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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.

PRI 1.40 fixes Towers bouncing around issue

Sorry if this is yet another thread about the PRI. However, this isn't about the update itself and how people are or are not getting it.
Using the "Antennas" app on Android Market, I would notice that with PRI 1.34, my signal would bounce all over and use towers that were at least 2 miles away even though there's a tower just 2 blocks away from me.
I used this app a whole lot, and the issue was so apparent that it was impossible to open the app and not see it bounce all over every 10-15 seconds.
There was a whole thread about this issue a few weeks ago, so I'm sure I'm not the only one affected.
Now with PRI 1.40, this simply doesn't happen. It just stays there. This should help with battery life as the radio doesn't have to work harder doing "handovers".
Also as a disclaimer, the Antennas app is somewhat buggy and may leave your GPS on even after you exit the app, so keep an eye on that.

zeuzinn said:
Sorry if this is yet another thread about the PRI. However, this isn't about the update itself and how people are or are not getting it.
Using the "Antennas" app on Android Market, I would notice that with PRI 1.34, my signal would bounce all over and use towers that were at least 2 miles away even though there's a tower just 2 blocks away from me.
I used this app a whole lot, and the issue was so apparent that it was impossible to open the app and not see it bounce all over every 10-15 seconds.
There was a whole thread about this issue a few weeks ago, so I'm sure I'm not the only one affected.
Now with PRI 1.40, this simply doesn't happen. It just stays there. This should help with battery life as the radio doesn't have to do work harder doing "handovers".
Also as a disclaimer, the Antennas app is somewhat buggy and may leave your GPS on even after you exit the app, so keep an eye on that.
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I was explaining that in another thread I made... an updated preferred roaming index (PRI) does help with that issue

3rd day with phone, 2 self resets already

Ok, so what happenned on the 2 instances that this happenned was all of a sudden I lost cellular signal and the phone made a sound and the signal bars switched to a circular sign with the line across it. I put the phone in airplane mode but nothing happenned, within a min phone restarted it self...
The phone is stock. No root or anything like that.
Ps... using the keyboard to type this, and its much easier compard to my old droids kb.
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Weird. Haven't experienced that before myself. I have had it lose signal and display the circle with a line through it but it's not very often and only for a second or two.

Just did it again when I went into pandora. I realized its actually not resetting, but the phone freezes up and everything reloads. Including signal and 3G... the screen shutz off and you can't turn it back on until it reloads
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I had the same problem with mine. I exchanged it for another one and have had no problems since
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Damn. Just when I get it the way I wanted it... Ugh...
What exactly was yours doing big jim?
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Your second thread mention "problems" you have with your phone. Go to a Sprint store.

I agree exchange it urs must be defective. A couple others have hd same issue.
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I had the same problem on my original Epic. I had three problems in total on that phone.
Samsung's crap coding that caused the phone to not sleep. (fixed after 2nd update)
The phone would randomly restart itself
During calls, the screen would freeze while illuminated. The call wasn't interrupted, but aftwards I had to pull the battery.
In the end I had to exchange the phone for another. Only problem was, the new phone had that couple millimeter gap with the slider. Sprint said it wasn't enough for third exchange though.

Man, this sucks... Just when I put all the apps I wanted on it and got it running the way I want it...
I'm gonna give it 1 more week see what happens, then return perhaps for another epic. I'm pretty sure I'll be sticking to the epic though, i really like the camera capabilities of the phone.
I'm actually going to run 4 tests this week
I'm going to leave the phone untouched from 10:00 to 21:00 and note the percentage in battery with juice defender on/off and also noLED on/off, see what happens... to make it even, i'll just leave the phone in my car, and it won't be used except it's usual email checking/texts/missed calls etc.
my droid unused for that period of time usually was around 80%. it was running a custom rom with 1 ghz kernel as well, so same power requirements i'd say. except epic has a bigger battery.

