so like.. a year ago, i convinced all my friends to get evos

[ou2mame]

static electricity? so like, phones explode when they're in your pocket and you walk the wrong way on a carpet? lol.. i don't know how it exploded, but i highly doubt that it caught fire because of the kind of chair it was on, unless the chair was on fire already... haha

[gTen]

Originally Posted by ou2mame

static electricity? so like, phones explode when they're in your pocket and you walk the wrong way on a carpet? lol.. i don't know how it exploded, but i highly doubt that it caught fire because of the kind of chair it was on, unless the chair was on fire already... haha

Yes it can, did you know that even humans can spontaneous combust. Its beyond extremely rare but it does happen.

Chances are static electricity is not gonna cause harm to your battery, but it CAN. Nothing in this world is 100% perfect, hence why when you overclock say CPUs some overclock better then others because they are more perfect but none are 100% perfect.

You got unlucky and the static electricity damaged the protection circuit. Once damage it was flowing out electricity. To note, your battery didn't explode. The electricity is flowing out causing it to burn around the connectors.

If your battery expolded it would be a lot more messy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5f0VCoFuFM