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From sad experience last year when many Galaxy phone Exploded, Samsung
is working non stop to ensure this incidents stop , from a publication
online,
Samsung said that it has implemented a new
eight-step testing process for its lithium ion
batteries, and that it's forming a battery
advisory board as well, comprised of
academics from Cambridge, Berkeley, and
Stanford. Note, this is for all lithium ion
batteries in Samsung products, not just Note
phablets or the anticipated Galaxy S8 phone.
Samsung's new eight-step battery safety
check includes: durability testing, visual
inspection, x-rays, charge and discharge tests,
tests of total volatile organic compounds
(TVOC), disassembling tests, accelerated
usage tests, and open circuit voltage tests.
Many of these steps, including the first three
listed above as well as open circuit voltage
tests, were conducted on earlier devices; but
Samsung says the testing is now "enhanced,"
and will be conducted with increasing
frequency. For example, it says it has raised
its internal standards for the visual inspection
phase.
The charge and discharge tests, the TVOC
test, and the accelerated usage tests are
entirely new to the process. Charge and
discharge tests, which means testing the
batteries both while the device is charging
and while the battery is draining, were a large
part of the post-analyses conducted by
Samsung and by the third-party firms it paid
to examine its defective phones.
Samsung first announced the Galaxy Note 7,
its flagship phablet, in early August 2016, and
began shipping the phone a couple of weeks
later. Initial reviews of the device were largely
positive. But then reports of faulty batteries
began to emerge, with some of the phone
units generating excessive heat and catching
fire. Samsung first suspended sales of the
phone, then began replacing defective phones
with new units; only after some of the
replacement units began exploding did
Samsung issue a worldwide recall , on October
10.
The press conference today was a long-
awaited dose of information and offered a
level of transparency that the company, quite
critically, hadn't offered before. Still,
Samsung's efforts to win back the trust of
consumers will likely continue to be an uphill
battle. The next Galaxy S flagship phone,
coming this spring, will be the biggest test
Samsung has faced since its ascent to the
position of world's biggest smartphone
manufacturer.
