Otter's Journal: iPhone explodes during unlock attempt

iPhone hardware modifications haven't been proceeding with 100% success, but a new low was hit when one exploded, apparently after shorting out the battery. (Originally on on Hackintosh)

Nice

[stoolpigeon]

More things should explode when you mess with them.

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[Shadow Wrought]

Its now called the iBoom.

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[Captain Splendid]

I was thinking more like iSplode.

Discharging.

[dexterpexter]

Surely they could remove the battery first, and then hit the power button to discharge the capacitors to be sure? I do this before repairing or opening any of my electronics.
Not familiar with the iPhone, though.

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[Otter]

Reading deeper into the forum, it seems like it's really easy to damage the battery when opening the case without the proper tools, and that that might be what happened. I agree, it seems odd to work on something like this with the battery in but maybe it's necessary.

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[dexterpexter]

Oh, so it isn't like a standard cellphone, with an easily removable primary battery then. I am not a fan of integrated primary batteries; my new mp3 player (yeah, yeah... I was "behind the times") has an integrated battery, and I really wish it didn't.

In fact, I don't much like things that I can't easily fiddle with. :)