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HTC Incredible feels like [W]ildfire

Is anybody else's phone getting really hot? If I have my shell case on the back them I dont notice it, but if I'm using the phone without the case then I cM tell its getting really hot on both sides.
Is this a standard issue? I had heard of the N1 getting hot.
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I had the same issue when using Live wallpapers. I disabled almost every feature of the phone to maximize battery life including live wallpaper. the phone runs fine now its cold to the touch.

Sometimes the phone will get hot when using GPS or when you are downloading something for awhile or using an App thats a little more intense then normal. If yours is getting hot and staying hot with normal phone use when its just idling, I would take it back.

The most likely cause of this would be if you regularly are in low signal areas, the radio needs more power to boost signal to reach the tower, thus uses battery more quickly, and also generates much more heat than it would in high signal areas. Since the phone cant be overclocked yet, that is really the only reason I can think of that you would have a drastically higher temperature than normal. Coming from an OCd wifi tether droid, I havent found an occasion where the incredible feels anything other than pleasantly cool to the touch, but I guess other peoples experiences may vary. If its the amount of heat you might get from holding it in your hands for a while, I wouldnt worry about it too much. If its hot enough for long periods of time that youre really concerned about, might have a bad radio on your phone, good luck getting an exchange atm >.>

Thanks for all the input.
Im not in an area with low signal. I'm in Little Rock, AR - our arena across the river downtown named "Verizon Arena" for crying loud. Lol. ... It gets hot when I talk on it though, and its not just body heat from my hand. Both the back & front heat up, and sometimes when its charging it gets hot. It doesn't take long, and as a matter of fact its getting warmer as I type this from my phone.
It may be something up with the radio, as was suggested. Yesterday I was trying to call out & when the person on the other line answered they couldn't hear me but could hear them. I called a couple of different people a couple of different times just to test it out & it was messed up every time. I powered the phone off, cut it back on, and it works fine now. Could these be related issues or what? When that was happening I also heard this very high pitched noise coming out of where my ear goes. It has gone away as well, but I'm trying to provide as much detail as possible in case others can help or suggest issues. I really don't want to have to take the phone back - especially since they're fresh out of stock.

Interesting you mentioned the high pitched noise while on phone calls...
I had the exact same problem, whenever I tried to make or recieve calls was getting a high pitched noise from the speaker, i could hear the other party, but they could not hear me. turning phone off and back on fixed the issue. Ive also noticed the #1 app in my battery usage is Cell Standby at 43%. So my radio is using almost half my battery. I live and work around Washington D.C. area so coverage and signal loss should not be an issue. But "Time without a signal is 26%" I'm thinking theres an issue with the radio on the Incredible also... wish there were more confirmed reports.

Mik0r said:
Interesting you mentioned the high pitched noise while on phone calls...
I had the exact same problem, whenever I tried to make or recieve calls was getting a high pitched noise from the speaker, i could hear the other party, but they could not hear me. turning phone off and back on fixed the issue. Ive also noticed the #1 app in my battery usage is Cell Standby at 43%. So my radio is using almost half my battery. I live and work around Washington D.C. area so coverage and signal loss should not be an issue. But "Time without a signal is 26%" I'm thinking theres an issue with the radio on the Incredible also... wish there were more confirmed reports.
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NewB question here, but I've seen several mentions of how much battery power an app is taking up. How do you find that out...?

Im using a widget called battery left, I click that to bring up the usage since last unplugged. The longer way is under settings -> about -> battery -> battery use.

