The battery in a pager can not possibly explode with the violence seen in these ones even if you did absolutely everything you could to make it fail in a fiery manner. They might burn, but military grade explosives is what everything has shown evidence of so far.

with a basic understanding of how software works, how devices overheat, how pagers work, and the differences between battery fires and explosives... there's really not much room left for discussion. have you seen a battery explode? these pagers went off like firecrackers.

and your argument is based on the idea of a 'short circuit by software'. one of us knows what we're talking about.