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Battery hot on 4g

Hey peeps... I usually use my WiFi when I'm home and mostly I've been using WiFi for the past two days.. I noticed that when I first got the phone, it was already on 4g and that's when I noticed it was really hot in the back... After turning 4g off and using edge and WiFi, it never got hot really... Now I noticed I'm using 4g and its blazing hot... Had to turn it off again. This May have to go back to the store. I paid 648 and I'm wondering of I really pushed it..... Can ya'll put ya'll phones on 4g and play around with it and let me know how yallz turn out?
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stepinmyworld said:
Hey peeps... I usually use my WiFi when I'm home and mostly I've been using WiFi for the past two days.. I noticed that when I first got the phone, it was already on 4g and that's when I noticed it was really hot in the back... After turning 4g off and using edge and WiFi, it never got hot really... Now I noticed I'm using 4g and its blazing hot... Had to turn it off again. This May have to go back to the store. I paid 648 and I'm wondering of I really pushed it..... Can ya'll put ya'll phones on 4g and play around with it and let me know how yallz turn out?
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Mine has been getting hot regardless on 4g/Wifi.

Mines is hot as hell. And its just charging off. Only turned the phone on once because the dumb sales rep.
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Shaquiel Harris said:
Mines is hot as hell. And its just charging off. Only turned the phone on once because the dumb sales rep.
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yeah and i will kind of be sad to return it.. it wont be a swap.. it will just be a complete return.

stepinmyworld said:
yeah and i will kind of be sad to return it.. it wont be a swap.. it will just be a complete return.
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I would just wait. give the phone a few days. my g2 would get so hot i dropped it once.. and it was UC'd. The battery will adapt hopefully. if not a system update SHOULD fix the problem.

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So hot you can cook on it..... i'm kidding, but it is scary thou

same here, battery gets really hot regardless of 4G on/off. But it does get especially hot when I put it in my pocket, or when I get to places where coverage sucks, the signal just craps out on me.

So I wonder are we all going to ignore this because we like the phone so much...... If it continues, I think ya'll should find the courage to return it. It's not fare to consumers if they didn't test it good enough to know about heating issues.
Many sensation fanboys or girls will get angry cause I'm saying this but its just being honest. I loooove the phone.. it's just a hot plate and laggy at times... For almost 700 dollars? Smh
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Give it some time. Mine showed some early heating but since using it a ton the past few days no heat. I wanted to discharge the battery completely last night so I watched Jackie Brown on Netflix. Streamed via 4g for two hours with Bluetooth on for my headset and full bright. Never got hot.

Sry lg g2x

Thanks all the devs and thanks for trying to port ics. Just bought a prime
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Enjoy your nexus and good luck with it hope it treats you better then the g2x. And have a Marry Christmas
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No one cares that u have a galaxy nexus, this a g2x board

ridearoundsolo said:
No one cares that u have a galaxy nexus, this a g2x board
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You are right no one cares but you must have failed reading. He is thanking the developers on this phone for all there hard work that he enjoyed while using his phone. This is what is wrong with xda nowadays.
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ridearoundsolo said:
No one cares that u have a galaxy nexus, this a g2x board
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Jealousy perhaps anyone? No need to attack bud.
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I always announced my departure from a phone on threads and it always ends ugly. the last one ended up getting closed.
lol i announced that i was leaving the vibrant and these guys really tried to trash the g2x...
i don't see how someone moving to another phone can upset some? make no sense. plus op is thanking devs....
enjoy ur new phone dude...nothing like a new phone

Cool stuff, man. Update this thread and let us know how you like it. I've been considering purchasing one, as well.

