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Why does my charger smell burnt, like electronics melting or burning???

Why does my charger smell burnt, like electronics melting or burning. I notice this today.
Only from USB port.
No smoke or nothing came out.
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Place saver.
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When electronics smell like they burn or melt, they usually do. Get a new charger
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KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
Why does my charger smell burnt, like electronics melting or burning. I notice this today.
Only from USB port.
No smoke or nothing came out.
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Does your battery smell like pickels too?
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Yes! My battery definitely one hundred percent smells like pickles. Especially when really hot. I thought I was crazy!
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My second one has had that smell since I got it, like it's burnt. Nothing seems to be wrong though
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lol he said pickels... wait seriously?? lol nah i noticed a funny smell doing a battery pull cuz my goddamn phone locked up im getting used to this bull**** haha n just hearing me say that is a joke CUZ ITS A 600 DOLLAR PHONE!!!!! im gona drop kick this phone

Mine did this in the car today.
Pulled the plug out and it was hot like a cigarette. Smelled like burning.
I am guess I shouldn't use my palm mirco usb charger? (rated at 1000MaH)

IcerC said:
I am guess I shouldn't use my palm mirco usb charger? (rated at 1000MaH)
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What's the output voltage of that charger? The 1000 mah is fine.
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You have a bad battery. Get a replacement battery fast.
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My phone smells like it's burnt as well. Even when I take the battery out, the phone smells like burnt where the gold connectors are. As well as the battery itself smelling. I can smell it through the USB connector on the bottom with the battery cover on.
I purchased a new battery and it still does the same thing... I don't know if it's the phone or the batteries.
The phone works fine and I get great battery life. It's not even hot. So idk if I should be concerned or not.

RELAX man ! your electrical outlet gives the not stable amplitude of voltage....thats why charger is getting hot sometimes., and smells.
Don't worry it's ok

avetny said:
RELAX man ! your electrical outlet gives the not stable amplitude of voltage....thats why charger is getting hot sometimes., and smells.
Don't worry it's ok
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It's not the charger though, it's the actual phone/battery.
After having the phone unplugged for hours, the area around the gold contacts of the phone/battery connectors smells like scorched metal/plastic.

Do u have a custom kernel?
U smell only when u open battery?
Is it happening every time when phone on charge?

avetny said:
Do u have a custom kernel?
U smell only when u open battery?
Is it happening every time when phone on charge?
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Yeah I'm using Faux's LGE Stock Froyo kernel v0.0.4 with ext4 undervolted.
Stock LG Froyo rom
The smell never goes away as long as the phone is on. It has been doing it since I got the phone about 3 weeks ago before I installed the custom kernel.
Like I said, everything works fine, and the phone and battery aren't even hot. I even bought a new battery and it still does it.

(FIXED) G2x gets flipping hot sometimes......

Woah is me. My g2x gets hot. So does my mt4g my g2 and anyone else's phone I use. I started to wonder why.....its the way I'm holding it. Yes, simply that. Oh lets not forget after a nice full wipe and everything is installing over again that taxes the processor causing it to get hotter than normal. Oh it gets hot sitting in my pocket doing nothing when it's really hot outside.
Anyone here ever pay attention to when it gets hot and actually wonder why it does?
ITS ALL WONKY!!!

Morfic has a good post somewhere about this. If I recall he made mention that the Tegra 2 can bake a cake under certain conditions (I believe primarily when OC). What kernel are you using?

edit: nvm...

What I'm saying is its general body heat. Our bodies are average of 98.6 degrees. So holding it.in your hand alone will warm up the device.
Think of holding a glass of milk firmly in your hand for a while and see how long it stays cold compared to letting it sit on the table.
In some cases I think it is the phone but I would say 90% or more its the user not the device being a defect.
ITS ALL WONKY!!!

tackleberry said:
What I'm saying is its general body heat. Our bodies are average of 98.6 degrees. So holding it.in your hand alone will warm up the device.
Think of holding a glass of milk firmly in your hand for a while and see how long it stays cold compared to letting it sit on the table.
In some cases I think it is the phone but I would say 90% or more its the user not the device being a defect.
ITS ALL WONKY!!!
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Lol, like most things in life, user error

jlevy73 said:
Lol, like most things in life, user error
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Yea. I dunno every device I had gets hot under the collar with heavy usage. I think people are nitpicking something. Go to a t-mobile store and abusive every device there and hold it in the same spot the same way and run the same sstuff. .. ill bet in most cases you will have the same results.
ITS ALL WONKY!!!

