so like.. a year ago, i convinced all my friends to get evos - Page 2

eric12341 · #11 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 07:13 PM

damn that's some crazy shit. usually HTC phones don't explode unless the safety circuits somehow failed. or maybe it couldn't take anymore of the crappy sprint towers and decided to put itself out of its misery.

kevmo1965 · #12 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 08:21 PM

Thats not a stock battery, the stock battery is red.

**KIOWA69** · #13 (**permalink**) 10-09-2011, 10:27 PM

well he did say that his friend bought the battery from Sprint or Best Buy so that has to be the 2600 mAH extended battery.

**ou2mame** · #14 (**permalink**) 10-10-2011, 07:06 PM

this was more of a "hey, watch out, these phones catch fire" post. if you don't want to believe your phone can catch fire, ok... sleep with it under your pillow... but my phone's new resting spot is on my night stand face down. you never know. my friend slept with the phone on her bed and it could have caught fire there and burned her house down given the right circumstance.

juortiz85 · #15 (**permalink**) 10-10-2011, 07:23 PM

Those overseas batteries are dangerous. It's a 1200mah battery with a sticker on it that says 1500mah. Poorly put together. I took one apart. Where the connector is, I pulled it and it caught fire. It made me jump a little. I will never get those batteries again.

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**fixxxer2012** · #16 (**permalink**) 10-10-2011, 07:43 PM

it's from that old sbc charging mod that has been abandoned.

**Riley** · #17 (**permalink**) 10-10-2011, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by fixxxer2008

it's from that old sbc charging mod that has been abandoned.

very well might be. Man that sucks OP!

**ou2mame** · #18 (**permalink**) 10-11-2011, 01:56 AM

sbc mod? she didn't mod the phone at all. she's completely illiterate when it comes to anything technology. she goes to bestbuy for batteries, has no idea what a forum is, and doesn't know what dvr stands for. the battery's not a cheap china battery, and the phone is completely.... COMPLETELY stock.

dkd711 · #19 (**permalink**) 10-11-2011, 05:21 PM

I'm pretty sure it was a defective batt. It happens to all battery makers sooner or later.

**gTen** · #20 (**permalink**) 10-16-2011, 03:33 AM

Judging from the damage it looks like there was a short in between the connector. This can happen one of 2 ways.

1) The connector got really hot causing metal to loose its condictivity.

2) something might have gotten caught in there that either has higher conductivity then metal or is flammable.

There is also a possibility if that chair is made of a material that emits static electricity (or the phone came in contact with something that does recently), static electricity can damage the batteries protection circuit.