There evidentially is hardware logic in the battery itself so it's not factually correct. You might damange other pinephone components but the batter shouldn't catch fire.
I wouldn't trust something as overly-complex as Linux to prevent fires anyways.
Ok, so go to the Pinephone battery spec (everything is publicly available) and point me to where it says the in-battery protection circuit protects the under/overtemperature condition.
In fact it's just the common protection circuit that just cares about over/under voltage and over-current conditions (mostly just a short, because the cuttoff current limit is 6-8A and battery's max recommended sustained current is 1.4A). So you can overload the battery 3-4x for however long you want, and that circuit will do nothing.
The thing that about me the most is how much it's pushing fear without any evidence of something bad actually happening. Has there been a single pinephone that has caught on fire?
I am not aware of any case of fire.
So unless it caused such a bad fire, that everybody involved died, I think I would know about it having followed the PinePhone very closely, especially since June for my blog.
That said, as the fix seems to be rather trivial, distributions should just check and ship a new kernel if necessary.
Yes, there were cases of Pinephone burning people's fingers, due to modem being used as a heatsink, and distros not doing any testing about thermal regulation working. You can easily get the modem to heat up to 70-80 deg C in that case. With regulation on, it would not get over 60, which while not pleasant is not at least hurtful.
Seconding this question. If it'd been me writing the article, and all the claims are true, it would've been a profanity-laced screed condemning the entire project as a pack of incompetent morons.
It wouldn't charge so we turned off thermal regulation
I recall once a co worker said they'd never use Android again since it froze when trying to call 911.
Gives Apple more ammo in their fight against Epic, users expect their phones to work , which Apple can't guarantee if anyone can run whatever binary they find.
Ericson2314|5 years ago
I wouldn't trust something as overly-complex as Linux to prevent fires anyways.
megous|5 years ago
In fact it's just the common protection circuit that just cares about over/under voltage and over-current conditions (mostly just a short, because the cuttoff current limit is 6-8A and battery's max recommended sustained current is 1.4A). So you can overload the battery 3-4x for however long you want, and that circuit will do nothing.
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/d7402d89fca1a418.png
choward|5 years ago
linmob|5 years ago
That said, as the fix seems to be rather trivial, distributions should just check and ship a new kernel if necessary.
harpiaharpyja|5 years ago
megous|5 years ago
Causality1|5 years ago
It wouldn't charge so we turned off thermal regulation
Jesus effing Christ.
asou|5 years ago
I recall once a co worker said they'd never use Android again since it froze when trying to call 911.
Gives Apple more ammo in their fight against Epic, users expect their phones to work , which Apple can't guarantee if anyone can run whatever binary they find.
unknown|5 years ago
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