My phone only gets hot on the charger, but often says please remove power cord cause "yo ****'s too hot"
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This post is completely false. Body heat? Come on.....If this logic were true then why have I picked the phone up off my cocktail table hours after not being used only to feel the phone much hotter than the surface it's sitting on in a air conditioned house? These processors run MUCH hotter than a body temp could ever reach and they were designed to withstand these temperatures. This is what CPU's do when you tax them, they get hot. If you still want to believe this bogus logic then I propose you open a HD game, set it on your cocktail table and only touch the phone with on of your fingers. Play it for about 15 minutes, pick your phone up and tell me if it's hot.
Last time I checked, my laptops CPU/GPU isn't touching anything but still gets hot.

jrwingate6 said:
This post is completely false. Body heat? Come on.....If this logic were true then why have I picked the phone up off my cocktail table hours after not being used only to feel the phone much hotter than the surface it's sitting on in a air conditioned house? These processors run MUCH hotter than a body temp could ever reach and they were designed to withstand these temperatures. This is what CPU's do when you tax them, they get hot. If you still want to believe this bogus logic then I propose you open a HD game, set it on your cocktail table and only touch the phone with on of your fingers. Play it for about 15 minutes, pick your phone up and tell me if it's hot.
Last time I checked, my laptops CPU/GPU isn't touching anything but still gets hot.
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Now I agree with this post 100%

jrwingate6 said:
If this logic were true then why have I picked the phone up off my cocktail table hours after not being used only to feel the phone much hotter than the surface it's sitting on in a air conditioned house?
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I wish I had air conditioning Stoopid summer.
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BobbyDukes707 said:
I wish I had air conditioning Stoopid summer.
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Do you live in a 3rd world country or something?
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jrwingate6 said:
Do you live in a 3rd world country or something?
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Never heard of a swamp cooler?
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msage said:
Never heard of a swamp cooler?
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Nope
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msage said:
Never heard of a swamp cooler?
Lol I haven't either bro but u can't have a 500 dollar phone and not have AC its called priorities
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Ok hold your phone by finger tips in the corners and tax the processor and then let it cool down and holdbit firmly from behind and do the same thing and see how much faster it gets hot.
This phone sitting on a table does not get hot at all. In my pocket when its 100 degrees outside does get hot......while doing nothing more than standby.
Its not BS. Yea these processors get hot on their own but I'm making a point that if the back of the phone has body heat covering it, it will get hot or at the least warmer than normal just because of that.
ITS ALL WONKY!!!

I live in an area where it is as hot (soon to be much hotter) as body temperature and my phone does not get noticeably hot unless I am really taxing it. But as far as exceeding design limits of CPUs I would have to be significantly overclocking it and taxing it at the same time.

tackleberry said:
Ok hold your phone by finger tips in the corners and tax the processor and then let it cool down and holdbit firmly from behind and do the same thing and see how much faster it gets hot.
This phone sitting on a table does not get hot at all. In my pocket when its 100 degrees outside does get hot......while doing nothing more than standby.
Its not BS. Yea these processors get hot on their own but I'm making a point that if the back of the phone has body heat covering it, it will get hot or at the least warmer than normal just because of that.
ITS ALL WONKY!!!
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This is your opinion unless you have the data to prove it. I have had phones get hot without touching them so I'm not believing this and quite frankly not a lot of people are. I asked you a question earlier. Why does my laptop and desktop CPU'S get hot when I never come in contact with them?
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In my opinion the thing that makes the phone warm up mostly is the cell radio. Download a 30mb file ( not on wifi) , turn off the screen, and watch how warm it gets. Also watch the large battery hit.
And every smart phone I know will get hot on a demanding game..
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My phone only gets hot near the camera when I bootloop.
It barely gets warm when playing a 3D game like Galaxy on Fire 2 or RPTide (or whatever).
I download CM roms (98mb) over cellular EVERY day and the phone feels cool to the touch.
Stock Clock/Stock CM7 #56 (currently)/Stock Kernel

