With the recent debacle that Samsung had with its Note 7 overheating or worse catching fire, users' fear of their smartphones doing the same has flooded the internet. Like most batteries, the one your phone have is no exception to fire vulnerability though it did not have the same attention until recently.
First, we discuss why a battery overheats and is a fire hazard. AndroidPit explained that the main reason for this is your phone's system-on-a-chip (SoC) doing more than it's supposed to. These SoCs have electricity running inside that powers the phone to perform its functions. When you're doing rigid activities with your phone, this SoC heats up and warms the battery within its enclosure. Generally, this SoC has a built-in conservatory program that warns users of extreme heat and allows the phone to cool down before continuing to run again. However, in some cases, this does not happen and the SoC generates too much heat that the battery alongside would react and catches fire.
Travel and Leisure, in their interview with Dr. Donald R. Sadoway, a materials chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that when your smartphone overheats the first logical thing to do, is to unplug it if it's plugged. Allowing the phone to adjust its own temperature through the system's programmed procedure. If it isn't safe to do the procedure mentioned, the best idea is to remove yourself within the phone's area and call the authorities right away.
Still, the best action is prevention. When your phone is not acting that way it should or if you noticed some overheating when used and even more so when not used, take your phone immediately to the store where you bought it and ask for a replacement. However, if that phone in particular is a Note 7, you might want to ask for another brand or model as The Verge reported of replacement phones having the same issues.
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