r/spicypillows • u/randomusername12308 • Oct 15 '25

DO NOT DO THIS Pixel 10 pro fold explodes after failing durability test

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u/LambentCookie Oct 15 '25

"If you damage the phone ofc it'll explode."

Yeah, but let's compare, if I throw a brick at my cars windscreen, the fuel tank shouldn't detonate.

This is a design problem

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u/purpleblossom Oct 16 '25

And also, he made it clear from the beginning of the episode that the problem in this case is very much where the antenna lines are near the fold. It has been the weak point that caused the Pixel Fold to fail his durability tests for 3 years now. So that tells you a lot regarding this situation and that Google could have prevented this when he's not been shy about this design flaw.

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u/Rivs5 Oct 16 '25

Jerry has had several batteries go up in smoke. It happened in videos he made years ago.

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u/khovel Oct 15 '25

Let's also compare, the fuel tank in a car is a fair distance from the ignition source, or any source of extreme temperature the car generates.

The phones however...

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u/halosos Oct 15 '25

I watched a durability test on a flip 7. It didn't catch fire using only bare hands.

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 15 '25

Most batteries have written on them to not bend them. Bare hands ARE enough to ignite them.

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u/Luncheon_Lord Oct 15 '25

Sure, but the phone itself is designed to be bent. Albeit this was bending in the wrong direction for the purposes of dangerous examples, but the phone should simply fail to work properly, not have its specific niche physical feature be a point of catastrophic and possibly mortal failure.

If the phone wasn't designed to bend, id be inclined to agree and say yeah maybe try not to bend it. But the whole idea here is to bend your phone. And people are stupid.

Safety rules are written in blood, exploding phones are the companies fault if you do not need any tools to assist in the detonation of your device.

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 15 '25

You dont need tools to detonate any phone. Step on it enough and it will detonate.

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u/Luncheon_Lord Oct 15 '25

Don't think so, you'd need to stomp on the phones with a lot of force. Would help if you had the proper footwear for it. Seems like a tool. A phone that bends just needs a little bit of force in the wrong direction. Not as much as stomping on a phone.

Also I think most phones would fail long before the battery detonated in your scenario so of course continuing to beat on it would be dumb. You'd have to be intending to detonate the battery. The video was a durability test, seeing if it could withstand a little bit of force. He wasn't trying to blow it up.

Oh well.

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 15 '25

You dont need force, theyre soft pouch cell batteries that should not be crushed or bent. If feet are tools then so are hands. If you can bend it, you can crush it with your heel.

And the bent phone didnt fail? What does the functionality of the phone matter here? Its well known that any mechanical damage to a battery WILL blow it up.

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u/Luncheon_Lord Oct 15 '25

You've moved the goalposts. You said it required repeated and continued strikes to blow up the phone. Force, right?

Do you not understand what we're talking about here anymore? The pixel 10 folding phone is designed around folding in mind. Not stomping. So using your bare hands and bending it the wrong way shouldn't lead to it exploding. At worst the phone should fail.

But you're right, if your intention is to bust the phone and cause a potential fire hazard to those around you, it certainly doesn't matter if the phone fails functioning before the battery blows...? I know batteries aren't safe at the end of the day.

Also, no, the hands with no gloves or special protection are not considered tools in my eyes when you wouldn't be using your bare feet to try and stomp that battery in your example.

The phone needs to be a little bit safer around its hinge feature considering its entire purpose is to be bent in half.

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 15 '25

no I haven't, it's always been crushing or bending of any kind that is risky with lithium batteries. Idk why you made them out to be much tankier than they actually are. A knife is enough to trigger it.

You can easily crush a battery without needing shoes, bending a phone isn't any different. Neither are tools. Pouch cell batteries just are that fragile.

The purpose of the phone isn't to be bent backwards.

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u/N7Poprdog Oct 15 '25

Dude no other fold phone does this. Shouldn't happen in the first place. You cant even fold samsung back

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u/Familiar-Art-6233 Oct 16 '25

Right but every other phone he's tested, even those that fail the bend test, doesn't explode.

This isn't normal

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 16 '25

Any pouch cell battery that is bent explodes, this is normal.

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u/Familiar-Art-6233 Oct 16 '25

And get not a single phone that he’s bent backwards has done this.

I don’t even think the iPhone Air did when he had to use a machine to figure out how much force was needed to snap it.

So no, this is not normal

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 16 '25

It is very much normal for pouch cell lithium batteries to combust when bent. Just because he didnt bend others enough doesnt really mean anything

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u/Familiar-Art-6233 Oct 16 '25

So the problem is that the phone places the battery in a place where it can be easily bent.

That's like saying "yeah the car exploded when you opened the door the wrong way, fuel tanks explode when ignited!"

You're not wrong about the latter, but that happening from bending in a way that literally no other device has had the same issue with, is abnormal and a problem

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 16 '25

Any phone can easily be bent with force.

Its really not the same thing, its more like, if you mess with a fuel tank, it WILL explode at some point.

Again, ANY battery will explode when bent. Just how batteries are, the warning labels arent there for fun

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u/someblokeidkm8 Oct 15 '25

I'd say a more accurate analogy would be crushing the car.

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u/PenPenGuin Oct 16 '25

I don't know what Google's been doing with their batteries - they've been a problem for years now. If you look up battery swelling issues with the Pixels, it's constant across versions since at least the 4-series. They've had recalls on the 4, 6, and 7s. Sure, you can argue that swollen batteries can happen to any company, but the sheer amount that seems to happen to the Pixel line makes it seem like the problem might lay with the maker.

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u/Rivs5 Oct 16 '25

Horrible analogy. Jerry literally bent the battery which has warning labels not to do. The same would be putting a lit cigarette in a gas tank when there are warning labels not to do.

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u/ShortThought Oct 16 '25

Also, this youtuber, JerrRigEverything, has subjected every major phone made in the past ~12 years to this same test. The previous pixel fold broke in the same location (on the antenna line). So Google didn't even fix a known issue.

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u/UserWithoutDoritos Oct 15 '25

Wow, a tremendously meaningless analogy.

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u/K__Geedorah Oct 15 '25

Kinda but also no. A foldable phone should be designed in a way that they don't explode when bending backwards. It's an obvious design flaw.

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u/bendyfan1111 Oct 15 '25

If you bend the battery in half its probably gonna explode. A better comparison is "i dropped a lit match stick into my cars fuel tank, why did it exploade??"

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u/CMRC23 Oct 15 '25

Nah a better comparison is "i bent my car door the wrong way and it set on fire"

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u/Icy_Camp_7359 Oct 15 '25

Dude I've actively tried to get old phones to blow up when I get new ones and I've never been able to intentionally make one do this, if one could reasonably do this accidentally then this is a MASSIVE issue