Note 7: after all, the batteries were even responsible for the … – Exame Informática

Samsung will reveal on the 23rd of January the official findings on the reasons that led some Galaxy Note 7 incendiarem, but to Reuters cites sources close to the next that the fault was the same of the batteries. The south Korean manufacturer will also take advantage of the disclosure of the official report to show to consumers the measures it is adopting to incidents of gender are not repeated with future Galaxy S8 or with other devices.

it is recalled that, when emerged the first fire with the Note 7, the Samsung has moved forward with an initial collection of 2.5 million terminals. At the time, the brand thought that the problem was in the batteries manufactured by its subsidiary Samsung SDI, so I thought all that had been made by the ATL were in good condition. However, the mobile phones that came to replace the collected also gave problems, which forced the brand to decide to withdraw completely the phablet market.

Before this, there arose the possibility of the problem being, after all, related to the software or other hardware components. According to the Engadget, Samsung has put hundreds of engineers trying to figure out the root of the problem and appeared to have come to the conclusion that the reason lay in the fact that the battery be too big for a chassis so compact.

Samsung could now replicate the fire during the tests and not detected failures in the hardware or software. However, it is important to highlight that it still lacks official confirmation of the fact that the blame be solely and exclusively of the battery – is that, as mentioned before, the batteries that were being used in the Note 7 were from different manufacturers, so that the problem would have to be cross-sectional.