I just added a data plan , I was using the phone exclusively on WiFi,I noticed the device gets real warm when using the phone when the mobile data is on(by using the phone I mean, surfing web, streaming music and GPS navigation)
Is that a common problem, or it's just with my device, that I should seek help for?
Btw,I upgraded to ics through kies last month....
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Do you have an app that tells you your device temp. It could be normal, but it's hard knowing if you don't know the actual temp.
I've noticed when using the radio vs WiFi, my device runs warmer. High 80's, sometimes higher if I'm running it a lot. WiFi always seems to run cooler.
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As long is it is not burning your hand, then it's perfectly fine. Most phones tend to warm up during use. You can perhaps try a different kernel if you are rooted and undervolt, some people claim it helps. If not then don't even stress unless it hurts to hold the phone.
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Thank you guys,I just downloaded a battery indicator app which shows the temperature, and I'm gonna keep an eye on it,
I've heard that temp should not exceed 130
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RikkKeith said:
Do you have an app that tells you your device temp. It could be normal, but it's hard knowing if you don't know the actual temp.
I've noticed when using the radio vs WiFi, my device runs warmer. High 80's, sometimes higher if I'm running it a lot. WiFi always seems to run cooler.
The temp definitely gets Warner than the high 80s F ....
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i fried an egg on mine yesterday
glxys said:
i fried an egg on mine yesterday
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Did you find a month old thread just to say that? You must be bored
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I used to have problems with mine getting very hot but this would only happen if I was using GPS for extended periods of time.
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When I'm on mobile data with GPS running, I noticed the bottom of half of my S3 getting pretty damn warm. Is this normal?
Just started using mine I'm feeling the same heat
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No heat here.. downloaded a 840mb file over 3g for A span of like 3 or 4 hours and didn't get any heat at all
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Mine also gets quite warm. I can't believe yours wasn't cooking after downloading that file
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Are you guys all running stock kernel and ROM or custom? I'm on stock.
Ha! Try hours with GPS, Bluetooth music and Tethering on... the heat seems to really hit while I'm charging and doing all that. Fact! I can't touch the ass end of the phone. It probably gets about 8 hours a week like that. Still working perfectly. Samsung tells me it's normal. It also has a lot of factors for me too. I use a 1 amp charger. After 96% it's not so bad. At night when brightness is down. Not as hot. I tried to get it to mess up but couldn't. GPS, Bluetooth, tethering, charging from 30% and 100% display, and I pushed out to a low coverage area. Didn't miss a beat or melt. Lol.
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Navigation makes phones really hot, but with normal usage it should stay within 30-36°C.
I like this phone's heat management more than my old phone. My Evo 3d would get hot from 10 min usage.
On this, my screen has been on for 2 hours straight and I'm running at a cool 35.1 °C.
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yousefak said:
Navigation makes phones really hot, but with normal usage it should stay within 30-36°C.
I like this phone's heat management more than my old phone. My Evo 3d would get hot from 10 min usage.
On this, my screen has been on for 2 hours straight and I'm running at a cool 35.1 °C.
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How do you check the temp?
clankfu said:
How do you check the temp?
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Download this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.darshancomputing.BatteryIndicator
In the notification it will tell you the battery temperature.
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yousefak said:
Download this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.darshancomputing.BatteryIndicator
In the notification it will tell you the battery temperature.
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gracias
clankfu said:
When I'm on mobile data with GPS running, I noticed the bottom of half of my S3 getting pretty damn warm. Is this normal?
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When I was running CM10 for a day or two I thought my phone would melt but it was also 90+ degrees outside so it was hard to tell. My phone gets a little warm, but nothing too worrying.
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Mine also gets quite warm. I can't believe yours wasn't cooking after downloading that file
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I downloaded teamsonic Rom while at work and no heat.. just murdered my battery. Went from almost 90% to dead by the time it downloaded
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I downloaded teamsonic Rom while at work and no heat.. just murdered my battery. Went from almost 90% to dead by the time it downloaded
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When you downloaded that, were you on stock ROM and kernel?
