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Toshiba Recalls 340,000 Batteries

By Nate Mook, BetaNews

September 19, 2006, 1:18 AM

Sony's battery woes continued late Monday, as laptop manufacturer Toshiba announced it was recalling 340,000 batteries across its Dynabook and Satellite lines. Unlike the Dell and Apple recalls, however, Toshiba says the defective batteries do not pose a fire risk.

The recall affects laptops manufactured between March and May of this year, 100,000 of which were shipped in the United States. According to the company, the batteries are affected by a glitch that prevents them from properly storing power. Toshiba did not say whether Sony would pay for the replacements, which are free to customers, as the company did for both Dell and Apple.

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By thomaswhitman

edited Sep 22, 2007 - 12:25 PM

Erratic mouse. Maximizes and minimizes screen without warning while scrolling or using pointer mostly on right side of screen. My unit is a Toshiba Satellite ModelP105-S6177, Serial #17025968W. Can you help? Thank you. Thomas

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By cemac

edited Dec 5, 2007 - 9:13 PM

I have the same problem as "thomaswhitman" with my mouse(it drives me crazy),it maximizes and minimizes at any time no matter what I am pointing at, ie: I go to click a link and the scren shrinks, or I try to close it and it shrinks and many more irritating things.
Did you ever get any information as to why it is doing that and how to get it to stop???

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By jrandom42

edited Sep 20, 2006 - 11:04 AM

Dell's reputation is being badly damaged, not by just this incident, but by the fact that they and Sony knew of these problems at least a year ago and did nothing to fix them.

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By deminicus

posted Sep 19, 2006 - 8:15 AM

hrmm i guess well be seeing the hand crank on my devices in the future

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By Ramhound

posted Sep 19, 2006 - 7:56 AM

I hope somebody will sue Sony, by not making sure their batteries work like they should, they have put people at risk in multiple ways.

Customers, and other companies I hope both will sue Sony. I advise anyone thinking about getting a PS3 not to run it 24/7, because you might burn your house down...

I am just saying, Sony has not had any luck with quality control recently/

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By Mark Gillespie

posted Sep 20, 2006 - 3:41 AM

So PS3 burning a house down is theory, but dodgy mains leads on XBox burning down houses, is FACT....

We can all play selective quality control issues. Quite a few Xboxs have caught fire due to faulty mains leads. "Microsoft has not had any luck with quality control recently"

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By GoodThings2Life

edited Sep 19, 2006 - 7:30 AM

Hey Nate,

Would you mind linking us to a more detailed report from Toshiba that lists specific models or serial numbers or whatever? :)

Editorial Note: I can't help but think Sony should fry for this type of thing. I hope Dell, Apple, Toshiba, etc etc get something out of this... even if it's not a lawsuit.

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By rbailin

posted Sep 19, 2006 - 11:35 AM

Frequently Asked Questions for the Toshiba Battery Exchange Program:

http://www.csd.toshiba.c...tlView.jsp?soid=1482878

Manual Battery Identification Process for Toshiba Battery Exchange Program:

http://www.csd.toshiba.c...tlView.jsp?soid=1476336

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By cranbers

posted Sep 19, 2006 - 5:01 AM

I can't believe quality control doesn't exist for something as common as a laptop battery which sony has made million's of. I mean sony has made some bonehead mistakes as of late, but my gosh how dumb can you get. They not only made a mockery of dell and apple but almost all laptop oem's will be looked at now. Let's make everyone who buys a laptop or heck, they may not buy one now due to this issue.

Sony needs to step up quality control. They are going to bring down the entire industry with them.

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By templar™

posted Sep 19, 2006 - 4:26 AM

Dell's reputation has been badly damaged bcos of this issue. Many people think this issue is specific to Dell.

I wonder if Dell, Apple or Toshiba would sue Sony for this.

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