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Nokia Claims BL5C Battery Problems - Changing the Battery for free

Posted on August 14th, 2007 in gadgets, maintainance, news by Ankit Duseja

Got a Nokia Mobile? Its time to change your battery. Nokia has claimed the problem with BL5C Battery. The batteries manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan within December 2005 and November 2006 can be really dangerous for you.

Nokia reports that the battery gets over-heated while charging or even during a call, causing the battery to dislodge. But few users report explosions of the batteries. Nokia claims that no damage to property or any person have been caused till now.

There are more than 300 million pieces of BL5C Battery manufactured by different companies, but only 46 million manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. are defected.

The following phone’s have this type of battery:
Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2112, Nokia 2118, Nokia 2255, Nokia 2272, Nokia 2275, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2300c, Nokia 2310, Nokia 2355, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2610, Nokia 2610b, Nokia 2626, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, Nokia 6030, Nokia 6085, Nokia 6086, Nokia 6108, Nokia 6175i, Nokia 6178i, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230i, Nokia 6270, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6631, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6682, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia 7610, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N72, Nokia N91, Nokia E50, Nokia E60.

Nokia has decided to change the batteries for free. Only those batteries manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006 will be replaced.

To know if your battery is defective or not visit http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/

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  1. narendra.s.v said,

    on August 21st, 2007 at 3:52 pm

    well sorry for the mistake Ankit Duseja the image is taken form your site the article is taken from Nokia Official website and now i have link backed to you(before i just placed a text of the url)

    narendra.s.v
    http://techtreak.com

  2. C.S.Sharma said,

    on July 16th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    Not replaced the battery till date & showing as under delivery

  3. Ankit Duseja said,

    on July 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    Use this link to contact Nokia: http://www.nokia.co.in/A4535016

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