T-Mobile OnePlus 8t gets hot while gaming - OnePlus 8T Questions & Answers

I was playing COD mobile and the phone became increasingly hot and eventually uncomfortable to hold.
I know OnePlus has a ton of thermal cooling in this phone so I was shocked when it got hot. I'm wondering if I have a defective unit or if it's software related.
I don't remember my T-Mobile OnePlus 7t getting this hot but then again if kept it in a case most of the time. Either way for all the thermal cooling this phone has I would be disappointed.
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OuncE718 said:
I was playing COD mobile and the phone became increasingly hot and eventually uncomfortable to hold.
I know OnePlus has a ton of thermal cooling in this phone so I was shocked when it got hot. I'm wondering if I have a defective unit or if it's software related.
I don't remember my T-Mobile OnePlus 7t getting this hot but then again if kept it in a case most of the time. Either way for all the thermal cooling this phone has I would be disappointed.
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That is disappointing. I hope this is not going to be the case across the board. My device is supposed to be arriving today. I'll do some gaming later on this evening and post my temp results here.
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I play cod alot more than I should hours at a time. Hours as in 3-4 hours sometimes with charger plugged in. I even have the graphics on ultra and high. And it gets warm at most part but never uncomfortable. I even remote play from geforce now and ps4 steam link and it doesn't come close to the 7 pro heat. I would send yours back in. I have the 8+ 5g from T-Mobile.

I don't do much heavy gaming but I do have it mounted on my dash in the sun while driving with screen always on.... Where I had massive heating on the 7pro with that setup this 8T is remarkably cool in comparison. So in my situation it's very good cooling idk what's going on with yours
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Just got my NOT T-Mobile 8t a few minutes ago, and it's warmer than I've ever experienced when I've just been setting it up. It's not uncomfortably warm, but it is mildly disturbing. I've never had I phone get warm when it was just turned on and being set up for the first 5 minutes.
I'll have to see how it goes for the next week or so. I'm afraid if it's this warm all the time, battery degradation is going to start happening sooner rather than later.
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sharkie405 said:
Just got my NOT T-Mobile 8t a few minutes ago, and it's warmer than I've ever experienced when I've just been setting it up. It's not uncomfortably warm, but it is mildly disturbing. I've never had I phone get warm when it was just turned on and being set up for the first 5 minutes.
I'll have to see how it goes for the next week or so. I'm afraid if it's this warm all the time, battery degradation is going to start happening sooner rather than later.
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It's ok for a phone to get warm when first setting it up. It's usually a lot going on in the background.
Mines still feels pretty hot while gaming and sometimes when just watching YouTube. So far I'm using my 7t case and I definitely don't notice it being warm with the case on.
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Does the top half of your phone get hot with light usage?

I just noticed that after about 5-10 mins of just surfing the internet (wifi or 3g), the top half of my phone gets pretty warm. The source of the heat isn't from the screen, but from the actual innards of the phone in the half that's above the battery.
The phone isn't plugged in either.
I'm considering getting an exchange if others aren't having this issue.
erikikaz said:
I just noticed that after about 5-10 mins of just surfing the internet (wifi or 3g), the top half of my phone gets pretty warm. The source of the heat isn't from the screen, but from the actual innards of the phone in the half that's above the battery.
The phone isn't plugged in either.
I'm considering getting an exchange if others aren't having this issue.
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Yes I've noticed the phone does get quite warm. It doesn't seem like there are any openings for heat to escape from inside and with as much power as this thing has it wouldn't have hurt to have some opening for air flow.
Not really. One thing I noticed is that my phone doesn't get hot even when playing games while plugged in.
On the other hand, my Nexus One would get REALLY hot when charging and using Navigation at the same time.
Not here either..
Mine gets a little warm during certain app usage. Not site which one causes it.
Its warm now and I was on Facebook, Firefox, xda and I have tune in radio streaming.
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cyberchuck9000 said:
Not really. One thing I noticed is that my phone doesn't get hot even when playing games while plugged in.
On the other hand, my Nexus One would get REALLY hot when charging and using Navigation at the same time.
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I had an N1 too. If I were to rate the N1's temperature as 100 points, my G2x gets to about 80 points on the same scale. But the only time my N1 would get that hot is if I was busy navigating GPS while charging. My G2x gets hot with me surfing in the shade, without charging.
So I guess I should exchange this sumbitch.
I don't get any noticeable heat on this phone, even when charging.
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Overheating

