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You can share your phone's location with others. Learn about Location Sharing with Google Maps and sending location in emergencies. You can see and manage them later. Learn about Location History. Features that use location may not work properly. You can get search results and ads based on your IP address. Turn I mprove Location Accuracy on or off. Tap Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning.
Turn Wi-Fi scanning or Bluetooth scanning on or off. To help first responders find you quickly, dial an emergency number. You can turn emergency location services on or off at any time.
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Open your phone's Settings app. Turn Emergency Location Service on or off. Learn about Location Sharing with Google Maps.
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Mishaal Rahman. That was surprising considering OnePlus was one of the first to This site uses cookies to improve your experience and deliver personalised advertising. You can opt out at any time or find out more by reading our cookie policy. Samsung has stopped production of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after faulty batteries were causing the phones to burst into flames when charging. It's been one of the most discussed technological failures of , but as the dust settles around Samsung's recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, one question remains: what actually went wrong with the phones?
Samsung has finally announced the answer or answers. There were two battery manufacturing issues which caused the Note 7 to go up in flames.
The first one related to battery size: batteries made by Samsung's SDI group were too small in one corner, causing negative electrodues to be bent and increase the likelihood of short circuiting. The second issue was with batteries from a third party provider, Amperex Technology Ltd, which were found to be incorrectly welded. Points left on the batteries were able to penetrate protective insulating.
Before announcing the findings DJ Koh, President of Samsung Mobile said he wanted to "deeply apologise" for the incident. In a statement Samsung said: "Samsung's investigation, as well as the investigations completed by three independent industry organisations, concluded that the batteries were the cause of the Galaxy Note7 incidents. After explaining the issues, the South Korean company went on today to announce its earnings in , recording its highest profit jump in three years despite the phone issues.
Samsung Electronics, the unit that mobile comes under, saw sales drop around two per cent but overall the company announced its full-year operating profit in was A manufacturing engineering company, Instrumental, investigated the errors affecting the flagship phone last year. According to Instrumental's teardown of the device, the Note 7's battery didn't have enough physical room for error. Samsung made the battery thinner, removing thickness margins, meaning the separators between the positive and negative layers may have been too thin, increasing the chance of these elements touching and sparking.
In addition, Instrumental pointed out that when batteries charge, chemical processes cause the lithium to migrate and the battery to "mechanically swell". Usually, around 10 per cent extra space is required to compensate for this, but the battery in the Note 7 entirely filled its pocket.
This increased the risk of 'explosion'. The design wasn't completely reckless, though.
Instrumental noted that the battery sits within a CNC-machined pocket, which will protect it from being affected by other internal components. An official told the Yonhap News Agency in South Korea that a "problematic battery" had been installed in "less than 0. In order to see this embed, you must give consent to Social Media cookies.
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Customers who had already bought the phones posted videos online showing the badly scorched devices, including YouTube user Ariel Gonzalez. Brand new phone, not even two weeks old. Be careful out there, everyone rocking the new Note 7, might catch fire.