Let this cautionary tale serve as a reminder to everyone: don’t buy unauthorized parts or accessories for your smartphone. We have seen stories of combusting cell phones before, but perhaps none have been quite as unsettling as a new report from this past weekend. According to a Dallas, Texas-based Fox affiliate, a 13-year-old girl was awoken last week when she smelled something burning. As it turns out, the Samsung Galaxy S4 that she slipped under her pillow as she fell asleep had caught fire in the middle of the night and had begun to burn her pillow and sheets.

“I didn’t think much of it, so I went back to sleep and then I woke up again and it was more prominent,” 13-year-old Ariel Tolfree told KDFW. And it’s a good thing she woke up — pictures from the scene show that the phone had begun to badly burn the girl’s pillow and bed before it was extinguished.

As the girl’s father later admits, the battery in Tolfree’s phone was not an original Samsung part, but instead a third-party battery that is not authorized for use in Samsung devices. While third-party parts and accessories can often be cheaper than their OEM counterparts, the lower prices can clearly come at a cost.

The girl was not injured in the fire, though her father says that Samsung should display more visible warnings against using non-OEM parts in its phones.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIVCsfYek5E

http://news.yahoo.com/galaxy-s4-bursts-flames-under-sleeping-13-old-134731087.html

Holy Mary! ! ! did that just explode?

i swear, this is why i'm afraid of making calls while charging my phone.

in other news.
Burnt Galaxy S4 owner gets offered a new
One M8 by HTC.

http://www.gsmarena.com/burnt_galaxy_s4_owner_gets_offered_a_new_one_m8_by_htc-news-9161.php

I hope some people dey hear word so..

Those buying substandard fones in the name of affordability

Ordinary spare accessories cause fire so o..

Not to talk of this noisy chinko fone..

Make I no mention name

Am out

Samsung isn't an american brand that's why there is so much negative media concerning it.
Been using substandard accessories for more than half a decade, nothing don happen.

Its possible that people are sabotaging the chargers.

Samsung....just an expensive plastic

This will never stop me 4rm using samsung

Collinz2: This will never stop me 4rm using samsung

same here bro,#teamSamsung

PROPAGANDA !!!! If I were samsung, wouldn't hesitate to replace the phone asap!!!

Samsung Galaxy phones are well known for having explosion problems. Can't understand why so many people are still taking the risk of purchasing them.

fellis: Samsung Galaxy phones are well known for having explosion problems. Can't understand why so many people are still taking the risk of purchasing them.

Serious risk oo, they should manufacture a pocket fire extinguisher too, so as to help d ministry

Why would you want to sleep with your phone under your pillow? A phone would always generate some form of heat.
Having it covered with a pillow, the weight of the sleepers head, blocking all avenues of air to any device, is always a disaster waiting to happen.

I have seen this b4
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so what we smoke weed

Am guity of using my Galaxy S5 to ping and browse while charging it.
And often times I sleep off while pinging leaving the phone on my bed..... If this is is latest trend of samsung, I had better dropped this phone for HTC.

Chinco tinz

ignis: Am guity of using my Galaxy S5 to ping and browse while charging it.
And often times I sleep off while pinging leaving the phone on my bed..... If this is is latest trend of samsung, I had better dropped this phone for HTC.

But i thought you have always said that you don't like HTC at all? Why eat your vomit?

Hopefully you will join us in the HTC M8 club

fellis: Samsung Galaxy phones are well known for having explosion problems. Can't understand why so many people are still taking the risk of purchasing them.

thats a big fat lie. I knw alot of pple using the phone and has nt complain of explosion. I think that samsung was made by mediatek to spoil samsung business.

Apple iOS people and their propaganda machinery now working to reduce the impact of Galaxy SV in the market.

fr3do: Samsung isn't an american brand that's why there is so much negative media concerning it.
Been using substandard accessories for more than half a decade, nothing don happen.

Its possible that people are sabotaging the chargers.

Na so after blind-copying APPLE to gain fame?