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This just in: car just caught fire on the highway.
It's called a defective. It happens sometimes.
It's called a defective. It happens sometimes.
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since no one else cares to try and put any intelligent effort into surmising the reason for this, I'll be the first to delete the little fruity logo from the equation.
First, the USB port doesnt have enough amperage to do this, and I highly doubt the 2amps provided would cause this. My theory is this: it was being charged in a car and came in contact with a hot power source somehow, and was grounding to the vehicle ground via the charging cable, thus not blowing any fuses nor destroying the car charger as they are fused via the positive.
Thats the only thing I can think of that would cause that kind of heat without killing the power source.
First, the USB port doesnt have enough amperage to do this, and I highly doubt the 2amps provided would cause this. My theory is this: it was being charged in a car and came in contact with a hot power source somehow, and was grounding to the vehicle ground via the charging cable, thus not blowing any fuses nor destroying the car charger as they are fused via the positive.
Thats the only thing I can think of that would cause that kind of heat without killing the power source.
The iPhone cables are such a piece of low quality crap that I can't believe the fact!
It's obviously something typical for Apples products. I think the Mac Mini has that kind of crappy cables too.
I've never had a cheap USB cable to fail me but I've seen the broken iPhone cable. It sucked dude!
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It's obviously something typical for Apples products. I think the Mac Mini has that kind of crappy cables too.
I've never had a cheap USB cable to fail me but I've seen the broken iPhone cable. It sucked dude!
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[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]The iPhone cables are such a piece of low quality crap that I can't believe the fact!It's obviously something typical for Apples products. I think the Mac Mini has that kind of crappy cables too.I've never had a cheap USB cable to fail me but I've seen the broken iPhone cable. It sucked dude![/citation]
That All depends how the short happen. Keep in mind,even though usb max ouput is 1A but usually around 500mA is the standard for usb devices,the battery on the phone can play a contributing factor too. It could of shorted in a way that it also shorted the battery, obviously the protection circuit did not do its job. This would not happen if it did, go figure.
When I charge my phone the ports does get warm close to getting hot but nothing major like this.
That All depends how the short happen. Keep in mind,even though usb max ouput is 1A but usually around 500mA is the standard for usb devices,the battery on the phone can play a contributing factor too. It could of shorted in a way that it also shorted the battery, obviously the protection circuit did not do its job. This would not happen if it did, go figure.
When I charge my phone the ports does get warm close to getting hot but nothing major like this.
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[citation][nom]thekurrgan[/nom]since no one else cares to try and put any intelligent effort into surmising the reason for this, I'll be the first to delete the little fruity logo from the equation.First, the USB port doesnt have enough amperage to do this, and I highly doubt the 2amps provided would cause this. My theory is this: it was being charged in a car and came in contact with a hot power source somehow, and was grounding to the vehicle ground via the charging cable, thus not blowing any fuses nor destroying the car charger as they are fused via the positive.Thats the only thing I can think of that would cause that kind of heat without killing the power source.[/citation]
I'm with you on this one but I don't see it being a car charger, because either the fuse protecting the cigarette lighter socket in the vehicle would blow before the thing lit on fire and I don't even think a small USB cable could carry enough current to do this in the first place. Maybe if this was a wall charger, if the switch mode rectifiers in the supply shorted it could send wall current up the cable, determinately a fire risk.
And about the antenna shorting comment; believe me if that phone puts out enough RF power to burn a cable end that shorts to it; burnt connectors would be the least of your worries.
I'm with you on this one but I don't see it being a car charger, because either the fuse protecting the cigarette lighter socket in the vehicle would blow before the thing lit on fire and I don't even think a small USB cable could carry enough current to do this in the first place. Maybe if this was a wall charger, if the switch mode rectifiers in the supply shorted it could send wall current up the cable, determinately a fire risk.
And about the antenna shorting comment; believe me if that phone puts out enough RF power to burn a cable end that shorts to it; burnt connectors would be the least of your worries.
