I deliver pizza and my car has no A/C, so my phone is being used (music, etc) a lot in my hot car during the summer months. Im looking for tips, apps, tasker profiles, etc to help keep my phone/battery from getting too hot. Any help is appreciated!
You can try custom kernel which has underclock CPU tweaks to get better battery life which can also help to keep Nexus cooler..
I don't think keeping it cool is necessary. Besides, if you live somewhere where you don't have a/c in your car it probably won't get hot enough to have any effect on your phone. I live in the desert and my work takes me to remote places that in the middle of summer can reach 130 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade. Gnex performs adequately under these conditions, but battery life suffers a bit. I've had other field equipment that doesn't fare as well and have used blue ice gel packs to keep devices cool.
Has anybody started working with moto 360? How accurate is the watch?
I ran with it the other night. From a steps perspective it's count was comparable to another pedometer I have, so I'd say it was pretty accurate.
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The background heart rate monitor is really bad though. I really liked that it encouraged you to do 30 mins of vigorous activity a day. I thought it would really help me get in better shape.
The pedometer I agree is fairly accurate and is not off by more than 200 with my LG G3. I try to take 8,000-10,000 steps I take a day so being off by 200 is very good in my books. But as far as keeping track of my daily exercise, there are 2 issues with this... The first is it would be nice to change my vigorous activity goal to 45 mins, 1 hour, or any other value. 30 minutes is recommend by the American heart association but I am sure that trying to double that goal daily would be even better. This issue should be fixed very easily and hopefully soon too. The other and more important issue is how bad it is at keeping track of your exercise time.
Here is how my day went: I woke up and after I put my watch on, I WALKED downstairs and ate a quick breakfast and hopped in my car for work. Then I took an ELEVATOR to the 7th floor and SAT down in my office. After an hour or so of sitting there, I was alerted that I was halfway to my goal for the day or rather Motorola's goal for me... I can pretty much guarantee my heart rate did not go over 90-100 beats the whole time yet somehow the 360 gave me credit for 15 minutes of vigorous exercise. I hope that this like the first issue is a software issue. If it is a hardware issue which it easily could be, the background heart rate monitor is completely useless until the moto 360 2 or whatever they want to call it comes out.
The other weird thing is when I request for my heart rate to be measured, it seems fairly accurate. I don't have any experience with other smart watches but I know this one is not bad. I changed it so that it uses google's app to measure my heart rate which gives me hope that it is just a software issue with the background heart rate monitor and that it will be fixed.
I still think I am going to be keeping the watch for the time being despite the crappy processor, sub par battery, and bad background heart rate monitor. I am excited about android 5/ L/ Lemon Meringue Pie/ Lollipop. I think the software upgrades will make this very good looking and ok performing watch into something of a beast.
I had to exchange my note earlier because there was a weird bug with it but I got the new one and it seems to be working fine. However the only problem with this one is that it just feels like the battery life is shorter than I remember it. Maybe it is just me but I wanted to know from other people what their battery life was in order to see if I need to send my unit to Samsung to repair or this is normal. I never got a chance to test my battery life in my old unit but in this one I use some Samsung battery monitor. I think G-sam battery monitor. So when looking at the results I am getting roughly around 4 hours or actual screen time. That just seems a lot lower to me than what I expected and it feels like I can't consistently use it for the whole day without the battery getting really low. I keep my brightness low at around 15% and it is updated to the latest version. Also I did a system restore to test if it was apps and even with like 5 apps installed the battery is still really low. Clash of clans for example drops the battery and heats up my unit really fast (like a percent a minute just about) Can anyone help me with this? Thanks.
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I use it all day at work. Generally have about 40 to 50% left at end of the day. Battery usage is much higher if you use spen a lot, though.
Mine was the same way for a while. It used to last around 9 hours when I first got it. I charged mine every day for about a year and I think the battery just goes after a while. I ended up buying a new battery for about 60 dollars. Mine would heat up and shut down after playing games. After replacing battery it doesn't do that anymore. They have cheaper ones but I went with one that was a little more money and it was guaranteed for 1 full year or you're money back. Now I get about 6 hours of playing games and way more if I watch movies or listen to music. I don't even have to charge everyday anymore. I was going to buy a new tablet but I figured since I payed so much for this one I wanted to try with a new battery first. Battery's don't last forever. I bought on ebay and I think the name was new power 99. I might have even bought from there site. Ithink was easy to replace and comes with a DVD to show you how. Some games use a lot more power then others and clash of clans will use a lot cause there is so much going on in the game. I play gameloft games and some of them use a lot of power also.
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 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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I have not experience any form of heating where I could bake anything, but enough to make me aware of it. Of course heat during mapping is normal, gaming wise....I actually think it has been descent. Played Asphalt 8 for a good 30 minutes (thats my gaming time frame on regular basis) with nothing out of the norm. Could be better.
Niki Kidman said:
In the place where I live, summer is really hot! I noticed that Honor 8 performs much better than phones I used to use.
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It's probably due to the Kirin SoC, which is power efficient.
