Remember, in 2016, the Galaxy Note 7 was to be one of Samsung’s most successful smartphones. Yet the Galaxy Note 7 will forever remain as the smartphone”which explodes“, the fault of battery problems. Quickly, Samsung had ended up announcing the death of this smartphone, by withdrawing it definitively from the market. The Korean giant will take time to recover from this fiasco, but today, various Youtubers are pointing to yet another battery problem on the side of the Korean firm, which seems to affect many smartphones, including models very recent…
Samsung: battery problems, again and again?
Indeed, Youtuber Arun Rupesh Maini recently noticed that the batteries installed in Samsung phones have a tendency to swell. A phenomenon that obviously presents serious dangers for the user, with the added bonus of a battery that deforms the shell of the smartphone. For information, Arun Rupesh Maini has been collecting all Samsung smartphones since 2010, and has thus been able to observe the problem on a large number of models.
Note that it is not uncommon to see lithium batteries swell over time. On the video game market, the batteries of PSP consoles in particular have recently been affected by this phenomenon, which deforms the shell at the back of the console, and requires a complete replacement of the battery. As lithium batteries age, chemical reactions can produce gas that swells the cells of the battery, increasing its size but also posing a serious fire hazard.
Indeed… Remember to check your PSP batteries, they tend to swell at the moment ????…
Mine totally blew the battery slot cover… pic.twitter.com/VWbVuN1Yjl— Stéphane Ficca (@StephaneFicca) July 28, 2020
On the side of Samsung, however, the concern seems to manifest itself particularly early. Indeed, the phenomenon of swollen battery could be observed on un Galaxy Z Fold 2, a smartphone launched only two years ago. Same observation on the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, a smartphone which will celebrate its second anniversary in a few days…
However, the batteries on board Samsung smartphones have a certification “5“, which should in theory ensure optimal functioning for at least five years, which does not always seem to be the case.
According to JerryRigEverything, there would be “something wrong with the quality checks made by Samsung“. On the side of Marques Brownlee, we also indicate that we have been confronted on several occasions with this battery problem, and that each time, it concerned a Samsung brand smartphone. To be continued…