iPhones reportedly malfunctioning after helium exposure

[TBO]

https://www.cnet.com/news/iphones-reportedly-malfunctioning-after-helium-exposure/

 

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[Brown Hawk]

Well, there goes that trip on the Hindenburg!  

Hawk 

And yes, I know it was hydrogen.  

[Al Czervik]

Thanks.  I was just about to seal my iPhone in a bag of Helium.  Glad i read this first.  ?

[janice6]

It's interesting to hear that Helium defeated the hermetic sealing of a part in the phone.

"...Helium or Krypton 85 Fine Leak

Devices are typically preconditioned in a pressurized chamber and, after the required conditions are met, the leak rate is measured and recorded, applying pass/fail criteria. Devices sealed with helium and undergoing helium leak testing need not be pressurized if requested..."   http://www.gets-usa.com/Hermeticity Testing and Hermetic Seal Test.html

Helium was used on military testing of hermeticity, routinely.  Funny, that if it is claimed to be hermetically sealed, they would leak the very stuff used to test for leaks. Everybody has their version of "hermetic sealing", some are just for advertising.

[Huaco Kid]

"When I was a little girl, Grover Cleveland was president!"

[Silentpoet]

Is the damage permanent or just temporary or at least repairable?  Nothing I saw in those links made it clear.

[G26S239]

It is not a design flaw. It is Apple protecting their customers from being embarrassed by suddenly sounding like Munchkins in the midst of a business call.