Cell Phone Recalls Samsung. After just two weeks of sales and 35 faulty phone batteries so far, samsung issues a global recall and promises to replace. According to the cpsc, samsung has received 92 reports of the batteries overheating in the u.s., including 26.

The phones were provided as replacement phones between december 2016 and april 2017. Samsung electronics is recalling its flagship galaxy note 7 smartphone and said that battery problems were behind phones catching fire.