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Phone gets very HOT

I have had my Galaxy Nexus for a cupple of months now and I noticed that it get so ****ing HOT. I can feel that it burns a little bit in my pocket when the phone is there. The strange thing is that it gets this hot only when I am not connected to wifi or are at a place where the 3g connextion isn't that good, on the buss for example. So what do you guys think that I shuld do? Can I even return it now?
Thanks for answers

dennis_hammarby said:
I have had my Galaxy Nexus for a cupple of months now and I noticed that it get so ****ing HOT. I can feel that it burns a little bit in my pocket when the phone is there. The strange thing is that it gets this hot only when I am not connected to wifi or are at a place where the 3g connextion isn't that good, on the buss for example. So what do you guys think that I shuld do? Can I even return it now?
Thanks for answers
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Same thing happens to me and my wife's phone. It's gotta be the 3g chip.

JayDaKissEP said:
Same thing happens to me and my wife's phone. It's gotta be the 3g chip.
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Are you going to try and return it?

Also could be the kernel i have the same problem though

The only time I have noticed my phone getting very hot is when I stream music or use Wifi-tether.

Mine gets very hot only when I'm downloading torrents and don't have a wifi connection.

What baseband are you on? Was trying to sort out my phones heat and accompanying drain for ages! Exactly the same symptoms (only when using 3g, particularly with poor signal.) . Turns out my issue was baseband. Switched from kk6 to kl1 and so much better. Might be worth experimenting.
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Also it would only get hot like that is data connection is consistently working. You might want to also check if there are apps that are constantly connecting in the background that you don't really need.
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cyberkid2002 said:
What baseband are you on? Was trying to sort out my phones heat and accompanying drain for ages! Exactly the same symptoms (only when using 3g, particularly with poor signal.) . Turns out my issue was baseband. Switched from kk6 to kl1 and so much better. Might be worth experimenting.
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I am on baseband I9250XXKK6, have never changed it so I should try that. You know which baseband I should have? I have a GSM/Europe Galaxy nexus.
It solved your problems with the phone getting hot?
Chrono_Tata said:
Also it would only get hot like that is data connection is consistently working. You might want to also check if there are apps that are constantly connecting in the background that you don't really need.
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Well yes I have apps that requires data connection like twitter but I think a Smart phone like Galaxy Nexus should be able to handle that without getting super hot.

I have a cdma galaxy nexus and my phone gets really hot also but i notice when my phone gets hot it is when their is crappy signal or low 3g signal

dennis_hammarby said:
I am on baseband I9250XXKK6, have never changed it so I should try that. You know which baseband I should have? I have a GSM/Europe Galaxy nexus.
It solved your problems with the phone getting hot?
Well yes I have apps that requires data connection like twitter but I think a Smart phone like Galaxy Nexus should be able to handle that without getting super hot.
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Yeah, I'd definately give it a shot. I'm in UK and KL1 seems pretty good to me. Tried quite a few and ALL were better than kk6! Like a completely different phone after!
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My old one used to do that as well and it was a radio hardware issue. Received a replacement and all is well. I was within the 1 year warranty.

cyberkid2002 said:
Yeah, I'd definately give it a shot. I'm in UK and KL1 seems pretty good to me. Tried quite a few and ALL were better than kk6! Like a completely different phone after!
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Updating Radio right now. Will report back later unfortnatley I am changing carrier today so I will not have access to 3g for 2 weeks

tclarkey said:
My old one used to do that as well and it was a radio hardware issue. Received a replacement and all is well. I was within the 1 year warranty.
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Ohhh nooo so its hardware related and cannot be fixed? How long time after you bought did you returned it?

dennis_hammarby said:
Ohhh nooo so its hardware related and cannot be fixed? How long time after you bought did you returned it?
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It was actually my 2nd replacement. My first issue was with the phone bootlooping (not related to ROMs) after about 3 months after purchase (only rooted). It was that replacement when the radios sucked. Phone was always hot and it ate through a full charge in about 4 hours. The phone was going into a deep sleep when inactive (verified with CPUSpy) and the Phone was eating the wakelock (BetterBatteryStats) as it kept looking for a signal. Didn't matter which radios I used (4.0.2 or 4.0.4) the results were the same.
Turned that phone in stating just the phone was eating the battery looking for a signal (battery showed red for phone signal) and they sent another replacement. This one is ok (running Gummy 1.0.1 with 4.0.4 radios).

