My new TP seems to get rather hot. Is this an issue? It seems like the heat is worse when surfing and changing at the same time.
I would say that there may be an issue. Mine never got above 92 degrees. But its almost always at room temp ( around 70 degrees). Now my phone gets up to 104 if surfing the web on 3g so I guess it depends on the device.
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Are you running any other radio type hardware when surfing or location based software when you're noticing the heat issue?
Buy surfing you're referring to just viewing web pages and not streaming video or gaming?
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Are you running any other radio type hardware when surfing or location based software when you're noticing the heat issue?
Buy surfing you're referring to just viewing web pages and not streaming video or gaming?
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I am not using any additional hardware. I am just viewing websites.
I estimate that the temp is rather high. Not just warm, but hot. Most of the heat was located in the middle of the back cover.
Do you have an app or widget that display core temps?
mine is getting hot also while browsing the web, and battery is getting low pretty fast. this only happens while using android stock browser.
after switching to another browser the heating stops almost instantly....
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mine get hot only when charging, I have mine clocked at 1.6Ghz on preformance mode, and it doesnt get hot when playing games.
it more noticeable when not useing the dock, I think it charges mush slower and thats the only reason is not getting as hot.
of you look at the design of the Prime the battery spans the lenght of the prime, so the heat will be middel but over the lenght of the tablet. if its the CPU from overclocking or over use, the hot spot will be top left middel.. ( if that make sence)
here is a pic of the board..
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johanjonker said:
mine get hot only when charging, I have mine clocked at 1.6Ghz on preformance mode, and it doesnt get hot when playing games.
it more noticeable when not useing the dock, I think it charges mush slower and thats the only reason is not getting as hot.
of you look at the design of the Prime the battery spans the lenght of the prime, so the heat will be middel but over the lenght of the tablet. if its the CPU from overclocking or over use, the hot spot will be top left middel.. ( if that make sence)
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same here basically. plus nothing to be worried about. Prime has a fail safe in it THST if it gets too hot/overheat, it'll automatically throttle the CPU speed down so it can cool off and reduce the CPU temps. prime will never overheat out of control and burn itself up.
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Do you have an app or widget that display core temps?
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I agree with you. This might be the first step.
thenrz said:
Do you have an app or widget that display core temps?
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Is there such an app? Is on the Google Market (Play)?
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same here basically. plus nothing to be worried about. Prime has a fail safe in it THST if it gets too hot/overheat, it'll automatically throttle the CPU speed down so it can cool off and reduce the CPU temps. prime will never overheat out of control and burn itself up.
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That's good to know. Thanks.
my Prime gets a little bit warm after a while, like body temperature warm, but it's never gotten really hot. my SGS2 gets warmer than my Prime when I'm using it
I use system info to get temp. Its on the market
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same here basically. plus nothing to be worried about. Prime has a fail safe in it THST if it gets too hot/overheat, it'll automatically throttle the CPU speed down so it can cool off and reduce the CPU temps. prime will never overheat out of control and burn itself up.
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Interesting...I did not know that. Do you know around what temps this happens?
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Just had a quick question about the operating temperature of my atrix.
My previous phone was a captivate, which NEVER felt hot to the touch unless I ran the GPS for awhile.
It was the same for my Atrix until I ran a graphics intensive game for about an hour or so. It started to get hot while playing, so I stopped for awhile. Ever since then, it is almost always warm to the touch and is continuously operating at 50C+.
So, is this normal? What are everyone's operating temperatures?
Miine runs warm under higher stress. It is a dual core processor so heat will be higher then other phones
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ive never had a phone get this hot. this is how hot my pc gets lol. is this normal?
this result was after taking quite a few pictures with camera360 i noticed the bottom of the phone VERY hot.
these are about the temps that i get. it especially heats up when using data connection for web and not wifi. with wifi, it peaks at about 50c and on data connection it can go up to 57c.
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these are about the temps that i get. it especially heats up when using data connection for web and not wifi. with wifi, it peaks at about 50c and on data connection it can go up to 57c.
