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iPhone 4 catches fire while charging
- Thread starter Geckotek
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WTF? Are you serious? You're supposed to sleep with a gun under your pillow, not a freakin' iPhone. What are you going to do if a criminal bursts in, "FREEZE! My iPhone has an app that will destroy you!" Criminal: "Oh, there's an app for that? Should of known."
Your style or lack of it hasn't changed. Is this the phone that your friend camped for a week for?
LOLI do find it scary that Apple has somewhat of a history of making stuff that catches fire...
I had Macintosh Plus computers that caught fire. Apple had problems with the power supplies back in the late 1980's and 1990's with some computers. I also had an original Airport base station that burnt up. Again it was the capacitors in the power supply. In each case I fixed it by replacing the capacitors in the power supplies with better versions. No harm, fortunately.
He probably stuck the USB end directly into a 120VAC socket so it would charge faster!
Ha, that would work, LOL. Here, buy this fast charger for 50 dollars. na, I have a better way. LOL
it looks like the phone has a screen protector on it. (look a the home button)
How come it doesn't look like it's suffered any damage from it. I would have thought the plastic on the screen protector would have shown some sort of signs of melting.
Maybe this is a hoax like some else said. Someone just melted the cable and put char marks on the phone?
Maybe, maybe not. Who knows...
Hey, your right. The screen protecter isn't melted. Thin piece of plastic + fire = melted plastic, the plug melted, so the screen protecter should be melted. I think it might be a hoax. The cable was badly damaged.
Darn, I would have to agree with you on that. i had a Blackberry Bold 9000 that shorted out and I went from having 2 days of battery life to 30 minutes due to the usb mini plug inside the phone. After that, I went with the iPhone 3GS and haven't had a problem with it yet, 7 months so far.
Yea, but did yours have one of the screen protecters on it and did that melt?
This iPhone 4 has a screen protecter on it by the picture. If it was hot enough to melt the plastic on the cable, them the protecter should have seen some damage.
If anyone has an old screen protecter, take a lighter and old it about 1/4 inch away from the protecter and see what happens, post the pics then.
LOL
I do find it scary that Apple has somewhat of a history of making stuff that catches fire...
OMG, ROTFLMAO!
"...stop being defensive..."
We have to be defensive--all the anti-Apple zealots demand it. Anything that shows Apple in a bad light gets blown massively out of proportion--to the point that you'd think anything Apple was a disaster waiting to happen.
We have to be defensive--all the anti-Apple zealots demand it. Anything that shows Apple in a bad light gets blown massively out of proportion--to the point that you'd think anything Apple was a disaster waiting to happen.
I can't believe you believe that.
First off, the system is too low-powered for the antenna to even begin to be part of the problem. The 30-pin connector has been at the bottom of the iPhone and iPod Touch for years now, and more than one has had an issue over the years--usually with either the battery shorting out or something else in the case. Again, they antenna has nothing to do with it.
Now, if you're an electronics engineer or engineering technician like I was, then perhaps you can explain to me why you have this belief.
Looking back at the supplied images, I can think of one other reason why this might have happened--what if the connector was forced in backwards?(upside down, if that's the way you want to look at it.) By forcing the connector, you might feed the charging current into a low-resistance circuit which would very quickly overheat the wires. If so, then the fault could be the user's.
First off, the system is too low-powered for the antenna to even begin to be part of the problem. The 30-pin connector has been at the bottom of the iPhone and iPod Touch for years now, and more than one has had an issue over the years--usually with either the battery shorting out or something else in the case. Again, they antenna has nothing to do with it.
Now, if you're an electronics engineer or engineering technician like I was, then perhaps you can explain to me why you have this belief.
Looking back at the supplied images, I can think of one other reason why this might have happened--what if the connector was forced in backwards?(upside down, if that's the way you want to look at it.) By forcing the connector, you might feed the charging current into a low-resistance circuit which would very quickly overheat the wires. If so, then the fault could be the user's.