Seriously this overheating problem is getting pretty annoying. Phone overheats when I'm watching a movie, playing a game and charging. Phone actually went into safe mode a couple of times because of the overheating.
This has never happened to Mr and I watched 2 movies on the way to Paris today on auto brightness. Probably a hardware issue.
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my phone hasn't done anything like that, but today when i was playing some gameloft game, my temp got to 48 Celsius...
My phone was getting hot the first few weeks, but lately it's been cooler.
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Do a factory reset, or check and see if you have a runaway app that is constantly making the processor run on Max. I had the same problem the first week and couldnt sstand it. Turns out widgetsoid and widgetlocker (or so I've heard) have this problem. Do a nandroid backup and factory reset. Worked well for me. Just for clarification my battery wasn't the issue, the phone would get hot right around the sim area underneath the camera. Hope this helps
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Mine gets super hot only when I am using my gps with the screen on for over 30 minutes. And when I say super hot, I mean SUPER HOT! Like to a point where if I had it in my pocket it would irritate my skin. Do I hear a lawsuit? lol. j/k.
i have not experienced any of the above.
but today around 8ish am i will be taking off in a trip and the infuse will be my main GPS just for the fun of it.
i will check out these so called overheating issues.
Are you using a case?
side808 said:
Seriously this overheating problem is getting pretty annoying. Phone overheats when I'm watching a movie, playing a game and charging. Phone actually went into safe mode a couple of times because of the overheating.
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Yes it gets hot the 1st week, when you buy a new phone you have to charge it for 12-15hrs even it indicate it is full and not charging.
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No I am not using a case. And I'm not talking about only when I charge the phone. Its when I play a game for a few minutes or watch a movie for 10-20 minutes. And its the top portion of the phone. Its not coming from the battery.
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I haven't seen any heat issues on this phone.
Trust me when I tell you that my Infuse has never noticeably changed temperature. I can say this with confidence because I switched from a Nexus One. The N1 has an aluminum body and any time you do absolutely anything with the charger plugged in or with the GPS on, the phone gets hot enough to make your hand feel sweaty. So this phone is a world of difference from that.
If your phone is over heating to the point of safe mode, you NEED to return it, it's a problem with the processor and it will only get worse....the heat comes directly from underneath the camera and led and has nothing to do with the battery
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Mine only got super hot when I had gos on nav going and pluged into the car charger but it was also like 100 degrees outside lol just my input
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If you have a new Infuse it is really hot on the first week, after 4 days to a week mine became normal. Max at 40 C
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side808 said:
Seriously this overheating problem is getting pretty annoying. Phone overheats when I'm watching a movie, playing a game and charging. Phone actually went into safe mode a couple of times because of the overheating.
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Your phone must be defective. I can play hours of hd games and never have any overheating issues. The back cover is cold for most of the time and even when charging and playing games it is barely warm.
So i went on my trip and im back. I am delighted with the way it performed.
didnt notice and heat issues tho..
I must have a defective phone then. This is really disappointing...
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go return it. my phone is charging right now and it feels a itty bitty warm. not like "OH MY GOD! MY SKIN!" no its just like warm like warm lol
idk how to explain warm just roomish temp warm.
My phone has only gotten to 104° f while watching youtube and charging from 5%. World of difference from the captivate.
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How warm do you guys let your phone get?

