Zack from JerryRig explains why the Note7 battery may explode.

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With all the bad publicity that Samsung has been hit with in regards to the Note 7 battery exploding, I truly hope people aren't taking advantage and getting their 15mins of fame. Whether that S6 Active did legitimately burnt up on its own, you should know if you just bought a brand new phone! This is very careless of the news station to report that a Note 7 burned in flames when in fact it wasn't.
 

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With all the bad publicity that Samsung has been hit with in regards to the Note 7 battery exploding, I truly hope people aren't taking advantage and getting their 15mins of fame. Whether that S6 Active did legitimately burnt up on its own, you should know if you just bought a brand new phone! This is very careless of the news station to report that a Note 7 burned in flames when in fact it wasn't.

Exactly. I'm not denying the recall/and accidents are real, but people have taken advantage of these situations historically in the past, and nothing is stopping them from manufacturing "accidents" to get publicity.
 

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Doesn't look big enough to be the S-Pen silo, does the S6 Active have things on the bottom? A speaker?
The speaker on the S6 Active is on the rear of the phone. There's only a charging port on the bottom.

galaxy-s6-active-usb-port.jpg

If anything, that looks similar to the bottom of my Note7
 

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Re: Another (possible) Note 7 burnt up in Massachusetts

Also if you look at the video they show a charger with a non OEM CABLE attached to it. Was that part of the problem, if that was the charger and cable that was used?
 

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Also if you look at the video they show a charger with a non OEM CABLE attached to it. Was that part of the problem, if that was the charger and cable that was used?

Non-OEM cable
S6 Active case for Note 7

This seems very odd to me. Almost intentional.
 

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I just watched a video on another thread that was closed. They pried the phone out of the Active looking case and it has the S Pen silo very visible.

They had the phone laying next to the case. If it was in a case like that I don't doubt it blew on both sides. It was pretty heavy duty, I'm sure it wasn't expecting to blow from the inside.
I took this screenshot from the video. I see something right there on the right..
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Wait. Anyone noticed that throughout the video, they showed an S6 Active but at the very end, they showed a Note7?
 

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Also if you look at the video they show a charger with a non OEM CABLE attached to it. Was that part of the problem, if that was the charger and cable that was used?

I think that was for dramatic affect. Those colorful charging cables are 5 bucks a pop at the gas station counter. I have one in yellow for my iPod Nano. I doubt that they have them for the USB C yet, but you never know.
 

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Wait. Anyone noticed that throughout the video, they showed an S6 Active but at the very end, they showed a Note7?

That clip of the Note 7 looks really familiar. I'm cruising YouTube as we speak, and hoping I don't eat crow pie lol
 

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Hang on. This is in the middle of the video.
s6active.PNG
And then this was at the end.
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Ok that screenshot is the other Note. Let me get to the point MizWylie saw..
 

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So, Zack from JerryRigEverything (the same guy that made the GG5 scratch video) recently published a video outlining the possible reasons why the battery on some Notes explode.

They range from failure of the voltage chip to metal impurities in the battery itself.

https://youtu.be/_Cd2WIxKRDk

Check it out if you can as there's quite a bit of good info.

Good video. I was about to post it myself. Lol
 

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