2 or 3 days ago, while running VR13, I noticed my phone flickering green/orange LED lights while charging and also noticed it was hot. I looked up the problem and discovered this meant it was overheating. Ordered a replacement two days ago, arrived today. I charged it fully as soon as it arrived before turning it on. Eveything was ok, no overheating and to take extra precautions, I even flashed Ele's Gingerbread rom. Everything was working flawlessly until around the time I got home, I noticed the heat was going up again even though the phone was on standby in my pocket.
The battery life was low from a day of using it so it's charging atm. The orange/green light sin't flickering so it hasn't reached official overheating status yet but according to battery info, it's at 43.2 degrees celcius. I have no clue what's causing this, could it be the phone itself or could it be software related?
I didn't want to get a new phone till December or before ice cream sandwich rolled out so I hope I can fix these problems without getting a replacement. Thanks for the help.
Let me understand you straight - you had an overheating hero, you ordered a replacement = a new hero, and this one is overheating too? Without any obvious reason?
I mean, a friend of mine had an overheating problem cause of keeping his phone under a pillow during the night, but I can't see why yours would get hot.
Just a long shot, but maybe you got poor network signal, your hero tries to keep it up, spends more power, overheats.. had this a few times with my hero, while I was powerusing (net, sms, downloading something in the background), phone gets hot really fast, especially if it's overclocked.
Post some more info. Anything could be helpful. It's not like temporary overheating is rare. In the summer..
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I've been running EE03 since it was leaked.
The reason I stuck with it was because I saw EXCELLENT battery life (compared to SRF1.0.2. which I was running previusly) with the same usage (for me)..
Gingerbread was laggy at times, had some minute bugs that were tolerable (during my usage patterns) but I fell in love with the battery life.
On SRF 1.0.2 I would put my phone in airplane mode overnight to keep the battery from dying while i slept.. while it was a workaround (for me) it wasn't the most desirable solution.. I felt adventurous one night while on GB and left the phone sitting, no airplane mode, just to see how far the battery would drop compared to SRF... i only lost 5% overnight.. THAT was the ticket for me.. so i kept it and ran it.. haven't flashed a thing since.. no new apps, no new configurations.. it was working beautifully (as well as a leaked build could be expected to ) .. but it was very tolerable for me..
Until the last couple days... I noticed (all of a sudden) that while I'm sitting next to my computer, phone plugged in to charge before bed, the phone would disconnect/reconnect to the computer.. it would make that sound when you plug it in.. it would do this no matter what percent of charge it had.. for no rhyme or reason... I wiggled the cord in both the phone and computer in case the cord was to blame.. nothing.. i couldn't 'force replicate' this anomaly.. Further, at night around 4 in the morning the phone would vibrate and pop up that it was going to die, please plug in charger... the second night, I put the phone in airplane mode overnight and I STILL got the pop up at 3am that it was going to die...
So I decided (at 11:30) last night to ODIN back to EC05, then root w/ CWM 3.0.2.5. and flash SRF 1.1.1 .... I'll see how it goes.. hopefully battery life on this build is better than what I experienced on 1.0.2 lol...
Sorry for the long post.. I just wanted to share my frustration and see if anyone else had this weird anomaly w/ EE03.
/venting and pissing off the rest of XDA for long post
ive had the same problems with the disconnect/reconnect sound off. on top of what you have mentioned i have also had the problem of the phone being fully charged but showing the red charge light instead of the blue fully charged light. additionally the phone seems to get much more hot on this rom, i can simply be playing a game or something and the phone will get so hot that the charging is forced to be stopped, never had this problem untill the ee03,
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ive had the same problems with the disconnect/reconnect sound off. on top of what you have mentioned i have also had the problem of the phone being fully charged but showing the red charge light instead of the blue fully charged light. additionally the phone seems to get much more hot on this rom, i can simply be playing a game or something and the phone will get so hot that the charging is forced to be stopped, never had this problem untill the ee03,
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I had the same issues , I was worried my phones charging port might be damaged but a quick flash back to srf proved it was the EE03 rom
Besides that, everything ran perfectly for me.
