Im no expert to tech stuff. Isn’t it bad enough when you throw in your hot/warm phone into freezer right away? The concept is the same as glass, when it’s hot and you put it in frozen place or pour cold water on it, it will break.

Anyway, keep monitor it when you charge. Don’t want anything to burn. Stay safe.

I regularly leave my phone in a fridge at work (in an insulated lunch bag) for an entire shift… it gets quite cold but dont have any issues … POCO X3

The phone is designed to work very hot conditions

(Imagine using GPS navigation on your phone, in the sun on the dashboard, in a hot car that you just got into after parking hours in the sun, while charging, after being in your pocket for an hour, in a hot and humid climate…)

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The phone is also designed to work in very cold climates (imagine people in canada for example)

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The issue begins with RAPID change of EXTREME temperatures (from 50C after gaming – to -20C in the freezer…)

The quick and different expansion\\contraction of different materials (glass, plastic, rubber) in the phone – can cause them to separate from each other, and also break, or at least break the sealing of the phone.

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After the materials separated from each other when freezing – you took your cold phone and put it in (relatively) hot environment, and humidity started condensation on it. (take something out of the freezer – and see how wet it gets outside.)

Now remember that your phone is not sealed anymore – and that condensation also happens inside it, on the printed circuits, and NOW you understand the issue…

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Now for the last part:

Corrosion doesn’t necessarily happen immediately, but it can appear gradually over a few days, weeks, or months…

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Good luck 🙂

Oh, I am gladly surprised…? And you had no issues?

Well, let’s just wait and see… I’m hoping for the best while preparing for the worst

I don’t usually leave my phone around in freezer for more than 30 seconds.

Xiaomi phone are intended to work in cold and hot, don’t you know there are region in China that can easily hit -20 °C (north east) and there are region that can easily hit 40°C (west desert)

Likewise, don’t know how I forgot this time round

Should have dried out the condensation first.

Face palm.

Why are you guys doing that “freezer” thing at all? If you overheat your device (while gaming, for example), it gets like 80-90C hot. So it is 60-70C hotter than the \~20C ambient temperature. If you put it in the cooler which has 5C it changes merely to “75-85C hotter”. It is roughly the same if you put the phone into freezer briefly. Not much difference. If assume that the phone touches just air here and there it will just cool maybe 10% faster in the fridge. More advantage can come from the contact with ice – but you can do almost the same with keeping it in your hands (they’re watercooled – well, blood-cooled – too ;))

Unless we’re talking about some Dubai 40-45C temperatures, the problem is not the temperature reached while gaming, but heat dissipation. So rather glue some CPU cooler to your case (screen would be better, but… well :-\] )

And taking your frozen phone to the outside world will cause condensation not only on the surface (which you can “wipe like a mirror”) but also inside! You should never turn it on before it dried completely (hence warmed up…). Even then such wetting is dangerous to the device and surely will limit its life. I’m not even mentioning the battery – Li-Po are more forgiving than Li-Ion but still below freezing point provide much lower voltage during initial discharge. And charging frozen battery can damage it permanently.

Your phone is literally made of glass and one thing you’re not meant to do with glass is rapid changes in temperature. If this was a flagship or a good phone, you’re phone would’ve been fine. I’m pretty sure mrwhosetheboss or someone did a test with an iPhone 11 and Samsung s20(or something) where he put the phones in the freezer in a glass of water and they both survived. But this is a mi phones and especially a redmi, chances are low. There will be water damage, you almost certainly have to take it to a repair shop

Defrost it in a bag of rice

I’m actually surprised my camera lens aren’t foggy, like at all…

I’m not saying your phone is bad but despite the ip rating, I’ve never trusted Xiaomi’s waterproofing. In the redmi note 10, in many tests there has been water damage despite the ip

> designed to work very hot conditions

I used to work for an institute where we issued certificates for various medical devices and we regularly exposed them to high temperatures and measured components inside as well. And yes, to pass the test, not only it had to still work, but it shouldn’t overheat as well. So safe to say, unless you put it under extreme conditions, the phone should be just fine.

Interesting.
Thanks for sharing 👍

Awesome story. Hahahaha.

Before Step 2, I’d suggest sealing the phone in a zip-lock bag, evacuating as much air as possible to minimize interior condensation.

I once worked as a photographer in a heavily air conditioned environment. Before I would go outside into a warm, humid environment I would always seal my cameras into zip-lock bags until they warmed past the condensation point.

Going from cold into humid hot can really do a fast number on electronics (and lenses)

No shit, Sherlock 😐

Why in tarnation would people put their phone in the fridge? If you want your battery to last longer just use normal slow charge

Its not yet extreme cold in your situation

Doing it right now lol