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yeah, i just use wifi and thats what gets it hot. and apps like camera >_<
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Just had a quick question about the operating temperature of my atrix.
My previous phone was a captivate, which NEVER felt hot to the touch unless I ran the GPS for awhile.
It was the same for my Atrix until I ran a graphics intensive game for about an hour or so. It started to get hot while playing, so I stopped for awhile. Ever since then, it is almost always warm to the touch and is continuously operating at 50C+.
So, is this normal? What are everyone's operating temperatures?
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Strange how people have dif experiences. My Captivate was always hot always! It only runs slightly cooler now with one of the latest CM7 nightly.
My Atrix gets warm sometimes but I never have the extreme heat other users report. I dont use and task killers, only watchdog to monitor for runaway apps. I do use a Commuter on both.
My phone only saw the 50's when I left it charging under a pillow.When to ATT store and got it replaced.Replacement phone runs all day at 35C never seen it go past that.
And do use a commuter case aswell.
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Hmmm. My tempstature is 50°C at idle, while connected to WiFi. Is that bad?
EDIT: Well no, it goes back down to about 38° when you leave it for a while. But 50° temps are quite common.
61° after a few games of Fruit Ninja. That seems like it shouldn't happen.
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61° after a few games of Fruit Ninja. That seems like it shouldn't happen.
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yepp even little games get mine hot. maybe it could be that we dont have software optimized for our hardware, that could effect it. who knows.
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we dont have software optimized for our hardware
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Its my understanding that the Atrix IS running a dual core optimized version of Android 2.2. Afaik our current version of Blur is NOT dual core optimized, but Im not 100% on that. Is Blur what you are referring to.? Also, apps have to be written to take advantage of both cores, so if the app wasn't specifically programmed to run on dual core it will run on just one.
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61° after a few games of Fruit Ninja. That seems like it shouldn't happen.
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I've started a thread early today because of this issue. Soon as I started playing games on my Atrix I got pretty scared with the temperature I felt on the exterior, and more scared after using temp. monitor apps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1249757
The idea is to mod the phone to help dissipating heat. Besides undervolting with setcpu I guess there isnt much that can be done at software level to reduce the main chip's heat.
The ideas are still being formulated. I opened the thread so I could get some help and suggestion from other atrix owners, to have a good idea of what to do when I finally open my phone
could drill some tiny holes in the battery cover / just throwing that out there
unlocked bootloader att. atrix. honeycomb rom. faux oc kernal
Did a bunch of looking around and after a while found some white papers with the following temperature ranges:
General operating temps of -40C to +85C.
Practical usage will start to drop off below -20C and above +70C.
This tells me that our safe operating range should be limited to the practical usage temperatures. Anything outside of these and there is a good chance you will see performance drop off fast, and also may suffer hardware lockups, etc.
Personally I will stick to +65C which is the rule of thumb I go by with my PC's under full load.
<edit> <edit> I would also add that while our phones are not desktops/laptops/workstations, the CPU's can all handle around the same temperatures in all devices. Materials used and manufacturing techniques are almost identical. The solder used has a melting point of around 180C - 190C, so there is no fear of melting the solder. The main difference is that phones do not have active cooling, so you will see much larger jumps and swings in temperature. This being the reason you cannot OC in the extreme ways you can with PC's.
My rule of thumb is to keep my phone under 50c Max. The battey chewing alone is bad enough above 45c.
Ideally, I try to keep my phone below 40c whenever possible.
If it's a constant problem, then I usually try to find a different modem or fw. Which can make one heck of a difference...
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Hello again dear xda members
I've been using S II for over 2 weeks now! I get the following(which many of you do get also). When I turn on WiFi and start surfing, the phone starts to overheat and battery is drained like a juice.
Well, after a long study, I've found out that it's the stock browser's fault!
Yeah! I opened WiFi, surfed a little and it started to heat up! Well, I was trying to download something, and since stock sucks at downloading( except if you add to it an app from the market called Downloadfiles) I opened DolphinHD!!
What I saw, or felt-whatever-, was just
After 5 minutes, the phone cooled down, temperature became normal and of course battery was less consumed!
