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Epic Hot and Unresponsive

Today my Epic started getting really hot while charging and using wifi, the battery temp hit 43C. Now when I'm using wifi, my phone keeps getting hot even when not charging, and the screen becomes unresponsive.
I was running Viper Rom 4.0.3 EXT4, so I decided to try and flash a new rom. Just flashed the Bonsai 2.1 EXT4 and its doing the same thing.
Think its time to Odin back to DI18 and take it to Sprint?

Something with cable perhaps I would suggest take the batt out cool a little and try again I had problem with mine started like that a month latter exchanged for new one
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its ok when its plugged in and you are doing things on it it will get hot. mine has gotten to 46 celsius before. i dont know about getting hot when not plugged in. you might have a short in it.

Not going to help,but when I read this I was thinking this is how I like my woman! But the unresponsive mayb not so much!
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Lol!!!! I guess it depends on how much they talk.
socos25 said:
Not going to help,but when I read this I was thinking this is how I like my woman! But the unresponsive mayb not so much!
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Capacitive menu button activating by itself

So a few times a day my phone will start bugging out, vibrating and the same menu that would pop up if you pressed the menu button would come up. I find it pretty weird, I can't reproduce it but it comes and goes.
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Same with me.
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This kinda sucks because I have a feeling it's a hardware issue, I'm over my 14 days and I'm scared that I might get a phone with LOS. Damn I thought I almost got away with a problem free epic.......
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Same is happening to me, I made a thread about it and no help, might be a hardware issue.
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tonight mine freaked out a little bit but not exactly the same as yours. My phone appeared to freeze up for a few seconds and then anytime I pressed any of the capacitive buttons the voice talk app would say "what would you like to do?" I had to reboot it to get it to stop.

Krnla said:
Same is happening to me, I made a thread about it and no help, might be a hardware issue.
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I Google's it a bit and it looks like others have this issue as well. It used to only happen once a day but lately it's more often. Issue seems to be getting worse. I know for sure tho when I bring it to sprint it won't happen at all and I'll have to argue with them.
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sorry for ressurecting an old thread. but anyone with a fix for this? i swear this hasnt happened untill like my 15th day lol..
someone help!

Im having the same problem.. But I can watch my menu open and close on its own. I cant figure it out to save my life. I got this oct 15th its now nov 4 th.. If I go to our sprint store & get a hassle, someone will be eatin this phone..
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Well front desk girl almost ate this phone.... I felt kinda bad abt it afterwards.. Repair guy stayed behind the glass window... So after some pressure, they decided it was a hardware issue with the touch screen, an replaced the phone.
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Yea, I get this issue every now and then. Some of the ROMs give me less frequency, but it always seems to happen again.

jmcghee1973 said:
Well front desk girl almost ate this phone.... I felt kinda bad abt it afterwards.. Repair guy stayed behind the glass window... So after some pressure, they decided it was a hardware issue with the touch screen, an replaced the phone.
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congrats on getting a replacement. unfortunately, im outside my 14- and 30-day period so i suppose im stuck with this issue

anyone with any more info on this? Mine starting doing this recently.
Factory Reset was a no fix.

This started happen to me too, my home button gets "stuck" when i press the power it would take a screen shot. I hope its not a hardware issue, i really baby my phone. I am calk rom 2.0. Also i belive samsungs warrenty should cover it for free.
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ranchosteve said:
This started happen to me too, my home button gets "stuck" when i press the power it would take a screen shot. I hope its not a hardware issue, i really baby my phone. I am calk rom 2.0. Also i belive samsungs warrenty should cover it for free.
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Damn, that doesn't sound right. I wouldn't wait if it happens anymore. If you don't have insurance, will they charge the $100 deductible?
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Does your SIII heat up at the bottom when under heavy load?

Just curious if anybody else's gets pretty warm after surfing the web and listening to some music or another instance was while video chatting with my wife? Is this been the case or do I have a defect. The vibrant I came from never really did.

