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Dont Update Your GALAXY NOTE 7 on December 13-15 of 2016! (Important For Note 7 Owners)

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Today Samsung Announced a new update that will have the following changes:

The update includes:

• Bricking the device (forcing owners to send back for refund)

Now this is bit of an issue for those who still owns this type of device, i dont own one, but dont be tempted to update unless some one whos brave enough to check if the update will actually brick the device.

Remember Samsung is only doing this for safety pre-cautions and prevent anymore disasters from happening to you or others around you, though only 100 Note 7's combusted out of a million made thats still a big number, some carriers like Verizon refuses to send the update because they stated they dont want customers to not be able to use their phone and blame them for what happened, so pearents if your giving your child a Note 7/this year etc be sure if they update it, it isnt their fault.
 
It's kind of irresponsible to encourage someone not to take an OTA that limits charging and other functionality of a device that they want you to send back and has been globally recalled due to potential combustion problems.

As an aside, as small as the risks are, Samsung recalled the device as a safety precaution so giving one to your child as an Xmas present? Sheesh....
 
El Presidente said:
It's kind of irresponsible to encourage someone not to take an OTA that limits charging and other functionality of a device that they want you to send back and has been globally recalled due to potential combustion problems.

As an aside, as small as the risks are, Samsung recalled the device as a safety precaution so giving one to your child as an Xmas present? Sheesh....
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If safety was the true issue, why do they very conspicuously continue to designate this as a 'voluntary' recall? That's a complete contradiction. There's a couple of hundred thousand Note 7's still in use. Where's all, or any, reports of more of them shorting and melting?
 
johnpjackson said:
If safety was the true issue, why do they very conspicuously continue to designate this as a 'voluntary' recall? That's a complete contradiction. There's a couple of hundred thousand Note 7's still in use. Where's all, or any, reports of more of them shorting and melting?
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Compulsary or not, they are doing pretty much all they can to make folk turn in their devices, debilitating updates, stopping it working on certain networks etc.

You have to take it at face value, Samsung says there's a safety issue, there's a safety issue.

N7's burning is no longer news and the number of combustions was a pretty small percentage anyway and that was with a few million out in the wild. If there are only 7% of those remaining, that's going to decrease exponentially.

That being said, the risk is still there.
 
At this point it's quite puzzling why there still those who refuse to give up their Note 7s, even more odd that others encourage those stragglers to do so as in this thread's topic.

So here's a recent recall notice on tainted chicken products, anyone want to actually make a recommendation to others to just ignore the warning and have the named product for their dinner tonight?:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/porta...archive/archive/2016/recall-115-2016-expanded
Odds are if you prepare it correctly you'll be fine but if not, oh well.
 
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