Cold protection for phone

Yackisback

Yackisback

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Sup NS, so I was wondering if anyone had any ingenious ways of preventing their phone from falling victim to cold temperatures, other than by keeping it in your jacket. I'm sure just about everyone has experienced pulling their phone out of their jacket on the lift, putting it back in your jacket, only to have it die. So my question is, does anyone have any methods they use to keep their phone at a warmer temp? I've used a bulky glove and that seemed to work, just looking for something sleeker.
 
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Sup NS, so I was wondering if anyone had any ingenious ways of preventing their phone from falling victim to cold temperatures, other than by keeping it in your jacket. I'm sure just about everyone has experienced pulling their phone out of their jacket on the lift, putting it back in your jacket, only to have it die. So my question is, does anyone have any methods they use to keep their phone at a warmer temp? I've used a bulky glove and that seemed to work, just looking for something sleeker.
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You might try some of these. https://www.amazon.com/Hothands-Adh...6?ie=UTF8&qid=1510675492&sr=8-6&keywords=hand+warmers+with+adhesive&dpID=51tNlzL6%252BeL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
 
How cold does it have to be for a phone to die after just pulling it out of jacket pocket on a chair lift? I've never had any issue even in negative temperatures (like -20°C/-5°F).

Maybe it's your phone's battery that's at the end of its life?
 
Put it in a ziploc stuffed with handwarmers. Water proof and warm. Maybe put that in a mitten as well if it’s a really cold.
 
Keep it as close to your body as possible is my suggestion. I keep mine on my inner layers where it may be harder to access, but im skiing so i dont need my cellular.
 
Put your phone in a sock in your inner breast pocket. Works for all but the coldest days. Gonna try lining some fabric with a space blanket. Will report back with how well it works. Also consider if your phone is just on standby and not being used, its internal temperature will be lower than if you're running apps and playing music. Phones shut down to protect the battery when they are exposed to low temperatures.

Also:https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/849030/How-do-I-keep-my-phone-from-dying-in-the-cold-
 
Handwarmers, charge packs, and spare batteries. Also cases can help insulate it.

I don't pull mine out too much but always bumping tunes at work.
 
@Yackisback: I would take a look at the Lifepocket we just launched here at Helly Hansen.

We designed the Lifepocket with Primaloft (Who worked with NASA on the tech) and the Canadian Alpine team to preserve cell phone battery life. The pocket has aerogel on the outside to protect from cold and a laminate on the inside to protect from sweat, the pocket essentially is a mobile phone convection oven. It draws and stores heat from you and protects the liquid in the cell phone’s battery from freezing, even working up to negative 28-degrees with or without a phone case.
https://www.hellyhansen.com/news/th...content=nasa-teknologi&utm_campaign=storby_no

Products here:https://www.hellyhansen.com/shop/pa...ent=nasa-teknologi&utm_campaign=storby_no&p=1

Chris - HH Employee
 
13856537:chammond86 said:
@Yackisback: I would take a look at the Lifepocket we just launched here at Helly Hansen.

We designed the Lifepocket with Primaloft (Who worked with NASA on the tech) and the Canadian Alpine team to preserve cell phone battery life. The pocket has aerogel on the outside to protect from cold and a laminate on the inside to protect from sweat, the pocket essentially is a mobile phone convection oven. It draws and stores heat from you and protects the liquid in the cell phone’s battery from freezing, even working up to negative 28-degrees with or without a phone case.
https://www.hellyhansen.com/news/th...content=nasa-teknologi&utm_campaign=storby_no

Products here:https://www.hellyhansen.com/shop/pa...ent=nasa-teknologi&utm_campaign=storby_no&p=1

Chris - HH Employee
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Aw man, this is sooo awesome but really wish this came as an option of individual case or coozie like pocket for people to keep in their coats. I surely can’t afford HH even though they make some top notch stuff.

Incredible concept and the collab with nasa is sweet. I’d love to see this more accessible to all riders.
 
13856537:chammond86 said:
@Yackisback: I would take a look at the Lifepocket we just launched here at Helly Hansen.

We designed the Lifepocket with Primaloft (Who worked with NASA on the tech) and the Canadian Alpine team to preserve cell phone battery life. The pocket has aerogel on the outside to protect from cold and a laminate on the inside to protect from sweat, the pocket essentially is a mobile phone convection oven. It draws and stores heat from you and protects the liquid in the cell phone’s battery from freezing, even working up to negative 28-degrees with or without a phone case.
https://www.hellyhansen.com/news/th...content=nasa-teknologi&utm_campaign=storby_no

Products here:https://www.hellyhansen.com/shop/pa...ent=nasa-teknologi&utm_campaign=storby_no&p=1

Chris - HH Employee
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Make this tech into a case and you'll have tons of people buying it.
 
