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Just recently started watching netflix a little bit, and after about 10 minutes the phone gets ridiculously hot. It got to the point where I think the phone overheated and froze.
I tried limiting the CPU to 800mhz and set it to conservative, but it is still getting very hot.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Running ICScrewed v1.5.2 (I think that's the version, whatever the latest on it).
Netflix must be running the CPU/GPU at full bore most of the time while streaming content. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about it - it's the nature of the beast. This device tends to get really hot in extreme processing.
I'm starting to be concerned about the longevity of it. I know it's built around the 32nm mfg process so it's quite efficient but the heat is outrageous for a phone...
My phone got really hot only top left of the phone when I played blood and glory. Pretty weird. When I exit the game it cools back down like nothing ever happened. =\ I'm thinking I just got the phone at the wrong time/place.
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My phone gets really hot from some games but never Netflix, that's odd
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clor01 said:
My phone got really hot only top left of the phone when I played blood and glory. Pretty weird. When I exit the game it cools back down like nothing ever happened. =\ I'm thinking I just got the phone at the wrong time/place.
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Lol no its called welcome to the laws of physics. Electricity generates heat...
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Lol no its called welcome to the laws of physics. Electricity generates heat...
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Nothing is perfectly efficient, and a product of inefficiency is heat! The more power you use the more heat that's generated. Just like on a computer, the more CPU/GPU intensive things you do the more your computer will warm up.
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Thought maybe it was the phone itself.
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When I watch Netflix, I would say it gets a little warm - but I would certainly not call it hot.
Possibly another program(s) running in the background consuming additional resources?
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The only time Netflix has heated up my phone was when playing on my TV over a MHL adapter, while charging, and pulling the video over data. Normally when I just watch on the phone, using wifi it doesn't heat up.
But as others said, that's a lot of power, and I expected some heat. Even at that set up, it wasn't hot enough to worry me.
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Anyone's EVO get super hot after a little web browsing? I mean literally after about 5 minutes this thing is on fire. I'm rooted running viper's 1.2.1.
I haven't noticed it getting hot when browsing but definitely catches fire if using the camera for more than a few minutes.
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dsEVOlve said:
I haven't noticed it getting hot when browsing but definitely catches fire if using the camera for more than a few minutes.
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I haven't used the camera that much yet. I didn't realize there was another thread that addressed this issue, and when reading some of the comments, I guess we do need to consider that this is a device running a dual core 1.5Ghz processor, so it's gonna generate heat. I'm using an app to monitor the phone temp. I guess I'll wait and see.
experience this on my gnex... was quite abnormal coming from a my epic... where there as no heat generated unless i Overclocked. Its just how these dual cores work especially at such a high frequency. You could try changing governors though. What is is your gov anyways? I switched from interactive to Ondemand and the heat instantly vanished. Can even use while on the charger and it barely gets warm.
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My Verizon GS3 got over 130°F this morning. What is the safe # for it to hit before damage?
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My Verizon GS3 got over 130°F this morning. What is the safe # for it to hit before damage?
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In the palm pre safe was 125 degrees F
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That would be killing ur battery. Personally I'd swap. Coming from rezound alloy had that issue. I don't know bout gs3 but , that seems awfully hot.
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how did you manage that? when my phone hits 100 it feels like its burning my hands
That's 54 degrees Celsius! I'm surprised your battery hasn't melted and your phone's components haven't been damaged yet.
I'm pretty sure after 40-something celsius it starts to become unsafe for the device.
I'm sure phone CPUs have failsafe measures to prevent from melting in your hand. That said, I've never hit over 105F, and that was hot. You probably have a defective device. What were you doing at the time, besides charging? Charging does increase the temperature quite a bit sometimes, but not that much.
I agree mines never got over 107 , but it dose at times get hotter than it feels.
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My Verizon GS3 got over 130°F this morning. What is the safe # for it to hit before damage?
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Mine got up close to that just today, I was streaming pandora over bluetooth in the heat with a case on. And browsing. Not really worried about, they should be able to survive temperatures far higher than that.