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I've had problems with the phone not charging all the way. It will show 100% charge and then stop charging. When you unplug, it then shows the actual battery level, which has been as low as 35%. I've tried lots of things like wiping battery stats, but it keeps happening randomly.
EE03 is still fairly buggy. Some days my battery life is fantastic. Other days, it drains like a sieve. Even when I have fairly similar issues. Seems to correspond to how "hot" the phone is running that day. Also, phone calls just eat battery life.
going back to EC05 too... gonna be a long few weeks (hopefully only that). Awesome, just too hot, buggy, and I get PISSPOOR battery life.... but I have horrible reception at home, and even using roam control it still sucks down the juice. Also, I cant remember, is the settings process supposed to be permanenty running??? mine is, maybe that explains the settings not sticking... go samsprint go!
Its going to be hard for me to leave EC05. Full bars on my 4G. Wifi Tether is insanely fast and reliable. Bluetooth pairs properly. This has been the best modem for me by a mile
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Yeah, the most I was able to get out of EE03 was 8 hours of idle time with the battery calibrated.
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Yeah, the most I was able to get out of EE03 was 8 hours of idle time with the battery calibrated.
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initially, I was getting stellar battery life, but the last couple days of using it, I noticed my phone getting hot. I have no idea why things were slick as snot for a long time, then it all went to hell in a handbasket.. good thing is it's easy enough to change to something else LOL (thanks Epic Devs )
EE03 has been strange for me at times. I've noticed when it's charging and it makes the charging sound, the battery life will be terrible the next time I take it off. However, if I just reboot it, it usually stops making the sound at random times, and the battery life is giving me 12+ hours/day.
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initially, I was getting stellar battery life, but the last couple days of using it, I noticed my phone getting hot. I have no idea why things were slick as snot for a long time, then it all went to hell in a handbasket.. good thing is it's easy enough to change to something else LOL (thanks Epic Devs )
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So true. The first day of switching over to it I got over a days worth of battery but lately it hasn't been that awesome though it is still better than it was before
Hi everyone!
(TL;DR: i had hardware issues - overheating, slow mobile data, crappy battery life on 3G, non-responsiveness, etc. - that all got solved by replacing the battery for a new one)
I've been a faithful N1 user (briefly went to the nexus S, but came back) since april 2010, and my nexus one has been great ever since i got it.
A few months ago, I started having random hardware issues: first my camera led wouldn't turn on, then the speaker and vibrating motor went bad (I replaced all three parts with spares from ebay), and while i thought everything was repaired, I started having serious battery life and other random issues i couldn't really diagnose.
My phone would overheat after around 5 minutes with the screen on (i.e. while reading the morning news), 3G data was spotty and very slow, and the phone would sometimes be unresponsive for brief amounts of time. Also, my battery life dropped from lasting the whole day, to not even reaching 3PM. I managed to solve most of the issues by going 2G only - after all, I said, it's been almost 2 years and the phone was bound to go bad some time - however, the phone never really felt stable again.
In the meantime, I bought an OEM battery and a replacement digitizer (my battery stats blamed the screen for like 90% of battery consumption, so I guessed there was some sort of electric short on the digitizer or lcd, and the battery calibration app said my battery was only 84% fit), so I guessed I could try one last round of repairs before declaring my N1 retired. I even bought a Sensation in preparation to that sad moment.
Long story short, I swapped batteries 2 days ago and all my issues disappeared as if it was magic. Now I'm at 60% battery, with 3G on all day, and it's been 13 hours on, yesterday was similar. The phone has never overheated again since the battery replacement, and has been as responsive as I can remember, and mobile data has been somewhat faster (I blame my carrier for sucky speeds).
So, if you are experiencing weird hardware issues like mine, sudden changes in behaviour or just plain sucky battery life, it might mean it's time to get a replacement!! my battery lasted for about 2 years, and that's a very very good run.
Also, a bad battery was most probably the cause of the other components going bad, since i guess it didn't provide a stable supply of power.
