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Infuse battery extremely hot???

I've been using it for ten minutes on the charger and for some reason the screen brigntness was low. So I went to the settings and it says "to avoid overheating maximum brightness has been reduced".. and my temperature is 47 degrees now. Anyone elses phone getting hot?
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This used to happen with my Samsung Vibrant 4g... i believe you could burn the phone if it continues, it might be a factory issue.

Same here, charging on the wall charger with screen off, it hit 47c and won't go to max brightness.

I've also jist noticed after 50% the charging time decreases significantly. I went from 50% to 90% in 45 min
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Mine got hot and I lost all service. It was up to about 93% charge and it just lost all cellular service. I had it rooted but didnt carrier unlock it. Got a replacement phone this morning and Im leaving it alone to see how it does while charging. With the long charge times this could be an issue. Not everyone can let a device set and not mess with it for 3-4 hours, lol I know I cant.
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Technically I don't think you are supposed to be using your phone while on the charger... This happens to all phones just some heat up faster than others.... My old ATT Startac did that, SE W900, Captivate, and this one.
It really kills the life of the battery too as well. Nature of the beast....

big99gt said:
Mine got hot and I lost all service. It was up to about 93% charge and it just lost all cellular service. I had it rooted but didnt carrier unlock it. Got a replacement phone this morning and Im leaving it alone to see how it does while charging. With the long charge times this could be an issue. Not everyone can let a device set and not mess with it for 3-4 hours, lol I know I cant.
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How is it working now

DVA4890 said:
How is it working now
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Had to get a new one but so far so good, 95 degrees F while charging.
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Just an update, charged past 50% on the new phone and its picking up speed and charging much faster. Temp is steady at 87F. Seems like I really just had a bad unit because the other phone got up to 116F just charging with the screen off.
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Overheating

Ive been noticing my phone getting hot under moderate use. I've been hitting 114°+ f. At what point should I be concerned
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I have noticed 114-116 with moderate use as well. After letting it sit, it cooled down fairly well. I think 120+ without use would be an issue. I wouldnt worry at 114 if you let it sleep and it drops after 15 minutes

Rldowney said:
Ive been noticing my phone getting hot under moderate use. I've been hitting 114°+ f. At what point should I be concerned
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yes when I got my infuse my battery get's crazy hot, after a week, now it's not that hot anymore I think it's the battery need tyo be break-in after that it's going to be normal, and remember that Flash thing suck battery so much, when playing flash video it uses 4g, cpu is working hard, + display is on, when battery drains fast it will be very hot, so now I just use skyfire, because skyfire convert the video on their server, then stream it as a on a mobile friendly format, so the difference is it don't uses the cpu a lot, but with Flash cpu workload ia increase.
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Rldowney said:
Ive been noticing my phone getting hot under moderate use. I've been hitting 114°+ f. At what point should I be concerned?
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114?!
The hotter a battery gets the more it loses its ability to keep a 100% charge. I always keep my battery at least below 100* to be on the safe side so I don't degrade its ability to hold maximum charge.
Just like if you were to leave your phone in the car with the sun blazing that would be bad for the battery - I wouldn't allow it to get that hot.

Rldowney said:
Ive been noticing my phone getting hot under moderate use. I've been hitting 114°+ f. At what point should I be concerned
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Do you by any.chance have widgetsoid installed? I had the same problem turns out widgetsoid constantly makes the processor run at Max thus heating up the phone. I uninstalled and haven't gone over 105°... if it doesn't work backup with titanium backup and do a data wipe.
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[Q] How hot is too hot?

Yesterday my G2X was really hot it was over 110 because of the weather... So how hot is too hot and what to do to protect the phone when you have to be in sun? Any advice?

I have same problem. Its 110 in Vegas and there is not much you can do.
G2x with CM7 and faux kernel. NONSENSE!!!!

I was at a outside event and my phone was at 119°F.
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Mine was at 120f sitting on my desk at work. Considering a swap.

