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[Q] Overheating Issues

My Z3 gets to 70 degrees C when playing an intensive game or using the 4k video option is this normal? Anyone have the same issue?
Even when just taking a few pics on a hot day the phone gets super hot and camera app shuts down due to overheating after 5 minutes of picture taking.

I use CurrentWidget apk that show battery temp. I don't know how accurate it is but in plaing 3d games, the highest temp was about 45 degree C. Ambiental temp about 20-22 degrees C (indoors).
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dannybezri said:
My Z3 gets to 70 degrees C when playing an intensive game or using the 4k video option is this normal? Anyone have the same issue?
Even when just taking a few pics on a hot day the phone gets super hot and camera app shuts down due to overheating after 5 minutes of picture taking.
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i have this problem when conecting wifi and playing games like clash of clans!!!!
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Newbyallthetime said:
I use CurrentWidget apk that show battery temp. I don't know how accurate it is but in plaing 3d games, the highest temp was about 45 degree C. Ambiental temp about 20-22 degrees C (indoors).
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Hi, that is battery temp. I am talking about actual CPU temp. Can you install A1 CPU tool from the playstore and see if you get the same as me.
Just shot 3 mins of 4k video and then went straight to the app and it told me 66 degrees C
pls see if what your temp is with the same

Now my phone is charging but later I will try what you said!

No flagship CPU can sustain maximum load for long before entering thermal throttling in a device with a phone form factor.
If you want sustained peak performance, you've got two options:
1) Buy a device with a more power efficient CPU (Snapdragon 4xx family) - peak performance will be far lower, but performance per watt will be vastly improved.
2) Buy a tablet - even the worst of these have better thermal management than any phones. Some devices are unambiguously superior - SHIELD Portable (not a tablet) actually had a fan on its heatsink and I believe THREE 18650 batteries, SHIELD Tablet has a phase-change thermal spreader I believe.

dannybezri said:
Hi, that is battery temp. I am talking about actual CPU temp. Can you install A1 CPU tool from the playstore and see if you get the same as me.
Just shot 3 mins of 4k video and then went straight to the app and it told me 66 degrees C
pls see if what your temp is with the same
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A1 CPU Tool
32 degree C in standby
52 degree C after 15 min of dungeon hunter 5 play
61 degree C after 3 min of 4k recording

Camera overheat: for how long can you record video?

Depending on the ambient temperature I can record [email protected] for:
5-7 minutes at 20-23 C
2-5 minutes at 25-28 C
That is starting from cold. I assume the overheat is expected, however I'd like to know how it compares to others. Would you please try it and post your results here? Thanks
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Well I can record 4K/1080p60FPS without any issues between 20-25 C...cpu temp reads up to 52C...
But it's the start of summer here and we usually have 28-32 C! (more than 80% humidity).
Now I can record up to 5mins of 4K/1080p60FPS before getting the temperature warning message! (start from cold)
cpu temp shows 56-58 C these days which is normal...

At least on my device, the video recording is a strong function of ambient temperature. While I don't actually use it to record continuously for more than 5 minutes, which used to work fine in winter, now I had the unpleasant surprise to have it stop the camera in the middle of my shooting my child's performance, less than 5 minutes, air conditioned but still at around 25C I reckon. I will be wary then about filming in 60fps from now on.
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Managed to record 18 minutes FullHD 60fps before camera shut down. Ambient temp 22C

Thanks. That's good, I guess. Compared to my numbers.
Update: tried it again, for science as at work I have a quite precise thermometer, 24.7 C. Got the warning at around 4 mins, stopped at 5min40sec.
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Moto G4 Plus - Heating issues ? (A Review)

Last weekend I upgraded from my old smartphone to the new Moto G4 Plus, and after reading much about the heating and camera issues, I thought of putting it under a test.
I used CPU-Z for testing temperature and some common sense. Last night I installed the three high end games on my phone ie. Asphalt 8, Mortal Combat X and Nova 3
1. Asphalt 8
Play Time: 1 Hour 10 Minutes
Gameplay: No Lags, No Frame Drops, Ran Smooth
Temperature (Front): Varied between 39 - 41 Degrees
Temperature (Back): Varied between 42 - 45 Degrees
Hotness/Warmness Index (Out of 10) - 3/10
2. NOVA 3
Play Time: 20 Minutes
Gameplay: No Lags, No Frame Drops, Ran Smooth
Temperature (Front): Varied between 39 - 41 Degrees
Temperature (Back): Varied between 42 - 44 Degrees
Hotness/Warmness Index (Out of 10) - 3/10
2. MORTAL COMBAT X
Play Time: 15 Minutes
Gameplay: No Lags, No Frame Drops, Ran Smooth, Took 2 Minutes for Initial Loading
Temperature (Front): Varied between 40 - 42 Degrees
Temperature (Back): Varied between 42 - 45 Degrees
Hotness/Warmness Index (Out of 10) - 4/10
With all these games I have noticed one thing, the temperature varied between a certain range ie. 42 - 45 degrees, after which it stayed constant, as if it reached a certain threshold, but it was not hot as the users on various forums are claiming, it was mildly warm near the power and volume buttons. The game-play was awesome without any glitches.
The main culprit is actually the Camera, or rather the Camera app. As soon as I fired the camera, the temperature started rising, and it went as high as 48 degrees while shooting a 1080p video for 2 mins, after which I have to close it down. And it really felt hot to hold. On my Hotness/Warmness Index, it would be 8/10. There was a steep rise in temperature and it didn't stopped, it continued to rise. The pro mode makes the matter worse.
On the other hand I installed third party camera apps ie. VSCO camera and Camera 360, they worked fantastic with zero heating and lagging issue.
The TurboCharger is also making the phone reach temperatures around 50 Degrees.
In case you wanna know, my phone has a manufacturing date of 05/2016 and the outside temperature according to the weather app was 27 Degrees. The phone gave a SOT of 4 Hours 40 Minutes of a single charge.