Battery is pretty bad with the Epic but Im not surprised at all about that. I have about 50% right now with heavy texting, a few phone calls, and listening to music. 8hrs unplugged. I think it would make it to 14-15 hrs easy with heavy use.
Phone calls kill the battery the most I believe.
And I'm using Juice Defender.

Mine was dying with heavy texting, some GPS and browsing within 6-7 hours, no phone calls....
I did a little test today.
When I'm at the police academy my phone is in my car from 1000 to 2100. My rooted 1ghz droid would be at 80% by 2100. it'd get it's regular share of texting/emails and all that I couldn't look at until 2100.
I did the same thing today with the Epic, with juice defender, it was at 79%, so pretty much exactly the same...
tomorrow I'll do the same test with JD off and see if it makes a diff

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razorseal said:
Man, this sucks... Just when I put all the apps I wanted on it and got it running the way I want it...
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Use titanium backup and u can restore all ur apps n settings in a jif
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I have just installed Juice Defender (free version) and using it as installed. I'll see if it helps. I have a question about the status of TRAFFIC, it is listed as "Leave Data/WiFi enabled while >50KB/15s", what does this mean? I can guess that JD will leave the Data connection ON, even if it is scheduled OFF, if the phone is sending/receiving data at a rate greater than 50KB/15s. Is this close?
Thanks
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othan1 said:
Weird. Haven't experienced that before myself. I have had it lose signal and display the circle with a line through it but it's not very often and only for a second or two.
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Mine has been doing this every once in awhile. Even in a good signal area, its like the radio randomly decides to reset. I'm currently trying to see if its a software or hardware thing.

Sadly the modem was backported from the samsung moment. It has only partof it power managment system in it it will befixed swhen froyo comes
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I am having the same problem with my phone suddenly. If I have multiple apps open, such as radio, browser, and facebook at the same time, it seems to cause it to reset itself. It's not a full hard reset, but more of a soft one, screen goes black and everything starts up as if the phone was just turned on.
Maybe it's time for a replacement?

Awful lag at the end of the day.

Update: the biggest problem is my wifi drops every 2 minutes. It just disconnects and I have to turn it off and on. My wifi is 2-3 bars and wifi sleep policy is never.
How can I fix this?
I know that a restart can fix this, but that shouldn't be necessary every day on the "world's most powerful smartphone". This is like Captivate lag, 10+ seconds for action to be performed... this is just my most recsent problem and this is my 4th atrix.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Problems with phone:
Wifi
Bootloader
Lag
Overheats
Multi touch
That's my list I've put together on my notes app since I got the phone.
Lol just trying to submit this post I ran into the lag and the wifi dropping problems.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Wow just tried playing GT racing during my current lag-attack. It was like a stop motion game.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Sorry but it sounds like there's something wrong that you're doing.The Atrix isn't that bad of a phone, although I'll confide that there are some dud phones from time to time.
After 4 phones and still having these sorts of problems, I'd say there's an app you're installing that is ****ting the bed. 10 seconds of lag is unheard of, man.

Yesterday I went through and uninstall tons a lot of apps I haven't used in awhile.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Today I played a short 1:30 minute video I recorded and I couldn't put my phone in my pocket. Too hot.
For every task I try to do I have to go and toggle my wifi off and back on because it disconnected. Nearly impossible to watch a YouTube video or play an online game.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Also. I was using my phone on my desk today. I noticed that if its on a flat surface, the screen responsiveness is messed up. Would randomly respond to places where I didn't even tap, as well as being unresponsive to touch at some points.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Don't forget battery life. I've had 2 atrix batteries, both barely last me the day with little use of the phone.

Battery life is the only good part... I can get about 4:15 hours of display time per charge on about 35 percent display brightness.
My first one the GPS couldn't even get a lock lol... captivate was better. And I think it has gingerbread now.
For this post I had to reset wifi 3 times!!!¡¡¡
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Oh and im rewted with the recommended list of apps frozen with TB.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

I can´t believe you created a new thread to "complain" about your phone. There are plenty of other threads where you can rant about the phone. I actually don't have any of the problems you listed... If this is your 4th Atrix, why don't you just stop nagging about your horrible experience with it and buy a different phone. If it's that bad, nobody forces you to keep it...