This is to be expected. It is pretty high clock rate too but seriously a huge improvement from the gs2
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No I was on the previous version of team sonic Rom.
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I get stupid heat when i play with my phone for abot 30 min.....its crazy.....guess every thing comes with a cost specially if this phone is this thin.
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This is to be expected. It is pretty high clock rate too but seriously a huge improvement from the gs2
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It actually shouldn't be expected. The Snapdragon S3's also ran at 1.5ghz and was pleasantly cool and the Exynos on the Galaxy Note was at 1.4ghz. Both are less power efficient and should run hotter than the S4. I've used the Evo LTE for a while with the same S4 and it barely got warm on a hot day. The issue is with the second core being weird. For those that hasn't already, make sure you flash Freeza's fix, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1790061 . This fix made my phone cool and got rid of my quickly draining battery life.
Most of the time my phone will stay within "normal" (to me) range, but when I game heavily... it turns into an oven range! I've gotten so paranoid a few times, I took the battery out and let it cooled for 5-10min
Im having the same problem....it isnt the software thats causing this its the hardware
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I hope you guys will repsond to this... What do you consider to be "normal" temperature for your phone to reach? Is 35 degrees realy normal? Ive heard people with s3 talk of theirs only reaching temperatures of 29 degrees max.
Thanks.
So I don't use my phone while I'm working or if I'm in class. When I'm in class I have just Pandora going but otherwise its nothing else. Cell standby uses 82% of my batter....
Sucks getting like 2 hours of acctual use and I cant get ics on my phone
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So I don't use my phone while I'm working or if I'm in class. When I'm in class I have just Pandora going but otherwise its nothing else. Cell standby uses 82% of my batter....
Sucks getting like 2 hours of acctual use and I cant get ics on my phone
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I had this problem while in training last year for my current job. The training room was a dead zone and the phone was working overtime to try to find a signal.
If you weren't relying on Pandora, I'd just recommend Flight Mode. Worked a treat for me. Maybe just try setting it to not use 4G while you're in class and see if that helps.
Nowadays, I have a 64GB SDXC card with about half of it loaded with music. Don't need TuneIn Radio (or other streaming options) unless there's a specific musical itch my collection just won't scratch.
Also, getting ICS on the 'unbreakable' AT&T phone was far easier than it sounded when just reading about it. Have a look at the various threads and just remember that 'Step 1.bat' won't tell you that it's succeeded. XD
EDIT: You know, I was just looking at that screenshot... 8 hours on the battery, and it's barely dipped at all, judging from the graph on top. '81%' just means that 81% of the drain was due to Cell Standby.
Yea it looks to me like your getting some good up time there. One thing I noticed with Pandora is the adds will cause a heck of a drain on battery and chews up quite a bit of data as well. I personally use a add blocker from the market and a app manager to keep stuff optimized. I also use a add free Pandora I found here on XDA but mainly for data reasons since I only have 3gb.
LTE can drain battery pretty good. Mine isn't as drastic as yours though.
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Today I went from 65% to 30% in an hour... I want ics! another question. Can we increase the limit on how large a video we can small? Gosms allows up to 5mb I think and the quality of the sms size is horrible to say the least.
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My battery wasn't that bad on GB lol. You must be getting terrible signal or something
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I live by a tower on campus lol
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I fixed it
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how lol
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how lol
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Set up jucie deffender pro to enable 4g only on a few apps 100% like Pandora the rest I disabled 100% or set to come on when I.open then and am looking at them 5 hours almost and im just hitting 69
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Hey guys wondering if anyone else had this issue? Got the Galaxy S3 and its runs pretty hot. Not like the whole phone but like half of it mostly where the home button is but in the back.
Don't know what it is. Wanted to know if anyone else was experiencing this or if its kernel related/ROM related.
I've tried switching ROMs, Kernels, Governors, Schedulers and still nothing. Also undervolting and underclocking. Right now I'm running Casper's AOKP build 9/20 and its running beautifullyt except for this heating issue.
Let's see if anyone else is having the same as me or can offer help.
