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I recently bought a HTC One X and I won't go into details, but I was trying to figure out whether or not it can withstand some intense gaming.
Needles to say, I have grabbed Glowball and gave it a try. I might be the biggest noob on earth for this, but I got scared when playing Glowball because my screen went black and glowbal was "minimized".
I really thought my device is about to die and all that heat is causing it to crash. However, after two minutes of deep breathing, I've figure out that in fact Glowball is a bit different from other games. As long as you don't touch the screen while playing Glowball, your phone will go in standby as if you were not using it.
So, if you play Glowball, when you see the screen go slightly dark, tap the screen and continue playing.
I know this might be obvious, and I know it was noobish of me, but I figured out, if other brand new HOX owners out there are trying to test their device and are getting paranoid about temperatures and stuff, they too might panic if they give Glowball a try. So even if some of you might find this funny, others might find useful.
Stay safe!
Neevar said:
I recently bought a HTC One X and I won't go into details, but I was trying to figure out whether or not it can withstand some intense gaming.
Needles to say, I have grabbed Glowball and gave it a try. I might be the biggest noob on earth for this, but I got scared when playing Glowball because my screen went black and glowbal was "minimized".
I really thought my device is about to die and all that heat is causing it to crash. However, after two minutes of deep breathing, I've figure out that in fact Glowball is a bit different from other games. As long as you don't touch the screen while playing Glowball, your phone will go in standby as if you were not using it.
So, if you play Glowball, when you see the screen go slightly dark, tap the screen and continue playing.
I know this might be obvious, and I know it was noobish of me, but I figured out, if other brand new HOX owners out there are trying to test their device and are getting paranoid about temperatures and stuff, they too might panic if they give Glowball a try. So even if some of you might find this funny, others might find useful.
Stay safe!
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Thanks for the info mate, glad i read this before I tried it :good:
So... Im getting back my recently purchased Galaxy Note 2014 White Wifi 32GB for another one. Thanks god the shop gave 15 days in order to see if something went wrong.
Here is the point: Once the battery reach some percent between 20-30%, suddenly, just in a second, it drops till 10%, and seconds later, to 5%. No root, no apps opened, no strange software installed, Samsung Motion options used (except some S-pen functions) or Devs options touched, i checked out all this things after it happened the first time. I only used it to search on Firefox, write/read PDFs with ezPDF, see some movies or see how Real Racing 3 or Dead Trigger would see on the screen.
No idea about whats going on.
In adition, im worried about this tablet´s heating. Sometimes gets alarming and it feels pretty uncomfortable, as you feel something could break bad inside if so much heating is hitting the hardware, and men, im just using 3 simple apps at a time. I get Real Racing 3 use GPU really hard but... it feels moron as this game hasnt been update so it can use high graphic settings on this tablet.
diego-rbb-93 said:
So... Im getting back my recently purchased Galaxy Note 2014 White Wifi 32GB for another one. Thanks god the shop gave 15 days in order to see if something went wrong.
Here is the point: Once the battery reach some percent between 20-30%, suddenly, just in a second, it drops till 10%, and seconds later, to 5%. No root, no apps opened, no strange software installed, Samsung Motion options used (except some S-pen functions) or Devs options touched, i checked out all this things after it happened the first time. I only used it to search on Firefox, write/read PDFs with ezPDF, see some movies or see how Real Racing 3 or Dead Trigger would see on the screen.
No idea about whats going on.
In adition, im worried about this tablet´s heating. Sometimes gets alarming and it feels pretty uncomfortable, as you feel something could break bad inside if so much heating is hitting the hardware, and men, im just using 3 simple apps at a time. I get Real Racing 3 use GPU really hard but... it feels moron as this game hasnt been update so it can use high graphic settings on this tablet.
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You ha e a defect. Mine never gets alarming hot. It gets warm when playing big games, but so do all tablets. You can feel something break inside? Send it back.