jrwingate6 said:
This is your opinion unless you have the data to prove it. I have had phones get hot without touching them so I'm not believing this and quite frankly not a lot of people are. I asked you a question earlier. Why does my laptop and desktop CPU'S get hot when I never come in contact with them?
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you are comparing a computer to a phone.
i understand your point, anything being run hard will get hot.
im just saying tho, my battery temp has reached 100 degrees just being outside and not used. its reached 100 when i hold it in my hand covering the back a lot even doing simple tasks. when i hold it without the back totally covered from my hand, it does not get as hot when taxing it more. when my speck case is on it does not get as hot if im holding it fully in the back.

Overheating?

Does any one else's Charge seem to get abnormally hot while charging? Like hot to the point where it's uncomfortable to put in my pocket after charging. Wondering if I should try and get the phone replaced before it fries itself or if it's just normal. Thanks!
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Mine does it a lot, and its actually getting to the point where it wont charge my battery completely. Charged all last night, battery says 100%, but when I take it off the charger, its on 49%. And it died on 12%. Im taking it to VZW tomorrow to see if they can switch out the battery.
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slane35 said:
Does any one else's Charge seem to get abnormally hot while charging? Like hot to the point where it's uncomfortable to put in my pocket after charging. Wondering if I should try and get the phone replaced before it fries itself or if it's just normal. Thanks!
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not normal you have a problem
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I know. Im actually on a replacement too. Its crazy, it did it with my other phone also. I only got a replacement due to the reception issues.
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Verizon should replace the overheating phones. Mine overheated so badly that an error message popped up and said the phone could not charge because it was too hot.....something like that. I brought it to Verizon and they swapped it out no problem.
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I wonder how many times they can swap out. Because mine overheats when it charges, and sometimes when itaint charging at all.
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definitely not normal. Mine charges off of a 2amp charger in under an hour from 10 to 100 percent without getting very hot. Make sure you change out the charger too, the phone might not be the only problem. If there is a partial short it could be causing it.

If it's doing it with the factory charger, yes, it's a problem. If you have an aftermarket charger (or battery), it's most likely that. These phones are a bit touchier than they ought to be about where they accept their power from.

Mine seems to get pretty hot as well. Lets hope that we can pull a fascinate and use the warranty to get the sgs2.

indeed
my charge is overheating as well. there are 2 instances when it overheats. while Charging and downloading a huge file from internet or the app that uses internet/data.
I have tried diff battery did not help. I assume everyones phone is like that. Charge has a overheating problems.
IF you are not agree with me try to torrent on the phone for 20min. Just for testing sake and prove me wrong.(I dont torrent but it is a perfect example)

slane35 said:
Does any one else's Charge seem to get abnormally hot while charging? Like hot to the point where it's uncomfortable to put in my pocket after charging. Wondering if I should try and get the phone replaced before it fries itself or if it's just normal. Thanks!
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I had the same thing on my original Charge when it shipped to me. Along with the heat issue, my phone was dying way faster than it should considering my setup.
I went to a VZW corp store and they switched me out with a new battery as part of the manufacturer's warranty program.
The new battery didn't overheat anymore and my battery lasted twice as long.
Either way, you have nothing to lose.

big red is shipping me a replacement today...hopefully its a good one!

As always, if you are having heat problems I recommend underclocking/volting to 800mhz. Last time I did that it solved ALL my heat problems completely! It would only get ever so slightly warm when watching Netflix(the most data and system intensive app I know of). Never hot though.

Really hot when using cm7

Anyone else's sensation getting quite hot while running cm7? Iv got no custom kernel running just the regular included kernel clocked at 1.2 :S it can get really hot sometimes and I'm not running anything intensive maybe just playing some music and browsing the xda app most iv done is play a 2D game
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Depending on the ROM and what your doing with the phone, it can get very hot. I'm now using Android Revolution HD, however with insertcoin, when I would use my phone a lot, the battery got super super hot.
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I hate to point out the obvious, but isn't the common denominator the battery? Maybe our batteries are faulty. I'm running a stock Sensation and my battery gets hot too when charging or when the screen is on for a little while.

mine is usually at the bottom of my screen. weird i know. i even read it happens to others to on the bottom of the screens

jonosono said:
I hate to point out the obvious, but isn't the common denominator the battery? Maybe our batteries are faulty. I'm running a stock Sensation and my battery gets hot too when charging or when the screen is on for a little while.
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While charging it is normal. Because now everything is getting slimmer and slimmer all the parts are getting closer and this is the result. Every battery gets warm when you charge it, some more some less. It is not a defect.