Get rid of your iPhone if you want it to last in the cold. I've had a Samsung for the past 4 years, and watched all my friends get frustrated at dead phones, cold batteries, etc, while I will use my phone for music/media all day long, never have issues with it dying, and still have plenty of charge left at the end of the day.
 
If it dies while your on the lift j put it under ur ass and it warms pretty fast especially if u rip some farts onto it.
 
13856537:chammond86 said:
@Yackisback: I would take a look at the Lifepocket we just launched here at Helly Hansen.

We designed the Lifepocket with Primaloft (Who worked with NASA on the tech) and the Canadian Alpine team to preserve cell phone battery life. The pocket has aerogel on the outside to protect from cold and a laminate on the inside to protect from sweat, the pocket essentially is a mobile phone convection oven. It draws and stores heat from you and protects the liquid in the cell phone’s battery from freezing, even working up to negative 28-degrees with or without a phone case.
https://www.hellyhansen.com/news/th...content=nasa-teknologi&utm_campaign=storby_no

Products here:https://www.hellyhansen.com/shop/pa...ent=nasa-teknologi&utm_campaign=storby_no&p=1

Chris - HH Employee
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It's amazing the money and resources put into such trivial and useless things like being able to instagram all day at the ski hill without your battery dying.
 
13856891:VinnieF said:
It's amazing the money and resources put into such trivial and useless things like being able to instagram all day at the ski hill without your battery dying.
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Ski tracks brah. Gotta get that max speed up
 
13855760:IsitWinterYet17 said:
Put your phone in a sock in your inner breast pocket. Works for all but the coldest days. Gonna try lining some fabric with a space blanket. Will report back with how well it works. Also consider if your phone is just on standby and not being used, its internal temperature will be lower than if you're running apps and playing music. Phones shut down to protect the battery when they are exposed to low temperatures.

Also:https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/849030/How-do-I-keep-my-phone-from-dying-in-the-cold-
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So far so good. Worked down to around 15 degrees so far. My brothers phone (that was just in a sock in his pocket) shut off, but mine was normal and full of battery in this case. I was running ski tracks, which may have helped keep it warmer but not by much. Colder days ahead this week. Will report back.
 
I just put mine in a ziploc freezer bag and make a little hole to plug my headphones in. Its touch screen through the bag and my phone has never died on me once even in the freezing cold
 
14162301:willistrong said:
Every iPhone should come with cold protection, it's very annoying when it just turns off being fully charged just because it's cold outside.
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It's pretty much every phone man. The batteries can't operate well at low temps. If you slip it in a sock or phone case made for keeping warm, and then run music or GPS and put in breast pocket, it will never die on you. I've been fine in down to -5F air temps with my case I made- could probably go a bit lower but I doubt I'll ever want to ski colder than that. The key is definitely to have stuff running on the phone so it generates a little bit of heat and then the case insulates and helps trap some of that heat. If you're not running anything, your phone will get cold and die even with a case.
 
On super cold days I put a heat pack for gloves in my jacket and keep my phone in the same pocket. I normally wear sweats while I ski bc I have thin snow pants so I just keep the phone in the roots sweat pants pocket and it never dies on me. Take it out as little as possible to keep it living.
 
14162319:Turd__Authority said:
It's pretty much every phone man. The batteries can't operate well at low temps. If you slip it in a sock or phone case made for keeping warm, and then run music or GPS and put in breast pocket, it will never die on you. I've been fine in down to -5F air temps with my case I made- could probably go a bit lower but I doubt I'll ever want to ski colder than that. The key is definitely to have stuff running on the phone so it generates a little bit of heat and then the case insulates and helps trap some of that heat. If you're not running anything, your phone will get cold and die even with a case.
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It's complete bro-science, but my experience has been samsung's battery does wayyyyy better than apple's in a cold ski jacket pocket
 
14162542:Biffbarf said:
It's complete bro-science, but my experience has been samsung's battery does wayyyyy better than apple's in a cold ski jacket pocket
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I bet when you fall your battery falls out tho
 
14162602:SkiBronJames said:
I bet when you fall your battery falls out tho
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I wish batteries were detachable in smartphones like they used to be. Word is Samsung was bringing this back in some.
 
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