Battery life, android wear not baked, yada yada early adopter pains, but I wanted to share a wow moment with you to balance all the negative chatter:
Wife and I debating whether to introduce the kiddos to IronMan tonight and not sure how long it was - bring up my wrist to wake the 360, "Ok Google, how long is the ironman movie, " 4 seconds later on screen: '126 minutes' with a pic of Ironman in the background. Wow. Wife hadn't even finished picking up her phone yet! That was just cool
I haven't had this much fun with a device since my Nexus One[emoji12]
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Battery life, android wear not baked, yada yada early adopter pains, but I wanted to share a wow moment with you to balance all the negative chatter:
Wife and I debating whether to introduce the kiddos to IronMan tonight and not sure how long it was - bring up my wrist to wake the 360, "Ok Google, how long is the ironman movie, " 4 seconds later on screen: '126 minutes' with a pic of Ironman in the background. Wow. Wife hadn't even finished picking up her phone yet! That was just cool
I haven't had this much fun with a device since my Nexus One[emoji12]
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Dealing with all the early adopter pains that you speak of right now, but that little glimpse of what I have to look forward too was helpful ha ha. thank you
davedigerati said:
Battery life, android wear not baked, yada yada early adopter pains, but I wanted to share a wow moment with you to balance all the negative chatter:
Wife and I debating whether to introduce the kiddos to IronMan tonight and not sure how long it was - bring up my wrist to wake the 360, "Ok Google, how long is the ironman movie, " 4 seconds later on screen: '126 minutes' with a pic of Ironman in the background. Wow. Wife hadn't even finished picking up her phone yet! That was just cool
I haven't had this much fun with a device since my Nexus One[emoji12]
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THIS is what a smartwatch is for. It's sad to see so many people saying they're useless. It's just the opposite - as features in Android wear grow, so do the possibilities.
I just got my 360 two days ago and I'm already in love with it. As with many the initial setup was a headache with the battery dying during the update, but since then smooth sailing.
I'm seriously considering getting the Moto Hint too, when it comes out. This will be the PERFECT marriage for the 360. Then I'll rarely need to take out my phone at all while I'm on the go!
By the way, to search even quicker, after you bring the watch up to view, instead of saying ok google, just tap the screen.
I kinda had the same thing:
I was driving, wanted to know what time it would get dark, because I had some stuff to do in the yard. I have an app on my phone that tells me, but that's too much work.
I tap my screen "What time is sunset?". Wife next to me responds "I don't know", not realizing I wasn't asking her. A few seconds later I get response from Google telling me the exact time.
That's exactly what a smart watch is good for. I have a big ass Note3 and I love the screen size for surfing, typing emails etc , but for these quick things it's too much work to dig it out of your pockets.
that's the one great things of Google now
unfortunately it doesn't work well with a accent like my dutch, but can't wait to buy it here.
scrapzz said:
that's the one great things of Google now
unfortunately it doesn't work well with a accent like my dutch, but can't wait to buy it here.
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I'm Dutch, moved to the US about 6 years ago. I guess I don't sound that Dutchy anymore. Google Now has no problems understanding me
My first "Wow!" moment was when I found out that I can pause/play a movie playing on my chromecast (provided it was started from my phone). Prior to that, pausing a movie meant digging out my phone, turning it on, and (if for some reason, the controls weren't available on the lockscreen, which for some reason happened quite often) unlocking the phone and pressing pause in Google Play Movies. Now, it's a flick of the wrist and a quick tap. Soooo nice!
For me its setting timers. I have two kids and unless a timer is set, chores take forever. If they aren't done before the timer is over, a toy is taken away, privilege is lost, etc. The moto 360 makes that effortless. Music control is nice as is chromecast control. I hope roku makes an app. The remote tends to get lost around here.
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My first "Wow!" moment was when I found out that I can pause/play a movie playing on my chromecast (provided it was started from my phone). Prior to that, pausing a movie meant digging out my phone, turning it on, and (if for some reason, the controls weren't available on the lockscreen, which for some reason happened quite often) unlocking the phone and pressing pause in Google Play Movies. Now, it's a flick of the wrist and a quick tap. Soooo nice!
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That was my first wow moment too (with lg g watch unfortunately lol)
But now it makes me wish they would give you more than just a pause button, can't they add rewind/fast forward and volume too?! That would be awesome.
play2lose said:
That was my first wow moment too (with lg g watch unfortunately lol)
But now it makes me wish they would give you more than just a pause button, can't they add rewind/fast forward and volume too?! That would be awesome.
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If you actually open the card (small up-swipe), you can then left-swipe for FF/REW options.