So, to all people who have heat issues, it turns out(at least in my humble opinion) that it's the stock browser's fault!!!
Any thoughts anyone? Similar experiences?
I've been using it for 10 days and experienced no such overheating, but battery time should be much better.
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Really? It doesn't overheat never? even not when playing games?
I thought mine was faulty, but I went to couple of stores where they have it open for customers to play with, and I did the same as mine and it started to heat up!
Mine heats up a bit after playing a game or running a certain app for a while, but I never experience overheating with the stock browser. Though you should take in to consideration that the GS2 is a thin device, the CPU is close to your hands. Most phones also have to exessivly keep searching for connections because it is weak or something is blocking its way. The transmitting/receiving device is located at the top along with the CPU so it'll tend to get hot. Most smartphones do overall.
Also, the phone gets hotter while using it connected to a charger just because the battery is filling up the same time you are using it. Also, take in to consideration that no patch for true dualcore support has yet been released nor announced. Just some factors why the phone heats up.
thanks man!
Well, heating up is normal-as far as I read in here-... But when using Stock Browser, I'm talking about overheat! really! I believe it's a bug, since as said, nor Firefox, Dolphin and Skyfire(I use all of them) produce that issue! And I disabled flash content(thought that might make it better) but it was the same! Don't know!
Anyways, thanks for answering!
OVer wifi I have no problems. Over 3G is another story! and playing games is another story. It warms up every 5 minutes while playing games.
Yours too huh? well, mine does that on WiFi!
What is Overheating? How do you know it is overheating unless you know the temperature of the battery? Well OP and other posters who are saying the phone gets overheated please mention the temperature of it. The ambient temp of Europe/USA is 20-25°C Max, and if the device runs even cool then it will have temp around 30-32°C, that is much higher than the ambient temp and probably that's why you guys are feeling the phone is overheating but in fact it's not. Here in Calcutta, ambient is 32-33°C and the Phone temp in normal is the same, so we/I don't feel it's overheating, only when I surf net for an hour straight with charging then the temp rises up to 44-45°C, that's when it could be said that the phone is running on high temp, still for the hardware we are given 45°C is not hot.
So before saying the phone is overheating please check the battery temp.
Regards.
how do I measure battery temperature?
Ok, Battery life widget?
I'll measure then I'll let you know!
There is a reason stock browser uses more battery and heats more. It uses GPU to render pages more quickly! But for me even on stock it is not that hot, more than on other phones, but thats what you get for a thin phone.
Maybe somone will test battery life with stock+GPU and dolphin browser with no GPU. Maybe the difference is not that big at all, maybe just GPU heats more than CPU but uses same battery.
now let's not forget android doesn't have graphics acceleration, and without it the GPU has to work harder which generates more heat
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Ok, I get 41 to 45 °C degrees!
So, no overheat just heat!
So, based on what you're saying, this is normal?
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Ok, I get 41 to 45 °C degrees!
So, no overheat just heat!
So, based on what you're saying, this is normal?
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Your ambient is 27°C, right? So it's normal to me. Anything less than 50°C should be OK, imo.
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My ambient is 34 to 30 °C
Ok, so my phone is fine? Wow! !! thanks
that really made me happy!
I thought it was faulty
Thanks so much everyone for answering
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My ambient is 34 to 30 °C
Ok, so my phone is fine? Wow! !! thanks
that really made me happy!
I thought it was faulty
Thanks so much everyone for answering
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You are welcome. This is mine, phone is untouched for half an hour, my room temp is currently 28°C.
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I see! Then it's fine
thanks again! It's a big relief! I was coming from Omnia I and I was like wtf
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Your ambient is 27°C, right? So it's normal to me. Anything less than 50°C should be OK, imo.
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Summer in Greece and sub-30-degrees Celsius don't go together.That's why we're hot!
Anyway,****ty joking aside,inside a bus today,under the sun with an ambient temperature of about 35-36 degrees(dunno how you put the degrees symbol pal ) and with my GPU overclocked at 400MHz with 1100mV using tegrak overclock ultimate,I played some Angry Birds and,although the phone reported no more than 44 degrees,it was very hot at the top.
