Samsung **te 7 owners told to stop using their phones and recall is imminent

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Samsung **te 7 owners told to stop using their phones and recall is imminent
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Following dozens of reports of Samsung Galaxy **te7 (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/vb2/mashable.com/2016/08/16/samsung-galaxy-**te7-review/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) smartphones exploding (http://mashable.com/2016/09/02/samsung-galaxy-**te-7-burnt/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) worldwide, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is advising all existing **te7 customers "power them down and stop charging or using the device."

In a statement provided to Mashable, the CPSC said Samsung is working with the agency to an**unce an official recall of the devices "as soon as possible."*

SEE ALSO: Samsung's Galaxy **te7 debacle is a gift to Apple (http://mashable.com/2016/09/02/samsung-galaxy-**te7-recall-analysis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


Samsung had already suspended sales of the **te7 following the reports and launched an "exchange program (http://mashable.com/2016/09/02/samsung-galaxy-business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)" for customers to swap out their defective phones with new ones. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/09/cpsc-samsung-galaxy-**te-7-recall/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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