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I'm running stock, rooted, stock kernel. It heats up when I'm gaming or doing something CPU intensive. Never had a problem because of it though. I've seen other threads where this is pretty much considered normal.
I mean I had a GNex before this and it did used to get warm in the back when I used to surf the web or use the phone but once I rooted and changed kernels, undervolted and underclocked, I could do anything and it wouldn't get hot.
Since I'm fairly new to the GS3 I just figured I post it on here just to see if this was how the phone ran typically
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Yeah my gets hot too 47c
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If I have the hot spot on, and I am using it quite a bit, it will get quite warm. Usually up into the mid 40's.
Yeah so I'm guessing I'm not the only one lol that's good. Hopefully a kernel or something can make this go away. If not I'm getting a case
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I can confirm that using the lean kernel did help a bit. Still gets hot though....time to get a new case
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Im over clocked ktoonsez kernel, and never had that issue. Only while 3d gaming does it normally get hot or during benchmarking.
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For me the only time my gs3 got hot was when i first got the phone and it was restoring all the apps from the market and when playing gta 3 other then that my phone doesnt heat up. When surfing internet it doesnt get hot but just a little warm. I do use a tpu case
Like its weird. When I'm not using the phone is perfectly fine. When I text or sometimes use WiFi its fine. And also when my battery is like under 30% its fine. But other times like when its full, it gets really hot. I'm using lean kernel ATM.
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Like its weird. When I'm not using the phone is perfectly fine. When I text or sometimes use WiFi its fine. And also when my battery is like under 30% its fine. But other times like when its full, it gets really hot. I'm using lean kernel ATM.
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Like with my phone as I type im full battery right now, and its cool as freon. And im over clocked. If your still under warranty then why dont you swap it out if its that hot. Otherwise I wouldnt worry about it too much.
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Like with my phone as I type im full battery right now, and its cool as freon. And im over clocked. If your still under warranty then why dont you swap it out if its that hot. Otherwise I wouldnt worry about it too much.
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Like right now I'm at 1.5ghz interactive sio and its warm. I'm at like 85% battery. Like I just don't understand it lol but I'm just gonna buy a case so I won't feel it as much...
What ROM are you running ATM?
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NoLunchBox_ said:
Like right now I'm at 1.5ghz interactive sio and its warm. I'm at like 85% battery. Like I just don't understand it lol but I'm just gonna buy a case so I won't feel it as much...
What ROM are you running ATM?
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Im on Wicked v5 Rom / ktoonsez kernel
Pretty good batt, and no heating issues. Been using this combo for a while now. Which case are you considering?
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Alright I'm back to report. I'm still on AOKP running Ktoonz Kernel and no undervolting or over clocking. Its at 1.3 and 540 MHz and its running fine without getting too hot.
BIT I have to add I took my SD card OUT. Yes I noticed that the phone was getting hot where the sd was located so I took it out. Idk if its just me but this helped a lot. Its not running as hot as it used to be.
Anyone want to test that out as well? Would be helpful. Thanks
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Alright I'm back to report. I'm still on AOKP running Ktoonz Kernel and no undervolting or over clocking. Its at 1.3 and 540 MHz and its running fine without getting too hot.
BIT I have to add I took my SD card OUT. Yes I noticed that the phone was getting hot where the sd was located so I took it out. Idk if its just me but this helped a lot. Its not running as hot as it used to be.
Anyone want to test that out as well? Would be helpful. Thanks
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that would kinda make sense because when i use the adapter on the micro sd and put that in the computer and put some roms and some videos on it id say maybe 10 min to do all that. and then when i retrieve and go to put in the phone its really hot. so it could have something to do with that
Yeah I'm not sure. I mean its still hot I'm not going to lie bit its not as hot as it used to be. When I had it in there it was like burning hot now its just warm.
I wonder what it is really...
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OK so I know pie devices get relatively hot, but when just having my screen on and typing on here or using root explorer it goes up to some 90 degrees. And it just concerns me because my galaxy s2 hardly guys 90 even while playing intensive games.
I'm just curious if 90 is normal or if I should get a new device through warranty.
Thanks everyone.