My opinion?If you(or me obviously) manage to somehow burn/fry something,make sure to do it so bad that it doesn't even respond to Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick! That way maybe Sammy won't notice...Shush!
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(dunno how you put the degrees symbol pal )
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Alt+0176.
Funny comment anyway.
hi guys i find that when i use the phone for a little bit like on voice call or playing a game the phone become literally super hot and its reached 45 degrees c according to my battery indicator app is that dangerous and is anyone else had the same problem ?
my sgs2 also overheats! i don't know why
Whatever electric device You switch on and make it work it gets warm. If You make it work HARD it gets warmer to hot.
If You work it in summer and direct sunshine it gets hotter than under the same workload at the Northpole at Xmas.
CPUs produce heat under workload the same do screens. The higher the frequencies the hotter they will get.
It is simple physics. So what ?
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Whatever electric device You switch on and make it work it gets warm. If You make it work HARD it gets warmer to hot.
If You work it in summer and direct sunshine it gets hotter than under the same workload at the Northpole at Xmas.
CPUs produce heat under workload the same do screens. The higher the frequencies the hotter they will get.
It is simple physics. So what ?
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i understand that the cpu and other hardware can produce heat however i would have thourght there would be some sort of heat regulator that would underclock it to reduce the temp like in setcpu when rooted. at what do u think is the highest temp the phone could go before killing it self ?
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i understand that the cpu and other hardware can produce heat however i would have thourght there would be some sort of heat regulator that would underclock it to reduce the temp like in setcpu when rooted. at what do u think is the highest temp the phone could go before killing it self ?
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Normal cpus can go to 70 - 80 degrees C. I would say now if the phone doesn't go over like 55 degrees it's fine.
I don't think this is normal personally. My phone has become hot a few times now and I think it was wifi sharing process causing it both times.
I ended this process using the System Panel app and carried on using the phone in the same way and the phone cooled right down again.
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I don't think this is normal personally. My phone has become hot a few times now and I think it was wifi sharing process causing it both times.
I ended this process using the System Panel app and carried on using the phone in the same way and the phone cooled right down again.
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I have frozen wifi sharing so I don't know. But my phone almost never gets hot except if I download big files.
the reason the phone gets hot is because the phone is very cramped and cant dissipate heat effectively . the simplest example is a laptop and a desktop, even though both may have the same configuration a laptop gets much hotter than a desktop because it cant dissipate heat effectively as a desktop which has much bigger heat sink
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Normal cpus can go to 70 - 80 degrees C. I would say now if the phone doesn't go over like 55 degrees it's fine.
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lol oright -good to know =]
Hey guys!
I have a problem.. whenever I use mobile data for half an hour or more, my battery temperature rises significantly. From 32 degrees centigrade to 50 degrees centigrade. The back side bottom part of my phone heats up! Is this normal? I have attached screen shots please help me out!
P.s. is my battery backup fine?
Scree on time is 3.5 hours
Mine warms up to that temp and even a little more whilst gaming or heavy use as well.
You can get a mesh vent case that should dissipate the heat better, but that high a temperature is still definitely unusual.
Does your phone heat up to 50 degrees centigrade after just half an hour of continuous use?
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You can get a mesh vent case that should dissipate the heat better, but that high a temperature is still definitely unusual.
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Is the battery faulty? Should I get a replacement?
If I ran something like shadowgun or dungeon defenders it gets very hot, I will run a game for half an hour and let you know the exact temp but for anything else it should be fine.
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If I ran something like shadowgun or dungeon defenders it gets very hot, I will run a game for half an hour and let you know the exact temp but for anything else it should be fine.
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Thanks! Looking forward to it!
My phone heats up to 50 degrees even when I'm browsing using the xda app!
Is the processor heat causing this which in turn is heating the battery?
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Thanks! Looking forward to it!
My phone heats up to 50 degrees even when I'm browsing using the xda app!
