Selasa, 20 Desember 2011

Samsung Galaxy S II catches fire in the pocket of its owner

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A variant of the U.S. smartphone Samsung Galaxy S II , nicknamed Skyrocket , burned in the pocket of its owner. The fact was reported by a longtime user of the developers forum XDA-Developers , which created a posting to narrate the events which occurred with a friend, posted photos of the smartphone after the accident.



The Galaxy S II Skyrocket is a model of the famous line of smartphones from Samsung, with support for LTE technology and improvements in hardware, originally produced for the U.S. operator AT & T (see details below). At the forum, famous for serving space experts and developers in Android and Windows Phone, the user Silly22 reported that the smartphone was in the pants pocket of his friend when he "heard a pop, had a burning sensation and removed the device from pocket, feeling the strong smell of burning. " He would have complemented, moreover, that the equipment was functioning normally since the purchase, and that before he "exploded" in his pocket, had already spent time after the last call.

In the photo, the new edition of Galaxy S II is used version sold by Canadian operator Rogers , from which the user is a customer, as can be seen by the SIM card.In another thread in the forum , another user linked the case to a similar event occurred in the original Galaxy S II. For him, a problem in fitting the battery could have caused sparks or battery overcharge.
"The micro-SD card I had inserted into the slot loaded correctly (he even clicked), but still he was a bit out (about 1mm or less). Because of this, the battery has come to fit properly, but contacts were not enough pressure in contact with the body of the phone. Any electrical engineer, so he would know that this can cause sparks and / or battery overcharge, "said U.S. user ghatothkach .

"I was playing with the phone, installing multiple ROMs, and I was lucky enough to see that the battery was heating up so fast, in a period of 10, 15 minutes. When the problem occurred, further investigation showed that the problem was actually the microSD card. So I removed the SD card and he returned to work normally, "he added on the same topic. In the pictures of the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, is perceived distance between the card and battery. Still, the problem related to the battery contacts can be the same.

Model with problems is not the same model sold in the world 

The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket is a recently launched model. He has some differences in hardware, compared to the model sold in Brazil and the rest of the world. In this new edition, it comes with a 4:52 inch screen Super AMOLED (the normal line has 4.27 inches), and Qualcomm processor dual-core 1.5 GHz, also used in the Galaxy S II German operator T-Mobile (Galaxy S II Exynos has a unique dual-core processor with 1.2 GHz clock). In other specifications, it remains the same.The new model went on sale this first week of December, and gained wide public acceptance because of its design in white, alternative to the traditional model, black in color.

It has been increasingly common to see news of devices burned early in its release. TechTudo've reported here in other models that caught fire for no apparent reason .

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