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HTC Phone Exploded While Charging

By on August 29, 2011 in LOCAL, Mobile, PDA, TECHIE

Saw this on STOMP. A HTC Phone exploded while charging. Not much details though. According to the report, it exploded with a small ball of fire. Luckily no one was injured.

It looks quite bad. Doesn’t look like the newer generation of HTC phone.



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  • Ridzuan Ashim

    I hope this doesn’t happen to me. I sleep with 2 phones charging right next to me on my bed…right next to my head.

  • Anonymous

    Haha..  I hv one charging next to me while I sleep.

  • http://twitter.com/dk Darryl Kang

    It’s been burnt so bad that it doesn’t even look like a phone already. I won’t be surprised if this is a hoax. 

    But phones are usually quite safe unless you use those cheap 3rd party charger or battery. If there is an exploding issue with certain phone model, it will happen in batches and we will most likely hear it from Engadget

  • http://twitter.com/dk Darryl Kang

    Oh wait. It’s not a phone. The Stomper say it’s a phone charger. 

    Let me guess, 3rd party charger?

  • Anonymous

    As of last heard, HTC Singapore is checking out this case :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=696667246 Kenneth Goh

    i take stomp article with a pinch of salt. it is either a 3rd party battery or charger

  • Anonymous

    Me waiting for some info on this incident.

  • Carlyn

    Hi, i m the owner of this damaged charger. It is the original charger from HTC Diamond Touch and original battery, unless the telco who sold me was fake? Was working fine till then. To my surprise the phone is working fine except not able to charge unless I use my computer to charge via the usb port. :(

  • Carlyn

    Just be careful while charging.. im paranoid now when charging anything.. never know. I knew first thing came to people’s mind when they read this article.. Was it a third party charger? not original battery? Charged overnight? OR the lightning? All these items are original and I was just half-way thru charging and my Phone Batt is only 3/4 charged. (prob less than 2 hrs of charging when it happened). Maybe i m the ‘suay’ one? My post on Stomp is to Inform others with the same phone, use the charger with care!

  • Anonymous

    Carlyn, tks for the info on the incident. I guess the explosion must hv damaged the charging port. Gd to hear tat no one is hurt :)

  • AdeB

    I’ve just had exactly the same except my genuine HTC charger exploded without the phone being plugged into it. It went off with one hell of a bang and tripped the electrisity in the house. The case of the charger actually blew appart with the explosion. I’m amazed, I will certainly never buy an HTC phone again. Phone is next to useless and the charger is quite frankly dangerous. My job is aerospace test I have a very good understanding of electrical safety and my HTC charger is well off the scale

  • http://www.cyberworldltd.co.uk/chargers-and-adapters-for-htc-model-sensation.htm Williams

    We have to careful when we are charging the phone,sometime it may be explode,but it might be a problem of your handset or battery.

  • http://twitter.com/dickathlon David Lapes

    I’ve just had an HTC charger explode on me too – parts all over the floor and bare wires hanging out of the wall. HTC says not our problem if the phone wasn’t HTC.