Hi everyone,
I'm about a week-long user of the M8 so far, and I'm loving it. I've been a fairly long time HTC user as well - I started with the Ozone, then fell back to a feature phone until I picked up the Incredible 2, which lasted for a long time.
At any rate, I'm no stranger to hot phones, literally. During my commute back and forth to work, I would use my Inc. 2 to record the drive with Dailyroads Voyager, while simultaneously monitoring road conditions with Waze. My good old Inc. 2 would power through those tasks like a boss, while at the same time burning up, and usually unable to pull enough power from the car USB charger. The only way to keep my phone stable was by running my car's defroster to blow cold air over the phone.
Now that I'm up to date hardware-wise, the M8 is no exception in the power house category. It can even keep charging while it's doing these things, although it does still get pretty warm. It's currently in a protective case which seems to dissipate the heat pretty well.
My question is, how warm do you guys let your M8 get? (Note: I'm rooted, but still running stock with no sort of overclocking involved.)
The only time I've ever had heat issues was when I mounted the phone to use as gps. And this was under direct 90 degree heat. Other than that, I've had no problems with heat whatsoever, even on prolonged lte usage and video watching.
My experience might be isolated though. I'd say, if your phone is uncomfortably hot to touch, you should probably ease up on it to be safe.
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The only time I've ever had heat issues was when I mounted the phone to use as gps. And this was under direct 90 degree heat. Other than that, I've had no problems with heat whatsoever, even on prolonged lte usage and video watching.
My experience might be isolated though. I'd say, if your phone is uncomfortably hot to touch, you should probably ease up on it to be safe.
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Yeah, always with the GPS navigation it seems. I wonder if this is something that can be fixed software wise (I.E filling a bug report to Waze/DRV), or if it's more on HTC's end for software/hardware...
I would assume it was just the metal body absorbing direct sunlight but I might be wrong. My HTC rezound used to double as a portable heater the way it used to get hot with extended usage. This one doesn't seem to be like that though.
Usually only heats when running tether for a period.
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Hi everyone,
I'm about a week-long user of the M8 so far, and I'm loving it. I've been a fairly long time HTC user as well - I started with the Ozone, then fell back to a feature phone until I picked up the Incredible 2, which lasted for a long time.
At any rate, I'm no stranger to hot phones, literally. During my commute back and forth to work, I would use my Inc. 2 to record the drive with Dailyroads Voyager, while simultaneously monitoring road conditions with Waze. My good old Inc. 2 would power through those tasks like a boss, while at the same time burning up, and usually unable to pull enough power from the car USB charger. The only way to keep my phone stable was by running my car's defroster to blow cold air over the phone.
Now that I'm up to date hardware-wise, the M8 is no exception in the power house category. It can even keep charging while it's doing these things, although it does still get pretty warm. It's currently in a protective case which seems to dissipate the heat pretty well.
My question is, how warm do you guys let your M8 get? (Note: I'm rooted, but still running stock with no sort of overclocking involved.)
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davidmatt34 said:
Usually only heats when running tether for a period.
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That's been my experience from the Inc 2, as well. So it seems like the mobile radio may generate quite a bit of heat...
I recently accidentally let my M8 get too hot while listening to music with it laying in direct sunlight face up. Didn't think about the black screen absorbing so much heat, got so hot it went into safety shut-off. It was almost too hot to touch, but after a couple minutes off it was relatively cool and turned back on fine with no problems or battery issue.
Low 40s Celsius is when I start to get uncomfortable. It's still safe, I just simply don't like it that warm. I get mad when my OC'd Intel cpu hits 60c even though 75+ is fine. I'm just anal about temps I guess
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As hot as it wants, it'll turn off by itself if it ever reaches critical temperatures
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My Car mount clips onto the AC vents so my phone is always cool (I block some of the air through. Too cold isn't good either(
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I agree that the only time (and it was only once) my unit got hot was while I was using it in its car mount and GPS was on. Otherwise I have seen none of the heart issues that plagued my Rezound and my Incredible.
My name's Harold and I'm a flashaholic....
I usually put it in preheated to 400 degrees and flip halfway through at 10 minutes.
Suits my needs.
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I like to burn things
But really though, I keep her around 451°F
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If you're rooted, install XPosed and than install "CPU Temp in StatusBar" to keep really good track of the temps. Mine doesn't ever get over 110F, even under hard WiFi and streaming use. I've never used it for GPS in the car. At idle, it sits under 80F.
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If you're rooted, install XPosed and than install "CPU Temp in StatusBar" to keep really good track of the temps. Mine doesn't ever get over 110F, even under hard WiFi and streaming use. I've never used it for GPS in the car. At idle, it sits under 80F.
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Thank you, I've been looking for a CoreTemp-like feature for my phone. I'll give this a try!
I've been hammering on my new m8 (swapping roms, installing massive amounts of apps, running tests, playing games ) for over a day and the phone has never gotten beyond lukewarm. Nothing close to what my m7 used to do
I never look at the temp. It will auto throttle if it gets too hot anyway. Just use the phone how you want and don't worry about it...
Well, I gave the temp monitoring thing a try (very cool!) and I don't think my phone ever passed 65 degrees Celsius, which I guess is ok. So no worries it seems!
That's a hundred and forty nine degrees F. Lol you need more ac.
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Rushing said:
That's a hundred and forty nine degrees F. Lol you need more ac.
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I think I'm still doing better than your 451 degrees

this phone gets hot!

