Samsung’s investigation into what caused a number of Galaxy Note 7s to catch fire has concluded that the batteries caused the devices to explode, a reported said.
The company will officially announce the results of the prove on January 23, revealing the exact faults that led to the huge recall.
Samsung will announce further measures that they will be taking to avoid a repeat of the safety failures in any future devices.
The phone’s batteries were suspected to be the issue in October as the company began research into the explosions.
Samsung cut its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in October, stopping production of the device a day after it halted global sales of the product.
Lithium batteries are used in a range of consumer electronic devices, favored by manufacturers because they are lightweight and pack much more energy into a small space than other power cells.
Koh Dong-jin, Samsung’s mobile president told reporters in Seoul: ‘The flaw in the manufacturing process resulted in the negative electrodes and the positive electrodes coming together.’
