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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.
Have you read my blog lately?
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?
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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Bad engineering could never actually happen.
Better head back to your safe space now.
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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.
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
Because touch disease never maimed anyone, and iPhones aren't known to combust??
The Galaxy J5 is over a year old (June 2015). Had the problem been the same as the Note 7 (not S7), it'd have been widespread a looooong time ago. This is just an isolated incident (as it happens occasionally) that's getting larger media attention than usual because it's Samsung.
iPhones aren't known to combust
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http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-i...
I think that you could find reports of any device with l-ion batteries exploding/catching fire.
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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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sounds like a defective battery rather than the phone itself.
Sounds like nothing being defective, except for the brain of the lady who let her 4-year old play with it.
You don't let 4-year old play with lighters or coffee machines, and you don't let them play with Li-Ion battery powered devices, unless they are specifically child proofed.
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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...the smartphone CPU executes a Halt and Catch Fire instruction. Apps available in the google market should be better screened for this serious threat.
You're a god awful Apple shill, anyone who wants to confirm it look at his posting history.
How about the iPhone 4 and its antenna issues then, "Super" Kendall? Touch screen death? You could go on and on. If Apple has "more competent and careful engineering" they certainly aren't showing it...meanwhile the people building iPhone components at Foxconn were so upset with their treatment and shitty wages that they started killing themselves, at which point Apple suggested that nets be installed in locations that were popular jumping points.
Your little pet company has turned into a house of horrors, Kendall. The only way it could be worse is if the cancerous corpse of Steve Jobs put on a turtleneck and started doing WWDC events again. I'm sure you'd be sucking his rotting dick all the way to the end.
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.
How about the iPhone 4 and its antenna issues then, "Super" Kendall? Touch screen death? You could go on and on
Then please do.
1. Antenna issues? Resulted in some dropped calls. Not one iPhone caught fire because of the unfortunate antenna design. But I will give you that that was likely an Engineering failure.
2. Touch screen "death". NOT an Engineering problem. Rather a Contract Manufacturing and/or Component Vendor problem.
Oh, and "Super Kendall" was a type of Motor Oil. The Scare Quotes around "Super" are entirely nonsensical.
And not everyone who has something positive to say about Apple is automatically a "Shill". It just shows how weak you believe your own argument is when you have to resort to ad hominem attacks, rather than facts like I just did.
The Galaxy J5 is over a year old (June 2015). Had the problem been the same as the Note 7 (not S7), it'd have been widespread a looooong time ago. This is just an isolated incident (as it happens occasionally) that's getting larger media attention than usual because it's Samsung.
Perhaps isolated. But not all problems are of the infant mortality type. Don't know if you are familiar with the failing electrolytic frrom around 10 years ago. Seems a capacitor manufacturer left out a vial ingredient, and a lot of computers were hit hard when the electrolytics aged too quickly Apple iMacs and Dell were hit pretty hard with this one. Let's hope is is a one-off.
The way I heard it, it was actually a STOLEN electrolyte formula, and the thieving chemists didn't know that they didn't have the complete formula.
The way I heard it, it was actually a STOLEN electrolyte formula, and the thieving chemists didn't know that they didn't have the complete formula.
Yeah - that's the story I heard as well. I just figured if there were any company shills around, I'd get modded to oblivion, os I left that part out.
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The way I heard it, it was actually a STOLEN electrolyte formula, and the thieving chemists didn't know that they didn't have the complete formula.
Yeah - that's the story I heard as well. I just figured if there were any company shills around, I'd get modded to oblivion, os I left that part out.
But it's easy to spot the Shills: They're the people that are constantly accusing OTHERS of being Shills.... ;-)
The way I heard it, it was actually a STOLEN electrolyte formula, and the thieving chemists didn't know that they didn't have the complete formula.
Yeah - that's the story I heard as well. I just figured if there were any company shills around, I'd get modded to oblivion, os I left that part out.
But it's easy to spot the Shills: They're the people that are constantly accusing OTHERS of being Shills.... ;-)
So you are the one that has been stealing my checks from Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Dell, and every other manucaturer or OS provider?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.