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

**ou2mame** · #1 (**permalink**) 10-06-2011, 04:44 AM

and they've started catching fire!

billyman · #2 (**permalink**) 10-06-2011, 08:15 AM

Just a purely superficial analysys, I'm more inclined to suspect the battery is the cause, not the phone.

mikewest · #3 (**permalink**) 10-06-2011, 10:55 AM

Was there some time of kernel battery charging hack that took place?

**ou2mame** · #4 (**permalink**) 10-06-2011, 02:50 PM

nope nothing out of the ordinary. she was making dinner in the kitchen, smelled something burning, went into the living room and found the phone burning a hole through a chair. literally could have burned the house down.

CripledCyclone · #5 (**permalink**) 10-07-2011, 09:09 AM

Something was wrong with those contacts looking at the way it burnt.. That could have been bad.

shatner · #6 (**permalink**) 10-07-2011, 10:30 PM

everyone of your friends phones are on fire?

crazie.eddie · #7 (**permalink**) 10-08-2011, 11:54 PM

Rather odd. What battery and charger are they using? I've had my EVO for about 1 year now and currently using Mugen and Seidio extended batteries, with no issues, especially catching fire.

montecristo1 · #8 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 03:57 PM

Hard to believe this. How many friends are we talking about? I am on my second Evo (dropped the first one), and most of my friends are either Evo or iPhone... not one, including myself, have experienced your situation. Did you all buy your Evo's from the same person/dealer? Did you all maybe bought a battery from the same person/dealer? I have to admit that I have a hard time to believe that a few Evos all burned up...recently an iphone 4 (Feb 2011) caught on fire...that so far is an isolated event. If it happened to you and more than two people, there is more to this story.

**ou2mame** · #9 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 06:24 PM

no it was just one evo. she hasn't done anything to it, stock unrooted.. the phone wasn't charging, had no problems. she left it to make dinner, smelled stuff burning. i think thats the battery she bought from bestbuy or sprint, i told her to just get the cheap china batteries but she spent way too much on it, so i know its an authorized battery. most of my friends have evos, this is the first to catch fire. i had a touch pro, caught fire in my pocket, burned my jeans. sprint sent me a blackberry because i was on my third touch pro and that thing just sucked. maybe htc has a problem with phones catching fire. this is the 2nd htc i personally know of that could potentially kill people. i sleep with my phone on my bed, and i can't imagine it catching fire. that would really suck. i've been thinking of making a type of tub with water in it, and something that if it catches on fire, it will fall through it into the water lol

**Tinkerbell** · #10 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 06:57 PM

... scary stuff!!