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?
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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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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.
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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.
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I can't tell... I live in Texas and even our ice is hot right now.
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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.
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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.
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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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Hi guys using wicked with trinity 7b. See a few people posting 2 days on one charge and over 6 hours screen time. Would like to know how as i cannot get anywhere near that. I use system tuner, odex my Rom and kill my tasks whenever possible. I use lh2 modem.
Anyone with huge battery time please help us out here. I'm sure many of us would like some help. Also if you tweak your build.prop press share that.
Looking for details. I'm not a noob
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They are not using the stock battery. If you want battery like that, buy an extended battery. That is the only answer.
What I find most telling in many of these screen shots is that Device Idle and Cell Standby are almost always in the top.
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What I find most telling in many of these screen shots is that Device Idle and Cell Standby are almost always in the top.
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Cell standby is actually lying. It was coded with a decimal in the wrong place and so it shows that it uses a lot more than it actually does. Purely cosmetic really, but can be annoying when testing battery issues.
Edit: many custom roms have corrected this btw.
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No it's on stock battery. I get about 5 hours now looking to take it to a higher level. Pun intended
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Cell standby is actually lying. It was coded with a decimal in the wrong place and so it shows that it uses a lot more than it actually does. Purely cosmetic really, but can be annoying when testing battery issues.
Edit: many custom roms have corrected this btw.
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Ya, I saw that before. There is a zip floating around here somewhere that moves it from .34 to 3.4 and fixes it. But you're right that most custom ROMs have this (Cell Standby) fixed.
I just mainly think that Device Idle even being in the top 3 or 4 is a very telling sign that the phone is not being used very much.
Install the easy battery saver app.
I hate to be the jerk... but OP has spammed every rom thread nearly bugging about screen time. Nowadays its hard to get 6+ hours of screen time. Maybe switch to an older, dumber phone with not as sexy as display and you will have better luck. Or carry a spare battery... or strategically place chargers in common spots.
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I hate to be the jerk... but OP has spammed every rom thread nearly bugging about screen time. Nowadays its hard to get 6+ hours of screen time. Maybe switch to an older, dumber phone with not as sexy as display and you will have better luck. Or carry a spare battery... or strategically place chargers in common spots.
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Do i here snake Nokia phones?
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Im running liquid smooth and ktoonz kernel overclocked to 2.1ghz With max brightness here's my results
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Im running liquid smooth and ktoonz kernel overclocked to 2.1ghz With max brightness here's my results
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This isn't a battery screenshot thread. You charged your battery anyways.
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The only way i could probably make 6 hours screen on time would be to lower brightness all the way down, turn off data whenever Im not using it, turn of autosync, underclock and undervolt. But then what would be the point of me having such an awesome phone
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Because you CAN.
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The only way i could probably make 6 hours screen on time would be to lower brightness all the way down, turn off data whenever Im not using it, turn of autosync, underclock and undervolt. But then what would be the point of me having such an awesome phone
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I do all those things (-underclocking and undervolting), and more, because I don't need most of this on all the time, and my screen time is great. Plus, I bought a 4400mah extended battery & get 4-5 days on a single charge.
Then u need an old nokia.
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This isn't a battery screenshot thread. You charged your battery anyways.
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When you plug you phone in the charger the hours reset, my screenshots were to show that its not impossible to get 6+ hours, if I under clock and turn everything off I can probably get that.
The liquid smooth ROM has amazing battery life, you should give it a try I think you will like it.
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When you plug you phone in the charger the hours reset, my screenshots were to show that its not impossible to get 6+ hours, if I under clock and turn everything off I can probably get that.
The liquid smooth ROM has amazing battery life, you should give it a try I think you will like it.
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Screen shots are great guys. I do want to see them. Most importantly trying to see if there are deeper settings and apps to freeze or avoid and tweaks to build.prop etc.
Rom and kernel and modem used would be helpful.
Also, you did charge but the timer will only reset when you fully charge the phone.
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When you plug you phone in the charger the hours reset, my screenshots were to show that its not impossible to get 6+ hours, if I under clock and turn everything off I can probably get that.
The liquid smooth ROM has amazing battery life, you should give it a try I think you will like it.
