And just when they started getting more lenient on electronic devices.
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Fire on Plane Caused by Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7
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And better news for Apple.
Hard to take your post seriously when you write "stories" as "story's", but let me take a stab ...
"we even know someone in our village who's iPad charger burnt their house down"
Unanswered questions:
- Was it an official Apple charger, or a cheap third-party charger?
- Was the charger covered in any way, preventing heat from escaping?
- Was the device covered in any way, or on an insulating surface (bed or pillow) that caused it to heat up more than normal?
- Was the charging cable twisted excessively and/or beginning to fray?
- Is the electricity in your "village" well-regulated or is it prone to spikes in voltage?
It's not as simple as blaming the device without looking at the full circumstances. However, in the case of this Samsung device... powered down and placed into a pocket, yet it starts to combust? That's scary and dangerous!
Same. This is bad. Really bad. The REPLACEMENT phones are still exploding? I know Samsung is a "big, greedy corporation," but man, this sucks.
Nope, it's ONE Samsung phone model. No reports of the rest of their range of devices exploding so my facts are correct!
Back in the late 1990's I worked for a company that had a datacenter filled with about 3,000 servers from a PC vendor I won't mention (located in Texas). Over the course of a month or so we had three separate incidents where individual servers caught fire. The server would first completely stop responding - lights were on but you couldn't see anything on a monitor, couldn't connect to it over the network, couldn't even power it off by pressing & holding the power button. In the end the only thing we could do is pull the power, wait a minute, then plug it back in. Each time we did that the video chip on the motherboard would erupt in a geyser of flame.
A few weeks after we reported these incidents to the manufacturer they informed us that they had implemented a recall on a batch of motherboards, and about 700 of the servers in our datacenter were subject to it. It was my task to go into the datacenter and identify those 700 servers. The manufacturer sent a team of workers to the datacenter who set up an assembly line to replace all those motherboards, which took about a week to complete.
At some point well after that little nightmare we learned that the manufacturer had traced the fault back to a vendor in China that had provided the capacitors used in the power regulator circuitry on the motherboards. The capacitors had been apparently manufactured with faulty dielectric material, and after time they started failing in spectacular fashion. They'd apparently build up a huge charge and maintain it until power was cut & restored, at which time it would release a surge of all that stored up power all at once. Something about the design of the motherboard caused that surge to go directly into the video chip.
My completely unscientific guess is that Samsung will likely eventually trace this to something similar - a fault in a component provided by a third party that under certain conditions results in an overload.
Yes, and we care why? Oh thats right, for some here, their egos and self esteem is tied to the success of Apple.
I guess its a lot like the artificial emotional connection we develop with pro sports teams.
Yup they are true. We bought a samsung washing machine this last spring that is on the list of potential exploding ones. They haven't issued a recall yet so I start the wash cycle and jump away lol...I heard rumors that those were exploding too!
really what is it? the battery itself, the controller, etc - something it is not telling the system the battery has reach capacity.
Instead of being the grammar police, why don't you go and read the stories?
You don't know the full facts of this story yet and still you clear the user of any blame, yet conveniently when it comes to Apple devices you incur its 'user error'.
What, some isolated incident about an iPad apparently burning down a barn? No real confirmation or definitive proof that it even was the iPad?
The Note 7 began combusting within weeks of shipping. Samsung confirmed the issue (read: "yes, we released phones which bloomin' explode") and did a recall. I don't think you fully grasp just how severe this is.
If Apple devices exploded due to a manufacturing defect and Apple announced a recall, then the Apple brand be irreversibly tarnished.
Challenge accepted.
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Yes and tumble driers doing that is also scary. A reason we don't operate ours while we're sleeping. But this guy even turned his phone off and it still combusted.
I don't understand why you're acting like it's not a big deal just because other faulty appliances have been shown to set on fire too? - All of these products including tumble driers setting on fire is incredibly scary.
It's also worrying that even the fixed phones are now having the same fault and turning on fire. People could get maimed or hurt if this happens in a pocket or worse like on that plane full of people, especially if someone was sleeping when it set on fire in their pocket or luggage.
As for the Samsung brand I think this could easily have happened to anyone. We are packing more and more energy into these batteries and they are becoming super complicated. This phone supports slow and fast charging through its USB-C port and also wireless charging. There are a lot of methods to charge the battery and the circuitry is complicated if you look at the tear downs.
They already traced it to their own batteries, and the replacement devices have batteries from another supplier.
Here's what I have to say about this:
Replacement-Gate
They aren't doing it right.
This would never have happened if Jobs were still alive. If Steve were still alive, the iPhone 7 would have had innovations galore and Samsung wouldn't have tried to push their exploding device out the door quickly to take on the 7.
Replacement-Gate
They aren't doing it right.
This would never have happened if Jobs were still alive. If Steve were still alive, the iPhone 7 would have had innovations galore and Samsung wouldn't have tried to push their exploding device out the door quickly to take on the 7.
Also fast charging. I love how fast Samsung phones charge compared to an Iphone.