So far battery drain like no other phone I had screen auto brightness kills the quality very horrible I think ics needs an update a bit sluggish compare when I installed alphav3 ics on the g2x
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54mins off the charger lost 10%off battery
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Intel_x said:
54mins off the charger lost 10%off battery
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This is why I'm really hoping they work on better battery management for phones coming out in 2012. Does anybody really need a 2ghz quadcore phone when there battery will just die in 3 hrs? I'm perfectly content on 1ghz cpu's(there fast enough) hopefully with any luck future phone displays,cpus,gpus,etc all work together on ICS to bring a couple days of real time use, instead of just a couple hours without having to buy extended batteries/charge etc..
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d12unk13astard said:
This is why I'm really hoping they work on better battery management for phones coming out in 2012. Does anybody really need a 2ghz quadcore phone when there battery will just die in 3 hrs? I'm perfectly content on 1ghz cpu's(there fast enough) hopefully with any luck future phone displays,cpus,gpus,etc all work together on ICS to bring a couple days of real time use, instead of just a couple hours without having to buy extended batteries/charge etc..
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That's what I'm saying man. They're moving too fast with these processor cores. I say, take a year off on engineering processors and spend that time on extending battery life and make better batteries. I'm more than content with dual cores as it is.
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Best way to extend battery life is to work on the cpu. If you shrink the cpu the it will use less watts per cycle. Also nvidia made a smart upgrade with its quad core by putting in a fifth slow main core. So work in parallel. Engineers work on making the cpu efficient and programmers should stop being lazy. It's not like these companies can't multi task
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They said the same thing about dual core saving battery life, that was a joke! Only way I get decent battery life is with my 3500mah extended.
Still I do agree that those 28nm krait s4 chips should take less battery usage, but I'm talking about more then just achieving much longer overall battery life from multiple factoring issues android has(better displays,gpu,cpu,larger stock OEM batteries,ui,etc) hopefully ICS and jellybean really step up to provide the ultimate android experience without having to charge our phones every 4-6 hr's lol
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I'm at 20 hours with 67% battery... just saying.
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lanlee212 said:
You are right no one cares but you must have failed reading. He is thanking the developers on this phone for all there hard work that he enjoyed while using his phone. This is what is wrong with xda nowadays.
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Failed reading? Check your spelling dude. You meant "their" not "there"
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unique77 said:
I'm at 20 hours with 67% battery... just saying.
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How are you doing that????
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unique77 said:
I'm at 20 hours with 67% battery... just saying.
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Really how can you do that?!?! Do you use your phone at all or do you leave it on standby??
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I am using eaglesbloods latest and using morfics elp kernel. I only get battery life like this when I'm in good service areas all day fyi. When I install a rom I really like, I erase the entire phone, reformat everything literally, then load the rom and kernel from USB mount in clockwork mod. I feel its best to have a completely clean flash. Then I charge the phone to 100 and calibrate battery stats. Some days I get battery life where I'm at 20% at 20 hours, others much much better. I'm always using the phone moderately. When I first read tthis and checked I was at 60% at 20 hours. Tried to post a screenshot bur it wouldn't work ... def. not pulling your left though. Also the only thing I sync is email every half hour. I uninstalled Facebook because it always runs in the background... makes me uncomfortable.
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Really how can you do that?!?! Do you use your phone at all or do you leave it on standby??
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So ya mostly idle then.
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No, as I said: I always use it moderately. Checking email, calling, or texting at least every hour or so.
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[Q] Has any one experience the heat?

I had left my phone on the charger for 3 hours, I disabled WiFi and mobile network while charging and when I went to take it off the charger it was extremely hot, I checked the temp it was 140 degrees F and quickly power downed my phone for a hour was wondering has anyone else experience this?
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Yea mine gets pretty hot while I do stuff on it but after I experienced over heating on the g2x this seemed like nothing ha
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Yea I feel it get warm when playing videos or playing games for a while but that was really hot
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Must say this is the "coolest" phone I've owned so far..
Hehe, joke aside, it doesn't actually heat up all that much.
Even when being used or in talk.

mine is always at 40°Celsius after I use it for 5min :/
( 104 Fahrenheit says Google)