HOX overheating issue

the back of my phone near the camera gets EXTREMELY hot after a couple minutes of use. is anyone else having this issue.
are there any non root apps that can measure internal temperature?

I'm not sure if system panel shows heat but I'd think it would.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel
Hail Cobra!

only when i watch a video.
guessing the processor chip is there!

Normal. If it actually overheats it will automatically shut off. Though I do agree it gets ungodly hot
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Have you considered taking it back? That's not normal.

Same here ==; i notice this with processor intensive tasks. Like hot. Really hot. even though my case but no problems.... yet....
Such as "Wheres my water" I think that game gets my phone really hot because of the physics involved with the water etc

HTc one x overheating
Ive had same overheating issue with Galaxy s2 on ICS 4.03 and with the same games played on HTC ONE X, i've got same overheating near camera n top screen.
I dont think this issue is phone specific
I guess some games and apps are are not optimized for ICS 4.03, coz same games didn't overheat my galaxy s2 on GB 2.3.6.
Its very annoying but hope there is a fix soon.

Had some slight overheating as well. What really got me was that the top was pretty hot when i touched it, but when i touched the bottom it was nice and cool lol
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IT will shut off at 60c. Ive never seen mine go over 42c even after an hour of gaming. Install "systempanel" from the market and it will tell you everything about your battery and much more.

equlizer said:
IT will shut off at 60c. Ive never seen mine go over 42c even after an hour of gaming. Install "systempanel" from the market and it will tell you everything about your battery and much more.
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Is that the recommended way of telling the CPU or battery temp?
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equlizer said:
IT will shut off at 60c. Ive never seen mine go over 42c even after an hour of gaming. Install "systempanel" from the market and it will tell you everything about your battery and much more.
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42c is really hot. That doesn't seem normal to me.

SkizzMcNizz said:
42c is really hot. That doesn't seem normal to me.
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My white HOX ranges from 31c to 42c, usually median at 35c but hits 42c quite frequent during multi-tasking usage(facebook, instagram, whatsapp concurrently)
I noticed HOX have some overheating issues, from the day I purchase my phone.

slojko said:
the back of my phone near the camera gets EXTREMELY hot after a couple minutes of use. is anyone else having this issue.
are there any non root apps that can measure internal temperature?
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I use TempMonitor from the market.
I find that it's mainly the cpu which gets very hot especially when streaming video such as CatchupTV - about 55 degrees C after half an hour or so.

I have the exact same issue with both of my One XLs
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My phone got to 46 c yesterday. I thought it was going to explode in my hands hah. Luckily I was near a freezer so I just tossed it in there for a little. I don't know why my phone heats up so much. I didn't notice it so much with a case but now I use it naked and its just unbelievable how hot this thing can get. My other phones have gotten hot, but I can boil water with this thing.

Shaddy-Z. said:
My phone got to 46 c yesterday. I thought it was going to explode in my hands hah. Luckily I was near a freezer so I just tossed it in there for a little. I don't know why my phone heats up so much. I didn't notice it so much with a case but now I use it naked and its just unbelievable how hot this thing can get. My other phones have gotten hot, but I can boil water with this thing.
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Wow that's a bad idea. You guys are going to break your phones quick with all the extreme changes in temperature and condensation.
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The only overheating I've noticed is when I have my phone charging and I'm using it at the same time. Never noticed any overheating when going in and out of service like most people

SkookDroid said:
The only overheating I've noticed is when I have my phone charging and I'm using it at the same time. Never noticed any overheating when going in and out of service like most people
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Dito, charging and regular use. Also avoid using GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi at the same time.
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Does anyone's phone get hot while just charging and no use? I noticed mine was 97.7F after just charging for an hour or so.
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SkizzMcNizz said:
Does anyone's phone get hot while just charging and no use? I noticed mine was 97.7F after just charging for an hour or so.
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All phones get warm when charging.
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