Didn't realise this was a restricted forum.
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Bummer man. Sorry to hear you've had such bad luck. My Atrix experience has been just opposite of yours -- everything has worked quite well. Coming from an iPhone, my expectations were quite high too. My gps has been stellar, wifi rarely drops, my phone doesn't get hot, I have almost no lag, and things generally work well. My guess is that it's either a hardware QC issue, or you've got some software installed that is really misbehaving. Hope you get it sorted out -- there's not many things more frustrating than having a laggy phone.

You should write on your thread more than every hour.
I smell a troll just my .02
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Are you rooted... Are you stock.. Details?
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Tennis11 said:
Oh and im rewted with the recommended list of apps frozen with TB.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
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I said I was rooted. Im on the firmware update before the 4g one with root. Not running any pseudo rom.
Thanks for calling me a troll, really helps with the problem.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Try using battery mix, this way you can easily find the rough app that is causing problems.
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Never live in the past but always learn from it.

I was wondering if I should live in the past. What do you think?
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Snapchat Update Destroying Battery

Hi all,
Havent seen this post yet.
Just a message that anyone who uses snapchat, DO NOT UPDATE IT MY GOD.
You'll know it's updated when in the stories section has discover integrated into it.
Why you ask?
Well let's just say it's been draining the battery fast. Very fast.
And to add on it is overheating the phone since it is hogging on the CPU as well.
With GSAM my snapchat usage skyrocketed to 50% even though I only opened it once. Despite closing it, its CPU time kept increasing steadily for every second. It only stopped once I went into the task manager and closed it. But as soon as you get a notification of a new snap, it starts to drain again.
The only remedy I found so far is to literally uninstall it and forget about it for now. Tried clearing cache and reinstalling. None of it worked.
There's also an article on this from techradar if my word isn't enough
Just thought I'll let everyone know since this basically ruined my day. Thank god for the spare battery

Uh, battery usage seems about the same to me...
But the battery does drain pretty quickly to begin with anyway

spartan268 said:
Hi all,
Havent seen this post yet.
Just a message that anyone who uses snapchat, DO NOT UPDATE IT MY GOD.
You'll know it's updated when in the stories section has discover integrated into it.
Why you ask?
Well let's just say it's been draining the battery fast. Very fast.
And to add on it is overheating the phone since it is hogging on the CPU as well.
With GSAM my snapchat usage skyrocketed to 50% even though I only opened it once. Despite closing it, its CPU time kept increasing steadily for every second. It only stopped once I went into the task manager and closed it. But as soon as you get a notification of a new snap, it starts to drain again.
The only remedy I found so far is to literally uninstall it and forget about it for now. Tried clearing cache and reinstalling. None of it worked.
There's also an article on this from techradar if my word isn't enough
Just thought I'll let everyone know since this basically ruined my day. Thank god for the spare battery
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I hate the new Snapchat. No one wants to see your stupid trending things. Probably going to install a previous version. So far no battery drain for me

spartan268 said:
Hi all,
Havent seen this post yet.
Just a message that anyone who uses snapchat, DO NOT UPDATE IT MY GOD.
You'll know it's updated when in the stories section has discover integrated into it.
Why you ask?
Well let's just say it's been draining the battery fast. Very fast.
And to add on it is overheating the phone since it is hogging on the CPU as well.
With GSAM my snapchat usage skyrocketed to 50% even though I only opened it once. Despite closing it, its CPU time kept increasing steadily for every second. It only stopped once I went into the task manager and closed it. But as soon as you get a notification of a new snap, it starts to drain again.
The only remedy I found so far is to literally uninstall it and forget about it for now. Tried clearing cache and reinstalling. None of it worked.
There's also an article on this from techradar if my word isn't enough
Just thought I'll let everyone know since this basically ruined my day. Thank god for the spare battery
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Yep check this shizzat out
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Lucky for you guys :/
On my HTC it lags like crazy, but the drain seems less than my G4. And my G4 is far more efficient than my M7.
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/ph...date-is-killing-some-phones-batteries-1299189
It appears to be mostly for G4s that are reporting the drain. Then overall everyone else is complaining about the crappy discover addition and lag. Lucky us again eh

