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I use my phones until the battery life is too degraded to be practical and the phone is too damaged to have the batt6replaced. My Samsung A71 is about 3 years old. Some months ago I noticed the battery was pillowing. Since it was still holding charge for more than a day, the guy at a repair shop (where I took it to get a new battery) just punched a pinprick to deflate it, and it's still going strong.
Isn't it a safety hazard to deflate a battery like that?
Yes. Never deflate the spicy pillows.
I suppose so, and I'm also thinking about additional gasses damaging the phone.
So far so good, it's been 3 months already.
Please replace your battery asap if you can.... The aftermath of battery explosion incident is not good.
I appreciate your concern, but it's been 3 months, and it's still holding a good charge.
I suspect it was a single event where it overheated and gassed. I kept using the phone for weeks thinking my phone case had deformed (I didn't notice the small bulge, but the case's power button wasn't aligning well with the phone), before I realized it was the battery.
When it dies, I'll get a new phone. If I still have both hands.
Which will work fine right up into your phone explodes. You don't punch a pinhole to deflate bulging batteries you replace the battery. The bulging isn't dangerous in and of itself, the bulging is a symptom of a problem you are ignoring.
Well you only live twice :-)
This is why I personally would prefer phones with replaceable batteries like the Fairphone.