Arun Rupesh Maini, a popular YouTuber known as Mrwhosetheboss, and others have discovered that Samsung smartphone batteries are swelling up.
Samsung smartphones started swelling up!
Samsung is one of the biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world. However, YouTuber Mrwhosetheboss posted a video founding out a severe problem with its devices last July. His Galaxy Note 8 had blown apart with the rear panel broken and the battery swelled up.
He also noticed his Samsung Galaxy S6 and S10 had similar issues, so he decided to check his whole collection of smartphones to see if there were any with comparable swelling issues. What’s even more surprising is that his Galaxy S20 FE and Z Fold 2, both almost two years old, are also blown up.
This is undoubtedly one of the reasons for the company’s caution when it comes to the battery size and quick charging methods it employs on its products.
Not just Maini, but many well-known YouTubers and tech personalities also claimed that they had seen the same issues with their Galaxy devices.
MKBHD said to the YouTuber that he occasionally sees one or two swollen devices and “every single time, it’s been a Samsung phone, it’s never been any other brand of phone”.
Besides, Maini also found Matt Ansini’s tweet claiming “every 3+ year old Samsung phone we had in storage at the office had their batteries expanded like this…every single one”.
Samsung contacted Maini and collected the devices from him to bring them to Samsung Labs for investigation. However, it has been over 50 days and the YouTuber has yet to get word from Samsung.
Battery swelling is not a brand-new issue or a Samsung-specific issue. As lithium batteries get older, their more faulty chemical reactions can result in gas production that expands battery cells and raises the possibility of a fire. If a battery is left for an extended period of time without being charged or discharged, this issue is more likely to occur.
Moreover, he said that he only used the smartphones once for a review and then for comparison videos. But these smartphones including other brands are kept on a smartphone shelf with the same environment, space constraints, same clipping mechanism. Upon checking, other smartphones like iPhones do not have this issue.
Batteries typically have an effective life of five years, and during that time they should function perfectly and naturally degrade. It should be noted that the devices with swollen batteries were not in use.
Keep the battery charged about 50%
When not using a device for a long period, most smartphone makers advise keeping batteries charged to about 50%. And maybe Maini doesn’t maintain this battery charged a percentage to all of his phones.
Please inspect any Samsung smartphones you have stored at home and let us know whether the batteries have swollen as well. You may also post or tweet it so that other people are also aware.
In case you have swollen Samsung smartphones, be careful, it is also probably better to take them to the Samsung service center than to continue using them.