Yea it gets a little warm but nothing to worry about. Let's not forget how thin the back cover is.... So you will feel it warm.
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Yeah, mine gets warm. I don't consider it "HOT"

Ditto....it heats up...and i feel it through my case...have not given it much thought thou.
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yup definitely gets hot. Usually it's ok but when it's really hot outside it can be bothersome but not to the point that it burns or anything. At least not yet lol.

Thanks guys, I feel better.

If you are too worried use some app that will display battery temperature. I use wifi tether. My battery goes to max 37 degree Celsius after gaming for half an hour. That's not bad considering the battery is designed to operate upto 60 degrees.
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Mine gets hot after about 20 minutes browsing the web without letting the screen turn off once, but it always cools back down really fast. I was freaking out the first couple of times this happened because T-mobile's exchange policy is retarded and slow. I waited long enough for the phone I didn't want to have to wait longer for a replacement. I also have an issue that has been happening ever since I bought the phone. I tried searching, but got nothing. com.process.google.gapps always force closes, but after I hit okay everything runs great. When it happens it does freeze everything on the phone except the notification bar. Then when it finally says com.process.google.gapps has stopped and needs to close, I just hit the okay button and it's like nothing ever happened. Anybody else have this problem and if so know what's causing it?

Mine can get pretty warm too to the point where my hand gets greasy/ sweaty a little .. gets annoying
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Same here
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You said heavy load... Lol
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Mine heats up jus ten minutes after browsing the web.. I guess it's normal but I don't like it
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I can't tell... I live in Texas and even our ice is hot right now.
Sent from my phone! Suck it 1980's.

esteho said:
I can't tell... I live in Texas and even our ice is hot right now.
Sent from my phone! Suck it 1980's.
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Lol nice! That's funny ..pretty hot here in Florida too.. low 90s with a lot of rain = humidity
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Used my phone for navigation yesterday, perched on my dash in the blazing sun, screen on for an hour and GPS on using Bluetooth for music. Got to 44.8C.

stevessvt said:
Used my phone for navigation yesterday, perched on my dash in the blazing sun, screen on for an hour and GPS on using Bluetooth for music. Got to 44.8C.
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Did you have any issues? Like the phone slowing down, rebooting or even shutting off due to an over heat?

Mine gets warm as well, but not "hot," so I don't worry about it.

After flashing new kernel. It doesn't feel so warm. I don't run it overclocked.
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[psa] leaving recovery on too long results in hard brick

THIS HAS BEEN VERIFIED BY ME, AND JOKERSAX HAS TOLD ME ABOUT TWO OTHER DEVS WHO HAVE HAD SIMILAR RESULTS
This is a public service announcement saying that if you leave recovery (I left TWRP on overnight while restoring a nandroid) on too long, under certain circumstances not yet completely determined may lead your device to a hard brick. This has happened to 3 people so far, and want to avoid anymore issues with this.​
For more details on what happened I was flashing a V5 test build of my rom im working on adding aroma too where I got another syntax error to fix. It was about 11:30 at night, so I just started restoring from a nandroid, threw the phone upside down, and knocked out. When I woke up the next morning I checked the device and it was off in recharge mode- nothing too big. I then tried to boot and it ended up flashing the notification light and softkeys repeatedly, and did nothing else. I was able to get it into download mode, but LGNPST kept timing out. Then after trying several times with it timing out it wouldnt get into download mode. I then tried to just get anything to light up, and left it on the charger for several hours, and then gave up that my device was hard bricked. No data remained. I had to go to best buy and wait about an hour and a half for them to get me a new device. I hope everyone can avoid this happening to their device. It is a slow, but sure death reported by a few people.​

And to think I left my phone in recovery. for about 2 hours =x scared to even boot to recovery now
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Veritass said:
And to think I left my phone in recovery. for about 2 hours =x scared to even boot to recovery now
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If youre phone boots it will be fine. I left it for about 8 hours or so.