Mine gets warm not hot feels so nice when u ain't used ur phone for awhile and it feels cold
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Me too. But it wasn't EXTREMELYhot just hotter than I have ever felt on a phone. But it quickly cooled down after an hour more on the charger.
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I noticed my phone got pretty uncomfortably hot when I had it plugged in my car charger and using the turn-by-turn navigation. At that time I didn't have an app to measure the temp though. I'm going on a trip this weekend so perhaps I'll be able to get some hard data.
In general though it does get pretty warm when it's charging. I'm not too surprised by that since the phone is so thin..

You using OEM charger? Usb charging? Wall charging?
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I had mine charging for a few hours, and it didn't get hot at all. I used an OEM HTC charger and cord.
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jj00KKEERR said:
I had mine charging for a few hours, and it didn't get hot at all. I used an OEM HTC charger and cord.
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OEM all the way here
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i went through 5 units, they all behaved very differently in terms of heat. so i guess the build quality is to blame here.

been playing Asphalt 6 for 45 min and screen still on downloading Max Payne, not hot at all. My Legend can get hot quick.
edit, about an hour of Asphalt and Max Payne it got pretty hot!

Yup same here ...however once I flashed a different rom the issue went away...good luck

I want to give a big thanks who put their input. Helps a lot of us - new to the phone users good ideas for the heat.
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stemnin said:
been playing Asphalt 6 for 45 min and screen still on downloading Max Payne, not hot at all. My Legend can get hot quick.
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Links to Apk files?
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k1llacanon said:
Links to Apk files?
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They're in the Play Store
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I never felt it..probably because I just got it yesterday.but I never use my phone while charging.
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it gets hot because it is SO DAMN FAST---

And the metal body wouldnt dissipate heat as quickly.
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Phone getting very warm

Hello I just got my gs4 on Saturday and I have to say that im not as impressed as I thought I would be.
The phone gets quite hot during almost anything. Also is no where near as snappy as my rooted inspire (1.0 ghz single core with less than 1 gb ram). This phone is awesome as far as opening more draining apps like facebook.
I wouldn't think that rooting is needed to be quicker than a 2.5 year old phone...
At this point im considering trading it in for a gs3 or htc one....
And mine is definitely laggy
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schinner16 said:
Hello I just got my gs4 on Saturday and I have to say that im not as impressed as I thought I would be.
The phone gets quite hot during almost anything. Also is no where near as snappy as my rooted inspire (1.0 ghz single core with less than 1 gb ram). This phone is awesome as far as opening more draining apps like facebook.
I wouldn't think that rooting is needed to be quicker than a 2.5 year old phone...
At this point im considering trading it in for a gs3 or htc one....
And mine is definitely laggy
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If it's getting very hot with little usage then I'd exchange it for another.
Also, an update was released today that pretty much solved the lag issues..

Mine got pretty warm last night while playing a simple solitaire game...
It was also eating battery pretty fast.
I rebooted it and it seemed to go away.

schinner16 said:
Hello I just got my gs4 on Saturday and I have to say that im not as impressed as I thought I would be.
The phone gets quite hot during almost anything. Also is no where near as snappy as my rooted inspire (1.0 ghz single core with less than 1 gb ram). This phone is awesome as far as opening more draining apps like facebook.
I wouldn't think that rooting is needed to be quicker than a 2.5 year old phone...
At this point im considering trading it in for a gs3 or htc one....
And mine is definitely laggy
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Are there any services or apps that is causing the CPU/Stay Awake to drain your battery?
My first G4 was horrible laggy as well, but my new one is a dream. See this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263015

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Thanks for the input guys Ive got a few more days so ill continue to run it. I just got the update so ill let you know if things change.
It does seem better as of right now but ill try it for a while.
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Well the update seems to have helped greatly...or im starting to get used to the heat. I haven't really used a smartphone with out a case really.
Is there anyways to get auto correct working with this keyboard?
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schinner16 said:
Well the update seems to have helped greatly...or im starting to get used to the heat. I haven't really used a smartphone with out a case really.
Is there anyways to get auto correct working with this keyboard?
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Go to the play store - download the stock jelly bean keyboard - it's awesome. EFF samsung.