I just downloaded & installed the LauncherPro app. I'm running it now & this is the point where my phone is getting really hot. I don't know if the launchers the reason why or not. A) Could running another launcher like LauncherPro be the reason? B) Should I uninstall & just use Sense UI?
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Mik0r said:
Im using a widget called battery left, I click that to bring up the usage since last unplugged. The longer way is under settings -> about -> battery -> battery use.
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Ah, great! Thanks--I'll try it myself.

jGroves said:
I just downloaded & installed the LauncherPro app. I'm running it now & this is the point where my phone is getting really hot. I don't know if the launchers the reason why or not. A) Could running another launcher like LauncherPro be the reason? B) Should I uninstall & just use Sense UI?
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Could be, try finding out if your cpu is running near max a lot, seePU is a good app to get cpu load at a glance. If its constantly near max load with the launcher running its likely the cause.

I don't know how to find CPU temp., but to find battery temp., go to Phone and type in *#*#4636#*#*
Go to Battery information and it's listed in *C.
Maybe that will help....somehow.

[W]ildfire
Hey my phone is doing the same thing so far it reads display is 75% ande everything else is under 10%. my battery temp on set cpu it says its 119 degrees that is the highest i have seen it usually gets between 105 and 110. Id really if someone could tell me what the problem is .

I had this problem before on different roms. There is quite a few variables such the rom, radio, and kernel which could cause your battery to be hot. You may wanna try a different rom to see if you having the same issue.
jGroves said:
Thanks for all the input.
Im not in an area with low signal. I'm in Little Rock, AR - our arena across the river downtown named "Verizon Arena" for crying loud. Lol. ... It gets hot when I talk on it though, and its not just body heat from my hand. Both the back & front heat up, and sometimes when its charging it gets hot. It doesn't take long, and as a matter of fact its getting warmer as I type this from my phone.
It may be something up with the radio, as was suggested. Yesterday I was trying to call out & when the person on the other line answered they couldn't hear me but could hear them. I called a couple of different people a couple of different times just to test it out & it was messed up every time. I powered the phone off, cut it back on, and it works fine now. Could these be related issues or what? When that was happening I also heard this very high pitched noise coming out of where my ear goes. It has gone away as well, but I'm trying to provide as much detail as possible in case others can help or suggest issues. I really don't want to have to take the phone back - especially since they're fresh out of stock.
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yeah i agree that it is apps tearing your battery up... see whats running and straighten it all out.

[Q] EVO heating up....wtf???

Has anyone experienced their EVO heating up? Since the kick stand is metal or sumn, it gets super warm, enough to make u wonder how hot will it get. I'm a noob so I'm not sure if this is normal.
any feedback or suggestions will be appreciated.

Yes this is natural. My battery will top out at 110f with normal use. The kickstands does a nice job of heating up. I wouldn't worry.
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It's normal. A lot of GPS use also gets it pretty warm pretty quick. Don't worry.

It is normal but you should probably not use it when it gets so hot, let it sit for 5 min and it should drop below 95F.

My evo would also get pretty warm after normal phone operations and would get extremely hot when using gps. My phone was so bad and so hot that it would begin randomly rebooting and wouldn't stop until I put the phone next to the ac for a few minutes or removed the battery for a few minutes. It made my phone reboot a minimum of 10 times a day. I got so frustrated with it that I had to get a replacement and lose my root. Now I'm hoping that stock 2.2 is rooted soon. No problems out of my refurbished EVO so far.
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Mine gets warm fast when trying to find signal, other than that it stays cool.
Oh and wifi tether for two hours straight over 4g made it hit 115°f the other day.
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I have no complaints about this - it stays cool for me throughout. I do remember noticing it got mildly warm a couple of times, but it happens so rarely and it's so unimportant, I didn't bother checking for anything, or even remember what I was doing on it at the time.

Both times I tried to use GPS (Google NAV first then Copilot) my phone got up 130°F and locked up. I had pull the battery and let it cool down. Disappointing at best.

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Both times I tried to use GPS (Google NAV first then Copilot) my phone got up 130°F and locked up. I had pull the battery and let it cool down. Disappointing at best.
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Woah....130? That's crazy, surprised phone didn't fry. It'll probably have to get hotter than that. As long as the phone doesn't mess up, I will continue to enjoy this phone.