PalakMi said:
It's probably due to the Kirin SoC, which is power efficient.
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I always suspect it at much, though I find myself lacks of love to Kirin SoC due to almost no progress on custom development, and some sites reported poor performance of it, but I myself, who never play (or have any intention to play) any games on mobile device, use them strictly to communication usage (and some web surfing), I find Huawei's tradeoff performance over heat and battery life might very good concept.
I never care about synthetic benchmarks. I just need a device that can last long and stays cool all the times with my activities, and it never lags. My most demanding tasks might be watching 3-7 minutes of YouTube's videos for some times or navigating the roads with GPS.
But just like almost anyone else here, I can't stand the EMUI, just no. Still hoping Huawei will fully support custom dev with their new commitment.
x3r0.13urn said:
I always suspect it at much, though I find myself lacks of love to Kirin SoC due to almost no progress on custom development, and some sites reported poor performance of it, but I myself, who never play (or have any intention to play) any games on mobile device, use them strictly to communication usage (and some web surfing), I find Huawei's tradeoff performance over heat and battery life might very good concept.
I never care about synthetic benchmarks. I just need a device that can last long and stays cool all the times with my activities, and it never lags. My most demanding tasks might be watching 3-7 minutes of YouTube's videos for some times or navigating the roads with GPS.
But just like almost anyone else here, I can't stand the EMUI, just no. Still hoping Huawei will fully support custom dev with their new commitment.
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We all hope huawei try to push sources for dev always and ASAP
tends to warm up a lil bit, bt no overheating.
Glad to know there is no overheating.
Mine gets really hot when you work the camera(s).
Every single phone on the market will overheat. Some overheat very easily, and some take a while, but is not a one that will not get hot until it melts (even if it takes months of you playing asfault to do it ). If you wanted a practical answer though.... no, my friend has one and it doesn't get too hot when playing a game on it for a few hours.
Once I almost burned my hand while playing on my OnePlus One and charging it. This phone keeps lower temperatures than my OPO so that's a plus for me.
This is a topic I am really interested.
My present phones, the LG G2 and the OnePlus One, get really hot, specially in the Summer. The LG G2 is the worst, as it has everything in the same place, and the Snapdragon 800 is a little less refined than the 801.
I do not play on my smartphone, and I only use GPS once a month.
I use my phone to comunicate (call, text, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Viber), track my packages (Deliveries), watch some videos on YouTube and search quickly something on the internet.
I am a light user, but when I do something, that thing needs to be done quickly and right.
So, heat is a no-no for me.
This SoC seems to be a better option, even against the Snapdragon 820, which was my previous SoC of choice.
Actually this Honor 8 tends to get warm. And when you use the camera for some minutes it gets really really hot in the upper part.
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Actually this Honor 8 tends to get warm. And when you use the camera for some minutes it gets really really hot in the upper part.
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What do you mean by using the camera?
- Having it open while trying the features;
- Taking multiple shots;
- Making a video;
- Taking HDR photos; or
- Other use, please describe your usage.
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What do you mean by using the camera?
- Having it open while trying the features;
- Taking multiple shots;
- Making a video;
- Taking HDR photos; or
- Other use, please describe your usage.
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Simply having it open. It overheats very quickly. Seems to be an issue with Huawei p9 too, an owner told me.
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Simply having it open. It overheats very quickly. Seems to be an issue with Huawei p9 too, an owner told me.
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In my opinion, I suspect that is a software issue.
To have a better performance and take pictures very quickly, the CPU and GPU are taken to the limit and have a more aggressive governor and higher minimum frequency.
I don't know. Could be for the dual camera though. Whose usefulness, by the way, is at least dubious.
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I don't know. Could be for the dual camera though. Whose usefulness, by the way, is at least dubious.
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Yes, I agree.
At least on the heating problem.
From the review of Pocketnow, it is clear than it has a positive affect on the dynamic range of the photos. HDR becomes obsolete, which is a good thing, as HDR uses more power from the phone, takes more time and requires to be still for longer.
Look, I've experimented with the cameras in every light condition. Covering the mono sensor and leaving it active. I myself could not really tell a single difference between the photos taken.I really don't.
I don't know how you are getting it hot. I have played games. Used the light for extended periods of time. Used maps. Camera, video. It has never been as hot as other phones I have used.
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It has never been as hot as other phones I have used.
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Thank you for sharing your experience.
The top of phone gets way too hot when I use it a little more heavily (ie YouTube and multiple Chrome tabs or playing games)
Is this normal?
I am using Official CM13
Here's a Screenshot with the temps when the phone was way too warm to the touch
Intel soc's (and others too) are capable of working at higher temperatures than those without breaking, so it's safe. Anyway, processors do get warm (or hot) when under heavy work, so this is something you can expect from any phone or computer. And it's been like that for decades, and will be, until manufacturers and engineers develop processors that never get hot.
Anyway, you don't have to worry much about this. I don't think your temps will get higher than that, and the moment you let the phone alone they will get definitely lower. You aren't using the phone 24/7, 365 days a year, are you?