ALL Note 7 will be bricked by early 2017. Some earlier.

[themissionimpossible]

Some are able to read and are able to understand, some others apparently are not able to read ...

 

[BarryH_GEG]

If Sprint turns the service off to my phone, I'm going to have some strongly worded email going out to them demanding reimbursement for the cell service I pay for. They can't turn my service off while I'm paying for it or that would be theft; recall or not; especially since it's still officially a voluntary recall.

Your phone and service are two different things. The phone you're using has been recalled by its manufacturer as potentially dangerous. Your wireless carrier has made available numerous options for you to return or exchange your recalled phone. For whatever reason you've chosen not to avail yourself of those options. I'd assume when the Note7 is disabled those options will still be available to you. What's the problem?

I think it's a hoax.

A "hoax" perpetrated by who? Samsung? They lost billions of dollars, lost face, and went without a Fall flagship to battle the iP7 and Pixel. Samsung wanted us to buy and use a Note7 as badly as we all wanted to. A higher number of Note7's than normal or acceptable overheated due to a battery defect. The speculation that makes the most sense is that Samsung tried to cram too much battery in to a too small battery cell. The fix would have been to reengineer the battery cell with it most likely being a smaller capacity than the one people paid for. It would leave their latest "flagship" with worse battery performance than the S7-series and its competitors. Even if they went forward with that option every Note7 sold would still have to be recalled and replaced with a newer smaller capacity battery version. That would mean compensation and/or refunds for original Note7 purchasers who didn't get what they paid for. At the end of the day that route wouldn't leave Samsung much better off than pulling the plug. So they did.

Bottom line is keeping a Note7 is going to be more and more difficult. People that aren't techies or hobbyists are going to be taken out when Samsung and/or the carriers push out disabling updates or block network access. The phone will never be updated or see official Nougat, no one will perform warranty or paid service on it, and parts are going to difficult to find for do-it-yourself repairs. XDA devs will stop developing for it because who wants to support a ROM used by such a small group of people. At some point even techies and hobbyists will get tired of fighting an uphill battle. Look at this forum. There are like five regular posters left with fewer and fewer posts made each passing day. At some point you've just got to accept that it is what it is.

 

[faslane]

Maybe not blow up. But I mean still. It's just a phone. It's like any other phone. Just recalled.

But after rethinking this situation I think they should keep their devices if they want. They haven't exploded yet. So they 99.9% won't explode at all. Probably 97% if not more of all Note 7s were safe. It was just Samsung panicking too much. Or they had some other issue that they didn't tell us about.

Would any of You guys recall Your devices if couple of them exploded? Maybe they had some kind of broken bootloader that could lead to disabling or resetting knox on all samsung devices.

Only Samsung knows what really happened.
But I don't think they would recall all devices all around the world and lose SO MUCH MONEY just to avoid explosions.

So anyway guys. Keep Your devices.

And it's interesting what Samsung did to all those Note 7s. They are still making engineering firmwares for N7s.

And to @faslane . Just let them keep their devices. If they are rich enough to keep a device that won't ever get updated again and buy a different one that will, then sure.
And those guys aren't criminals. They just have sentiment to their Note 7s.

I would be mad too if someone told me over and over to give my device back to Samsung. I mean in my case I would just give them the device. Get the money. And get a phone that has SD 821 and 6GB of ram. (Mi Mix). Or cheaper alternative Mi5 for around 300 usd. That has SD820 and 3GB of ram.

But in the end it's their choice. If they want to keep it. Then let them keep it. You can suggest them to return their devices because it's not too safe, but don't force it too much, cause it will annoy them eventually.

Agreed. My only intention was to let people know it's coming and many took it out of context but yep. Their phone. If they can afford it. up to them +1

Fas