Dennisg34 said:
Yep check this shizzat out
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Not sure why this app isn't posting the picture..
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I had the drain too. Went back to the version prior and it's been fine again.

Absolutely, 100% had the same issue. The app would freeze up, wouldn't close, couldn't message through it. And boy it sucked the battery down A LOT and caused overheating, which I never had ANY problem with heating on my Verizon model.
I deleted it. Phone is running fine.
For what its worth, since I installed Snapchat on the LG4 the picture/video quality is total garbage. Video seem to lag or skip when you watch what YOU have sent either on your phone or to your friends; its also highly saturated and pixelated. That has been an issue since day one.

ghostbustaj said:
Absolutely, 100% had the same issue. The app would freeze up, wouldn't close, couldn't message through it. And boy it sucked the battery down A LOT and caused overheating, which I never had ANY problem with heating on my Verizon model.
I deleted it. Phone is running fine.
For what its worth, since I installed Snapchat on the LG4 the picture/video quality is total garbage. Video seem to lag or skip when you watch what YOU have sent either on your phone or to your friends; its also highly saturated and pixelated. That has been an issue since day one.
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Yeah it definitely doesn't make use of the power of the LG G4. Pictures in low light are actually dark versus the standard app which show it as perfectly fine. Only if they allow 3rd party snap apps again.
Seems like the drain is also occuring for sammy users as well. My friend in the cubicle over is having the same issue, couldnt figure out where it came from until I pointed it out. But my brothers phone is fine, then again he has an extended battery so he wouldnt even notice.

Eww, Snapchat sucks on Android, videos qualities and sound... Third App is better to send pictures and videos, but to watch the snaps I received I still use official Snapchat.

spartan268 said:
Hi all,
Havent seen this post yet.
Just a message that anyone who uses snapchat, DO NOT UPDATE IT MY GOD.
You'll know it's updated when in the stories section has discover integrated into it.
Why you ask?
Well let's just say it's been draining the battery fast. Very fast.
And to add on it is overheating the phone since it is hogging on the CPU as well.
With GSAM my snapchat usage skyrocketed to 50% even though I only opened it once. Despite closing it, its CPU time kept increasing steadily for every second. It only stopped once I went into the task manager and closed it. But as soon as you get a notification of a new snap, it starts to drain again.
The only remedy I found so far is to literally uninstall it and forget about it for now. Tried clearing cache and reinstalling. None of it worked.
There's also an article on this from techradar if my word isn't enough
Just thought I'll let everyone know since this basically ruined my day. Thank god for the spare battery
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Use greenify, and do the hibernate sleep option everytime you stop using the phone.

They updated the app today! Doesn't seem to have same issues now. Probably helped I kept harassing them on Twtter lol
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Dennisg34 said:
They updated the app today! Doesn't seem to have same issues now. Probably helped I kept harassing them on Twtter lol
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Let me know how it goes. I'm holding out for now and enjoying the increased battery life from deleting it

Dennisg34 said:
They updated the app today! Doesn't seem to have same issues now. Probably helped I kept harassing them on Twtter lol
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Update fixed the battery drain for me too. I was convinced that my two star review on Google Play was what did it, but it looks like you beat me to it haha.

Amartier said:
Update fixed the battery drain for me too. I was convinced that my two star review on Google Play was what did it, but it looks like you beat me to it haha.
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I also gave the app two stars! haha
Can confirm: the update worked for me. Before then, I was force stopping each time I quit the app.
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