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My first "Wow!" moment was when I found out that I can pause/play a movie playing on my chromecast (provided it was started from my phone). Prior to that, pausing a movie meant digging out my phone, turning it on, and (if for some reason, the controls weren't available on the lockscreen, which for some reason happened quite often) unlocking the phone and pressing pause in Google Play Movies. Now, it's a flick of the wrist and a quick tap. Soooo nice!
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If you actually open the card (small up-swipe), you can then left-swipe for FF/REW options.
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I don't get that on mine, at least not for controlling Netflix through the Chromecast. Maybe it works for google play movies.
My 1st WOW moment, took some setup work but totally worth it! I have had my phone setup to control my home automation lights, gas fireplaces, garagedoor, etc by using voice commands for well over a year. Never really found it that practical to use daily since my corporate email requires a screen lock (i know there are ways around this). But there were still too many swipes and presses to get to the autovoice app compared to standing up and walking over the to wall switch. NOW, I just hold my arm up and say "kids rooms lights off" and done. Got the setup from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNRi-hqS7uM
I don't have a wow moment, but i was in a radio shack store to buy an lg g3, (sale person didn't know they have it for sale.) So when i asked him to lookout in the computer for the g3, the repair tech came by and hear the conversation, he told me that in effect they have it 32gb lg g3 for sale. He suddenly view my moto 360 on my wrist and they guy went crazy (funny guy). He yelled at me, "You have the moto 360, how you go it, where you buy it, i tried to buy on moto site on launch day but failed. Man i hate you, don't ever talk to me again". LOL He was too funny, i show him the watch, after playing with it he offered me $300, i declined jajaj
Was a fun time.
Bought my mom a Nexus 7 2013 holiday 2013 and it's been running fine since. I've unlocked and rooted it, just so I can occasionally do backups for her in case sometime goes wrong.
Anyway, she likes to play her casino games on the thing and always falls asleep while doing so(lol, I know). Well, today I go in and see she fell alseep with it on again and when I picked up the tablet it was burning hot. So hot, I was seriously worried about it being damaged.
When in a fullscreen game or movie, the thing doesn't shut off by itself. My question is this: Will this thing shut off before it melts itself and/or starts a fire? I'd be hopeful that it has some kind of temperature shutoff before that happens, but man, it felt ridiculously hot. It's in a case and the case itself was burning hot, so the tablet had to be hotter. I know the battery would eventually die, but what if it was plugged in?
I know, simple solution is to tell my mom not to fall alseep while playing with the darn thing, but she's ornery and stubborn(i've genuinely tried to teach her how to legitimately use the tablet yet she still doesn't know how to use the keyboard, though somehow knows how to turn it on/off and download new casino games).
Is there a sleep timer app that can shut this thing off while a game is running and/or when it reaches a certain temperature?
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Bought my mom a Nexus 7 2013 holiday 2013 and it's been running fine since. I've unlocked and rooted it, just so I can occasionally do backups for her in case sometime goes wrong.
Anyway, she likes to play her casino games on the thing and always falls asleep while doing so(lol, I know). Well, today I go in and see she fell alseep with it on again and when I picked up the tablet it was burning hot. So hot, I was seriously worried about it being damaged.
When in a fullscreen game or movie, the thing doesn't shut off by itself. My question is this: Will this thing shut off before it melts itself and/or starts a fire? I'd be hopeful that it has some kind of temperature shutoff before that happens, but man, it felt ridiculously hot. It's in a case and the case itself was burning hot, so the tablet had to be hotter. I know the battery would eventually die, but what if it was plugged in?
I know, simple solution is to tell my mom not to fall alseep while playing with the darn thing, but she's ornery and stubborn(i've genuinely tried to teach her how to legitimately use the tablet yet she still doesn't know how to use the keyboard, though somehow knows how to turn it on/off and download new casino games).
Is there a sleep timer app that can shut this thing off while a game is running and/or when it reaches a certain temperature?