My phone gets hot sitting in my truck dash mount streaming music, then again I live in Florida. On a side note it doesn't get hot at all playing drag racing for 4 hours straight.
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Here is what LG says:
Humm... Max Storage temp is about 122F, so I'd be careful about leaving it in a hot car during the summer, especially in direct sunlight. The Operating Temp is about 113F ...
There is Thermal protection built into the phone so if the heat gets excesive, it should shut off, But personally I wouldn't push it to that extreme. I use a little app called "Battery Indicator Pro" that makes it easy to see what the reported temperature of the phone is.
If the phone is uncomfortable to hold, then it's too warm... Remember, Heat is NOT a friend to Electronics of any type.
If your phone is getting too hat to hold, I'd contact T-Mobile or LG Support about getting it repaired / replaced. LG can be reached at (800) 793-8896.

I noticed mine was warm (about 40c) when using my data and just surfing. When it went up to 45c, I turned the data off immediately. I let it sit for a little bit and it went back down to the 20s.
It was the first time it got that warm so I'll chalk it up to the weather.
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I had mine in my car while I was driving around running some errands 2 days ago. It was 101 degrees outside, and the phone shut off...when I turned it back on, it said it was 125 degrees...I"m guessing that was too hot. I haven't noticed any indications of permanent damage, so I guess the safety feature worked.

I hit 122°F today and phone lock up. Keep phone out if heat. LOL
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mmapcpro said:
I had mine in my car while I was driving around running some errands 2 days ago. It was 101 degrees outside, and the phone shut off...when I turned it back on, it said it was 125 degrees...I"m guessing that was too hot. I haven't noticed any indications of permanent damage, so I guess the safety feature worked.
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101 in KS?? And I thought TN was bad.

132 Degrees?

Wow this is a new high. I was talking on the phone with headphones in, set it down on the table, started playing words with friends and hanging with friends simultaneously over 4g, and I noticed that the SCREEN felt hot. At this point I started to download a thermometer app. After playing another round of hanging, my headphones made beeping noises and the phone went from 5 bars 4g to no service. So I checked my thermometer app and it said 55 Celsius, which I then googled to be 132 Fahrenheit!!
Is this dangerous for the internals? I think the software killed the radio because of this. I put the phone in the freezer for 30 seconds and it came out at 50 degrees and the radio worked fine again.

Yes. While the system internals may be able to handle this temperature (although it's probably close to max), it's pretty dangerous to the battery and can ruin it.
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kvswim said:
Yes. While the system internals may be able to handle this temperature (although it's probably close to max), it's pretty dangerous to the battery and can ruin it.
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Yeah i think my battery is draining significantly faster today. Could that have caused it?
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JihadSquad said:
Yeah i think my battery is draining significantly faster today. Could that have caused it?
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if it does this frequently its usually the sign of a defective or dying battery or possibly bad phone... they should be able to give you a new battery or set you up with a replacement no problem, I think its a common issue from what I've heard in the VZ stores near me
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge

I ordered this from tiger direct and i can't really go two Weeks without my phone so no giving it back. Also this phone works perfectly besides this one incident and the GPS, so i would rather not get a replacement that has data dropping, for example
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How warm do you guys let your phone get?

Hi everyone,
I'm about a week-long user of the M8 so far, and I'm loving it. I've been a fairly long time HTC user as well - I started with the Ozone, then fell back to a feature phone until I picked up the Incredible 2, which lasted for a long time.
At any rate, I'm no stranger to hot phones, literally. During my commute back and forth to work, I would use my Inc. 2 to record the drive with Dailyroads Voyager, while simultaneously monitoring road conditions with Waze. My good old Inc. 2 would power through those tasks like a boss, while at the same time burning up, and usually unable to pull enough power from the car USB charger. The only way to keep my phone stable was by running my car's defroster to blow cold air over the phone.
Now that I'm up to date hardware-wise, the M8 is no exception in the power house category. It can even keep charging while it's doing these things, although it does still get pretty warm. It's currently in a protective case which seems to dissipate the heat pretty well.
My question is, how warm do you guys let your M8 get? (Note: I'm rooted, but still running stock with no sort of overclocking involved.)

The only time I've ever had heat issues was when I mounted the phone to use as gps. And this was under direct 90 degree heat. Other than that, I've had no problems with heat whatsoever, even on prolonged lte usage and video watching.
My experience might be isolated though. I'd say, if your phone is uncomfortably hot to touch, you should probably ease up on it to be safe.

