{"id":179562,"date":"2016-09-14T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T08:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=179562"},"modified":"2016-09-14T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T09:02:10","slug":"galaxy-note-7-battery-problems-resolved-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/179562-galaxy-note-7-battery-problems-resolved-samsung.html","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Note 7 battery problems resolved: Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-37349319\" target=\"_blank\">told the BBC<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it is confident it has fixed the problem that caused the Galaxy Note 7&#8217;s battery to burn and explode.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is resolved in replacement handsets currently being shipped to Europe, said Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>In the Korean\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/korea-republic-of\/joongang-daily\" target=\"_blank\">JoongYang Daily<\/a><\/strong> newspaper, Samsung took out an ad stating it will limit the charge\u00a0in\u00a0Galaxy Note 7 batteries\u00a0to 60% of their rated capacity.<\/p>\n<p>A software update limiting\u00a0the battery capacity of the device will be rolled out from 20 September.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, the\u00a0update is targeted at Note 7 owners who have not returned their handsets.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the Samsung Galaxy Note 7<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/179210-samsung-shares-plunge-after-latest-galaxy-note-7-explosion-warning.html\"><strong>Samsung shares plunge after latest Galaxy Note 7 explosion warning<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/179170-halt-use-of-galaxy-note-7-samsung.html\"><strong>Halt use of Galaxy Note 7: Samsung<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/179076-samsung-galaxy-note-7-pre-orders-suspended-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Samsung Galaxy Note 7 pre-orders suspended in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/178190-samsung-recalls-galaxy-note-7-due-to-exploding-batteries.html\"><strong>Samsung recalls Galaxy Note 7 due to exploding batteries<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung said it will limit the battery capacity of Galaxy Note 7 units which are not returned during its current recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":178139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,645,38384],"class_list":["post-179562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy-note-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179586,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179562\/revisions\/179586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}