My phone generally only gets really hot in the car, when I'm using gps. Luckily I use a vent holder for it, so I just turn the air on low, and the phone is cool to the touch when I get to where I'm going. Don't know what I'll do in winter though...
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Mine starts to overheat when the sun hits it when sitting on my passenger seat in my car. The phone is black, and my case is black. It's going to absorb the suns energy.

mine got really hot to the point where the led would flash green then red....135 or 145 degrees Fahrenheit I forget
I was only charging my phone for maybe 15-20 minutes
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spencelk said:
mine got really hot to the point where the led would flash green then red....135 or 145 degrees Fahrenheit I forget
I was only charging my phone for maybe 15-20 minutes
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Mine does this too and as soon as I unplug it the led turns off. Think it might be the overclock. I had mine clocked at 1.2 and scaled it down to 1.9 due to phone locking up and rebooting. Sometimes I have to wipe cache and davlik cache and reflash firmware and kernel along with all my mods due the phone not going past the splash screen.

Are you running ota froyo? Ive heard alot of people complain about heat issue with it.
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. I got so frustrated with it that I had to get a replacement and lose my root. Now I'm hoping that stock 2.2 is rooted soon. No problems out of my refurbished EVO so far.
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Guess u didn't want to get yelled at for posting elsewhere about root so you felt the need to slip it in here there was no need to mention as it has nothing to do with OP. Root will happen sooner or later grow up and wait like the others who are waiting no need to toss it in unrelated topics...we are all getting sick and tired of people *****ing about not having root! You probably made your comment up just so you could add your little remark about not having root!
Back on topic.....you guys have to remember there is a 1 ghz processor in our bad ass phones so there will be some heat unlike a computer there is not any fans or big heatsinks that will absorb the heat so with heavy use or game playing its gonna get hot plain and simple its not a defect so nothing to worry about until it starts melting in your hand....then I would say something is wrong...

Yeah, mine is running at 40 C all the time, upwards of 60 if I use the GPS.

You know...I actually hadn't noticed....and I use my Evo a lot. Only time I've really noticed it overheating is when I use WiFi tether but that's expected.
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Mine usually only gets hot when I leave it sitting somewhere without proper ventilation or when I'm riding in the passenger seat and it gets some sun. Otherwise, its pretty uncommon unless I'm really running everything at once. If you have all your radios running at max (downloading large files, checking your location on Google maps, tethering, listening to pandora through bluetooth, all at the same time) then its going to happen no matter what because all the phone's components are pretty powerful and aren't ventilated like computers due to size constraints. I know the kickstand gets hot when the phone warms up, but as long as you don't see the overheat lights, and you don't let it stay hot for extended periods of time, there should be absolutely no danger. I believe there are failsafes if it overheats for too long, but I don't know. My G1 used to get hot a lot, and it was no where near as powerful. Those were the days...

This damn issue was the fact I returned my Evo 4G to Sprint to get it replaced. The Phone was getting so hot to the point the screen was hot towards the bottom of the phone, the back was hot, and the phone kept doing restarts. My phone im Pretty sure had a defect. Not even a week after rooting thru the unrevoked method, I installed Wifi tethering App and **** went down the drain no later then a few days after. The phone began heating up and going thru 15 minute boot loops at a time. The only way to stop it was to pull the battery and let the phone cool down. The phone had to be in optimal Tower range with strong signal strength to avoid this overheating during data sessions. If i was in areas with three bars or lil lower and began running youtube, I could not go thru 4 or 5 youtube videos in a row without the ****er restarting. It was annoying and frustrating. I got a feeling something got ****ed up along the way after rooting and installing Wifi tether. I realized using Wifi tether heated the phone up real damn bad. Something must have got fried or the way the phone processed data after that was just crapping out.
So yeah my issue was way worse becuz of this overheating

I am having the same problem as you drewtorrespr. I rooted a while back using the Toast method and everything ran fine until 2 days ago. Now it seems everyday around mid day my phone heats up and starts rebooting. Not sure if its the ROM ver or hardware defect or rogue program.
How do I flash the original factory ROM back on the phone so I can take to sprint and have them look at it or does it matter. Will they just reload it for me ya think?