You should make this a sticky

Ya i was taking my time with the aroma installer and noticed my phone heat up real quick! Had to turn my phone off after the rom booted. Close call!
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This must be what happened to my first LGOG, I feel asleep running a backup. When I woke up it wouldn't boot. Thank goodness for Geek Squad coverage.

Does anyone know if this problem exists with clockwork too? I already fried a phone just making a simple backup using TWRP.
I'm using CWM now and made a backup and flashed a rom and my phone survived.
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toprock23 said:
Ya i was taking my time with the aroma installer and noticed my phone heat up real quick! Had to turn my phone off after the rom booted. Close call!
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Every time I use aroma my phone gets scorching hot. If I recall my GS3 did the same thing with aroma.
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_Epic said:
Every time I use aroma my phone gets scorching hot. If I recall my GS3 did the same thing with aroma.
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Any time I boot to recovery my phone heats up =p
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My phone also gets really got while in recovery mine also overheated exactly like the OP but mine came back to life I left it alone for a few hours then put it on the charger and finally got into download mode then recovery and restore. We definitely need to do something like timeout where after 10 minute the phone shuts off or something. Not sure it is possible but I like ranting lol
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We need to fix recovery
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Thanks for the info! I used to leave backups running overnight all the time with my previous devices. Good thing I haven't with this one.
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Only thing that could heat up the phone like that is the cpu core running at max.or spiking to max very very rapidly. Basically the soc with all the chipsests are not going into a sleep mode. I can see why all the data was gone and or damaged. I've seen something like this with other electronics.
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I have not left recovery on long enough to experience noticeable overheating myself. I wish I knew how to fix the recovery myself though. Also as for making this a sticky (I read half the posts through email, and might have got this thread mixed up) mods are kinda inactive, so it will be hard for us to do.

evodev said:
I have not left recovery on long enough to experience noticeable overheating myself. I wish I knew how to fix the recovery myself though. Also as for making this a sticky (I read half the posts through email, and might have got this thread mixed up) mods are kinda inactive, so it will be hard for us to do.
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If I am in recovery for 5 seconds, my device heats up really bad. But it is the only time it heats up.

_Epic said:
If I am in recovery for 5 seconds, my device heats up really bad. But it is the only time it heats up.
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I have heat up while playing games or streaming music, or leaving it at the lockscreen too long. Maybe undervolting it can fix it? IDR if joker's test kernel added it or not.

Happened to me to. But mine was adb push file to sdcard and lost power due to usb low charge and recovery turning phone into a glass top stove
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Mine overheats after playing Beach Buggy Blitz for five minutes, in recovery. Too often really :/

These are reasons I always finish what I'm working on before I sleep! It drives my girlfriend nuts ha ha. But yes, the phone does get hot rapidly in recovery hotter than I have ever gotten it running any game or app
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well TWRP 4.2 is out now, maybe itll fix our little problem.

Can a battery get a short?

My phone has been randomly turning off for no reason. But only when I'm on battery, does nothing when I'm plugged up. I haven't dropped it or done anything to damage it. It's just a little under a year and a half old. At first I thought it was my rom being screwy. So I flashed back to PA 1.98 and it still turns off randomly. When it turns back on the battery will be about 25%-70% lower than it was when it died. So I'm thinking my battery has a short in it or something that makes it lose power randomly long enough for the phone to turn all the way off, but I don't wanna drop the money for a new one (broke right now...stupid speeding ticket) just for it to still be messing up. So does anyone know of any software/rom issues that would be causing this? I'm currently running Condemned's CM7.

If it's a short mine has one as well. I'll get a black screen then nothing n it'll pop back on after a semi short wait or battery pull n same about the battery.
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Mine has been doing that from time to time too.

Its getting worse and starting to really get annoying. It pretty much always does it unless its plugged up
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JehC said:
Its getting worse and starting to really get annoying. It pretty much always does it unless its plugged up
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Well it is a year and a half old phones do tend to age and as well as battery. I'd look for batteries on amazon maybe even a new charger.
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not only did a new battery fix the problem, i got one for 6.39 free shipping off amazon and now my battery literally last 4 times as long.