Apple Store in Zurich Evacuated Following Incident With Overheated iPhone Battery

[C DM]

lol, what about all the other batteries and fires?

Is it only a something-burger when it's not Apple?
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I agree too that battery problems are blown out of proportion. I just wish it was reported equally and fairly.

What other batteries and fires? What isn't being reported "equally and fairly"?

 

[tennisproha]

Supposed to cover it enough to smother it.

Lithium fires burn at up to 1000 C. Quartz sand melts at a higher 1600 C.

Contrarily, on an airplane they use water or soda to cool it. Some prefer dropping it into any nearby metal coffee pot with coffee in it. And now many airlines carry special bags to scoop up burning devices and enclose them.

(On an airliner the big problem in the cabin is not the fire. They can put that out or contain it. What can force a diversion and early landing is if too much smoke is generated.)

I'd imagine airplane ventilation systems are designed to handle that concern, no? I know they're supposed to be quite robust.

As far as quartz sand on lithium, does it just take away the oxygen enough to smother it? Or is it absorbing the heat?

 

[im_to_hyper]

The biggest question no one is asking: how do I become a Lithium Ion Battery Forensic Analyst.

 

[leman]

I was just walking past it and wondering what all the commotion was about glad that they handled it professionally

 

[recoil80]

If the tech opened it up and noticed a third party battery, they wouldn't have proceeded to remove it. It almost certainly was a genuine battery in that case.
I have been working in phone repairs for the last 15 years. The only times I have seen a battery overheat/explode/smoke, whatever you want to call it, is upon removing an iPhone battery. iFixit make it look easy with the pull tabs, but let me tell you, once that battery has been in for 1+ years, those pull tabs aint working! You usually need to wedge things under and round each side to break the adhesive (Use a flexible opening tool etc). That's when you puncture the battery, or you have to deform it pretty extreme to get it off the old adhesive. I personally experienced it twice in about 500+ batteries replacements, but there are some that puncture and nothing happens as well. I imagine this being an iP6, it was a PITA to remove and they used a tool to try help remove it and it punctured it.

As far as I know they don't replace third party batteries, so it should have been an original one.
The fact that the battery took fire while being replaced can't be a coincidence, I think you're right the employee must have punctured the battery while removing it and boom.

 

[ArneK]

Do you know the difference between software and hardware? The iPhone 6 is the earliest applicable phone for the software throttling based on battery health. The hardware is the battery itself.

But if you're going to stick with this ridiculous conspiracy theory and talk about poor batches of batteries, perhaps you should start with the iPhone 5...

Obviously there had to be someone defending them. Yes great feature they introduced there with the throttling. I wonder why older iPhones didn’t need that feature to stay alive? Probably another great feature of Apple? If we’re lucky they come up with a camera that stops taking color pictures after a couple of months for the next iPhone - also a great feature for all the Apple supporters! B/W is perfect for Instagram!

 

[justperry]

lol, what about all the other batteries and fires?

Is it only a something-burger when it's not Apple?
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Fix your reply, not formatted well.

It is a non story, nobody except the surrounding area like a city cares someone burned his fingers, nothing really important happened.

 

[C DM]

Obviously there had to be someone defending them. Yes great feature they introduced there with the throttling. I wonder why older iPhones didn’t need that feature to stay alive? Probably another great feature of Apple? If we’re lucky they come up with a camera that stops taking color pictures after a couple of months for the next iPhone - also a great feature for all the Apple supporters! B/W is perfect for Instagram!

Older phones had different chip designs and hardware? Then again, that's neither here nor there as far as this thread goes.

 

[justperry]

I love these stories because I get a bit of a chuckle out of all the people in denial that Apple could possibly make a single iPhone that has a defective battery that could catch fire. So instead, they've convinced themselves that it HAD to be a 3rd party battery! But any other brand phone does this and fingers point and noses go up in the air.

Hilarious!

I'll bite, I was one of those in denial as you probably meant, if that is the case, I said MAYBE.

Oh, and Apple doesn't *make iPhones, they sell them.

*Apple in fact makes (manufacture) nothing except for lots of money.

 

[ForManchesterUTD]

Not the first time iPhone battery has caused unexpected premature shutdown.

Doesnt a 3rd party battery void the warranty? I doubt they would replace a battery if you messed with it yourself. I am sure there is a way for them to tell before opening up the phone. Some kind of marker

You're blowing this out of proportion more than the article is

 

[Omni Slash]

What phone model?

 

[itsmilo]

You're blowing this out of proportion more than the article is

Huh? Just asked if theres no verification for 3rd party parts