When will they flip the kill switch off!

[From A Buick 8]

Re: Do we have to return them?

i am keeping mine, will only return it if they somehow brick it.

 

[wirelessgal]

Re: Do we have to return them?

Erm because it's a Note 7? What's with the obsession of "security updates" anyway? The reason I still run Windows 7 on my PC is so I don't blindly allow intrusive telemetry Windows 10 updates. So if the phone works, why the needed for updates?

If the Note 7 wasn't running on Marshmallow then I might say keep it if you want to as long as you're happy it's stuck on MM. There are still too many issues with MM. You're not going to get those updates. You probably won't get app updates if it applies to a different version of MM.
And I never said anything about security updates, I was referring to updates in general. Plus I'm still running Windows 7 on my PC and still get updates. Computers are different from Smartphones.

It's your money. Do whatever you want with it. I was just trying to help.

 

[avalvo]

Re: Do we have to return them?

I'm keeping both of mine. No updates...ha. That is a good thing. I own both of these for free, no downside here and it works great. As far as I'm concerned this is a win win.

 

[Laura Crusader]

Make Note 7 great again..

 

[seangprice]

Re: Do we have to return them?

NO, not confirmed however by Samsung terminating productions and sales and US carriers halting sales permanantly this would leave most of us to believe that the N7 has reached it EOL, End Of Life. If I were a betting man no carrier is going to update their specific device releases base on what Samsung has said.

 

[Jude526]

I love the brand .

 

[sandra_17]

Still waiting to see something directly from Samsung stating that they will no longer be producing the N7. See lots of links to regurgitated, speculative news articles, with info obtained from anonymous sources, etc. So far all I've seen from Samsung the past couple of days (i.e., asking carriers to stop sales/exchanges during the investigation) hasn't changed. It's not stated that they've stopped, or even paused production.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...sung.com%2Fus%2Fnote7recall%2F&token=9Q6goUlZ

https://news.samsung.com/global/sam...note7-while-further-investigation-takes-place

 

[maf113]

Just because the Note 5 took less than a year does not mean the Note 7 was not rushed. They clearly missed something in their testing. Lithium-Ion is dangerous stuff. A new battery design needs a lot of real world tests. I agree with the others, it the problem is not that it was rushed then there are other major issues with Samsung's testing.

The Note 7 was rushed to market by about 1 week. That is what was reported before it was released. I do not think 1 more week would have made a lot of difference since these things can take a year or more from design to product on.
Further the small percentage of failures would have required testing tens of thousands of phones to find even one failure.
Samsung did the right thing. 1st they recalled ALL the phones. Once replacements started to fail, true failures or not, the canceled the phone and refunded everyone.
Look at Toyota. They are recalling 400,000 Prius cars because an emergency brake cable failure has been responsible for several crashes, injuries, and deaths. That failure rate is far greater than the Note 7, and as far as I know, no one has been killed by the Note 7. Yet these cars will be on the road once repaired.
The thing is what does a company do when a product fails? That is more important to me. Am I happy the Note 7 is off the market, of course not. But I have not lost faith with Samsung. I will use my Note 5 until either the S8 or a Note 8 or whatever they call it, comes out.

 

[nuangel2]

For now I am keeping my note7 love this phone nothing else interests me.if have to I will go back to my note4 .until note8 or something else interests me.

 

[Fobbers]

Make Note 7 great again..

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Haha
Burned on the opposite side too.

 

[Fobbers]

I spoke to a Sprint CSR in the store. They notified me that the trade in for now is voluntary. But you can trade in for any smart phone they have. I will wait till the V20 comes out then trade it in for that since they phased out the N5.

 

[From A Buick 8]

For now I am keeping my note7 love this phone nothing else interests me.if have to I will go back to my note4 .until note8 or something else interests me.

same here, going to keep mine as long as i can. i will use my old 5s if they turn my off my note 7. i will wait for next year i guess.

 

[oldskoolstyle70]

Just want to chime in. We all love this phone. But in the end, it's a phone. I know how they become more of a personal expression and have become a way of life, but it's still just a phone. The carrier's want nothing to do with it. Samsung has filed to halt production of it. We all know it's basically an unsupported piece of tech. I'll do my search for another phone and be okay with whatever it is I choose. For me, the means do not justify the ends. Why keep a phone that, regardless of how it's been performing will always have me thinking in the back of my mind if it will fail? To keep something that I would need to babysit is more than I signed up for when I picked this up. It's Russian roulette and I have no clue how many chambers are truly empty.

 

[redsman55]

Like many of you, this has been unbelievably frustrating. Thermal runaway issues as-side (maybe), this is an amazing phone. In my humble opinion, it is the best phone on the market. But it is still a phone and I will deal with it and move on. I am an EE and have dealt with root cause analysis more than once in my 30+ year career and I can tell you that doing it correctly takes time. I can only assume the Samsung engineers are doing that, but not only for this product, but for future products down the road. Is it a design problem with the phone? Is it a problem with the supply chain (batteries, for example)? Or is it a problem with their process? Will we, the customers, ever know the final finding? Am I letting Samsung off the hook on this? ABSOLUTELY not!! As far as the conspiracy theories that I have read on this thread, ones that say that the workers somehow "sabotaged" the batteries. When it come to such things, I usually fall back on an English Franciscan friar, William of Ockham, and his famous razor.

