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I Cant Play Music Or Radio When I Am Charging

I'm using 02 xda atom btw, and yes the battery does indeed turns hot and the degree of hotness is proportional to the cpu intensiveness of your application. If I play movie, listen music or wireless surf for sometime the phone gets rather hot due to the battery PARTICULARY WHEN I AM CHARGING... THAT MEANS I CANT PLAY MUSIC OR RADIO WHEN I AM CHARGING. IT BECOMES HOT AND THE BATTER INDICATOR SAYS 100 PER. THEN I HAS TO REMOVE BATTERY.....WAIT FOR SOMETIMES....AND THEN RECHARGE AGAIN WITHOUT LISTENING NOTHING.....
PLEASE REPLY----IS IT THE BUSTED DEVICE OR THE BATTERY.....DOES ANY ONE HAS THIS KIND OF ISSUES...I LL BE HIGLY OBLIGED FOR THE REPLY....Thanks a lot in advance.........

Phone gets hot during 3G use

When I use my Nike for more than 2 minutes while browsing the web using my 3G connection it gets quite hot on the lower part of the backside (isn't this the area with the cpu/chipset?). Although I have not measured the exact temperature it gets well over 40 degrees celsius on the outside already.
I also notice a lot of battery usage but that might also be because of the screen being on all the time, though the chipset might be sucking away a lot of battery power as well, judging from the heat dissipation.
Is this behaviour normal or should I go and have it checked/repaired?

It's normal. Mine's the same.

I got a new Niki after my old was damaged, none of them gets hot.
As far as I know this could be caused by a wrong Radio Version. Did you flash the Niki with another Radio Version than shipped?
High battery usage could be caused by some tools (e.g. S2U2)

Nope, the phone is running a HTC original WM6.1. The phone isn't even hardspl-unlocked
The windows installation itself is pretty clean: no special tools except total commander, opera and tomtom, of which none are running.
You state that it does not get hot. Does it get warm though, or really nothing special? Are you using GPRS(2G) or UMTS/HSDPA(3/3.5G)?

Yes, I'm using 3G. My phone is only a bit warm when connection to PC and flashing/trying ROMs (> charging & lots of CPU usage)

Mine heats up when using the data connection as well. I've got the standard radio rom.

This is a well known issue in NIKI, don't worry (except if the temperature is too hot); but i have tried many radios and it gets hot when you use HSPDA.

this is because when you connect it to usb it also charges the battery which the connection for the battery and i believe the processor are at the same board. It usually gets hot where the sim is located under the battery. if you use the phone alot to call also it will get hot. i don't think it's an issue i think it does that because of the location of the processor..... Yes i did open my phone

Running a lil hot?

I've noticed it previously during usage (like on the internet while having MSN running, or while playing games)
but I just got off a phone call which lasted about 20 minutes, and the front (and back) of my phone was just too warm for me to ignore. I would have suggested that it was the heat from my cheek against the phone but that wouldn't explain how the phone was quite noticeably warmer than my cheek.
The backlight wasn't on (i doubt the LED backlight would cause much heat anyway).
Does the mega have any internal temperature sensors like PC's have? And any software to read them?
My previous phones NEVER got this hot on even hour long calls,
and mix this with the fact that at my work one of the PDA's blew up a few weeks ago (was the battery), it just makes me that more paranoid!
I am going to Hard Reset soon anyway as things started running a little slowly recently, I hope it will also stop any hidden processes that may be running in the background and overworking the cpu. But I would still like to know of any software

Weznezz said:
I've noticed it previously during usage (like on the internet while having MSN running, or while playing games)
but I just got off a phone call which lasted about 20 minutes, and the front (and back) of my phone was just too warm for me to ignore. I would have suggested that it was the heat ..../QUOTE]
I think its pretty normal to heat up during long conversation. Their manual also says "Using any function for long time will heat up the phone", but only upto a level.
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i've never experienced warming of the phone which is coused by operating it , well maybe just a lil utube watching for an hour but it was warm of my hands , i'm only worried when i leave it charging and after 15-20 mins LOL ! the phone is HOT i know that is normal , just sharing opinion

Heat comes from 2 sources in general external and internal.
External is from sun, your hands or phone in your pocket. On longer run this is not good for battery life.
Using navigation in your car during summer can run your phone real hot and feels quite uncomfortable! From a 20 min call it should not. But this is subjective.
Internal heat is caused when your processor has to work hard; like when several programs running and processes in back ground. You can check and kill them with task manager (FDC soft task manager) and batteryguard. Also soft reset kills most "unwanted" processes. A good indication for high level of processor activity is when your battery level goes quickly down.

Its normal mate, on mine when i use GPS for long time it does the same, processor works hard and battery gets hot.

Not sure if navigation alone causes your battery to run hot. Since navigation can run on 200Mhz processors and Mega processor has much higher clock speed it is overspecified.
The influence of phone close to windscreen and therefor impact of light/sun may be much bigger. When I run navigation (TomTom) in winter phone stays nicely "cool".

Not sure if it could help but once i noticed the Mega too warm and discharging instead of charging, after i connected it to the notebook via usb cable!
Rebooted PC and HTC and everything luckly returned normal...

gfreeman86 said:
Not sure if it could help but once i noticed the Mega too warm and discharging instead of charging, after i connected it to the notebook via usb cable!
Rebooted PC and HTC and everything luckly returned normal...
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Indeed a soft reset in most cases solves this.

how hot has your battery ever gotten?

i've got the AC in my room on at 23*C and.. my phone got to 39*C haha..
tethering + charging + making a skype call on fring makes for a really hot battery.

