I noticed that the Galaxy S6 drains quite a lot of battery while playing games and I'm not talking about heavy games like MC5 or Real racing 3, I was just playing some 8Ball pool and some amazing brick..The battery goes down very fast..
Do you experience this too?
Share your thoughts on this issue.
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There's a new Kairosoft game out today (Market link, if you haven't seen it) - and just like with the last two Kairosoft games:
It's fun
It's got great retro graphics
It makes my phone as HOT AS THE SUN and drains my battery like nobody's business
What's the story with this? I suspect that Kairosoft games are hugely CPU-intensive. Has anybody got a method of dealing with this? I was thinking about setting up Tasker to limit my CPU when a Kairosoft game launches: is that a crazy idea? What do you guys think?
owen magnetic said:
What's the story with this? I suspect that Kairosoft games are hugely CPU-intensive. Has anybody got a method of dealing with this? I was thinking about setting up Tasker to limit my CPU when a Kairosoft game launches: is that a crazy idea? What do you guys think?
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I have the same problem as well. I can't imagine a simple 2D game overwhelms the CPU and drains battery like this. Maybe their game are not optimised for Android.
I'll try your suggestion from your post to lower down the CPU speed.
Seems that 1000 is perfect
this game take to much source try to manimaiz the view quality
I generally get great battery life using regular apps throughout the day. But many games seems to eat up battery life quicker than I would have thought. That coupled with how hot my phone gets, I'm a little worried there may be an issue with my phone.
The two games where my phone feels like it is burning up are Plants vs Zombies 2 and Anomaly 2. After playing a session, a quick look at the battery graph shows an extremely steep drop.
Is this normal? Maybe it is, but it doesn't feel or seem right.
flintdragon said:
I generally get great battery life using regular apps throughout the day. But many games seems to eat up battery life quicker than I would have thought. That coupled with how hot my phone gets, I'm a little worried there may be an issue with my phone.
The two games where my phone feels like it is burning up are Plants vs Zombies 2 and Anomaly 2. After playing a session, a quick look at the battery graph shows an extremely steep drop.
Is this normal? Maybe it is, but it doesn't feel or seem right.
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its normal. cpu and gpu intensive games will warm up your device to a toasty level. but that why they make the phone have a thermal throttle. when it hits a certain temp, you phone will automatically reduce the cpu speed to cool down a little. but the heat from gpu/cpu intensive games is more than normal, its expected. btw, the safety shutdown temp for the n5 is 100C, which youll never reach because of the thermal throttle, only if you have root and disable thermal throttle, then it could hit the safety shutdown temp
I know about the problem with Plants vs Zombies 2, it eats through battery like crazy. I don't think that there is an issue with your phone, because your battery doesn't drop like that at any other intensive game, does it?
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I've noticed the exact same thing with PvZ 2. It's addictive as all hell, but chews through my battery.
I really wish they would release it on the Amazon Appstore so I could put it on my Kindle Fire. Unfortunately, because of the Google Play integration you can't even sideload it to a Kindle, you just get a black screen when you try to launch it.
Tudorrrr said:
I know about the problem with Plants vs Zombies 2, it eats through battery like crazy. I don't think that there is an issue with your phone, because your battery doesn't drop like that at any other intensive game, does it?
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I don't play any intensive games actually and I wouldn't even catagorize PvZ2 as intensive. Maybe it is just suboptimally coded apps. Anomaly2 isn't even really that intensive. Not like a FPS/3D game anyway.
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I generally get great battery life using regular apps throughout the day. But many games seems to eat up battery life quicker than I would have thought. That coupled with how hot my phone gets, I'm a little worried there may be an issue with my phone.
The two games where my phone feels like it is burning up are Plants vs Zombies 2 and Anomaly 2. After playing a session, a quick look at the battery graph shows an extremely steep drop.
Is this normal? Maybe it is, but it doesn't feel or seem right.
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PvZ2 is terrible. Get Franco kernel + his updater app. Set the per app mode of PvZ @ 652MHz. Still runs fine. The only difference you will notice is when the last big wave hits, there can be a little slow down, but it goes away quickly. With all 4 cores running at 652MHz, there is virtually no heat. Will get you 1+ hour more game time. I'm experimenting with underclocking the GPU for it as well. I don't want to underclock the phone when I'm just using apps, but these games are using much more power than they need to be using. 4x, at least.
I think it's poor coding, as @flintdragon suggested.
How is the gaming on this phone, are there lags in asphalt 8 gta vice city amazing spider man 2 gangstar vegas? does this phone thermal throttle?
ian619420 said:
How is the gaming on this phone, are there lags in asphalt 8 gta vice city amazing spider man 2 gangstar vegas? does this phone thermal throttle?
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OK I am a huge gamer and gaming on the G2 has been a good experience in my case.
Games I play which are demanding currently(32gb isn't enough for me):
Need for Speed most wanted
GTA San Andreas
Dead Space
Asphalt 7
Dungeon Hunter
I usually play these for 2 hours tops at around 50% brightness and have never throttled
But I also play emulators:
Dolphin for gamecube games(can't play for more than 1 hour or the phone throttles and reboots)
Dreamcast (max played for about an hour so I don't know if phones throttles with this one)
when ever I play I am on wifi and have Bluetooth on because I use my moga pro power(for charging on the go), keep in mind my list is of what I am currently playing and that dolphin is super cpu intensive even on pc you need really good cooling so that to me is the perfect test my s3 can't handle dolphin and my note 3 can play for around 30 minutes but then fps drops and it's unplayable so I'd say g2 is a great phone for gaming
Hi, i hv facing some critical issues on my XPERIA XA, first of all it overheated after playing some high end games, e.g. MORTAL COMBAT X, REAL RACING 3, MC5 etc, and drained battery more faster than any other phone i'v. Any one facing problem like that, is any solution?
mohar_nl said:
Hi, i hv facing some critical issues on my XPERIA XA, first of all it overheated after playing some high end games, e.g. MORTAL COMBAT X, REAL RACING 3, MC5 etc, and drained battery more faster than any other phone i'v. Any one facing problem like that, is any solution?
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It's gonna get hot playing high end graphically intensive games just the same as any other device on the market will and drain the battery in the blink of a eye that's what games do.
The solution is either don't play games graphically intensive games for too long or play them where the device can get cool air if possible won't be a cure but it may help, or don't play them at all not really solutions I know but constantly overheating the device won't do it any good or using it while charging it.
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I'm playing have games but my op6 /8gb heating too much....... already hard rest & flashed full Rom ...
Any suggestions ?
i have no problems with ehating my i dont play high demanding games like minnecraft or fortnite or pubg so if you play 1 of these games then its normal that it makes the phone hot.... i played VR on my galaxy phone and it also got very very hot.
Maybe you should send your OP6 in for warranty.
I'm playing demanding games and the temperature never exceeds 50 degrees celsius.