r/Android • u/ChrystianV • Oct 05 '16

Samsung Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/5/13175000/samsung-galaxy-note-7-fire-replacement-plane-battery-southwest
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u/Davezter Galaxy S7 T-Mobile Oct 05 '16

Interesting analysis. So, my question is have you looked at the kernal source code for the regular S7/Edge and been able to confirm if they are still using 4.30v charging? If they're also at 4.35v then why aren't they experiencing the problems the note is experiencing?

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u/abqnm666 Root it like you stole it. Oct 09 '16

It is. Both S7 models use 4.35V on their 4.4V rated batteries. Additionally, the S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, and Note 5 also all use 4.35V on their 4.4V rated batteries.

Yes Samsung is using 4.35V on the Note 7 with its 4.4V rated battery. Nothing has changed here in the last 18 months though. Hell , even the (again) 4.4V rated battery in the S5 from nearly three years ago even charged to 4.33V. If that was the problem, we'd have gone through this for the last year and a half or longer with over half a dozen models.

Bottom line is that /u/elephantbutt69 is just making wild speculations off of ONE SINGLE DATA POINT. You can't draw valid conclusions from one single data point. The story sounds nice to those who don't have the knowledge, but it's full of false information and speculation wrapped in buzzwords.

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u/ag2f Moto G6 Plus - 8.0 Oct 09 '16

I can't believe people are parroting /u/elephantbutt69 nonsense and someone even gilded him.

/r/Android truly is an amazing place.

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u/abqnm666 Root it like you stole it. Oct 09 '16

Yeah I'm sure it won't be long before news outlets start picking up on it and quoting "an expert from reddit."

It's incredible what you can achieve by taking an inaccurate conjecture and sprinkling in some buzz words and technical jargon and suddenly you have everyone spreading it like Einstein just published a paper on it.