I can vouch for this. I usually have my wifi on at work and at home with no heat issues at all. But the last two nights I was at chili's which had no wifi so I turned my 3g on and within 10 mins of super slow browsing my phone was getting ridiculously hot. I read on another thread that if the 3g signal is low or weak then it will continuously ping the server which causes something inside to heat up very quickly whether its the radio or cpu. This is definitely an issue but I'm not sure if its fixable with a new kernel or radio flash.
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Did it work Dennis?
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Hello.
For several days I have exactly the same problem.
Since I install AOKP milestone 5 and franco.kernel milestone 3, my phone started strongly hot.
Temperatures can reach 66 degrees, and the rear cover gets really hot.
Is it a hardware defect or problem is in the settings or Rom/kernel?

mini21 said:
Hello.
For several days I have exactly the same problem.
Since I install AOKP milestone 5 and franco.kernel milestone 3, my phone started strongly hot.
Temperatures can reach 66 degrees, and the rear cover gets really hot.
Is it a hardware defect or problem is in the settings or Rom/kernel?
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You mean 66 degrees Celsius correct?
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cyberkid2002 said:
Did it work Dennis?
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I didn't had the time yestorday should be able to do it today!
The only problem is that I dont have acess to 3g right now, changing carrier.
Had the phone today and It never got hot so something is fishy with the 3g ship/singnal.

The perfect device

So
I just got in my extended battery for my nexus and now its absolutely the perfect device running miui and francos kernel! This is the one im going to keep, I just know it. I now call the nexus my soulmate phone.
My previous devices were the rezound and the bionic...both of which had nearly the same flaws....battery life and crappy kernels....lol

devilsrogue said:
So
I just got in my extended battery for my nexus and now its absolutely the perfect device running miui and francos kernel! This is the one im going to keep, I just know it. I now call the nexus my soulmate phone.
My previous devices were the rezound and the bionic...both of which had nearly the same flaws....battery life and crappy kernels....lol
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I am running the exact same set up and couldnt happier. All i need now is to figure out how to bring back the voice key on the keyboard.

The GPS, battery, and camera could be better.
The GPS completely blows.
Best phone on the market but I wouldn't call it perfect.

What gps problem? It locks so fast on me

Perfect device? When a product needs you to buy something extra to make it perfect, it's not perfect already.
Plus the camera literally blows.
While we complain about threads of other phones in this forum, yet we get this kind of worship threads and it's okay. What an irony.
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Can you post the link to the miui rom you're using? Is it 2.5.4? Trying to look for a good stable base for my daily driver

kingofthebraves said:
Can you post the link to the miui rom you're using? Is it 2.5.4? Trying to look for a good stable base for my daily driver
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+1
Gesendet von meinem Galaxy Nexus

The perfect phone has a better than RGBG pentile screen.

I am running Liquid 1.3, Trexcell 3800 battery, and Franco kernel. Getting 5 1/2 hours screen time, about 18 hours total with very heavy use (4g, wifi, no power management, 3d games etc). I love the camera after putting in the high quality mods, it's no standard point and shoot but it's good enough for me!
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devilsrogue said:
What gps problem? It locks so fast on me
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Mine doesn't. And when it does it's often wrong. Like it thinks I'm on the next street.
Does it matter where I live? I'm in Houston.

Meets34 said:
Mine doesn't. And when it does it's often wrong. Like it thinks I'm on the next street.
Does it matter where I live? I'm in Houston.
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everything is bigger in Texas.
And so are your problems.

hbkmog said:
Perfect device? When a product needs you to buy something extra to make it perfect, it's not perfect already.
Plus the camera literally blows.
While we complain about threads of other phones in this forum, yet we get this kind of worship threads and it's okay. What an irony.
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Literally blows?
Thats a small opening...but hey go for it.
PS--There is nothing wrong with people liking their device...on the correct forum.

adrynalyne said:
Literally blows?
Thats a small opening...but hey go for it.
PS--There is nothing wrong with people liking their device...on the correct forum.
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Will someone please give ^this man more thanks for me? Damn XDA only lets me give him one.

Meets34 said:
Mine doesn't. And when it does it's often wrong. Like it thinks I'm on the next street.
Does it matter where I live? I'm in Houston.
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I'm in Houston and my GPS is great. Occasionally it goes wack but usually it corrects itself quickly. Atrix was best GPS phone I ever had. And then occasionally any GPS is susceptible to less optimal conditions but that is rare.
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@rbiter said:
I'm in Houston and my GPS is great. Occasionally it goes wack but usually it corrects itself quickly. Atrix was best GPS phone I ever had. And then occasionally any GPS is susceptible to less optimal conditions but that is rare.
...of the people, by the people, for the people...
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I guess its my phone. One time I drove all the way to my destination and it never connected. It just kept searching for GPS.
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devilsrogue said:
So
I just got in my extended battery for my nexus and now its absolutely the perfect device running miui and francos kernel! This is the one im going to keep, I just know it. I now call the nexus my soulmate phone.
My previous devices were the rezound and the bionic...both of which had nearly the same flaws....battery life and crappy kernels....lol
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What size extended battery did you buy? I was thinking about getting one for my GSM gnex. I get decent battery life now, but I could always use more
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no amount of extended batteries will fix the camera and somewhat dodgy screen on the galaxy nexus... My HSPA+ version on tmobile gets great battery life tho