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AFAIK, nexuses (and any other Android devices as well I assume) got a temperature trigger. It means that if the device reaches certain temp it will clock down the CPU, so the device shouldn't be that hot to get its part damaged
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AFAIK, nexuses (and any other Android devices as well I assume) got a temperature trigger. It means that if the device reaches certain temp it will clock down the CPU, so the device shouldn't be that hot to get its part damaged
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Good to know. I assumed so, but when I picked up that tablet earlier, it's the hottest I've ever felt a mobile device. I've owned a bunch of androids and a few tablets.
antiseen said:
Bought my mom a Nexus 7 2013 holiday 2013 and it's been running fine since. I've unlocked and rooted it, just so I can occasionally do backups for her in case sometime goes wrong.
Anyway, she likes to play her casino games on the thing and always falls asleep while doing so(lol, I know). Well, today I go in and see she fell alseep with it on again and when I picked up the tablet it was burning hot. So hot, I was seriously worried about it being damaged.
When in a fullscreen game or movie, the thing doesn't shut off by itself. My question is this: Will this thing shut off before it melts itself and/or starts a fire? I'd be hopeful that it has some kind of temperature shutoff before that happens, but man, it felt ridiculously hot. It's in a case and the case itself was burning hot, so the tablet had to be hotter. I know the battery would eventually die, but what if it was plugged in?
I know, simple solution is to tell my mom not to fall alseep while playing with the darn thing, but she's ornery and stubborn(i've genuinely tried to teach her how to legitimately use the tablet yet she still doesn't know how to use the keyboard, though somehow knows how to turn it on/off and download new casino games).
Is there a sleep timer app that can shut this thing off while a game is running and/or when it reaches a certain temperature?
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My nexus 7 2013 shut off at exactly 105°C which is extremely hot! Now when my device gets 90°C+ the screen goes black (backlight still on) and after a hard reboot it refuses to boot and hangs on the google logo for 10 minutes and then it works fine again. Don't know what the problem is but since then my tablet is quite laggy and the antutu score for the cpu is about 500 (which is similar to a freaking galaxy Y ) While it should be at least 2000+ (IRL performance is not as bad as the antutu score says though)
Something is seriously wrong if it's getting really hot when playing 2d casino games, do you perhaps have the cpu govener set to
performance? so it's ramping up the cpu / gpu at all times?
If it's that hot you gotta make sure she knows to shut the screen off when not playing.
High heat plus a lithium battery can potentially equal an explosion. But it would need to be really hot.
Every once in a while I can't swipe down the notifications bar and the top 10% ish of the screen doesn't respond to touches.
Also, I seem to get quite a few false touches
I think i may have issue but not too sure will keep a eye out
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misteroh said:
Every once in a while I can't swipe down the notifications bar and the top 10% ish of the screen doesn't respond to touches.
Also, I seem to get quite a few false touches
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I have an issue that is 100% reproducible on my G4.
1. I set in Dev option for the animations to be .5x
2. Swipe between home screens left, right left, then press any of the shortcuts in the persistent are of the screen (phone, camera etc).
3. Now try to do the same thing but press any app shortcut or even the recents button. it works fine. I think this is a software issue.
I freaking starting to hate LG UI.
No issues on my G4, however...
I had the same exact issues on the G2 where the digitizer and the screen had to be replaced time and time again, and it'd just break again. Seems like the heat makes it so touches don't register.
I posted the other day about an issue mainly in Pinball Arcade, where taps occasionally weren't registering a flipper activation. This problem seemed to extend into the OS itself, as I have had some hiccups while typing or navigating. I just wiped everything and am trying again...we'll see. But I want this figured out by early next week so I can take advantage of the 14-day period.
Seems to happen when the top part of the phone is really hot
I'm having issues with the touch screen just not registering taps randomly. i can be in chrome scrolling and just have it stop scrolling then decided to start up again and i have to press an app icon multiple times to get it to register. ive only had the phone for 5 hours now. very pissed.
going to go return it now. was going to get the nexus 6 and i should have in the first place.
Some taps not registering here too...sucks, but i don't see any other phone I like out there.
same here I'm having bad touch screen issue, will be returning just paid $635 for this
.. I just started having this issue after the recent tmo update.. Wtf
Don't seem to be having any touchscreen issues. Mine is only heat related. Getting new phone delivered today. Hopefully that will fix it.
rsbenedict said:
Don't seem to be having any touchscreen issues. Mine is only heat related. Getting new phone delivered today. Hopefully that will fix it.
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It's normal to heat up the first few days while it downloads and installs all your data.