Mine gets hot a lot too. . I'm going to keep my eye on this even after update.
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akira02rex said:
Go to the play store - download the stock jelly bean keyboard - it's awesome. EFF samsung.
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Which one there are a ton and none of them seem to be legit.
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schinner16 said:
Which one there are a ton and none of them seem to be legit.
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Just search for jelly bean keyboard and it should be the first one.

mine gets stupid hot for the smallest things I surf the web for about five mins and you cant even put up to your ear to make a call TO HOT.. I returned it and got it exchanged and that device is also getting way to hot. I might just return the GS4 seems like a big issue out there I googled the problem and see that most people are having the issue. IDK 7 more days and I.m stuck with it... any other phone would be a downgrade.

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mine gets stupid hot for the smallest things I surf the web for about five mins and you cant even put up to your ear to make a call TO HOT.. I returned it and got it exchanged and that device is also getting way to hot. I might just return the GS4 seems like a big issue out there I googled the problem and see that most people are having the issue. IDK 7 more days and I.m stuck with it... any other phone would be a downgrade.
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There is probably something wrong with your phone and the next one. Bad luck I guess. It never gets hot on normal use for me. The only time it gets hot for me is when playing high end games.

bori1030 said:
mine gets stupid hot for the smallest things I surf the web for about five mins and you cant even put up to your ear to make a call TO HOT.. I returned it and got it exchanged and that device is also getting way to hot. I might just return the GS4 seems like a big issue out there I googled the problem and see that most people are having the issue. IDK 7 more days and I.m stuck with it... any other phone would be a downgrade.
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Just get a note 2 trust me it will be an upgrade over this phone.
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Please post the CPU/Stay Awake statistics for some of your higher battery drain apps at the end of the day

sabre31 said:
Just get a note 2 trust me it will be an upgrade over this phone.
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Unless you dont mind being mocked for talking on a tablet I would avoid any phone larger than the s4. The note two has its place and it to me is only worthwhile if you carry a purse.... it's a great device but not practical in my opinion, I mean how do you carry that thing?
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In my pocket never had an issue fits perfectly. As far as what others think about it don't matter to me.
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In my pocket never had an issue fits perfectly. As far as what others think about it don't matter to me.
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I wish I wasnt as affected but I hate when ppl comment on how large my phone is...and I think its because I agree and wish it was smaller. A 4.5 or so with the the same build as this s4 would be mich nicer. And by that I mean a screen that efficiently uses the face of the phone.
Its really tough to determine what is the he perfect size screen and I think over time we will become more tolerant of the pocket consumption. I mean look at the inspire or other older 4.2...it was huge for its time but now its really not considered that anymore.
With that said for the time being I think 4.5 with the smallest possible chassis would be the best.
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all recent device getting hot quickly in 3G network

finnbass759 said:
all recent device getting hot quickly in 3G network
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Not mine. I am in LTE or 3G all day and my phone does not get hot in the least.

Hot while charging

My phone gets pretty darn hot while charging off the official charger
does anybody else's do the same?
Any solutions?

I thought mine was gonna burst into flames this morning lol. Charged over night, picked it up this morning and it was almost too hot to pick up. Battery is at 103 degrees right now.
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Warm, maybe. Hot, no. Still very early under manufacturers warranty so should be easily replaced. Did this with my wife's and rather than mess with it, sprint just replaced the phone with NIB.
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Running at 82 degrees currently. Will have to keep an eye on this.
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How do you guys check the temp?
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gtuansdiamm said:
How do you guys check the temp?
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I'm using setcpu
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