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Re:PinePhone – KDE Community edition by Causality1 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:56PM (#25103664)
A chip can only detect current that's running through it or a sensor. A breached or shorted cell has a massive overcurrent between two parts of the cell and hence can only be detected by heat
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Re:PinePhone – KDE Community edition by josteink on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:47PM (#25104126)
> A breached or shorted cell has a massive overcurrent between two parts of the cell and hence can only be detected by heat

But that's not an error which can be caused by badly written software (i.e. like a Linux kernel).

So there's theoreticly no increased risk with running different "home-brew" OS builds on this phone due to software-related aspects of those builds.

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Re:PinePhone – KDE Community edition by megous on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:57PM (#25104221)
Shorted cell is game over regardless of software, most probably.
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