damn, gets hotter than my note 4! what's the max temp you've reached? I'm at 100 degrees f now just browsing around on my lunch hour. kinda annoying, honestly.. part of the reason I hated my Moto X Pure Edition was bc that thing would regularly hit 113 degrees and be annoying to hold. hopefully this snapdragon isn't as bad as the 808 was!
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I would say that this is not normal. Mine does not get hot... only warm during gaming. Also the tests confirm that the phone does not get really hot. Maybe it is still in the set up phase?
could be! battery sucks today too haha. I'm also not using wifi ever.
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Are you out in the sun when this happens? I have yet to see this phone get more than warm.
I have hotspot on and I am using a wireless QC2.0
The phone gets super hot until it reach 90%, then it becomes lukewarm.
At 100% charged, its very little warm.
Is this normal?
chong67 said:
I have hotspot on and I am using a wireless QC2.0
The phone gets super hot until it reach 90%, then it becomes lukewarm.
At 100% charged, its very little warm.
Is this normal?
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Yes, wireless charging heats up the phone a lot. The phone automatically slows the charging speed to prevent the phone from overheating.
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sanjay228 said:
Are you out in the sun when this happens? I have yet to see this phone get more than warm.
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nah. i was inside at work at lunch from like 12-1 browsing stuff. hangouts tends to get phones hot for some reason, and i was browsing other apps for like an hour straight. but yea, she didn't hit 100 luckily, but yeah, pretty damn warm.
Mine got really hot, M9 hot during the intial install of apps etc but only gets warm afterwards
This phone is by far the hottest I've had so far
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Its not good to use the phone while charnging. Especially fast charging. Maybe very little use at most.
My phone has only got slightly warm, and that was while playing a racing game. Everything ells is room temps
Heat test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV_1C-z0kkw
I don't feel any particular heat from mine, even while running intensive games or benchmarks, then again, I am using the Exynos variant.
A littlebit warm after 1 hour of Real Racing 3. Not hot at all. Htc one m7 was hot phone. .
Mine is charging right now with the fast charger, while streaming radio over bluetooth. Its warm, but not what I would call hot. My LG G3 got significantly hotter. Even playing with my Gear VR the other night it only got pretty warm, but I've no idea the actual temp, I just know it isn't as hot as my G3 would get sometimes just playing games.
Mine doesn't get really hot like my S5 or M9. The hottest ive experienced is like warm to the touch. Not HOT. Mind you, I'm wireless fast charging constantly.
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damn, gets hotter than my note 4! what's the max temp you've reached? I'm at 100 degrees f now just browsing around on my lunch hour. kinda annoying, honestly.. part of the reason I hated my Moto X Pure Edition was bc that thing would regularly hit 113 degrees and be annoying to hold. hopefully this snapdragon isn't as bad as the 808 was!
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Yeah at first I thought my S7 was cooler than my S6 Edge but even with just Web broswing for an hour or so the S7 is averaging like 90 degrees F. Current temp is 94. It's warm not "hot" but still annoying.
I think the Speck candyshell plastic case made it worse... trying to use bare now but still a bit warm.
I may have to go back to a flip case or something.
I hope I can get used to the warmth (tho I'd rather not have to -- def. annoying). Other than the warmth this phone completely rocks. I think I'll probably have to adjust because it's so damn amazing. I doubt any other phone can compare.
Name an Android phone as powerful as this one but which stays cooler... is there one?
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Yeah at first I thought my S7 was cooler than my S6 Edge but even with just Web broswing for an hour or so the S7 is averaging like 90 degrees F. Current temp is 94. It's warm not "hot" but still annoying.
I think the Speck candyshell plastic case made it worse... trying to use bare now but still a bit warm.
I may have to go back to a flip case or something.
I hope I can get used to the warmth (tho I'd rather not have to -- def. annoying). Other than the warmth this phone completely rocks. I think I'll probably have to adjust because it's so damn amazing. I doubt any other phone can compare.
Name an Android phone as powerful as this one but which stays cooler... is there one?
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Mine gets quite warm as well would sit around 32 degrees Celsius from browsing the Internet. I'm just worried if it's a defected device or not cause I have the exynos and some people don't even go over 25 degrees.
Yeah, I'm seeing this as well. Qualcomm variant. Just web-browsing for half an hour causes a pretty good bit of heat at the top of the phone, though I haven't checked the actual temperature.
I don't mind the heat itself, but the phone clearly start throttling and even just scrolling around in Chrome becomes laggy. Annoying.
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lately mine has been ok surprisingly. not once did it even hit 90 today on lte all day. battery has also gotten a bit better. it's been a full week today since I got the phone, so who knows, maybe it really does take a week to settle which is kinda crazy lol
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Is anyone getting 45% battery temperature!? I checked after unplugging from fast charging and using camera for a couple of minutes.

Lag?

The phone has been great so far with one little issue. I observe a significant lag for a few minutes when I wake up in the morning after the phone is lying idle overnight. Is this normal? Or is it just me?
That's probably doze
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Same here, I would say it's somewhat "normal" for a Android phone regardless it's a Pixel or Galaxy. I have to restart my Pixel 2 XL every so often for about 3 to 4 times a day. I am not a techy users but based on my 10 years iPhone use experience, iPhone is way better polished for user experience. So, yeah it's not a bug, just the way Android phones are.
I've had mine since release and have no lag issues. However I don't have Facebook Snapchat etc on my phone, and the only time I restart my phone is when doing an update.
vivekpaib said:
The phone has been great so far with one little issue. I observe a significant lag for a few minutes when I wake up in the morning after the phone is lying idle overnight. Is this normal? Or is it just me?
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No issues as such. Could be a rogue app or something else. Maybe you could test the phone in safe mode and see if you get the same results

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