Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Google Pixel 3a stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.
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My A3 was really heating while charging, always around 41 to 43 degrees, and sometimes while playing to. The actual temperature here (south France) is around 30/34 degrees. I asked Google a replacement phone, they send me one new. Same temperature. So the problem was not the phone, just pixel 3a seems to be quickly heating up.
I found a video that I wanted a transcript of. I started Google recorder and then the video. Worked great for 10 minutes then recorder turned off transcript "due to excessive heat". Hahaha. I guess they never tested over 5 minutes. So I tend to give the app and the 3a poor marks in the heat category.
dkryder said:
I found a video that I wanted a transcript of. I started Google recorder and then the video. Worked great for 10 minutes then recorder turned off transcript "due to excessive heat". Hahaha. I guess they never tested over 5 minutes. So I tend to give the app and the 3a poor marks in the heat category.
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Same experience with recording long videos on my 3a. My Pixel 1 gets super hot when using the camera too. That Google computational photography burns a lot of CPU and battery!
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Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Huawei Mate 9 stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.
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Best heat management I've seen in a while, op3 has the best heat management I saw before until I use mate 9. heat , mate 9 it's even better than op3.
Never had a phone which runs this cool all the time. At it's worst, it feels warm to touch, but never ever has gotten hot. Not even remotely. I agree, wife's OP3 does get warmer/hotter than my Mate 9.
Playing War Robots yield High Temperature
I'd have to say this phone is pretty low in temperature when playing games.
My old nexus 6 always got pretty hot playing hearthstone. This one doesn't even break a sweat.
It only warms up a little when it's fresh on the charger here.
My Mate 9 has automatically shut itself down on a few occasions due to overheating when I had the camera open and was taking pictures or recording video for an extended period (~5 min or so). Anyone else notice this?
I've had this for a few months and it's honestly never felt hot to me.
My previous phone was the Moto X Pure Edition (2015). Any kind of activities such as watching a movie, play a simple game, and I can use it as a mini thermal fusion reactor.
I haven't had any issues with heat so far with my Mate 9.
Loving this phone and easily my most well-liked phone since my original Galaxy Note.
I thought the Mate8 was fast, this one is even better.
The only time my Mate 9 warms up is when I use Waze as the GPS . The trip took more than an hour and the phone felt uncomfortably warm after about 30 minutes.
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The only time my Mate 9 warms up is when I use Waze as the GPS . The trip took more than an hour and the phone felt uncomfortably warm after about 30 minutes.
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I use Waze (daily for 1h30) and can honestly say I have never felt my Mate 9 anything more than slightly warm.
Did you have your heating vent pointing at it perhaps? Or in direct sunlight?
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Never got some heat.... Unless using the wrong charger....! Cool phone ever...
Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the HTC U Play stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.
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This phone can get hot. It can be cozy on freezing days playing ingress for hours and keeping your hand warm.
The phone once burnt itself during regular use, a smoke trail left the USB-C port. One month later I figured out how to communicate with HTC and I had it fixed by a HTC service provider, and they replaced the part that burnt for free. That's good service but It was not easy to find.
Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Moto G5 stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.
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This maybe the one letdown - when charging or doing something intensive the phone can get very hot
Great, you just killed the little we had in this forum.
It happened to me a couple of weeks ago - with friends we were trying out Hypernom, a vr app for walking in a non-euclidean space. Then we put the vr headset with the phone aside to discuss the experiences. After a while the phone rang, I got a call. I took it out to answer, and nearly had an earburn - the beast was seriously hot! It just continued generating the real time stereo, without even having to move it, and from that it became so hot it really did hurt my ear.
Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Honor 8 Pro stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.
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The phone does heat up while doing some gpu intensive tasks like gaming or VR. The phone feels warm but definitely not uncomfortable while using it. And since now I've been using it as my daily driver with routine tasks, the heating has reduced quite a bit, it is not noticeable now.
The back panel is metal so it cools down easily.
I played for 30 minutes with wifi on , it didn't reached high temperature , i didn't feel any discomfort.
Good.
I loved to play the modern combat 5 , it smoother than butter.
you throw anything and it will handle very well. no heating at all.
ho,handling gaming,multitasking pretty well
no heat issue for me.
Heating fixed after B150 update.
I hoped that it would be resolved, but no.
I went to an island near Udupi, Malpe, India to test video recording capabilities.
To my unpleasant surprise after 10 minutes of shooting 4k60 I got a message
"Device is too hot, it may affect quality"
So I switched to 4k30, but still frames were dropped when trying to record.
At for now, during summer. 4k60 is kinda useless.
Here is a small clip about my trip ( shot with main camera +2x sometimes)
GCAM stabilisation off + Snoppa atom gimbal.
I love overall video quality, but the overheating during 4k60 is a bummer,
Not sure if XDA allows links, you can find my sample in YouTube
"St Mary Island 2021 4k" #pixel6
The same for me, my recording was 11 minutes and then this message pop up... quite disappointing. At least video was saved...
Same here guys - I was able to get to 20:04 with the December update, but today when recording at home 22-24 ambient temp and the phone was exposed on the sun... I got 10 minutes.
What a shame! The Pixel 6 Pro definetly has better cooling as it can really go longer.
Disabling H.265/HEVC video encoding will stop the phone from overheating so soon, at the expense of using up more of your phone's storage space. In the camera settings go to "Advanced" and disable "Store videos efficiently".
To be fair its done quite well to go that long, a lot of phones can only make a few minutes, you aren't only battling the processor heating up the camera sensor will also get overly warm and add to any heat produced.
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To be fair its done quite well to go that long, a lot of phones can only make a few minutes, you aren't only battling the processor heating up the camera sensor will also get overly warm and add to any heat produced.
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Well, my 2017 OP6 can still do 10 min 4k60 easily. In terms of SOC 4 years is a lot, power, efficiency etc. Done videography in the same conditions I.e. +30 Celsius.
A pity p6 still shoots like 4 year old phone 10 mins, and that's it.
I wish I could say, p6 video quality is waaaaay better.
It is better though. especially night time.
Stabilisation, although not iPhone tier, is decent at least.
Overall, I am quite happy with video quality, especially with 3rd party apps, which can crank up the bitrate sky high.
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Well, my 2017 OP6 can still do 10 min 4k60 easily. In terms of SOC 4 years is a lot, power, efficiency etc. Done videography in the same conditions I.e. +30 Celsius.
A pity p6 still shoots like 4 year old phone 10 mins, and that's it.
I wish I could say, p6 video quality is waaaaay better.
It is better though. especially night time.
Stabilisation, although not iPhone tier, is decent at least.
Overall, I am quite happy with video quality, especially with 3rd party apps, which can crank up the bitrate sky high.
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I'm very glad to hear you have had great experiences with a OP6 but a quick Google will bring up millions of results from people with an overheating phone (regardless of brand & including OnePlus) when shooting 4K, this isnt something specific to the Pixel 6.
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I'm very glad to hear you have had great experiences with a OP6 but a quick Google will bring up millions of results from people with an overheating phone (regardless of brand & including OnePlus) when shooting 4K, this isnt something specific to the Pixel 6.
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I agree, it is a common thing, especially 4k60