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I think my phone is overheating...

When I use the phone to play a game or web browse it starts to get really hot on the top half of the screen.
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Is there anyway that I can to see if the phone is overheating/getting too hot?
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How hot is it getting? I'm pretty sure every smartphone experiences some kind of heat from gaming or streaming videos specially when you are charging it at the same time.
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I mean just web browsing it is burning my hand. It only is the top half.
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Get a temperature app to see how hot it's getting.
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Ulver said:
Get a temperature app to see how hot it's getting.
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Says it is a 105 degrees F and rising from using mg web browser no overclock.
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tominater12 said:
Says it is a 105 degrees F and rising from using mg web browser no overclock.
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Any apps running in the background besides using the browser? Have you rebooted your device?
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tekhindosrampage said:
Any apps running in the background besides using the browser? Have you rebooted your device?
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No and the phone does not get nearly as hot on wifi. Really odd. Also the phone was overcloaked before but I pushed it back to just 1ghz. My phone burning me for using the browder out is not cool though. Think there is an issue?
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tominater12 said:
No and the phone does not get nearly as hot on wifi. Really odd. Also the phone was overcloaked before but I pushed it back to just 1ghz. My phone burning me for using the browder out is not cool though. Think there is an issue?
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Well there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the device since you said you put it back to 1 ghz. Really odd if you ask me. Maybe its a battery problem? Sometimes defective batteries cause overheating and can explode.

tekhindosrampage said:
Well there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the device since you said you put it back to 1 ghz. Really odd if you ask me. Maybe its a battery problem? Sometimes defective batteries cause overheating and can explode.
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It only gets hot when I use Japan too. Never on wifi. (Well it does a little playing games) I think I will call customer support tomorrow.
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And it is not getting hot where the battery is.
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I'd recommend you flash and reinstall the ROM on your phone. Sounds to me like you've still go some of the old performance updates kicking in making the device hotter!

For me your temperatures are pretty normal. When I am not gamimg my max was 91F!!
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Since you claim to have been able to move around the CPU frequency, I assume you are running setCPU. In setCPU you can look at Info tab where under the battery header it also displays the battery tempt. It's normal for the phone to heat while you are charging, on call for long or gaming for long duration but if you are seeing absurdly high reading for the battery tempt, then you better have it checked.

Hmm I had a overheating issue last night, woke up to my phone making a loud noise - I had set setCPU to make a noise when it goes over 40C and it did this today in the early hours of the morning whilst it was charging.
No processes were running other than the normal Live Wallpaper, Keyboard etc.. The phone was quite hot to the touch as well, so I just turned it off.
Weird thing is I have another profile in setCPU to have the max freq at 800Mhz and lowest 100Mhz when the screen is off so don't know how it got so hot?

What's the ideal cpu temperature for everyday use?

My CPU temperature without ocing is around 109.4 degrees on average and can go up to 111.4 degrees with regular use.
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david_hume said:
My CPU temperature without ocing is around 109.4 degrees on average and can go up to 111.4 degrees with regular use.
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I'm not sure what normal should be, but i bet it varies from kernel to kernel because of voltage settings. My temp is currently 88-95 degrees according to this widget i downloaded. I am oc'd to 2106mhz.
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(Jason) said:
I'm not sure what normal should be, but i bet it varies from kernel to kernel because of voltage settings. My temp is currently 88-95 degrees according to this widget i downloaded. I am oc'd to 2106mhz.
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I got my temperatures in a warm room. I'm outside in 70 degree weather and the temperature went down to 96.8-102 degree on CPU on stock kernel and cpu speeds.
Edit: never mind, it keeps going down. 89.6 to 93.2 degrees now
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david_hume said:
I got my temperatures in a warm room. I'm outside in 70 degree weather and the temperature went down to 96.8-102 degree on CPU on stock kernel and cpu speeds.
Edit: never mind, it keeps going down. 89.6 to 93.2 degrees now
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I do know it can run up to about 180 before hitting critical and shutting down
Edit: its about a 75 degree ambient temp where im at.
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I do know it can run up to about 180 before hitting critical and shutting down
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That usually never happens unless you're ocing your phone to ridiculous lengths though right?
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david_hume said:
That usually never happens unless you're ocing your phone to ridiculous lengths though right?
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I've never personally experienced temps even close to that (only read about it) and im about as oc'd as u can get. The only time i really see elevated temps is when I'm watching netflix.
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Overheat question...

Does anyone know the cpu shut down temp on the evita.I'm running sense 5 rom and was playing bubble witch and the phone jumped up to 163°. Thought about putting my coffee on it to warm my cup, but seriously I'm using no frills cpu to lower core min back to 384. And this thing still heats up like crazy
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Wow I've never had it jump that high, highest I've been was about 144f. I had a look around but can't find your answer sorry.
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I assume it will throttle at some point and then eventually shutdown when it hits maybe 75C (167F) or higher. Your battery might be going out, or were you doing something that demanded the CPU
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I assume it will throttle at some point and then eventually shutdown when it hits maybe 75C (167F) or higher. Your battery might be going out, or were you doing something that demanded the CPU
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All I was doing was playing a 2d game for 20 minutes.
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31ken31 said:
All I was doing was playing a 2d game for 20 minutes.
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Mine was getting really hot playing Can Knockdown 3. I ticked Disable HW overlays and Force GPU rendering in settings>developer options>advanced and while it still get warm, it's nowhere near as hot as it was.