Mine gets to around 110°F when using the video camera after 15 mins. It went as high as 116°F the other day
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Mine gets to around 110°F when using the video camera after 15 mins. It went as high as 116°F the other day
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I don't know if internal memory has the same issue but when I'm writing lots of data to my sdcard the card itself can get incredibly hot.
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My Verizon GS3 got over 130°F this morning. What is the safe # for it to hit before damage?
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Its probably damaged already, if you want a safe # it would be 140° F but that's dangerously close.
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Lately my phone has started to get warm too. Just browsing and even screen off in my pocket at around 95f... Not sure what caused it.
Thinking of doing a factory wipe and flashing rom again.
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I figured out the issue... It was the faux 004 kernel that made my phone hot. Flashed to 002 and all is good.
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Since the 4.1.1 update on my s3 i have been having problems with playing and just simply using my s3 while playing games it usually geta really hot at the back bottom and kinda worries me so i stop playing and kill tasks etc clear ram and eventually it helps, the thing is before the update im sure this didnt happen.
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wazzzat said:
Since the 4.1.1 update on my s3 i have been having problems with playing and just simply using my s3 while playing games it usually geta really hot at the back bottom and kinda worries me so i stop playing and kill tasks etc clear ram and eventually it helps, the thing is before the update im sure this didnt happen.
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It's normal since the glass and back are really thin (its usually at the bottom of phone), mine does the same if you use it a lot and have the screen kept on
Nothing to worry about.
I would check your battety stats though and look for something called media, this scans your media making your s3 bit hot.
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Hi i would like to share my exp. Before . After flashing jb for europe and poland my phone have unusual heat at the back.and the camera becomes fluffy.. I was worried i tot it was the jb for my s3 made in france... After i saw jb region: france ... I flash it was the right jb for my phone....
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You're right. When looking at tje screen its the bottom right in the back of the phone. I would assume it to be due to project butter amd a forced constant fps
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Now i can only feel a warm when playing games... When surfing no warm
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Hi i would like to share my exp. Before . After flashing jb for europe and poland my phone have unusual heat at the back.and the camera becomes fluffy.. I was worried i tot it was the jb for my s3 made in france... After i saw jb region: france ... I flash it was the right jb for my phone....
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That has practically nothing to do with it...
Placebo, they call it.
THANKS GUYS!! was just worried really lol
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It's the CPU that's heating up, that's near the bottom of the phone, unless the temp is in the 70s (celcius) there is nothing to worry about. The CPU will automatically throttle itself if it gets too hot (can't remember the exact value on the Exynos 4400, someone will though)
If you overclock it will heat up more, demanding activities like playing games etc will heat it up more.
If you are really concerned you can download System Tuner, then in there go to settings, and choose notification packages, then you can download the temperature package, and enable it, this will show live updates showing the temperature of the CPU in the notification bar. System Tuner can be used as root to overclock etc, but to show information like frequency and temperature it does not require root.
If. Downgraded the phone and stopped it what would be the disadvantages performance wise?
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Normal.
Just be glad it isn't an iPhone 4 or iPad 2, otherwise it would have self-combusted in your hands.
My S III gets REALLY hot when playing Asphalt 7, to the point of getting artifacts in the screen and eventually crashing the device.
I really don't care much about it. It is under warranty, so if I get any damage from that I'll harass Samsung so much they'll have to give me a new one.
When my phone was on ICS i never felt it getting warm while browsing the web, checking emails and changing system settings. Since upgraded to JB, I've noticed the phone was getting warm at the bottom (near the charging connector) 10 minutes after performing the above activities. The heat was definitely generated by the CPU, not the battery.
I used an app called Temp+CPU V2 from the Play Store to check CPU temperature. When the phone is on idle it hovers at around 25 degrees; after 10 minutes of use it goes up to around 35-38 degrees. By this point i can feel the bottom part of the phone was getting quite warm.
Can you guys test this and confirm whether your phones are behaving similar to mine?
Thanks!
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When my phone was on ICS i never felt it getting warm while browsing the web, checking emails and changing system settings. Since upgraded to JB, I've noticed the phone was getting warm at the bottom (near the charging connector) 10 minutes after performing the above activities. The heat was definitely generated by the CPU, not the battery.
