'Exploding' Samsung Galaxy S3 Mystery Solved

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CommanderFrank

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Several weeks ago there was an alarming claim from a Galaxy S3 owner that the phone spontaneously exploded. The report quickly spread over the Internet causing some fear of using or buying the Galaxy S3, which greatly concerned Samsung, so the company naturally investigated. The investigation yielded a slightly different cause for the explosion and fire.

Galaxy SIII owners can now rest assured that, unless they nuke their phones, they aren't likely to witness any traumatic explosions from their devices.
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Wouldn't he be qualified for defamation or libel.
 
EDIT: That was a question. Change '.' to '?"
 
So, he or his kid/wife dropped the phone in water and then tried to nuke it to dry it off. Nothing to see here move along. :D
 
They certainly paid him to give the retraction put my guess would be that all he got was a new phone.
 
john doe 182 said:
They certainly paid him to give the retraction put my guess would be that all he got was a new phone.
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Did they also supply him with the weird writing style and stupid ass reason for the failing phone? Paranoia will destroy ya. :D
 
Yeah, there are people that honestly believe the phone exploded and it wasn't just this guy being an idiot? That's a little scary.
 
silent-circuit said:
Yeah, there are people that honestly believe the phone exploded and it wasn't just this guy being an idiot? That's a little scary.
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Shows how many people read the full story...


Samsung contracted Fire Investigations UK (FIUK), an independent third-party organization, to determine the exact cause of the damage inflicted on a GALAXY SIII unit, which had allegedly been affected by heat.
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rdz5008 said:
can't help but wonder how much samsung paid him to say that...
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They didn't pay him. They probably had their attorney send him a polite letter asking to either make a public retraction or to prepare to defend himself in court.
 
tldr: Guy gets phone wet, puts in microwave to dry, it explodes, blames Samsung, and is caught.

The reason why this was taken seriously, however, is because batteries have a tendency to explode when not handled correctly (hence the exploding/flaming laptops).
 
I'm going with my gut feeling: a shill for Apple trying to post FUD on the phone.
 
Magnus said:
So, he or his kid/wife dropped the phone in water and then tried to nuke it to dry it off. Nothing to see here move along. :D
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What he should have done btw would have been to put his phone in a container with uncooked rice and let it sit overnight.
 
Obviously the phone accidentally dialed in to the communications coming from Chi Sagittarii, causing it to explode in his pocket. When the government found out, they sent one of their black helicopters to Samsung and told them to make the issue go away.
 
Ashbringer said:
There's no possibility of conflict of interest here. Nope.:rolleyes:
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That's why Samsung hired a 3rd party to investigate. The owner of the phone also confessed online.

Did you not read the article, or are you an Apple fan?
 
There's just a lot of "mom's basement" kinds of posts flying.

"They don't want you to know, maaaaaaaan."
 
silent-circuit said:
Yeah, there are people that honestly believe the phone exploded and it wasn't just this guy being an idiot? That's a little scary.
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I know someone who at one point had a droid with a battery that had bloated to probably 2-3x the normal thickness as was seemingly still growing. It could not hold a charge, phone had to be plugged in to actually work.

If a battery was ever getting ready to burst, that thing was it.
 
Anyone who has a battery that is swelling and is still trying to use it (and charge it!) is an idiot.

Has nothing to do with droid. They probably screwed that thing up too. Obvious lack of awareness at work.
 
Cool Story Bro time:

My father often goes way out into the middle of nowhere in Alaska, where wireless service is not a possibility, so he has a satellite phone. One time he was camping out there and a flood cut him off from his way back home and he needed to call home for help getting out, but on his way back to his camp, he dropped the phone in the bog swamp and it quit working. He got back to the camp, tied the phone to a stick, and carefully roasted it over a fire for awhile until it started working again.
 
evilsofa said:
Cool Story Bro time:

My father often goes way out into the middle of nowhere in Alaska, where wireless service is not a possibility, so he has a satellite phone. One time he was camping out there and a flood cut him off from his way back home and he needed to call home for help getting out, but on his way back to his camp, he dropped the phone in the bog swamp and it quit working. He got back to the camp, tied the phone to a stick, and carefully roasted it over a fire for awhile until it started working again.
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...seems a little excessive. The roasting has got to be worse than the water, if the phone survived the water at all.

Wouldn't put my lifeline on a stick and hold it over a fire.
 
evilsofa said:
Cool Story Bro time:

My father often goes way out into the middle of nowhere in Alaska, where wireless service is not a possibility, so he has a satellite phone. One time he was camping out there and a flood cut him off from his way back home and he needed to call home for help getting out, but on his way back to his camp, he dropped the phone in the bog swamp and it quit working. He got back to the camp, tied the phone to a stick, and carefully roasted it over a fire for awhile until it started working again.
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It would be even better if he had a pet buffalo that accompanied him on these outtings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Lmkm5EF5E
 
socK said:
I know someone who at one point had a droid with a battery that had bloated to probably 2-3x the normal thickness as was seemingly still growing. It could not hold a charge, phone had to be plugged in to actually work.

If a battery was ever getting ready to burst, that thing was it.
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I remember when the casing on my phone began to bulge, I thought it was the battery about to explode. It was ok though, turns out it was just because of all the pornography I'd crammed into it's memory. :D
 
Oh wow, an end-user that is full of shit? I can't stand people who exaggerate claims of product inferiority when in fact the problem is their own brain.
 
Aluisious said:
...seems a little excessive. The roasting has got to be worse than the water, if the phone survived the water at all.

Wouldn't put my lifeline on a stick and hold it over a fire.
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It could not work while wet, and unless dried out it was a useless brick. As long as it was held high enough above the fire so that it evaporated the water without causing thermal damage to the electronics, this was the wisest course of action.
 
Sly said:
Wouldn't he be qualified for defamation or libel.
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Just as much as those ass hats that stuck what was left of a friends finger in a Wendy's Chilli, almost destroyed the company.

Probably why he made a retracted statement under the watchful eye of his lawyer.
 
riot8ap said:
Oh wow, an end-user that is full of shit? I can't stand people who exaggerate claims of product inferiority when in fact the problem is their own brain.
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He wasn't even the actual owner of the phone, he was the pillock that microwaved it while trying to dry the phone out from water damage.
 
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