Exactly same in my case, plating same games and there are no lags no frame drops ,running smooth. I'm happy with this.
For Camera (Update the Camera , Camera tuner app If you din't already)..I'd like to give 1 solution which is not good but Moto told to do until it brings an update for Camera-heating issue---> Turn Off Stabilization, put mobile on AirPlane Mode, use 720p (I know this is not all good but it somehow useful) and Moto said they are working hard to get this issue solved..
For turbo charge ..we can't do anything because Qualcomm set the chip like to get turbo charge(it's normal in this case)

ReX-Hell2heAven said:
Exactly same in my case, plating same games and there are no lags no frame drops ,running smooth. I'm happy with this.
For Camera (Update the Camera , Camera tuner app If you din't already)..I'd like to give 1 solution which is not good but Moto told to do until it brings an update for Camera-heating issue---> Turn Off Stabilization, put mobile on AirPlane Mode, use 720p (I know this is not all good but it somehow useful) and Moto said they are working hard to get this issue solved..
For turbo charge ..we can't do anything because Qualcomm set the chip like to get turbo charge(it's normal in this case)
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Motorola has released an OTA update fixing this issue. This gives a good forecast to when Motorola will update its devices, and the amount of updates each phone gets.

Overheating?

Hi, the XZs my brother has bought recently seems to be experiencing overheating issues when using the camera app. When I record a 4k video, I'm sometimes only able to get 5 minutes worth of recording before camera shuts down (max I got was 15 minutes recording). After camera shut down, the UI lags for a few minutes. The temperature of the phone, measured with the app Super Cooler-CPU Cooler Cool, usually idles at 37 Celcius and the max I got after 4k recording is 47 Celcius. Is this very high?
This is a replacement XZs I got from the first one which also suffered overheating, but less so. Is this normal? Should I get a 3rd replacement?

HTC U 11 Temperature issues?

Hello, I have been using HTC U 11 for a couple of days now. I find it really odd that the temperature is kinda little high at all times. here are my observations.
before I start im from chennai and the avg temperate here ranges from 28 to 35 on a normal day.
I first noticed heating when I was recording a FHD video at 60FPS for more than 3 min. The camera stopped taking video due to overheat. The phone was uncomfortably hot. But then I realized maybe its because I was riding as pillion in motorcycle while recording and it was 1 PM in the afternoon with Sun burning your eyes. So I thought maybe its because of that.
then taking any 4K, hyperlapse videos increased temperature. So i used CPU temp to analyze the temperature(with back case removed) I was in a AC Hall with room temperature of around 26 degrees C and the starting temperature was 36 degrees C in my phone. Then,
I took two 4K videos 1 and 2 minutes each and the temperature went from 36 to 47 and once the video is finished it settled back to 41. the CPU was at 1900 MHz while recording and throttled down to 300Mhz once its done.
then I ran 3D Mark tests. it gave me a score of some 2.7K with an average FPS of 25 but while performing this test my CPU went to a whooping 53 degrees C and settled back to 45 degree C once its done. Normal Phone operations like FB, reddit, discord etc gives me around 36 37C which still, i feel is too much and despite being a glass body I have never felt any form of chillness even after hours of being in AC room it was always pleasantly warm when normal use to uncomfortably warm on high use.
Do you guys think that I have a defective device? I still have 4 days on free return policy with the seller. should I replace my phone?

I'd say it's normal for a phone.
Video recording and running heavy games is the most difficult tasks for smartphone (maybe now it's VR & AR), I'm not surprised at all if the temperature raises at 42 degrees or more.
Benchmark apps like 3D marks take full power of computing capability, no wonder why it gets even hotter.
Smartphone is a smartphone, not a PC nor a GoPro.

Alpert3 said:
I'd say it's normal for a phone.
Video recording and running heavy games is the most difficult tasks for smartphone (maybe now it's VR & AR), I'm not surprised at all if the temperature raises at 42 degrees or more.
Benchmark apps like 3D marks take full power of computing capability, no wonder why it gets even hotter.
Smartphone is a smartphone, not a PC nor a GoPro.
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yeah! i thought that too. actually i think for a processor like 835 normal temperature is 35 36. I do understand that Optical Image stabilization and image stitching are quite heavy tasks . maybe im paranoid. I just want to make sure it doesnt damage the phone in the long run. Also its kind of a pride thing . you see from where I am, There are tonnes of pun and memes about cheap MI phones and heating. So people around here were like you have a $700 phone(thanks to all the customs and import duties) and it heats like a $50 MI phone?. *smh*.
Do you think installing custom rom can increase performance? I really want to get rid of that HTC companion, news republic, facebook and messenger. FB sucks. it takes up almost 300MB of RAM at all times.

It would not damage your phone but as we speak of the "long-term", something you probably should know:
If you keep using your phone for heavy tasks and temperature of the device is always at 38°C or higher, it could decrease the battery life. Higher temperature would cause the loss of battery capacity. You probably should be careful.
As for MI phones, 50$ is hard to get one. And heating meme is because of Qualcomm S810 back in 2015, for HTC, Xiaomi, as well some other devices. Some people just couldn't get over it even we have S835 today.
For RAM consumption, I'd say leave it, because on the one hand, U11 has 4GB of RAM, 300MB does no harm. (the theory is, the free RAM is some sort of a waste, you don't need to be careful about the RAM usage as long as you don't experience serious lag) on the other hand, you can always disable the apps if you don't need them. Installing another ROM won't make these apps running with less RAM.