Apple iPhone 5c just blew up

[Plazorn]

I was playing around with it, and it popped again. Now it doesn’t even turn on

 

[Prof0nWear]

I was playing around with it, and it popped again. Now it doesn’t even turn on

Yeah that's a fried board probably.

Take the LCD out and the battery - reconnect the lcd and see if you can get it to power with a cable plugged in or recognised with the PC/Mac.

Otherwise it's likely to be the logic board is fried :/

 

[Plazorn]

Man, that sucks, but I just got an iPhone 8 anyway

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I just tried something, It may sound crazy, but it did something…
So when it popped again, part of the metal frame of the phone started to pop out as well. So what I did is I took some alligator clips and clipped them to the frame, and hooked their other ends to a 9V battery.
It powered up again

 

[Jayro]

Any dead iPhone is a GOOD iPhone in my opinion. It's suicide did the world a favor, lol.

 

[Deleted member 546149]

here it is, black marks on top are from the fire

now microwave it
for 2 minutes
(this is a joke, do not be stupid)

 

[SDA]

I was playing around with it, and it popped again. Now it doesn’t even turn on

Again. Your 5C seems to be cursed in some way. Not much to say now that you've got an iPhone 8.

Please stop trying to use that 5C. It's fairly KOed now.

 

[Foxi4]

That's actually a fairly well-controlled combustion as far as lithium batteries go - with a poorly protected cell you'd have a house fire on your hands. It looks to me like the cell vented and the pressure from the pouch off-gassing pierced the screen, since the shell of the 5c is one uniform piece of plastic and gasses always choose the path of least resistance. In this case the paths of least resistance are the mouthpiece, earpiece and the edges of the LCD. RIP, iPhone. My best guess is that the charge circuit malfunctioned and grossly overcharged the battery, or the battery itself lost the ability to hold the amount of charge the circuit thought it should be able to contain.

 

[linuxares]

I was playing around with it, and it popped again. Now it doesn’t even turn on

DUDE STOP! Don't try to start a swollen device!

 

[Foxi4]

DUDE STOP! Don't try to start a swollen device!

In all fairness, it looks like it's discharged the majority of its stored energy already, judging by the damage.

Don't try to charge it though. That'd be a bad idea.

 

[Plazorn]

Alright, thanks for the advice.
This phone was dropped into a pond a couple years ago, but it had functioned fine after it sat in a bag of rice.
I guess maybe it was from water damage….

 

[Squidge]

Sorry that happened, I'd've been freaking out. I'm glad you're okay. Def don't mess with it anymore, just get rid of it.

 

[AFckinDisastr]

here it is, black marks on top are from the fire

that looks really cool ngl-