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That's not true.. I just plugged mine in and the hours did not reset. I think they only reset after you hit in he high 90s
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That's not true.. I just plugged mine in and the hours did not reset. I think they only reset after you hit in he high 90s
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Oh really? Mine seems like it resets automatically...I guess I don't pay much attention to it
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This is most I can get with everything normal on ( data, sync, and music) I can reach six but I would have to under clock to 1.3-1.2ghz and turn off data.
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OK so the bottom of my phone is getting extremely hot and I just can't seem to pin point it. I'm running freeza's odexed ROM of the latest OTA. Nothing else. Not sure what else to include so if you have any questions just ask please.
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What's using your battery?
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What's using your battery?
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It only gets hot when I am on data. And its not because of the area I am in because I get full 3g at my house.
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Reminds me of a post I just read, thus guy was having lousy battery life and his phone was super hot, turned out he had a crazy amount of apps running in the background. Check what apps you got and how often they are pulling data etc. I'll edit with a link if I can find it.
EDIT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2007997
How to conserve battey life?
Side note how's your antenna is it super hot even on WiFi?
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Nope it can't be that I barely have any apps on my phone. I don't even have the Facebook app. And no it never gets hot while I'm at home. But as soon as I leave WiFi and I start using data it starts heating up. And like I said in op I don't get poor service in my area so it can't because my phone is searching for service. I'm thinking I just have a defective phone..:/
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The GS3 does get hot when it's working hard. That's why people are suggesting a list of what apps show up on your battery list. How is your battery life? If you provide a screengrab of the battery screen that shows the apps and the activity it could give the folks here some information. It's most likely an app that keeps the phone awake and running at full power.
Agreed a screen grab would be excellent, I just found an app that was draining my evo4g from full to absolute zero it was ridiculous especially with a 3500 battery on board. Still waiting for my S3 in the mail, but steal my friends to mess around with when I can 'b
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poit said:
The GS3 does get hot when it's working hard. That's why people are suggesting a list of what apps show up on your battery list. How is your battery life? If you provide a screengrab of the battery screen that shows the apps and the activity it could give the folks here some information. It's most likely an app that keeps the phone awake and running at full power.
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Just got done charging my phone to 100%. I even turned off my phone competely while charging it. Once it starts getting low I will capture a couple screenshots for y'all.
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Agreed a screen grab would be excellent, I just found an app that was draining my evo4g from full to absolute zero it was ridiculous especially with a 3500 battery on board. Still waiting for my S3 in the mail, but steal my friends to mess around with when I can 'b
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Mine was too, no apps running in the back round. I flashed ktoons kernel fixed me right up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800576
Running ics anakonda today
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FreeGS3 rom Ktoonz kernel Ktoonservative governer using freecharlesmanson gverner tweaks, Undervolted by a large amount (1512= 1050 mv and 96 = 800 mv) also minimum is 96 and max is 1512.
I use my phone as usual reading emails I have push mail on always and also i have facebook checking in every hour and also a voicemail app checking in every 30 minutes, I browsed the web a bit googling information. Im not much of a talker so talk time would be low (Its 16 minutres and 4seconds). Also the place I work in has very varied reception some places being completely 0 bars no service to some areas giving 4 bars but mostly low reception.
This is all to give an idea of how I used my battery. Im sure if I had it lying in a corner with data off and not using it all it would probably last a week.
CM10 stable release. No battery saving options on. Most of my syncing is turned off except gmail and contacts. Screen is at 60%.
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Rawr.
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Rawr.
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I can get this too when I charge my phone like you did..
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I can get this too when I charge my phone like you did..
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I charged it for not even 10 minutes...only because I thought I was leaving..My bad for a tiny charge..still amazing battery life IMO.
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I charged it for not even 10 minutes...only because I thought I was leaving..My bad for a tiny charge..still amazing battery life IMO.
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It is. I knew you only briefly charged it but it looks bad.
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Damn. I meant to take a screen shot yesterday.
All day at home on wifi, AOKP stock. After 14 hours I still had 55% left
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It is. I knew you only briefly charged it but it looks bad.
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It does look bad.
That charge is like 15-17% that's a lot for 10 mins Lol
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That charge is like 15-17% that's a lot for 10 mins Lol
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Was more like 5-10% sir still take that away, and you still have amazing battery life
Cbass what rom/kernel are you on?