cr1960 said:
Mine was getting really hot playing Can Knockdown 3. I ticked Disable HW overlays and Force GPU rendering in settings>developer options>advanced and while it still get warm, it's nowhere near as hot as it was.
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I'll give that a try as well I'm gonna let it heat up once more so I can get a logcat and see if it gives any hints
Edit: that worked running at 109° steady with heavy game use.. thanks
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[Q] Nexus 5 overheating

Hello
I have the Nexus 5 and I have problem of overheating.
I used a lot of roms (SlimKat, Official 4.4.4 with ART & Dalvik, Android L, etc.) and a lot of kernels (franco, x elemental, etc)
None of kernels nor roms fixed the overheating problem
I used CPU-Z to see the temp of my phone. It was 44C. I used the phone only for internet (10mins).
Any help here???

Who told you 44 Degrees Celsius is overheating?

rootSU said:
Who told you 44 Degrees Celsius is overheating?
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In my hand it is burning hot

t-shock said:
In my hand it is burning hot
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Then it is not 44 degrees

44C is still cold, your body temp is 37C. and if your phone overheats, it will shut down. the overheat temp is 105C. anything lower than that isnt overheating. and feel doest tell you what temp it actually has, all its doing is comparing temps to your hand.

If you're really concerned, you can experiment with undervolting your CPU/GPU and underclocking the CPU/GPU. I don't own a Nexus 5, but I'm sure there is no need to do any of the above.
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lolcakes203 said:
If you're really concerned, you can experiment with undervolting your CPU/GPU and underclocking the CPU/GPU. I don't own a Nexus 5, but I'm sure there is no need to do any of the above.
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undervolting will lower cpu temps a little, but its not a huge difference.

Correct, but with the way he worded his concern, it seems as if he would be willing to take any step possible to prevent the device from "burning" his hand
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lolcakes203 said:
Correct, but with the way he worded his concern, it seems as if he would be willing to take any step possible to prevent the device from "burning" his hand
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if he doesnt like how the heat feels on his hand, id stop playing cpu intensive games :angel:
as it can get darn hot when doing so. i keep my throttle disabled and watch a live cpu temp notification, ive gotten as hot as 86C playing ridge racer for nearly an hour

Haha true.
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Disable some cores for reducing heat/battery drain?

Hi, I have just rooted my H959 on android 5.1.1.
Even playing games without stunning graphic like "Puzzle and Dragons",
my phone's temperature is still high and it drains a lot during that.
I am thinking about disabling some CPU cores for reducing heat/battery drain?
Is it a good idea to disable let say 2 cores to make it perform like S808 (with better GPU tho) ?
Anyone tried this before and how was the result?

Just use Kernel adiutor. I haven't noticed a major difference from switching to 2(4 little + 2 big), but I've been using 2 for a week or so. I played NFS and The Room 2 with no issues.

Ace42 said:
Just use Kernel adiutor. I haven't noticed a major difference from switching to 2(4 little + 2 big), but I've been using 2 for a week or so. I played NFS and The Room 2 with no issues.
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Done the same with excellent results.

Hi guys
Hoping you Kernel Adiutor veterans will be able to assist. When I go to the CPU page to disable some cores, the refresh icon in the top right just spins for ages and ages (sitting at 10 mins so far) and I get no options. Other parts of the app are fine.
Any ideas?
I tried the play store app as well as the f-droid apk.

Wiggz said:
Hi guys
Hoping you Kernel Adiutor veterans will be able to assist. When I go to the CPU page to disable some cores, the refresh icon in the top right just spins for ages and ages (sitting at 10 mins so far) and I get no options. Other parts of the app are fine.
Any ideas?
I tried the play store app as well as the f-droid apk.
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I have only seen this when the phone was hot from games or benchmarks. Whenever the big cluster is disabled due to heat kernel adi will not behave properly. However, you might need to install busybox from the play store in case you haven't done so.

Ok...it seems it does this when it overheats. When it's cool it works fine. I do now have another issue though. When i try and disable bigcores 2 and 3, they come back on after one or two reboots.
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Wiggz said:
Ok...it seems it does this when it overheats. When it's cool it works fine. I do now have another issue though. When i try and disable bigcores 2 and 3, they come back on after one or two reboots.
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Just disable the last 2, 3/4.

Thanks for the quote...but do you have anything to add
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Wiggz said:
Thanks for the quote...but do you have anything to add
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I accidentally hit submit early.
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Cheers...i currently try to disable 2 and 3 and it's failing...i will try your suggestion but wondering why you think that will make a difference?
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Wiggz said:
Cheers...i currently try to disable 2 and 3 and it's failing...i will try your suggestion but wondering why you think that will make a difference?
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Because when I do that it leaves them off even after a reboot or shutting down the phone. I noticed if you disable every big core sometimes big(1) will turn itself on. This might have something to do with the controller that maintains the CPU cliatwrs.
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Thanks for the explanation. Out of curiosity, are you using the stock kernel?
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Wiggz said:
Thanks for the explanation. Out of curiosity, are you using the stock kernel?
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There's only the stock kernel available. I'm not currently using my Flex though.
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try downloading Kernel Adiutor from FDROID , the play store version does not seem to work on flex 2 . i had the same problem , now fixed