Ahhh the search for high CRI …
Down that rabbit hole you go. 
Look for it, find it, pay for it and get it.
Have you been in contact with Sofirn?
Jake257 You seem to be convinced that Sofirn is at fault. Maybe they are and maybe they’re not.
Even if the flashlight is shown to be defective, it could have been due a faulty component from suppliers. Or it could actually be due to negligence. Or a host of other possibilities. There simply isn’t enough information to definitively conclude anything.
It’s one thing to suspect a likely cause, it’s quite another to know.
You’re not obligated to do anything. If you really want to help people avoid dangers, you can send it the problematic light to be investigated, maybe independently, so we can all figure out what happened. After all, even if Sofirn is ultimately responsible, how can they fix the problem without knowing what it is?
In your shoes, I would be quite frustrated too. I’m not sure why you feel people are attacking you. However, jumping to conclusions does not help anything.
Ill smoke those rabbits by tossing my high CRI exploding light down their rabbit hole …
Itll cook rm nicely as well
Jake, Jake — we’re attacking the lack of information. You’re not the first person to arrive here with a problem and insufficient information to reach a conclusion.
If something happened to your phone, as well as to your flashlight, why blame the cable?
The cable isn’t going to make your phone smell really bad.
EDIT — I’m wrong about that:
An overheated circuit board, however, will do that, if the charger is overloading the device and the cables are providing the overload.
If Sofirn provided the cable you used, you should send that back to them along with the flashlight head they’ve offered to look at.
Odds are, I’m guessing, it’s the charger, .
What charger, what spec, have you looked it up at HJK’s test page (links provided above)?
Facts, please.
From what I’ve read the USB-C specification allows a device to call for as much voltage as it can stand.
If the charger receives a request for 20 volts, it’s probably going to try to provide it.
Could it be that the charger is hallucinating and sending too much voltage?
Tell us about your charger.
Whether a third party vendor produced these components or not sofirn put them together and they failed. If you go buy a new BMW with a warranty BMW can’t tell you their car is unreliable because of Bosch. They have to fix it. They have to test it to make sure it doesn’t break before they sell it. I have used this charger more than once a day everyday for years to charge my phone. I am charging it right now. It’s not the cable and it’s not the charger it’s the flashlight. You can see burnt components in the flashlight. The flashlight no longer charges. After charging my phone literally more than a thousand times with this charger there is nothing at all wrong with my phone. Those are the facts.
Thanks for the posts Jake. We understand you are an average consumer, and you have done well describing the problem as such. Please understand we are a bit more tech-savy than average here, and will not stop the search for answers at the nearest logo. I’ve never owned a Sorfirn. I do think the most likely answer is a compatibility issue between the wall charger firmware and the flashlight charger firmware. We will have to live with the suspense of ending the discussion here. Thanks again for the posts. Take care.
Well since, Sofirn!Barry has already said (on this thread) they will take care of the shipping cost sending it back to them so you can simply do that or has someone investigate the cause of the problem before doing so, as has already described by Barry himself. To be honest, that’s already a notch above other Chinese sellers which usually want me eat the shipping cost to sent it back to them.
As far as “sensitivity” and the lack thereof, and that people will often calling out other on not having the same level of sensitivity as them, are concerned, you might be better off ignore those remarks and move on. And this is rather hypocritical of me to not ignore the ongoing issue and leave this in here. 
What precisely would you like them to fix?
If your flashlight contains the clues to some hidden defect, that makes your SP36 the most valuable of them all. If it’s an external or interaction issue, that might be harder to figure out, but still very relevant information to gather.
Plus even the very best products have some failure rate.
Something similar used to happen every week on the old “Mission Impossible” TV show but by the end things usually turned out alright.
Looks like one of the chargers that is packaged with the LG V30 is MCS H06WP. Youtube link . Screencap
100-240v 50/60hz/0.5A
Output:
9.0v = 1.8A
5.0V = 1.8A
I have seen charger data for laptop chargers… maybe on a UL site, or similar regulator site. None turn up in a quick search for this model. I am guessing part of the WP may refer to the color (white).
Still speculative, may be a different charger. Also don’t know the cable.
Are you avoiding contact with Sofirn?
I fixed that link I posted earlier.
Here’s an excerpt:
Dwn at the bottom of that page you’ll find a link to this:
Recommended USB Type-C Legacy Cables
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Also a quote from the Verge article, also linked earlier.
These should inform someone at Sofirn.
No I’m not avoiding contact with them. They offered to refund twice my money so I guess at least they’re doing something
and you didn’t mention that
The light itself is a good concept. I wouldn’t have bought it if it wasn’t. I don’t care about the finish issues I don’t need a fancy box. I bought two of them and they stepped down kind of inconsistently and got hot unconsistently, but aside from that the beam and the temperature were very good. Of course I would prefer low CRI cold beam if it meant not having to inhale toxic chemicals and feel sick
Because it just happened 3 minutes ago. Sorry for not keeping you up-to-date.
It wasn’t the initial offer
Welp, there was a post here made by Sofirn itself saying that. But that message has mysteriously disappeared for no apparent reason.