 

[oldtimefighter]

Re: Worst case scenario

Well thats unfortunate.
I had no plans to turn my n7 in.

Why not? You do realize this phone will get zero updates and will have zero value...right? Don't be stupid and return your Note7 or exchange it...

 

[sandra_17]

.... It's Russian roulette and I have no clue how many chambers are truly empty.

Maybe, but there's literally millions of chambers.

 

[jsgiv]

Re: Do we have to return them?

I was actually thinking about holding on to it for at least two years anyway. I know resale value will be non-existent but I can only hope that it receives the Nougat upgrade, however unlikely.

If you want to reply to call me an *****, just please refrain. Any constructive responses are more than welcome. I know there have been a lot reports but with at least 2 million of these phones being used, the percentage of incidents is still small.

I honestly don't want the S7 Edge. As similar as it is (it's honestly missing quite a bit IMO), it feels like a serious step back. The Pixel XL renders my 256 GB SD card useless, even though I'm hearing it performs amazingly well. It also doesn't have wireless charging and I'd have to get the 128 GB version (more $) I had a V10 but the V20 really doesn't seem like it would make me happy after owning the Note 7. Maybe I will feel differently when I hold it in my hand.

I looked and tested out the V20 while waiting to return mine... its actually a little too large for my taste and it felt somewhat cheaply made, especially considering the premium price they're demanding for it... as a pro - it was a bit smoother running overall compared to the N7.

The S7E I had as a loaner was "ok" but not great ... add to this I've lost respect for Samsung and their handling of this whole process... had they corrected this the first pass... I'd be extremely happy, now they have to *earn* my business back...

That leaves the older OP3 or new Pixel (XL) as remaining options...

I decided to actually go with a smaller form factor (one of the key reasons I originally bought the N7) and ordered a Pixel. As noted - max is 128 gb and I rarely have more than a few gb of photos and I stream music and play a few light games anyway. To that end I went with the 32gb option. What's ironic is that I received the 256gb promo sd card today - which I'll just probably sell on eBay..

The key reason for the pixel is the new software features and consistent updates... hopefully Google will make headway here like Apple and force carriers to stop with the bloat ware...

As for keeping the N7 - I wouldn't expect any of these to stay functioning for long... I'd expect that an official recall is announced soon, along with full ban on public transportation systems in the near future... the one key way to enforce this will be IMEI blocking by the carriers... we've already seen updates gimping software on the device... it won't be long before we see an update either forcing the device to shut down, or limiting the charge ability to say 1% to make the device unusable...

 

[jsgiv]

Still waiting to see something directly from Samsung stating that they will no longer be producing the N7. See lots of links to regurgitated, speculative news articles, with info obtained from anonymous sources, etc. So far all I've seen from Samsung the past couple of days (i.e., asking carriers to stop sales/exchanges during the investigation) hasn't changed. It's not stated that they've stopped, or even paused production.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...sung.com%2Fus%2Fnote7recall%2F&token=hDPlap9E

https://news.samsung.com/global/sam...note7-while-further-investigation-takes-place

Read this:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...%2Fnote7recall%2F%3Fcid%3Dppc-&token=7vx0nP6s

You'll note the consistent response here is "If you own a Galaxy Note7, you should power it down and contact your place of purchase to take advantage of the remedies available, including a full refund."

The only "remedies" here are full refund or exchange at your carrier for an alternative device.

They have shut down production, and are probably investigating root cause of the reported issues. I doubt seriously that Samsung would risk even further damage to their brand at this point and rush the device back to market this year. I'd expect that they are actually reviewing details of the impacted devices and reviewing heir production lines as well. If the new S8 was going to use the same production processes learned from the N7 - then they may even need to pause/hold ramp up before releasing the S8...

Can you imagine what would happen if even *one* S8 explodes like the N7 after release? Samsung would effectively lose everything at that point... they have to be very careful here....

 

[ultravisitor]

You'll note the consistent response here is "If you own a Galaxy Note7, you should power it down and contact your place of purchase to take advantage of the remedies available, including a full refund."

I think people are waiting for some proclamation from Samsung that they have discontinued the Note 7 entirely, which I doubt is going to happen anytime soon. Samsung is probably going to try to keep quiet as long as possible about this in hopes that it drops from headlines and the general public doesn't pay much attention to it. When it seems that people have moved on, then they'll quietly issue a small press release or announcement saying the Note 7 is over, and it won't get as much attention because the media and public's attention is focused on another news item.

 

[sandra_17]

Read this:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...%2Fnote7recall%2F%3Fcid%3Dppc-&token=K_zxzd0u.....

I did read this, it's why I posted the link above.

Yes, I read the recommendations/instructions. What I said is that nowhere in either link I posted does it state production has been halted, let alone permanently stopped. That has all been from media's unnamed and anonymous sources.

Yes, they need to tell owners to exchange/refund during the investigation - can't assume everyone has a backup, and obviously can't expect those who do not, to have no phone.

My other peeve is that none of the owners of replaced phones who have had fires, etc., have turned over their phones to Samsung. CPSC had to subpoena one of them. After all of this time, which of that gentleman's phones actually burned is suspect as far as I'm concerned. I prefer to wait on results of the investigation to proceed, obviously, unless they are actually recalled first.