Is the processor heat causing this which in turn is heating the battery?
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Thats easily higher than it should be are you running stock or have you O/C
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Thats easily higher than it should be are you running stock or have you O/C
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yes I am running stock and I have never overcharged!
Mine is the same. Browsing Facebook etc whilst on mobile data heats the phone and starts killing other apps like winamp.
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I found that disabling HSPDA and HSPDA+ while surfing prevents the phone from overheating a little.
Could it be you got a pretty weak signal? Maybe try to change modem, mine gets a bit warm at heavy gaming (about 40°), but not at basic things like the xda app.
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Using the mobile data creates more heat ovr using wifi, afaik. Thats why i opt to use separate portable wifi unlimited plan instead of unlimited internet plan attached with my phone
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Using the mobile data creates more heat ovr using wifi, afaik. Thats why i opt to use separate portable wifi unlimited plan instead of unlimited internet plan attached with my phone
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My phone gets heated to 50 degrees centigrade even when I am playing simple games like where's my water and Temple Run.
and yea signal is pretty weak! only 2bars but still isn't 50 degrees too much?
for me when i play games, my i9305 gets warm, but heats up in the bottom half until its too uncomfortable to hold when im surfing the net while on cellular data. this doesnt happen when im on wifi. anyone experiencing the same thing? should i go to samsung and ask for a replacement?
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for me when i play games, my i9305 gets warm, but heats up in the bottom half until its too uncomfortable to hold when im surfing the net while on cellular data. this doesnt happen when im on wifi. anyone experiencing the same thing? should i go to samsung and ask for a replacement?
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I went to the Samsung service center.. they told me that they are gonna test it first and see what the problem is.. if it is faulty then they would replace the battery.. the next day they told me that everything is fine and it's common for every phone to heat up a bit!:banghead:
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wait, what? it isnt the battery thats heating up! its some other part of the phone... well maybe i'll just have to live with it since the phone doesnt lag or anything. its just the temperature.
My phone gets really hot when using the data connection on the phone. When i surf the web, video chat, or do anything that uses the data connection the phone becomes hot. it also happens when i play games too. it gets hot around the lower part of the phone around the area where the home buttons located. Just wondering if this is happening to anyone else before i get it exchanged. The highest temp i got was 104 Degrees F.
i cant say for sure what temps are safe. i haven't done the research. but my wife and i both will notice the bottom getting pretty hot when pushing the phone. surfing & gaming. not so hot you cant touch it, but much warmer than any of my other droids iv used in the past.
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i cant say for sure what temps are safe. i haven't done the research. but my wife and i both will notice the bottom getting pretty hot when pushing the phone. surfing & gaming. not so hot you cant touch it, but much warmer than any of my other droids iv used in the past.
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i just played dead trigger for 10-15 minutes and now the phone is at 95 degrees lol. Idk if thats normal.
My phone gets hot at the bottom, as well.
Hopefully Samsung will make some firmware changes to better regulate clock speed according to temperature.
My phone gets really hot also towards the bottom when just using it for anything. Then again it doesn't help I'm in +100 degree weather and outside all day and night.
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My phone gets really hot also towards the bottom when just using it for anything. Then again it doesn't help I'm in +100 degree weather and outside all day and night.
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Yeah, just like in desktop computers, ambient temperature plays a big part.
Mine gets very hot as well. I'm on the 2nd one too. Its just because it is a very slim design, coupled with a strong processor = hot.
Gets a bit scary when playing a game for 20 minutes though..
gaarry said:
Mine gets very hot as well. I'm on the 2nd one too. Its just because it is a very slim design, coupled with a strong processor = hot.
Gets a bit scary when playing a game for 20 minutes though..
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Did you replace yours because of the heat issues? Or do you just have two S3's?
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My phone gets hot at the bottom, as well.
Hopefully Samsung will make some firmware changes to better regulate clock speed according to temperature.
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You can change the clock speeds with SetCPU, because they're set pretty high on stock, 1.5 Ghz max and 1 Ghz min.
Mine gets hotter with regular use to heavy use.