Epic Overheating

Has anyone else had this phone overheat a lot and reboot?
Ever since I've upgraded to DK28, the phone seems to be overheating with sustained gameplay of games like Pocket Legends or the Sims 3. I've tried multiple ROMs, Epic Experience, Viper, Quantum, and Nebula (so far the best stability of the ROMs that I've tried). The phone basically freezes and reboots. I've tried to mitigate this by putting my phone by the window and opening it (it's below freezing here in Canada), but with only limited success.
Notes: Syndicate ROM v1.02 with Xtreme Kernel 1.01 did not have this problem in Android 2.1, despite me overclocking the CPU.

My Epic gets up to 105 (F) sometimes but it's never rebooted on me like that.

I received a replacement phone from Asurion, which kept overheating, locking up, and turning itself off. Every time I had to pull the battery just to the phone to function. Even though I called Asurion 10 days after receiving the phone, they gave me a brand new replacement. The defective phone that they gave me had two stickers under the battery. One stated Remanufactured by Asurion and the other was a white square dot/sticker.
The rep stated that there is a small scale known issue about the phones overheating even when not being used.
I hope this helps.
Take care

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Has anyone else had this phone overheat a lot and reboot?
Ever since I've upgraded to DK28, the phone seems to be overheating with sustained gameplay of games like Pocket Legends or the Sims 3. I've tried multiple ROMs, Epic Experience, Viper, Quantum, and Nebula (so far the best stability of the ROMs that I've tried). The phone basically freezes and reboots. I've tried to mitigate this by putting my phone by the window and opening it (it's below freezing here in Canada), but with only limited success.
Notes: Syndicate ROM v1.02 with Xtreme Kernel 1.01 did not have this problem in Android 2.1, despite me overclocking the CPU.
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Occasionally when I am tethering my phone gets above 40 C (104 F) but I have found that leaving it with the keyboard open really helps cool it off. When I'm not tethering it rarely gets above 30 C. I am running a relatively unmodified Dk28.

richse said:
Occasionally when I am tethering my phone gets above 40 C (104 F) but I have found that leaving it with the keyboard open really helps cool it off. When I'm not tethering it rarely gets above 30 C. I am running a relatively unmodified Dk28.
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I suppose I will give this one a try.

Mine gets really hot, when browsing dolphin hd on low batt while charging.
My gfs phone is much more buggy. Hers force closes then sometimes reboots

While impractical for actual phone use, if you are tethering and the phone is getting hot, put a plastic zip-lock bag of water about 1/2 full (do your best to get out all the air) underneath it. Used that with my TP2 and it works like a charm. Just be careful with it!

is something wrong with my evo?

Good day everyone. I have a problem with my evo 4g. I'll try to keep my post detailed as much as possible,tho I'm a newbie.
anyway, I got this evo 4g 2ndhand. since it's cdma it's priced here in Asia way cheaper than the phones with sim slots. I noticed the battery life is somewhat short, and the phone was warming up. I don't know if this should be labeled as "warming" or "heating", or this might be normal, since these phones host 1ghz processors, not to mention a gpu without heatsinks.
I tried turning on airplane mode to disconnect all connections. since I have read in an article that I should avoid task killers, I didn't install such. I notice that whenever I am playing simple games, like doodle dash, after a while, the phone begins to become a little warm. also when playing videos 1% will be immediately decreased from the battery.
I would like to know if the heating or warming up is normal for an android phone, (since I have come from playing the psp and the nintendo ds, and as far as I could recall I haven't encountered warming issues such as this, but then those devices have thicker casings and have less components running them) I haven't encountered the blinking green orange lights yet, but afaik that'll only show up when it's charging. Also i've tried some battery temperature sensing apps the other day, but something must be wrong since it's been reading the temp, stuck at 29C. I'll try to install another one, and I'll update the results.
What would be the solution to my problem? any other settings here that should be tweaked? i tried factory resets, reformatting the sd. my android version is 2.3.3.
Thanks xda-developers.

