have you ever heard of this happening?
my friend has the phone from verizon ( the one that came out before the env but looks just like it) i forget what its called but any way, she claims her phone was off on her dresser not by any heat liquid or anything that could cause any harm. so she brings her phone to school and shes like it melted! now that phone is like solid metal i think and the whole side of it was just like crushed in and melted like someone took a blow torch to it or something. She swears up and down that it was off on her dresser and she did absolutely nothing to it. she said she heard like a buzzing or something in it and the next thing she knew it was all destroyed on the side. when she called verizon they said they had never heard of such a thing and they wouldn...
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The phone by the way is the LG "V" aka VX9800.
The battery probably overheated.
The battery probably overheated.
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really? even if the phone was off? and would that be covered under the man. warrenty?
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It might be. You would have to call LG. I don't know if that's even it, but it seems logical because the LG batteries tend to expand and explode (ala LG TM510)
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gee no wonder they dis continued this phone, over heating batteries? sounds extremely dangerous. im glad i have my nice sony ericsson w810 from cingy. my battery stays nice and cool haha.
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hmmm sounds like a flamer to me. With the phone turned off the battery cant overheat. The 9800 never had any issues with the battery. Take your flamin ass back to gay t&t. 😈
Whats up wireless buddy........hows the treo 650 treating you?
Whats up wireless buddy........hows the treo 650 treating you?
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I wonder if the phone had an aftermarket battery inside the phone. Aftermarket batteries aren't always guaranteed to work with any phone, and if the battery was an aftermarket, and did damage to the phone, it voids the warranty, because it's not an LG battery. I've owned 2 Samsung phones (a650 & a930, my current phone), and I only have the manufacturer's battery inside.
As for Samsung, they get warm on some models, but I never experienced hot to the touch though.
As for Samsung, they get warm on some models, but I never experienced hot to the touch though.
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Well here is a link to a Consumer Product Safety Commission bulletin about the problem Kyocera had in 2004 with cell phone batteries doing exactly what the original poster described. Basically a short circuit and meltdown with possible smoke and fire hazard. I believe that this issue was possible whether the phone was on or not. From what I have read, it appears to have been an internal to the battery short circuit and the battery did not have to even be in the phone for the problem to occur.
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml05/05505.html »
So, I would say yes, this has happened before and I would either push the issue with Verizon or contact the manufacturer assuming you were using an OEM battery and not some aftermarket one....
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http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml05/05505.html »
So, I would say yes, this has happened before and I would either push the issue with Verizon or contact the manufacturer assuming you were using an OEM battery and not some aftermarket one....
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Any device that uses L-Ion batteries is subject to a manufacturer issue with expanding and heating batteries. It's the nature of the mechanism. and could possibly be a one time or a design flaw. That wasn't the point.
I was being specific to her model.
I was being specific to her model.
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I think there is alot of air roaming around your friends dome piece. Phones dont just self destruct like that. Tell her to lay off the crack pipe.
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