(18 Oct 2022, 6:33 pm)Unber43 wrote I saw a video where older samsungs battery had actually expanded and broke the casing.
The original battery in my Galaxy S4 became a spicy pillow after a few years. I vaguely remember getting a replacement battery free from Samsung because it was a known issue.
I thought it would be fun to blow it up, so with my explosion containment pie dish at the ready, I started mashing at it with a blunt instrument. Fair to say, the explosion was a bit more dramatic than I was expecting, in fact I ended up burning my finger on a bit of battery that wanted to be a plane, and now I have a scar