I've had my phone two weeks. It heats up to over 107F while listening to Tune-in Radio. Yesterday at the T-Mobile store it went from 81-107F after 5 minutes of talking on the phone and about 5 minutes of Tune-In Radio. The hottest I've noticed is 117F. This is under normal operation and NEVER happened with any other smart phone I've had (I've had smart phones since 2005). It will be in my pocket and I have to take it out because it's so hot. I don't play intensive games or do anything really intensive on it. The most intensive thing I do is watch youtube videos or periscope. I use this phone exactly as I used my G3 two weeks ago. Nothing has changed and no new apps.
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I've had my phone two weeks. It heats up to over 107F while listening to Tune-in Radio. Yesterday at the T-Mobile store it went from 81-107F after 5 minutes of talking on the phone and about 5 minutes of Tune-In Radio. The hottest I've noticed is 117F. This is under normal operation and NEVER happened with any other smart phone I've had (I've had smart phones since 2005). It will be in my pocket and I have to take it out because it's so hot. I don't play intensive games or do anything really intensive on it. The most intensive thing I do is watch youtube videos or periscope. I use this phone exactly as I used my G3 two weeks ago. Nothing has changed and no new apps.
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Yeah, that's probably not normal if it's been two weeks. Mine was only warm the first two days, but it quickly resolved once everything's properly set up.
What's funny, is she went down a list of why my phone might be hot: did you leave it in the sun? are you playing intensive games? a case can cause the phone to get hot. using your screen at high brightness can cause the phone to overheat. LOL
I told her that when play store updates 2 apps, it gets hot. She said she could fix that and promptly went to my settings and turned off auto-update. REALLY?
Valkyrie743 said:
I'm having issues with the touch screen just not registering taps randomly. i can be in chrome scrolling and just have it stop scrolling then decided to start up again and i have to press an app icon multiple times to get it to register. ive only had the phone for 5 hours now. very pissed.
going to go return it now. was going to get the nexus 6 and i should have in the first place.
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I bought phone last week and experiencing the same exact thing. Also when texting. Very mad too as I was going to get Nexus 6 too. Well within 14 days so returning tomorrow
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I've had my phone two weeks. It heats up to over 107F while listening to Tune-in Radio. Yesterday at the T-Mobile store it went from 81-107F after 5 minutes of talking on the phone and about 5 minutes of Tune-In Radio. The hottest I've noticed is 117F. This is under normal operation and NEVER happened with any other smart phone I've had (I've had smart phones since 2005). It will be in my pocket and I have to take it out because it's so hot. I don't play intensive games or do anything really intensive on it. The most intensive thing I do is watch youtube videos or periscope. I use this phone exactly as I used my G3 two weeks ago. Nothing has changed and no new apps.
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Mines got pretty hot too when updating apps the first day of use, hottest I've ever felt a phone. I've been working at T-Mobile since 2009 and I always thought customers would exaggerate about a hot phone.
Different kind of touch issue
When i place my mobile on bed or any soft surface, the touch does not respond. Am unable to pull down the notification bar. Tried multi touch app and it does not recognize the touches itself. Someone help me out pls.
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Every once in a while I can't swipe down the notifications bar and the top 10% ish of the screen doesn't respond to touches.
Also, I seem to get quite a few false touches
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Mine is perfect except if it's plugged in and charging. It's much less responsive then, and needs a much firmer touch.
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Mine is perfect except if it's plugged in and charging. It's much less responsive then, and needs a much firmer touch.
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I just noticed this last night as well. I had it plugged in and it started to slow down a bit (Thermal throttling) and touches were less responsive.
At this moment it's working great. I really hope this isn't a heat/hardware thing
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I've had my phone two weeks. It heats up to over 107F while listening to Tune-in Radio. Yesterday at the T-Mobile store it went from 81-107F after 5 minutes of talking on the phone and about 5 minutes of Tune-In Radio. The hottest I've noticed is 117F. This is under normal operation and NEVER happened with any other smart phone I've had (I've had smart phones since 2005). It will be in my pocket and I have to take it out because it's so hot. I don't play intensive games or do anything really intensive on it. The most intensive thing I do is watch youtube videos or periscope. I use this phone exactly as I used my G3 two weeks ago. Nothing has changed and no new apps.
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If you don't mind me asking, what are you using to monitor the temp?