r/note7

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My brand new Note 7 exploded this morning while I was still asleep, it was plugged in and charging.

Phone completely fried, I can't eject the sim tray to retrieved my sim or the SD card. I was using original charger and cable if you are wondering. Charred the hotel room bed sheet and the carpet when I whacked it down to the floor, burnt one of my finger while doing that too.

This is unfortunate as I am on a business trip in Perth and Brisbane (I'm from Melb), have managed to contact Samsung and they have opened a case for me and will get me a loan device here at one of their Samsung store in Perth.

They told me this is the first case in Australia.

I hav

If there's anyone doubting about the whole eBay situation and not bothering to go after a refund, like I was for a little short while. Samsung was happy to help me and got me the money back in bank account within two weeks, thay said they'd do it in 30. I ordered the phone with very bad timing on October 10th, next day the second recall was announced I believe, and eBay decided to not refund me. Thanks to Samsung customer support, and fuck eBay.

The note7 was an awesome phone but I cant run the risk of not being able to take the phone on a plane or having it burn my house down.

The reps at the verizon store said that they have been getting tons of people returning their phones in the last 2-3 days They claimed that a lot of the people returning the note7 are getting the iphone 7+ as a replacement because they have lost faith in samsung and android.

I am debating whether I should wait for the lg v20 or get the PixelXL.

I really liked that phone :-(

Looking at buying a note 5 off Craigslist and I found a note 7 for $450. Currently have a nexus 6 rooted on pure nexus. I would root the note 7 too. If it has the 60% battery cap update can I just side load an older version? Are cell phone providers going to start bricking the imei? Should I just buy the note 5 and not have to worry about it or is the note 7 worth it if I plan on rooting with custom kernel and rom? Anything I need to know about the note 7? Thanks.

I initially had plans to just ride out the storm, as a .0036% rate of failure of a Gear VR face explosion (now even that's gone) I could live with, but it seems the floodwaters have reached my bedroom window and water is flowing in. :-( Just got off the phone with a t-mobile rep. I had just received my replacement device in the mail. She mentioned that The Mob (t-mobile) will be blocking the IMEIs of Note 7s at an unspecified date to ensure no one is using them on the network. I don't have any verification of this, just what she said, so take it with a grain of salt. If this is true, I suspect other carriers will follow suit. So basically I go back to the S7e. A sad day indeed.

What do I do with my note 7 I want to sell it