Could be in my opinion your charging port that's making your phone warm up than usual. To know for a fact is when its starts boot looping numerous times. This has happen to me once before. Can u give us phone details? Hboot, version stuff like that would be helpful.
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It's normal for the Evo to get warm and even a bit hot when used heavily. Playing graphics-intensive games will definitely get your phone warm. Basically it's nothing to worry about. If the phone gets too hot it will automatically shut itself down.

[Q] Freezing issues

Hi i have flashed many nand roms to my hd2 the end result is always the same. phone works fine until i try to play games anywhere between 30s to 10 min and the phone freezes up and is unresponsive. only way to fix is to remove battery. any ideas on what this is why it happens and how to fix it.

what is your ROM? what's your magldr version? what is your HTC HD2 type EU or TMOUS? What is the name of your games? i need more information sir..

psypix said:
Hi i have flashed many nand roms to my hd2 the end result is always the same. phone works fine until i try to play games anywhere between 30s to 10 min and the phone freezes up and is unresponsive. only way to fix is to remove battery. any ideas on what this is why it happens and how to fix it.
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I'd hazard a guess at it being an overheating problem. Do you overclock on the ROMs you use? Does the phone get extremely hot? If yes to these, try not overclocking and see if it works.

magldr version is 1.13 and it a tmous hd2 running nexus h2 ics 4.0.4 cm9 hwa v1.2 by tytung. not overclocking running at the standard max of 998Mhz min somewhere around 200. the only option i have used is in the performance settings under memory management i ticked the kenel samepage merging which seems to have reduced the amout of freezing i am experiencing. tried playing the game called drag racing think is by creative mobile. phone on its own works great but even playing angry birds anywhere between 5 to 15min it freezes. noticed yesterday my battery was low so the charge light was flashing and when the screen frooze the light still continued to blink but the phone was totally unresponsive. Any ideas

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I'd hazard a guess at it being an overheating problem. Do you overclock on the ROMs you use? Does the phone get extremely hot? If yes to these, try not overclocking and see if it works.
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not overclocking running at the standard max of 998Mhz min somewhere around 200
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I have similar problem. But not so often. He is not overclocking, neither do I.
I also use zRam 26%.
This often happens when the phone is under load, so I think that maybe this is due to lack of memory. The phone heats up when the screen freezes.
Any tips?

OK, this might sound stupid but try putting the phone in the fridge for a while to cool it down, then play. Obviously don't do it for too long, it is after all a phone, but I read somewhere that this had helped someone with overheating. I doubt it is a RAM issue cos that wouldn't cause a freeze, it would probably result in the launcher being killed to free up RAM.
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not sure putting it in the fridge every time want to play will be quite the fix i am looking for. Might prove the theory that the phone is overheating but then there must be a setting somewhere that can be envoked to get this to stop happening

psypix said:
not sure putting it in the fridge every time want to play will be quite the fix i am looking for. Might prove the theory that the phone is overheating but then there must be a setting somewhere that can be envoked to get this to stop happening
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Yeah I know it isn't a practical solution, I just meant it to test my overheating theory. Perhaps there is a fix, but to be honest if you aren't OCing then I really don't know why it should be heating up so much. Sure, mine gets warm but even when I've played for around an hour on Contract Killer: Zombies (fairly graphically intense and a very fun game) it doesn't shut down or anything. There IS a hardware fix but it's quite dangerous and requires a lot of expertise and the right equipment, neither of which I have Should you wish to try it, just make sure you're very careful