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Samsung Galaxy J5 Catches Fire and Explodes in France, Says AP (popularmechanics.com)
A Samsung phone user in France says her Galaxy J5 smartphone caught fire and exploded. The model is different from the Galaxy Note 7 that has been recalled worldwide. From a report on Associated Press: Lamya Bouyirdane told The Associated Press that on Sunday she noticed the phone was very hot after she asked her four-year-old son to pass it over. She said she threw the phone away when she realized it had "swollen up" and smoke was coming out. The phone then caught fire and the back of the handset blew off. Her partner quickly extinguished it.
Sometimes those things just blow.
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They announce you cannot take any note 7s on the plane. Best advertising ever! Samsung is just tryingbto break into the ISIS market.
Of battery fires on different smartphone brands, as a percentage of units sold?
Pretty sure the odd one of any kind ends up with a smoking Li-ion battery.
Is Samsung being unfairly further beat up here because of the laser of media attention on it now?
What do the objective facts say.
I'm genuinely interested cause have a Note 5 in my pocket right now.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
It's very interesting how the media never stops reporting about when phones from a Korean manufacturer like Samsung explode, yet they don't say much about touch disease and exploding iPhones. It sure looks like there's some racism against Koreans.
sounds like a defective battery rather than the phone itself.
The only relevant stat is how frequently a given model does, and if so, what conditions the phone was subjected to when it occurred. A one-off incident is unfortunate but certainly within the realm of possibility (enter any phone here).
Bye!
She was obviously holding it wrong.
The problem is that she had just been handed it from her son, who probably overtaxed the battery by playing too many games. These are not meant to be devices that are "full-on" 24/7, any more than a laptop is now a "workstation" -- bad things happen when components spec'ed for 4-hr day duty cycle are used for 12 to 18 hours per day and the battery has to be recharged 6 times per day.
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this sounds like a smear campaign
Bad engineering could never actually happen.
Better head back to your safe space now.
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Now we see the denials that there is any problem at all, and that all lithium batteries are dangerous
Next up will be the repeat of the S7 saga. Popcorn time! Gonna be heads asploding in here!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
We need removal battery in phones and not this must be super thin thing that is going on today
Either way, it's a chance to get the latest model! Yeehaaa!
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I am no Samsung lover, but sorry, that article is BS.
Insinuating that the model is "compromised" because of one freak accident and no other information (such as whether the phone had original battery or has been charged using original charger vs. some cheap fake Chinese special before) it is just sensationalism. There are millions of possible reasons why that could have happened and none related to a manufacturing fault.
I am in France and cheap and unsafe chargers are ubiquitious here, carried even by "serious" stores like Fnac or Boulanger. Normal person has no chance to know what they are buying. So it is well possible that the phone has been charged by a 3rdparty charger before (most people have several chargers at home for the various gizmos these days) and then the battery blew up a bit later.
Or the kid could have dropped the phone, triggering the runaway (shouldn't happen, but not completely impossible).
If all of these problems did turn out to be software related. Too much bloatware? And they had to destroy all of that awesome hardware.
don't talk on the phone to me or my wife's son ever again
My trusty Galaxy S3 has been through a number of batteries over its lifetime. I suspect that Samsung felt they were being clever by making replacement batteries hard to get -- most battery retailers will say that the battery has been discontinued by the vendor. I found this to be not true but they are expensive and one has to dig through the Samsung layers to get to folks who will admit that they can provide fresh factory batteries.
That being said, every 'genuine replacement' battery I have bought through the major retailers have been counterfeit. Oh, they have the right markings on them to be sure. But none of the fakes bothered to include the near field antenna that Samsung built into the side of the battery.And none of them have the current limiting circuitry in the battery to prevent over charging (death to Li-ion cells). And they all swell over time, no doubt preparing to fail in a more conspicuous way. Like corruption in politics, I am sure that all the parties are just fine with this... it is just the consumer who is getting the shaft.
Personally, I think cell phone batteries should be standardized and replaceable. I am sure the vendors will wring their hands over this... but I suspect that ploy is nothing more than a cheap way to force people to replace their 'smart' phones. We would get used to the idea... like the AA and AAA cells that rule our gadget life.
Battery fires are chemical fires, they don't require oxygen thus can't be extinguished in the typical sense. Maybe it was submerged in water... which would cool it to stop the reaction... but it would be blazing hot and smoking thick white smoke
This is just God's way of telling Lamya to get to church and accept Jesus Christ as her personal savior. God works in mysterious ways.
All I can say is that it isn't difficult to find article about iphone fire either : e.g. https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32...
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Refugee neighborhoods will snap these up. Still legal to carry everywhere, yet lethal when they feel mildly offended about something.
Ah, so she's one of them 'libyan' chicks, eh? Let's see some pictures of them doing it. heh heh...
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This doesn't encourage me :(
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Create an explosives division.
How do you "quickly" put out a battery fire?
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Samsung didn't issue a recall for many weeks until forced to.
Apple has not issued general recalls because they do not have life-threatening errors that Samsung had, since Apple has more competent and careful engineering and Samsung is over-reaching trying to keep pace.
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...the smartphone CPU executes a Halt and Catch Fire instruction. Apps available in the google market should be better screened for this serious threat.
Allahu akbar!
I prefer removable-battery models since then I can do a swap while travelling etc, however one of the possibilities with these is also that users may install poor-quality 3rd-party batteries. Before the recent Note7 debacle, a lot of cases where phones went up in smoke was due to crappy batteries bought online from China. Not word yet what the case is here, but just food for thought.
I'm going to start a company that analyzes risk potential through temperature, humidity, hardware internals, charging equipment and, of course, batteries... Every single battery in existence. Everything tested will go through a battery (heh) of abuse and destructive real-world scenarios.
I'll form a government-like entity (like the BBB) that all manufacturers will have to put my company's "safe" logo on in order to prevent .01% of their lost sales per year. I'll charge $7,800 per analysis and $7,900 for "certification with with allowance of logo usage" per each test of every relevant component/device/whatever can have a logo put on it.
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