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there's a new theory on why the Galaxy Note 7 had overheating problems the battery may have been packed in the phone too tightly Samsung has yet to say what it thinks the reason is for the exploding phone fiasco that caused the company to recall all notes seven phones but a manufacturing engineering company named instrumental found something interesting when they took apart the phone the battery had no physical room for error with multiple potential risk factors that could result in a fire if anything went wrong for one a phone battery needs to separate the positive and negative layers the engineers believe the separators may have been too thin let's not forget people sit on their phones and that puts strain on the frame the researchers said that kind of pressure would be enough to break a polymer separator causing the positive and negative to touch and then BAM pants on fire you got yourself an exploding phone also when batteries are charged they swell a little engineers usually give about ten percent extra space to a battery but there was hardly any extra space for the note 7 so you can theorize that in an attempt to push the boundaries to make things thinner with better battery life maybe Samsung was too aggressive in trying to be innovative in the report the researchers wrote Samsung took a deliberate step toward danger and their existing test infrastructure and design validation process failed them they shipped a dangerous product for more tech news and advice on phones to buy that don't blow up head to cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey