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

and they've started catching fire!

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/attachment...1&d=1317890674

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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everyone of your friends phones are on fire?

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

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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

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very well might be. Man that sucks OP!

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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.

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

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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.

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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

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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