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by jaredhallen 842 days ago
I've had a lot of different non-Apple smartphones over the last 15 years or so, and don't recall any of them ever rebooting under load, whether that be for as a result of "physics" or any other cause. Maybe I'm just remarkably lucky?
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All of my phones (except the iPhone, actually) had hard reboot issues at around the 2-3yr mark. Usually at under 30% battery charge under high load. HTC Incredible, Galaxy S4, and Nexus 6. Nexus 6 was the worst, but I also had that one the longest.

My iPhone X didn't have shutoff issues, but the battery did swell enough to push out the screen, which Apple replaced for free even with an expired warranty.

I've experienced it a couple times on Androids. IME it goes very quickly from that stage to unusable when the battery is that far gone. Plus on one phone I noticed the cover bulging at that point too.