Nokia battery recall

[LEDninja]

Nokia recalls cellphone batteries

Heard on the news Nokia recalls cellphone batteries model# BL-5C.
http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/
This is a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. This product advisory does not apply to any other Nokia battery.
Nokia has identified that in very rare cases the affected batteries could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge.

I took my battery out and after typing in the 26 digit # Nokia tells me I'm safe and they will not replace my battery. Whew!
Then I have to re-ener the time and date on my phone. Sigh

 

[Erasmus]

Re: Nokia recalls cellphone batteries

I just checked and my battery is not among the ones that will be replaced. Mine isn't made in Japan but in Hungary

 

[xiaowenzu]

Re: Nokia recalls cellphone batteries

I think we all need to be vigilant here. Most of Nokia's batteries are okay, except for the ones made in China which can cause an explosion. You just gotta be careful of what you're buying. Same goes with Children toys - the ones from China contain LEAD which can killed your children.

 

[johnny13oi]

Re: Nokia recalls cellphone batteries

I think we all need to be vigilant here. Most of Nokia's batteries are okay, except for the ones made in China which can cause an explosion. You just gotta be careful of what you're buying. Same goes with Children toys - the ones from China contain LEAD which can killed your children.

Dude .. quit bashing on Chinese products. All I've seen you do is bash on all Chinese flashlights and show how the American made ones are better. And no .. Not all Chinese toys have LEAD in them. Albeit Chinese products are cheaper, but that doesn't mean they're totally useless, almost everything made in Walmart is made in China and people buy things from there like crazy. Chinese products have their place.

 

[Fallingwater]

Re: Nokia recalls cellphone batteries

I think we all need to be vigilant here. Most of Nokia's batteries are okay, except for the ones made in China which can cause an explosion. You just gotta be careful of what you're buying. Same goes with Children toys - the ones from China contain LEAD which can killed your children

Do you have any idea of how much stuff that we buy every day is made in china but does not catch fire, poison you or open wormholes to a dimension of pure evil?
I'll agree that some chinese products are garbage, but to say that all are is just plain ridiculous.

 

[xiaowenzu]

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I'm not saying all Chinese products are dangerous, but I'm not going to risk my children and families lives to test whether thats true or not, because life is precious. For instance I only purchase asian food products from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Last week I brought some blank DVDs MADE IN INDIA. Everytime I see more and more products from INDIA where I live. I guess their labor is become cheaper than China because of slightly lower wages, and big corporations are shifting manufacturing to India. China's, going to have some stiff competition in the coming years with India labors. :twothumbs:thumbsup:

 

[eltel999]

A few people on CPF have had problems with Li-ion cells, but anyone else seen this announcement about the recall of Nokia BL-5C batteries?

I like the way they say it ONLY applies to 46 million batteries :huh:

http://batteryreplacement.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/

Terry

 

[FILIPPO]

I checked my own battery and it is safe!:twothumbs

 

[labrat]

I have a Nokia BL-5B, no recall for that, yet.

 

[PlayboyJoeShmoe]

BL4C for me!

 

[stephenmadpotato]

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Dude .. quit bashing on Chinese products. All I've seen you do is bash on all Chinese flashlights and show how the American made ones are better. And no .. Not all Chinese toys have LEAD in them. Albeit Chinese products are cheaper, but that doesn't mean they're totally useless, almost everything made in Walmart is made in China and people buy things from there like crazy. Chinese products have their place.

Which country are you from? Right now we have a major trade deficet with China. The Chinese government is very laid back about the laws on exported/imported goods. The only thing China has on America is almost slave labor. There are people there that are forced to work for the equivalent of 2.00 usd an hour. China knows that most of their products are very low quality and potentially dangerous. So they lower the prices on them and do anything to get them lower, even if it means putting lead in catfood and toothepaste http://www.northcountrygazette.org/news/2007/05/30/still_more_melamine/.

Or producing unprotected battery cells in cellphones that will explode in your pocket and pierce your heart http://news.com.com/Cell+phones+Too+hot+to+handle/2100-1041_3-5420076.html.

If China has decent enough products to be sold in America, then why did they sentence their leader to death?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/world/asia/30china.html?ex=1338177600&en=2e6d84cbbd48869d&ei=5088

Why has the leader of a manufacturing company "killed himself" because of the dangerous amounts lead found in preschool toys? China obviously took him out. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293054,00.html

Alot of ignorant people overlook all of these dangerous and scold the FDA when we restrict anything over 5mw on lasers, or don't allow the importation of organic things. Because they are dangerous!!

 

[johnny13oi]

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I am from the US and I was simply stating that not everything Chinese made means that it is terribly bad or not worth it. Mainly the flashlights from China. Fenix lights are actually decent lights and hold their own. I was just saying because this guy has been known to constantly bash on Fenix and Chinese lights saying that US lights, mainly Surefire's are always better than the Chinese ones and what you pay for is what you get. And this is not necessarily always true. And plus not everyone can afford the high prices of Surefire's.

 

[PlayboyJoeShmoe]

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The only Chinese lights I am not satisfied with are some CHEAP multi 5MM lights.

I'm delighted with my Fenix P1. Quite happy with my MTE SSc 1AA. Ecstatic over my DX Cree modules etc.

 

[Erasmus]

Hehe 10 days ago I checked my own battery and right now I have a student job in a callcenter. I have to work for ..... Nokia! We accept calls from people who are worried about their battery and we have to ask them the serial number to check it at http://batteryreplacement.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/ .

My colleague got a funny call from someone who was on his boat and he was afraid that his whole boat could explode After all his battery was not among the defective ones.