Touch Pro Combusted!!

[Mylt1]

Originally Posted by journeyman73

Two incidents (that we know of) where the battery explodes.....Are u getting this HTC!?

2 known incidents out of how many thousands of TPs that have been sold. i dont see an issue. stuff fails, its a part of life. now, if every other day there was someone saying there phone caught fire, thats an issue.

[rev800x]

Deff. sounds like battery to me. Especially since it was just plugged into the charger sitting on the counter.

[rafyrod]

damn, can you post pictures of it.....

glad your ok...

that's HTC for you

[sho0z]

Originally Posted by Mylt1

2 known incidents out of how many thousands of TPs that have been sold. i dont see an issue. stuff fails, its a part of life. now, if every other day there was someone saying there phone caught fire, thats an issue.

to the op, glad your ok as well as your home and home theater. i agree here, s**t happens...this is also the only 2nd time ive heard of this and from what i'm seeing 2nd time for everyone else. this is a popular forum for the tp and im sure, like myself, everyone here has only seen 2 examples of hardware failure....sucks. but we cant really blame htc for it. just my .02

[tallnerd1985]

to the op, glad your ok as well as your home and home theater. i agree here, s**t happens...this is also the only 2nd time ive heard of this and from what i'm seeing 2nd time for everyone else. this is a popular forum for the tp and im sure, like myself, everyone here has only seen 2 examples of hardware failure....sucks. but we cant really blame htc for it. just my .02

Yeah, that is true, I dont think there is a mass defect with the TP, it could very well be isolated issues. As far the other questions, everything was stock on and with the phone except for unlocking it and having the mightyrom on it.

[jsntrenkler]

I would like to see pictures as well!

[chazybaz13]

All that matters is that you are still alive. Now im a little worried about my phone lol.

[piranah]

imagine if things had been worse....think of the settlement you could have gotten....we would be buying "htc" products, or whatever the new name would be, from the op

[slick5657]

wow...holy......@#&$.. neva seen that be4

[basilray]

Originally Posted by tallnerd1985

I've had my Touch Pro from Verizon since February but then in the last week or so, my phone would randomly get hot to the touch until the battery is pulled. So today I set my phone in the kitchen on the charger and then went to the front room to play some Call of Duty on the Xbox. After an hour or so, I noticed that the house was a little smoky so I got up and went to check outside to see if a fire was happening because I had all the windows open but to my surprise, no fires outside. After I stepped back into my house, I noticed the haze was still there but there was also a weird stench in the house as well. Right when I walked into the kitchen, there it was, in a flamming pile of plastic and silicon melted into my kitchen countertop. So I non chalantley walked over, unplugged the charger and took my cup of 7up and doused the fire out. After that, called Verizon customer care up and after 30 minutes of what I might assumed to be eyebrow raises throughtout the call center, they agree to give me a new TP on the house. The only resistance I had was that they wanted me to bring in a chunk of the phone for inspections but the phone was so melted into the counter that I would have to pop the counter off and bring it into the retail store, not happening!!! Moral of the story, dont piss off the phone by not giving it proper graphics acceleration drivers when there is a dedicated chip onboard.

I had to throw down a thanks on that...if for no other reason than your misfortune causing me to spit my soda all over my keyboard when I saw the pic.

But glad to hear no one was hurt in the making of this post!