ReyStunner said:
The only time I've ever had heat issues was when I mounted the phone to use as gps. And this was under direct 90 degree heat. Other than that, I've had no problems with heat whatsoever, even on prolonged lte usage and video watching.
My experience might be isolated though. I'd say, if your phone is uncomfortably hot to touch, you should probably ease up on it to be safe.
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Yeah, always with the GPS navigation it seems. I wonder if this is something that can be fixed software wise (I.E filling a bug report to Waze/DRV), or if it's more on HTC's end for software/hardware...

I would assume it was just the metal body absorbing direct sunlight but I might be wrong. My HTC rezound used to double as a portable heater the way it used to get hot with extended usage. This one doesn't seem to be like that though.

Usually only heats when running tether for a period.
tgp1994 said:
Hi everyone,
I'm about a week-long user of the M8 so far, and I'm loving it. I've been a fairly long time HTC user as well - I started with the Ozone, then fell back to a feature phone until I picked up the Incredible 2, which lasted for a long time.
At any rate, I'm no stranger to hot phones, literally. During my commute back and forth to work, I would use my Inc. 2 to record the drive with Dailyroads Voyager, while simultaneously monitoring road conditions with Waze. My good old Inc. 2 would power through those tasks like a boss, while at the same time burning up, and usually unable to pull enough power from the car USB charger. The only way to keep my phone stable was by running my car's defroster to blow cold air over the phone.
Now that I'm up to date hardware-wise, the M8 is no exception in the power house category. It can even keep charging while it's doing these things, although it does still get pretty warm. It's currently in a protective case which seems to dissipate the heat pretty well.
My question is, how warm do you guys let your M8 get? (Note: I'm rooted, but still running stock with no sort of overclocking involved.)
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Usually only heats when running tether for a period.
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That's been my experience from the Inc 2, as well. So it seems like the mobile radio may generate quite a bit of heat...

I recently accidentally let my M8 get too hot while listening to music with it laying in direct sunlight face up. Didn't think about the black screen absorbing so much heat, got so hot it went into safety shut-off. It was almost too hot to touch, but after a couple minutes off it was relatively cool and turned back on fine with no problems or battery issue.

Low 40s Celsius is when I start to get uncomfortable. It's still safe, I just simply don't like it that warm. I get mad when my OC'd Intel cpu hits 60c even though 75+ is fine. I'm just anal about temps I guess
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As hot as it wants, it'll turn off by itself if it ever reaches critical temperatures
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My Car mount clips onto the AC vents so my phone is always cool (I block some of the air through. Too cold isn't good either(
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I agree that the only time (and it was only once) my unit got hot was while I was using it in its car mount and GPS was on. Otherwise I have seen none of the heart issues that plagued my Rezound and my Incredible.
My name's Harold and I'm a flashaholic....

I usually put it in preheated to 400 degrees and flip halfway through at 10 minutes.
Suits my needs.
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I like to burn things
But really though, I keep her around 451°F
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If you're rooted, install XPosed and than install "CPU Temp in StatusBar" to keep really good track of the temps. Mine doesn't ever get over 110F, even under hard WiFi and streaming use. I've never used it for GPS in the car. At idle, it sits under 80F.

RikRong said:
If you're rooted, install XPosed and than install "CPU Temp in StatusBar" to keep really good track of the temps. Mine doesn't ever get over 110F, even under hard WiFi and streaming use. I've never used it for GPS in the car. At idle, it sits under 80F.
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Thank you, I've been looking for a CoreTemp-like feature for my phone. I'll give this a try!

I've been hammering on my new m8 (swapping roms, installing massive amounts of apps, running tests, playing games ) for over a day and the phone has never gotten beyond lukewarm. Nothing close to what my m7 used to do

I never look at the temp. It will auto throttle if it gets too hot anyway. Just use the phone how you want and don't worry about it...

Well, I gave the temp monitoring thing a try (very cool!) and I don't think my phone ever passed 65 degrees Celsius, which I guess is ok. So no worries it seems!

That's a hundred and forty nine degrees F. Lol you need more ac.
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Rushing said:
That's a hundred and forty nine degrees F. Lol you need more ac.
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I think I'm still doing better than your 451 degrees