Like, I would take it out of my pocket to look at bus schedules but it would turn off after a few seconds of being exposed to 5°C, saying the battery was dead. Another time I had it attached to my bike handlebar and it kept turning off because apparently 13°C with the wind was also too chilly. Every time that fucking Xiaomi phone was feeling a bit chill, the battery would just die. And not even in freezing temps!

I looked online and everone of the fanboys on the forums kept saying that this is normal, battery performance degrades in winter, that iPhones do the same, and apparently all other phones do the same. In short, I had unreasonable expectations.

Yet, all my other phones' batteries didn't die within seconds of taking them out of my pocket, even in winter.

So, I don't have to bother with their names anymore.

[–] Soolonkivi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it just happens with older degraded batteries. My old huawei had the same problem.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But it was maybe a few months old at best. Maybe it had a defective battery from the start but I contacted Xiaomi and I've been told it was "normal" in "winter". Then when I looked online for this issue with Xiaomi phones, the people on the forums said it was "normal", and that I expected too much.

In the end it was probably a defective battery. I couldn't believe that they were selling millions of these and that people always just kept them warm all the time. Like, they have a proper winter too in some parts of China, and I can't imagine millions of people having their phone dying on them as soon as we get into sweater weather.

But obviously this left a bad taste in my mouth. This and having to ask permission to root my phone.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

People who simp for big corporations are so fucking weird.