Meets34 said:
Mine doesn't. And when it does it's often wrong. Like it thinks I'm on the next street.
Does it matter where I live? I'm in Houston.
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That's weird cause I get a fast lock too. About 5 seconds to fully pinpoint me with 8 satellites. Sometimes 10 seconds.

jajaofopobo said:
no amount of extended batteries will fix the camera
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What are the problems u're facing with ur camera?
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No problem here with GPS and camera takes great pictures for what I use it for (Have a DSLR camera for when I need high quality shots). I agree though this, for me, is a perfect phone (Although its not perfect and I will admit it, but for ME this phone is perfect).
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Volume+

One of you guys recommended me to download this(thanks) im using it at +10 and its louder but
Should i worry about it damaging my speaker?
Has one of u guys run into any problems with this?
Should i lower the value to be safe?
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There is always the chance of damaging your speaker.
Are you using free or paid?
I use the paid version and I use a setting of +15. The EQ setting will have an effect also.
Adjust up by 1, test, until you hear the speaker breaking up or sounding like you are pushing it too far then drop back 1.
You will know it when you are pushing that so called speaker too far!!!

I kept volume plus on 12 the whole time. Its perfect but sadly it doesn't work with Jelly Bean yet!
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I use the free full version(from the forum) that goes up to +20
Im trying to measure if it works with ringtones but sometimes i feel it does, sometimes i feel it doesnt
Strong placebo
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It's amazing. And besides, if u feel it'll break ur phone, just set to Max (20) and use it when u feel a need to push the limit. Other wise just stay in the middle while on 20.

[FIX] Pops and crackles in headphone output.

Hey everyone, just thought I would let it be known that (at least on my phone) overclocking past 1.8GHz causes horrible clicks and pops when listening through the headphone jack. I am using the Rogers Stock ROM with the latest KT747 kernel, and the issue appears when clocked to 1.89GHz, even though the rest of the phone runs stable. Took me a while to track down the problem!
I was hoping people with other kernels/roms/configurations could weigh in to see if this is an isolated or a widespread issue. For the time being I have just decided to overclock manually when it is needed.
EDIT: It appears after more testing that it was the kernel itself. Switching to stock kernel fixed the problem.

MatinatorX said:
Hey everyone, just thought I would let it be known that (at least on my phone) overclocking past 1.8GHz causes horrible clicks and pops when listening through the headphone jack. I am using the Rogers Stock ROM with the latest KT747 kernel, and the issue appears when clocked to 1.89GHz, even though the rest of the phone runs stable. Took me a while to track down the problem!
I was hoping people with other kernels/roms/configurations could weigh in to see if this is an isolated or a widespread issue. For the time being I have just decided to overclock manually when it is needed.
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isn't your phone blazing hot to the hand?

Death&co said:
isn't your phone blazing hot to the hand?
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Suprisingly the temperature increase is hardly noticeable. I tested while playing N. O. V. A. 3 and a few other games. My One XL got burning hot while overclocked to 1.7GHz, even though it's the same chip, which I find strange.

I had this probelm as well on my SGS3, ended up exchanging my phone for another reason and the new phone doesnt do it anymore.
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The galaxy s3 explodes with stock temps, I would be afraid to oc to 1.9GHz Oh, and I would edit the title from [FIX] it's kind of misleading since there isn't a fix here.

MatinatorX said:
For the time being I have just decided to overclock manually when it is needed.
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I'm still trying to figure out when you would "need" to overclock.
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americasteam said:
I'm still trying to figure out when you would "need" to overclock.
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I'm a power user. I do just about everything with my phone, including lots of gaming with emulators. Perhaps I got a higher than normal quality chunk of silicon, but the phone didn't overheat at all, even when overclocked. The only time it got noticeably warm was while overclocked, gaming and charging all at once.
To those having this problem, it appears it wasn't related to overclocking after all, as the issue appeared a day later on stock frequencies. Changing back to a stock kernel fixed the problem.
In the end I sold it and bought an international SGS3 from eBay. I don't care for LTE, but the Wolfson DAC and Mali-400 GPU appeal to my usage case nicely.

MatinatorX said:
Perhaps I got a higher than normal quality chunk of silicon, but the phone didn't overheat at all, even when overclocked. The only time it got noticeably warm was while overclocked, gaming and charging all at once./QUOTE]
Seeing posts like this just make me cry inside...from the day I first got my phone and activated it, I have been having overheating problems. No one would take my device back so after my 30 day "return" period or whatever, I decided to root my phone to underclock/undervolt to solve my problem....but even know, my phone gets warm by just using stock Browser after a fresh install (not Chrome or anything else) WITH underclocking.
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[Q] Wakeup lag

So, i know there are many threads about this, but many of them are old.
Any one found solution on STOCK rom (rooted) for wakeup lag..
I have tried turning off all those options recommended in other threads, but wakeup lag is still present sometimes..
Any one ?