I used an app called Temp+CPU V2 from the Play Store to check CPU temperature. When the phone is on idle it hovers at around 25 degrees; after 10 minutes of use it goes up to around 35-38 degrees. By this point i can feel the bottom part of the phone was getting quite warm.
Can you guys test this and confirm whether your phones are behaving similar to mine?
Thanks!
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Do you have power saving on or off?
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Do you have power saving on or off?
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I've tried both ON and OFF. Makes little difference.
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I've tried both ON and OFF. Makes little difference.
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Does for me, having it on uses less cpu making my s3 less hot but having it off can notice a big difference especially playing games and using internet.
My s3 just suffers from warmness now.
Up to you though
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I was thinking ****ing it just downgrade it in the interest of the phones safety etc lol and wait till they release an update for project butter or jb etc etc... to finally sort this dam problem it it's probably nothing big but it does cause worries I always ha've mine on power save but it stays the same heat with games etc
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You got a quadcore device in your hands. And it has no cooling whatsoever. So there's no wonder it gets hot when used. Especially playing games or similar stuff.
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first of all, sorry for my bad english. i just recently bought a samsung s3 i747, from amazon. since i have the phone, it gets really hot... even when im not using it. the normal cpu temp is 43* celcius.. and when is charging it cant be at 55 degrees... i cant returen the prhone to the seller because im in Venezuela and is a problem to send it. anyone could help me? what should i do?
when my samsung s3 gt19300 heats up, the screen is nolonger sensitive what could the problem be
I am a new user of HOX+ and I dont know if the temperature is normal or not. I'm using Elegancia ROM and use it only to play Candy Crush or Governor of Poker. My mobile data is rarely on and I often set the brightness level to the lowest. The battery temperature widget says it is running around 43-45 celcius degree, sometimes a little bit more. For me, that number makes the upper back part of the handset (around the camera) too hot and uncomfortable for my palm. Is the temperature normal?
What ROM do you use and how is temperature going?
Afaik its been a common problem. I run Viper XL and my battery goes up to 50C
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cortem said:
Afaik its been a common problem. I run Viper XL and my battery goes up to 50C
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Well it must be annoying. Ive read some articles about it and the problem comes from the characteristics of Tegra 3 overheating. I think that answer my question about it being too hot. I hope the the hardcase doesnt prevent the heat to go out
I been using for almost a year, it overheated before. In August I gave it to the services Center, when it came back. It doesn't over heat as much as it did. Max temperature so far on my phone is 50c,before 55.
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Daryll99 said:
I been using for almost a year, it overheated before. In August I gave it to the services Center, when it came back. It doesn't over heat as much as it did. Max temperature so far on my phone is 50c,before 55.
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Thanks for replying
so how do you use your phone? what is your average temperature now?
Gaming, videos, music, browsing, Facebook, Instagram, HTC blink etc. Average temperature 45c.
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It's actually lower than I expected, hahaha.
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It's actually lower than I expected, hahaha.
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Dang...mine is around 45
Do you measure that temperature when you are playing games or doing whatsoever or right after you turn the device on? Any means or tool you use to preserve the battery temperature?
When i am just texting or browsing it is quite cool, But the heat goes way over the top when I then use it for games after that. I can feel the difference too much.
Is it related to the working cores or something?
I measure whenever I want to. No there's no such application to do that unless you underclock, but lose performance. Take it to the service Center, tell them to fix it, tell it overheats. Mine was first only formatted, then I lied to them about having other issues, so they send it to the company, and they replaced everything inside, when it came back, no more issues. I'm guessing an updated version of the Tegra 3 is released, which fixes overheating issues, so maybe they kept the new one in mine lol
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I measure whenever I want to. No there's no such application to do that unless you underclock, but lose performance. Take it to the service Center, tell them to fix it, tell it overheats. Mine was first only formatted, then I lied to them about having other issues, so they send it to the company, and they replaced everything inside, when it came back, no more issues. I'm guessing an updated version of the Tegra 3 is released, which fixes overheating issues, so maybe they kept the new one in mine lol
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Then i guess its better for the old hox+ to be returned to be replaced
Mine is a gift and no htc service center nearby. I think I have to accept this. Or maybe i could wait for others to post here to see if it only happens to me or not