Samsung's Quick Fix for Galaxy Note 7 Is No Full Recharge

CIO Magazin ^ | Posted September 13, 2016 | By Youkyung Lee.

[edhawk]

This is for South Korea only FYI

[Jonty30]

The LG V.20 seems interesting.

[Swordmaker]

I own the Note 7. Love the device, I plan on swapping it out when the replacements arrive. I will not switch to another phone, IMHO there is no other device out there that has the features i want.

You forgot several benefits:

• Handy fire starter
  
• Failure of Samsung Galaxy S7 Active's vaunted "Water Resistance" in multiple tests by Consumers Reports tests after huge TV advertising campaign highlighting "waterproof" feature.
• Source of multiple law suits for personal injury and property damage
• Discovery of KNOX passwords in unencrypted text file in easily locatable Library.

Remember this very thing happened to Apple two years ago.

Uh, no, it did not. Apple has never had to recall any iPhones.

If you are referring to "bendgate," there were exactly NINE iPhone 6 pluses returned to Apple because they were bent. . . and those were obviously bent deliberately by their owners trying to duplicate the YouTube demonstration. Apple replaced them. Consumers Reports found it took over 140 pounds of force to bend the iPhone 6 plus, but only 120 pounds of force to bend the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and 140 pounds to break it beyond usability, and 95 pounds of force to bend the LG phablet. Oops!

"Bendgate" was a total construct of FUD press hysteria.

The only time Apple ever recalled batteries was for Apple laptops when Sony made batteries started expanding and overheating back in the late 1990s. Apple recalled 32,000 batteries and replaced them when six of those Sony batteries failed. It was the star of the headlines despite over 360,000 Sony made batteries being recalled for the same problems for HP and IBM laptops in the same quarter. Somehow that did NOT make headlines but the 32,000 Apple battery recall did make headlines. How come?

[Swordmaker]

GM just made a recall. I don’t see people running over each other to go to their nearest GM Dealership

Did GM cars catch on fire and burn down houses and garages? Did GM recall the cars and completely have to replace them with new ones? That's different kettle of fish, Shaz.

[Swordmaker]

Hey,Swordmaker...the subject of the day is Hillary's health.Do you even know who Hillary is?

Hey, Gay State Conservative, I know who Hillary is. You'll find multiple comments from me on threads about Hillary's poor health. This is just another one of your poor efforts at an ad hominem attacks on me. Not even a good try.

I am also concerned with my fellow Freeper's health. A guy with one of these Samsung phones in his breast pocket wound up with third degree burns when it burst into flames. . . and it wasn't being charged at the time.

[Swordmaker]

This is for South Korea only FYI

Uh, no, it isn't. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has been sold in the USA, too. An estimated 800,000 or so in this country. . . Samsung is recalling 2.5 million of these phones world wide because more and more of them are being reported exploding and/or catching fire while being charged.

The announcement was just released first in South Korea because that is where Samsung is headquartered and most likely where they sold the most of this model. Samsung decided against going through the US' Consumer Product Safety Commission for the recall as required by law, instead relying on trying to contact buyers through news and carriers to recall them.

[Pollard]

Guess you sure don’t want to be using the phone when it hits the magic exploding point of charge, eh?

[ThunderSleeps]

A quick, temporary fix for Note 7 - ANDROID PING!
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My take on it: good news/bad news. The good news is it lets people keep using their Note 7s until they can get them swapped for a fixed version. The bad news is, loss of battery capacity. I guess being able to use it some is better than none at all or risking catastrophic loss.

[aimhigh]

This would have been so much easier on Samsung if they had made the Note 7 batteries replaceable.