Not sure about Celsius but Fahrenheit 109 degrees

109 = 42c, quite hot, the point is that the battery need to stay as cold as possible, there's a very good thread about battery somewhere but for some reason it doesn't seem to have been made sticky

P00r said:
109 = 42c, quite hot, the point is that the battery need to stay as cold as possible, there's a very good thread about battery somewhere but for some reason it doesn't seem to have been made sticky
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Yea I was using the hell out of it on 3g and downloading while charging...
I'm trying to get it up to 150... blow the thing out my hands....

I don't know actual numbers, but I was in the car on a hot day... it was plugged into a charger, giving Navigation directions, and I was using the 3.5mm jack to play it through my car stereo... and for some reason (heat or cause of the 3.5mm jack) it started playing music and skipping all over. Was really annoying because I was nearing my destination and really needed to pay attention to all the turns it was giving me, and the damn thing was skipping every 3 seconds from one song to another, pausing to give a direction, skipping to another song, skip, skip, directions, skip, skip, skip, skip... directions.
I got where I was going, had to circle the block because of a missed turn. Picked up the phone and the screen did not respond, the phone was almost too hot to hold (wasn't in the sun any of this time but I also don't have AC). The screen seemed to respond but the whole system was very slow. Took over 10 seconds for a response. I had to remove the power cord and pull the battery. I left the battery out for 10 mins while I went inside my destination. Had the phone in my pocket and my pants were on fire. But I put it back in and it booted fine.
TL;DR Too hot to handle!

Mine got hot enough in the car for the screen to stop responding as well.

I believe I got it to 119*F at one point. But now it tops out at 113*F after driving with nav and music for about 30 mins.

I have no clue how hot it was but driving down to Baltimore and using my N1 on the windshield for GPS in a 95 degree day. The phone got hot enough that holding it hurt.

53.3C/128F with GPS on, on a 100F day

nexous one
my phone got 151 degrees F
and it was on the car doc charging in the sun and its fine

Ive got you all beat...
I was running eVils ROM OCd and forgot to scale it down for charging...
Running Google Nav and charging under the sun and...whammo!! phone shut itself down and would not reboot until it cooled off. I couldnt even hold the phone in my hand it was so friggin hot.
All is good now....

joshlusignan said:
Ive got you all beat...
I was running eVils ROM OCd and forgot to scale it down for charging...
Running Google Nav and charging under the sun and...whammo!! phone shut itself down and would not reboot until it cooled off. I couldnt even hold the phone in my hand it was so friggin hot.
All is good now....
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Thats intense. Surprised it didn't say "phone too hot" or something.
Mine has reached 45c. I have that at my threshold and setcpu throttles it down to 600~mhz.

Galaxy A5 2017 (A520F) overheating issue

Hi guys and girls,
I've got my A5 a few days back, and at start it worked great. I've messed up with a lot of software, tried everything out, and instead of uninstalling everything I thought it'd be best to do a factory reset. That's where my problems started.
While I set up the phone and installed all the apps (updated) that came with the phone, connected to a 100Mbps optical internet via AC wifi, I lost about 15% of battery. Okay, who knows what the phone needed to do, lets move on.
Next day I was just using Whatsapp, messaging with my gf, and the phone was a bit warm with 20-25% brightness (auto-off). The battery temperature was 32-33C, and I used an infrared thermometer and measured 33.5C on the back of the phone at the Samsung logo. Then I just browsed the settings, setting up my phone a bit more, and it was still getting warm, getting anywhere between 31 to 33C on the battery and around 33C with an IR thermometer. I still can't say much about battery drainage but the phone is getting pretty warm even while browsing the web or doing non-intensive tasks.
Does the A5 2017 get warm or is it just me? Should I RMA it?

Have a520f, 33C is near average. But it's also dependent on the weather. Fast charging or charging with the screen off will raise it. If it wasn't always like that, maybe something in the background is using the CPU, checking for updates or notifications. The CPU/GPU is like a car engine, running at various 'speeds' and 'weights it is carrying', and it does get warm. Only if it gets hot, then it's a problem. Many apps could do those checks once the screen is turned on. Uninstalling/changing settings will only help with battery life (percent drain), the temperature is ok. The a520f (and a510f) also has touchboost, temporarily raising the CPU clock when the screen is touched. Might be noticeable with background tasks while using a keyboard.

Thanks friend. Didn't know about "Touchboost", you opened it up for me a bit there.
While the screen is off, It's perfectly fine. Once I take it in my hands, it starts to get warm around the Samsung logo. It's probably screen + apps + nowhere to dissipate heat, but I wasn't noticing it at start. I've only had it for a couple of days now. I don't know about the battery drainage, with a charge lasting me ~40hrs with 7h SOT I wouldn't say it's draining at all - though my screen is at low brightness, 1/4 max.
Just wanted to see what you other guys are getting as I thought it was high. My ambient is around 24-25C all year long. I've seen tests where people weren't getting more than 30C at all, but as you said, it's the ambient that dictates that.

Idk if this is only with mine but sometimes I turn the phone off completely and put it to charge and it happens that it can reach like 35°C without touching it. Now the phone is plugged, I only browse with chrome facebook.. and it is like 37°c. That can happen when it is not plugged too. Using wifi seems to be better though.
I dont think I have an important battery drain because it can last about 6-8h SOT normal usage.
Onr other thing, when I turn on the mobile hotspot, the battery drains way more than usually and heats up too.