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Stock unrooted. Loving this :
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Anakonda rom. Juice defender enabled, all syncs on, windows 7 launcher, no wifi in house , Mediocre service.
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Odexed Blue Holy Grail v2.0 LJ7
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Back up, working with a MONSTER.
Damn is that extended battery?
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I, personally, don't focus on battery life at all. I run Bluetooth all day, listening to my music, play games on it during my lunch hour and other times throughout the day and send texts/emails off and on all day, and it's down to about 40% by the time I leave work on a normal day. That's unplugging at around 7:30AM, and leaving work at about 5-5:30PM, so that's about 10 hours mid-heavy consistent usage.
To me, as long as I get my full day out of it, I'm perfectly content with it. I don't need my device to be a battery warrior, I need it to be a power beast and do what I want it to do, when I want it to do it. I personally dislike apps like Juice Defender and those that disable radios and data on me. I also don't like using CPU scripts to limit the CPU, undervolt it and all that. To me, it just seems contradicting to buy a powerhouse like the S3 and then strip away it's best and most powerful features. I also don't like the small influx of bugs that arise when you start doing things like disabling data and limiting the CPU/voltage. I like my smartphone to be as smooth as possible, all the time, without any hitches/bugs.
I'm a very heavy user and rely on certain notifications as they are sent out, so extending the battery by an hour or two is the most I could hope to gain by using these apps/scripts, and the level of frustration that come with them when I get syncs late or things are sluggish isn't worth it, imho.
Don't take that the wrong way, I'm not saying they are bad apps at all, nor are the CPU scripts completely pointless. I would give them a high rating if asked, because they do their functions well. I'm just saying they don't work for the way I use my device.
2nd day on Goodness 7.03 with the stock kernel, considering my average use it's pretty sweet by the end of the day.
P.S. loving the goodness, has to be tied with wicked sensations for #1 rom in my book
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Alright so the back of my phone (near the camera) has been getting really hot recently. Idk if it's the summer heat, my usage or what, but if I even use it for like 5 minutes it starts to warm up. Has this been happening to anyone else?
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Kman355 said:
Alright so the back of my phone (near the camera) has been getting really hot recently. Idk if it's the summer heat, my usage or what, but if I even use it for like 5 minutes it starts to warm up. Has this been happening to anyone else?
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what ROM are you on?
I'm on lifeless right now
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Same here, and once the CPU gets over 50 C the screen even starts to get this weird yellow line across the bottom and right sides... goes away as soon as it cools back down
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I'm on lifeless right now
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Stock kernel?
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Stock kernel?
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Yep, it was just heating up pretty bad compared to me OG evo. I flashed over to CM10 to try it, so far it hasnt really heated up. Only when playing the games, i just wish we could get this stupid camera issue fixed. That makes me want to go back to Lifeless.
check out spleefs AOKP rom, my temps have gone down significantly from the stock rom which would get hot AF
Mines cool with stock but with aosp its hot AF
It's a glass phone with a quad core processor i think you can figure the rest out.
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This issue seems to vary from person to person there seems to be no "fix-all" solution. Personally the only time my phone's ever gotten absurdly hot for no reason was when I ran the first build of Cyanogenmod for this device. On stock it took some nasty 108 °F weather to make my phone boil. By now though my phone always stays reasonably cool AOSP or not. You can try changing governors or whatnot with a non-stock kernel or maybe even try eco mode if it isn't already on. That's all I can think of.
I've definitely experienced some heat on mine. Lol
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I've definitely experienced some heat on mine. Lol
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Dam!! That's hot
Mine's been getting really high temps too, even while just browsing the internet!
At some point while I was flashing a rom, it crashed and gave me a soft brick.
It was hell to remove the back and now I even accidentally detached the connector that hooks up with the battery!
I can still charge it (sorta) but my battery is all glitchy.
I'm gonna try switching to aosp.
Its WiFi I made a post about it ....
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yea
My phone reaches 120f when playing game but averages 90-100f, its fine
I've noticed that only Stock ROM's have this problem. When I go from Stock to CM, I notice the change of temp right away and vise versa. I get the worst heat from charging. I have a 2.1A home charger and charges the phone quick on CM but with Stock it heats up to almost 130F and doesn't charge at all. There is something wrong with Stock. (I tried Lifeless, VectuS, & nexOGen).