Kb27 Supersonic October 7, 2016 Share October 7, 2016 Samsung might recall the replacement units http://www.todayonline.com/tech/samsung-could-face-second-note-7-recall-us-say-former-safety-officials WASHINGTON — Samsung Electronics could face an unusual second recall of its Note 7 smartphones if one that caught fire aboard an airliner this week is a replacement device as its owner says, two former US safety officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission are investigating Wednesday’s (Oct 5) incident, when a passenger’s phone emitted smoke on a Southwest Airlines plane readying for departure from Louisville, Kentucky. A flight attendant doused it with a fire extinguisher, and the plane was evacuated without injury. “If it’s the fixed phone and it started to smoke in his pocket, I’m going to guess there’ll be another recall,” said Ms Pamela Gilbert, a former executive director of the consumer agency. “That just doesn’t sound right.” Talk about recalling the recalls. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ins1dious Turbocharged October 7, 2016 Share October 7, 2016 Samsung might recall the replacement units http://www.todayonline.com/tech/samsung-could-face-second-note-7-recall-us-say-former-safety-officials Talk about recalling the recalls. It's TOTAL RECALL! But seriously... all this news makes it sound like living in Mars is safer than owning the Note7 I read somewhere that the battery is too big for it's case size... not much tolerance for thermal expansions if any. Results in them getting punctured. No idea if true though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kb27 Supersonic October 7, 2016 Share October 7, 2016 Pressure test done on Note 7 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3825286/Shocking-images-Samsung-Galaxy-Note-7-burst-flames-pressure-applied-battery.html How valid is this test, no one knows. Could putting a Note 7 in your back pocket and sitting down on a chair exerts enough pressure to ... , Who knows ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ins1dious Turbocharged October 7, 2016 Share October 7, 2016 Pressure test done on Note 7 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3825286/Shocking-images-Samsung-Galaxy-Note-7-burst-flames-pressure-applied-battery.html How valid is this test, no one knows. Could putting a Note 7 in your back pocket and sitting down on a chair exerts enough pressure to ... , Who knows ? It says in the test they used a blunt nail without the back cover? Any LiON battery will explode if punctured 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lala81 Hypersonic October 7, 2016 Share October 7, 2016 It says in the test they used a blunt nail without the back cover? Any LiON battery will explode if punctured ð³ I don't understand what this test is for... I feel Samsung should cut their losses and pull the entire line of Note 7's... the quantity isn't that much considering the number of phones they sell. Best this way and concentrate on the Note 8 and preserve some goodwill of that range. Actually it's still just a battery issue. From an engineering perspective should be fixable lah. But yeah more of a pr issue. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nzy Twincharged October 7, 2016 Share October 7, 2016 Pressure test done on Note 7 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3825286/Shocking-images-Samsung-Galaxy-Note-7-burst-flames-pressure-applied-battery.html How valid is this test, no one knows. Could putting a Note 7 in your back pocket and sitting down on a chair exerts enough pressure to ... , Who knows ? Without the back cover. Any lithium battery would catch fire under these circumstances. This test is quite useless. Lol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lala81 Hypersonic October 7, 2016 Share October 7, 2016 Without the back cover. Any lithium battery would catch fire under these circumstances. This test is quite useless. Lol.Lol only a Singaporean lab... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabian Turbocharged October 8, 2016 Share October 8, 2016 My wife has been using her Note 7. No diff between the set before and after. I am also thinking of getting one myself. A lot of Note 7 were sold in SG. Waiting for an exploding one outside USA or one in SG... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ins1dious Turbocharged October 9, 2016 Share October 9, 2016 (edited) Still waiting for widespread issues from outside of the US... but it is happening to replacement Note7's. Here's a second incident of fire on replaced Note7. This is not a one-off any longer. http://kstp.com/news/samsung-replacement-phone-melted-zuis-farmington/4285759/?cat=1 Edited October 9, 2016 by ins1dious Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman888 Moderator October 9, 2016 Share October 9, 2016 Still waiting for widespread issues from outside of the US... but it is happening to replacement Note7's. Here's a second incident of fire on replaced Note7. This is not a one-off any longer. http://kstp.com/news/samsung-replacement-phone-melted-zuis-farmington/4285759/?cat=1 they can write off Note 7 and few billions from their cap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ins1dious Turbocharged October 9, 2016 Share October 9, 2016 they can write off Note 7 and few billions from their cap. Money is easy to make... for a company the size of Samsung. But bad PR and reputation is more difficult to correct. They should just pull this generation of the Note. Longer this stays in the news, the worse off it is for the company. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kb27 Supersonic October 9, 2016 Share October 9, 2016 Money is easy to make... for a company the size of Samsung. But bad PR and reputation is more difficult to correct. They should just pull this generation of the Note. Longer this stays in the news, the worse off it is for the company. Agree, bad reputation is more damaging. They should just removed Note 7 completely. Rename, repackage it as Note 8 whatever. Nobody will remember Note 7 later. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piyopico Supercharged October 9, 2016 Share October 9, 2016 Read a report that says hp bursting into flames has been occurring for many years. Apple has it too. The Note 7 brought this into the open and got so much media attention that everyone started reporting incidents. Unless they dug into past incidents and collate stats over the last few years we dun really know whether it is a new phenomenon or just a trending risks. My only question is why are almost all the incidents arising from the US. Samsung sell 90% of their phones there? Conspiracy theory. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nzy Twincharged October 9, 2016 Share October 9, 2016 Read a report that says hp bursting into flames has been occurring for many years. Apple has it too. The Note 7 brought this into the open and got so much media attention that everyone started reporting incidents. Unless they dug into past incidents and collate stats over the last few years we dun really know whether it is a new phenomenon or just a trending risks. My only question is why are almost all the incidents arising from the US. Samsung sell 90% of their phones there? Conspiracy theory. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kb27 Supersonic October 10, 2016 Share October 10, 2016 Another replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has caught fire, this one in Houston, Texas. Daniel Franks was at lunch with his daughter and wife when their replacement caught fire while sitting on the table, he told The Verge in an interview. It had been replaced at a Best Buy store in late September. Franks said that his eight-year old daughter regularly plays Minecraft on the phone and wondered what could have happened if she was holding it or it was in his pocket or sitting on a nightstand. This is the (1, 2, 3, 4) fifth replacement Note 7 that has caught fire in the US in the past week that we know of. It seems likely that there are more. AT&T has stopped selling the phones entirely, while the US Consumer Product Safety Commission says it is "moving expeditiously" to investigate, though perhaps even that isn’t quickly enough. http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13219878/samsung-galaxy-note-7-replacement-fire-fifth-statement They just keep burning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lala81 Hypersonic October 10, 2016 Share October 10, 2016 Agree, bad reputation is more damaging. They should just removed Note 7 completely. Rename, repackage it as Note 8 whatever. Nobody will remember Note 7 later. Koreans are not the normal kind of stubborn. Not that i dealt with them before, but that's what my father says all the time. He used to deal with them quite a bit in his line of work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vid Hypersonic October 10, 2016 Share October 10, 2016 http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13219878/samsung-galaxy-note-7-replacement-fire-fifth-statement They just keep burning. Samsung has officially stopped Note 7 production Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadX Moderator October 10, 2016 Author Share October 10, 2016 Samsung has officially stopped Note 7 production ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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