the house, just listening to music and reading the news it died hard. 90 something to 15% after rebooting. I put my phone back in my pocket and didn’t touch it again full I plugged it in at work. Work, yet again no issues though I usually stay plugged in for most the day, but even wanting the warehouse, I still had no rapid discharge. This evening though, within 20 minutes of being on the bus I tanked again. I didn’t think a thing about it other than now I needed a new battery. I got downtown and was about to hit the second leg, and I decided to check if it was heat related. This entire time I hadn’t noticed any untoward heat levels, but I always like to know if I have a lithium ion fireball in my pocket before I dress as Johnny Torch for Halloween. 75%. Dick. No heat. No pushing apps. No Wi-Fi. No Bluetooth. No gps.
Then I realized. It died in a tunnel. It died in a deadzone of coverage coming down the hill this morning. Any time the phone has to stretch a bit to get signal, it’s killing the phone. Now then, if this was a case of the phone overdrawing, then I should be feeling some heat. Since I’m not, my official guess is the bulging of the battery might involve some shielding out grounding issues, meaning that as the phone puts out more em, it his a point where the battery just freaks out. To test this, I’m running in airplane mode right now. We’ll see his this works. So far so good.