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Note 7 spontaneous combustion - Discussion of possible explanations

Hmm. *Irregularly sized batteries*. So, if your battery was one of the ones that was physically too large for the space inside yout Note 7 that it was installed in, it quickly became squeezed too hard, like in a matter of days, and short circuited. If your battery wasn't over sized, it hasn't been impinged and hasn't short circuited. So huh. Do you figure Samsung stampeded a couple of million people into returning Note 7's that had nothing wrong with them? Mine is still working great :)
 
johnpjackson said:
Do you figure Samsung stampeded a couple of million people into returning Note 7's that had nothing wrong with them?
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Probably, but their problem is the only way to find out (if this was indeed the issue) is to open them up, and they are not user-serviceable. I'm sure their risk/liability study told them the best course of action was to issue the mandatory recall and take the PR hit rather than set up some type of inspection program and hope nobody else had a fire.

Let's wait and see what they say. There's already been far too much speculation. At this point, it's all academic anyway as all the Note 7's still out there are pretty much orphaned.
 
Based on what Samsung has now said, I think that if any of these battery problems was going to cause a meltdown, it would have done it already in the batteries they occurred in. I'm still keeping mine! :)
 
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