Disregard Zingam quote was not for you my bad
[citation][nom]thekurrgan[/nom]since no one else cares to try and put any intelligent effort into surmising the reason for this, I'll be the first to delete the little fruity logo from the equation.First, the USB port doesnt have enough amperage to do this, and I highly doubt the 2amps provided would cause this. My theory is this: it was being charged in a car and came in contact with a hot power source somehow, and was grounding to the vehicle ground via the charging cable, thus not blowing any fuses nor destroying the car charger as they are fused via the positive.Thats the only thing I can think of that would cause that kind of heat without killing the power source.[/citation]
That All depends how the short happen. Keep in mind,even though usb max ouput is 1A but usually around 500mA is the standard for usb devices,the battery on the phone can play a contributing factor too. It could of shorted in a way that it also shorted the battery, obviously the protection circuit did not do its job. This would not happen if it did, go figure.
When I charge my phone the ports does get warm close to getting hot but nothing major like this.
[citation][nom]thekurrgan[/nom]since no one else cares to try and put any intelligent effort into surmising the reason for this, I'll be the first to delete the little fruity logo from the equation.First, the USB port doesnt have enough amperage to do this, and I highly doubt the 2amps provided would cause this. My theory is this: it was being charged in a car and came in contact with a hot power source somehow, and was grounding to the vehicle ground via the charging cable, thus not blowing any fuses nor destroying the car charger as they are fused via the positive.Thats the only thing I can think of that would cause that kind of heat without killing the power source.[/citation]
That All depends how the short happen. Keep in mind,even though usb max ouput is 1A but usually around 500mA is the standard for usb devices,the battery on the phone can play a contributing factor too. It could of shorted in a way that it also shorted the battery, obviously the protection circuit did not do its job. This would not happen if it did, go figure.
When I charge my phone the ports does get warm close to getting hot but nothing major like this.
Another possibility maybe the current went where it should not go. In this scenario, doe not take couple of 100mA to get transistors burning red hot if current is flowing in the wrong way and 500mA is more than enough to do it in this situation.
Also you talking about a phone that draws quite a power to operate if that energy get shorted it can end up burning like this.
Then you have Li-Ion battery around 3.7v 4.2v (fully charged) capable of delivering quite a current. Obviously something went wrong.
Also you talking about a phone that draws quite a power to operate if that energy get shorted it can end up burning like this.
Then you have Li-Ion battery around 3.7v 4.2v (fully charged) capable of delivering quite a current. Obviously something went wrong.
uhm..wasn't thing already discusssed with a nice youtube video to boot back before the iphone launched about the hazards of quickly charging lithium ion polymer batteries? the first video is the same one toms used back then before launch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DcpANRFrI4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3o_2mwRPdw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DcpANRFrI4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3o_2mwRPdw
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This is obviously the a result of the software update - Apple have configured the software to stress and overheat some internal component to discourage people from holding it 'incorrectly'.
Fail.
Fail.
[citation][nom]lashton[/nom]and people still by this shit, the nexus doesn't hurt people[/citation]
It's definitely possible that someone got burnt by an overheating Nexus or other Android smartphone. I doubt every incident makes it to the news.
Also the phones are only designed by Apple, not manufactured by them. Clearly there's nothing wrong with the design that would cause the phones to explode or catch fire, or all of them would do that. It looks like a manufacturing defect on this one phone out of millions manufactured. The same could happen to any phone whether the logo on the back says Google, Samsung or HTC.
It's definitely possible that someone got burnt by an overheating Nexus or other Android smartphone. I doubt every incident makes it to the news.
Also the phones are only designed by Apple, not manufactured by them. Clearly there's nothing wrong with the design that would cause the phones to explode or catch fire, or all of them would do that. It looks like a manufacturing defect on this one phone out of millions manufactured. The same could happen to any phone whether the logo on the back says Google, Samsung or HTC.
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