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OK so I know pie devices get relatively hot, but when just having my screen on and typing on here or using root explorer it goes up to some 90 degrees. And it just concerns me because my galaxy s2 hardly guys 90 even while playing intensive games.
I'm just curious if 90 is normal or if I should get a new device through warranty.
Thanks everyone.
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When I was using SetCPU, I saw mine hovered between 80-90 most of the time. If it is bothering your hand, put a case on it. I use an Otterbox Defender and I can feel the heat through the case sometimes.
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When I was using SetCPU, I saw mine hovered between 80-90 most of the time. If it is bothering your hand, put a case on it. I use an Otterbox Defender and I can feel the heat through the case sometimes.
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It's not bothering me as in terms of heating my hand, it bothers me in thinking my phone isn't going to last long at all -.-
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Like right now I'm just browsing xda and texting and I'm at 91 -.-
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I'm switching between texts, Reddit, and tapatalk and I'm at 93°
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In my experience this generally hapoens either after a new rom flash or just at random (seemingly). But it has always eventually calmed down and stays cool after that.
I suspect it is searching for mor something....like updating libraries of songs and whatnot. Seems like it occasionally gets stuck and when you add additional load it easilyy heats up. Try using Show CPU Use in dev options and keep an eye on the top few processes while it heats up. May give you an idea as to the real cause.
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In my experience this generally hapoens either after a new rom flash or just at random (seemingly). But it has always eventually calmed down and stays cool after that.
I suspect it is searching for mor something....like updating libraries of songs and whatnot. Seems like it occasionally gets stuck and when you add additional load it easilyy heats up. Try using Show CPU Use in dev options and keep an eye on the top few processes while it heats up. May give you an idea as to the real cause.
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That's absolute genius. Thanks doc never even thought of that, I was using CPU spy but it was very hard to tell.
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Cpu spy is great for its intended use, but quickly becomes limited in what it can tell you.
Don't praise too much too soon! It may not yeild any useful info! But it is a good option to try.
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I hope you are talking about 90f and not 90c...because if your phone gets to 90c I don't know how it even operates.
Using system tuner pro.. My temperature is between 36c-44c
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Cpu spy is great for its intended use, but quickly becomes limited in what it can tell you.
Don't praise too much too soon! It may not yeild any useful info! But it is a good option to try.
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after enabling what you had said, I couldn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Surfaceflinger was the only one that was always up. But that's absolutely needed. I'm hoping it settles down after about a week.
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I hope you are talking about 90f and not 90c...because if your phone gets to 90c I don't know how it even operates.
Using system tuner pro.. My temperature is between 36c-44c
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And yes it's Fahrenheit not Celsius. I didn't know how to spell "Fahrenheit" and was too lazy to look it up then
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It's there any way to disable this? I am on stock ZVB rooted with I.A. installed. My phone will shutdown due to temp constantly, especially now that the weather is getting nice out. This is getting to the point of being a deal breaker with this phone. Will a custom ROM help? I love this phone but this is getting to be unacceptable...
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Never heard of such a thing. Try a kernel mod app like Fauxclock or Tricksters mod. Might make all the difference. I swear by Faux's myselff, and have great performance, battery life and no added heat.
There is but it's not recommended. The phone shuts off in order to try and make sure the heat does not damage the hardware permanently. If you're phone is shutting down that often due to heat then it sounds like you need to get it replaced. I've never had it shut down due to over heating, even after hours of playing a graphic intense game with the screen at max brightness and charging..
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Thanks for the info. Glad to hear that you can play games/charge/etc.. cuz I couldn't even play Ingress and have BT enabled for more than a few min if it was above room temp outside.
I was wondering if it was just my phone, which it appears that it is. I will take it in as I have the BB ins. I hope it's an isolated issue cuz I do really like this phone.
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NP. Hope your new one is problem free!
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Got my LGOG replaced at BB and it is definitely better! Its kinda sad that I feel like this is an upgraded phone but it seems faster, smoother and overall better. AND no more shutdowns! Tho I'm paranoid that it will, it finally runs CF bench no prob.
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