I haven't really read up on wakeup lag, but what about having an app clear background apps regularly? (I use NQ Android Booster)
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Turn off droplet animation in lockscreen.
Turn off s voice.
Uncheck popup note on lockscreen.
Reboot.
This won't get rid of it completely but it will help.

It's hardware related. You will find the reason if you Google hard enough. Just learn to live with it. After having 3 Samsung phones with wake up lag I have. If you want to escape wake up lag buy a HTC.
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appro77 said:
It's hardware related. You will find the reason if you Google hard enough. Just learn to live with it. After having 3 Samsung phones with wake up lag I have. If you want to escape wake up lag buy a HTC.
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well, the fact about HTC not having Wakeup lag is not So true...
Thank you all for your help and comments, and if anyone finds out anything about fixing wakeup lag, write it in here
Handwritten from my Note 2

That's part of these devices and you should get used to it. It happens because the phone goes into deep sleep when you lock the screen to save battery life. My old galaxy s2 also had it. Get used to it or change phones.
Alternatively, you can use an app that runs in the background and disallows your phone to go into deep sleep. Though I predict that that will greatly affect your battery life.

MohJee said:
That's part of these devices and you should get used to it. It happens because the phone goes into deep sleep when you lock the screen to save battery life. My old galaxy s2 also had it. Get used to it or change phones.
Alternatively, you can use an app that runs in the background and disallows your phone to go into deep sleep. Though I predict that that will greatly affect your battery life.
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Think about what you have said. Are you suggesting that HTC phones don't have wake up lag because they don't deep sleep? This is hardware related and has nothing to do with deep sleep. This is a Samsung issue that should have been addressed by them long ago.
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appro77 said:
Think about what you have said. Are you suggesting that HTC phones don't have wake up lag because they don't deep sleep? This is hardware related and has nothing to do with deep sleep. This is a Samsung issue that should have been addressed by them long ago.
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Let's do a little experiment shall we? Let you music player run in the background and lock your phone. You'll see that it doesn't have the delay when you unlock it. I don't know how HTC phone do or don't, because I never owned one. All I know is that Samsung phones behave this way with deep sleep.

Yes...the more the cores...the more the lag...takes time for the quad cores to revv up from Deep sleep
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I may cause wake up lag, because u turn off the music player.
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MohJee said:
Let's do a little experiment shall we? Let you music player run in the background and lock your phone. You'll see that it doesn't have the delay when you unlock it. I don't know how HTC phone do or don't, because I never owned one. All I know is that Samsung phones behave this way with deep sleep.
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I'm very aware that the phone doesn't deep sleep when the music player is being used.
What you seem to be incapable of understanding is that the wakeup lag on this phone is a Samsung issue not a deep sleep issue. Other phone brands like HTC don't have this issue.
Why is that difficult for you to grasp?
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I didn't say it was an issue with all devices in the world. I said the same situation was present in my old galaxy s2, which is also a Samsung phone. And yes the delay happens when the phone is coming out from the state of deep sleep, whether you like it or not. When the phone is not in deep sleep, the delay is nonexistent. What makes Samsung phones behave this way? Maybe it's hardware issue like you said, I don't really know or care. If you've tried the experiment you would've clearly seen that it happens if then phone is in deep sleep. It doesn't have to be the music player. It can basically any app which prevents the phone from entering the deep sleep phase.
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I didn't say it was an issue with all devices in the world. I said the same situation was present in my old galaxy s2, which is also a Samsung phone. And yes the delay happens when the phone is coming out from the state of deep sleep, whether you like it or not. When the phone is not in deep sleep, the delay is nonexistent. What makes Samsung phones behave this way? Maybe it's hardware issue like you said, I don't really know or care. If you've tried the experiment you would've clearly seen that it happens if then phone is in deep sleep. It doesn't have to be the music player. It can basically any app which prevents the phone from entering the deep sleep phase.
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I realise that. I know it happens when the phone is coming out of deep sleep. What I'm trying to get across to you is that it is only Samsung phones that have the problem of wakeup lag when coming out of deep sleep.
Other brands like HTC don't have the problem. When they come out of deep sleep there is virtually no lag. I read somewhere that it is caused by the Exynos chipset that is used by Samsung.
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In my experience it is not true that only Samsung devices show this behavior. My HTC Desire and my SE Experia (great phones) did the same thing.
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I get it. I never claimed that all android phones have this wake up lag. I said that that my old gs2 had it as well, which is also a Samsung phone. For some reason Samsung phones behave differently when coming out from deep sleep than other android brands (it could be the Exynos chipset like you said. I really don't know I'm not an engineer.)