Now I'm in love with my N1 again, and don't know what I'm gonna do with the Sensation I bought in desperation!!
Just sharing my story, maybe it can help somebody get their N1 back on full working condition.
Soooo agree!
I recently got my Nexus from my Dad. He blamed it for many things, included sudden reboot and overheating. I tried a bunch of GB roms, even stock (on which I even can't boot in with SIM on) and then I thought of the battery's fault.
As I can't find an OEM one, I just pick a new chinese battery, a SCUD 1420, the brand is kinda well-known as a decent battery replacement in town. Well, the battery life isn't that good, but now my phone hasn't reboot since then. Especially now when I run ICS, very smooth for an old N1
Still, could you tell me where did you get your battery please? I'm looking for an OEM that has better battery life.
Viva el N1
I bought from this seller on ebay. At least my unit looks ok (not exactly like the original battery that came with the phone, but very close).
it's also quite cheap, considering it revived my phone.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/33046584691...X:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_1849wt_1189
mine gets a little overheat (debug mode even shows "overheating") when charging the original battery.
and since it was new, the touchscreen does not work if the screen is on for a long time while charging.
just got a new 3.2A/H battery, it haven't solved the touch screen the slightest
still not showing overheating though... but the original one showed even when it was new.
Today while I was in a store and my Defy was in airplane mode, with the screen off in my back pocket - it got super-dooper hot - so hot I felt it through a gel case and my jeans.
I took it out and started to take off the case to get to the battery in a panic but by the time I got to it, the phone had already turned itself off (which is nice if that is some kind of safety feature).
It is a genuine, factory original motorola battery so this is not a problem with a fake battery - it was made in 2011.
Only thing I did recently was upgrade to CyanogenMod 7.2 on the 17th or so but I have been using it since then without problems.
Overclocking options are not on, I'm running with the stock Cyanogen cpu settings.
Airplane mode was on, gps was on, but that's it.
Remember, it wasn't doing anything, screen off in my pocket.
Any ideas? This was kinda scary - glad the phone shut down.
Is there any history of defective batteries from Motorola?
Maybe some program was running and loaded the cpu which drained the battery. The heat came from the cpu and the cpu is just next to the battery.
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Hmmm. Maybe, but when I yanked the battery out it was like a hot potato. Very very hot. I doubt the cpu could overheat it that thoroughly, more like it was being drained fast or possibly shorting?
I turn my phone on every morning from a cold start, the only program that was running was "MyTracks" (hence the gps being on)
I guess I'll keep an eye out for any problem reports with 7.2 on the Defy
It just worries me the times the phone is not in my pocket so I won't feel it overheating.
Is there any kind of app I can run that detects long periods of CPU use and shuts down the phone BEFORE the thermal trigger from the battery?
Does the Defy know it's own battery temperature by any chance? Maybe an app for that for the status bar?
I'm on CM 7.2 and my phone gets hot when I use 3G...
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There's your potato burner Phone heats up a lot when GPS is on... On the top of that, you kept it in a gel case in your pocket on a (probably) hot day... What did you expect?
Thanks for all the ideas/feedback.
I turn the gps on every day and I have never had this hot battery problem before.
In fact it's on now while I test it and it's not even warm.
This was definitely an unusual event of some kind.
I just updated MyTracks in case there was some kind of bug fix.
As far as 3G, I do not have a sim in this phone (cannot afford any dataplan right now) and I keep it in airplane mode to keep the cell part off.
I found another similar report of the Defy strangely overheating the battery from last year:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1023423
I had this issue abt 2 weeks ago.... it was under my pillow and I went to grab it to check something n I had to let it go at once... I was on cm7.2, my guess was I had flashed so many Roms the day before and maybe the settings of CPU changed from 1 rom to another ... but did NT have this issue again so far .. now am on miui but never knew y it was burning hot zat day
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Same problem here with cm 9; some days ago I found some stuck (blue) pixels on my device.no gps no wireless no data connectivity: it was the usb charger. It happened some months ago too and the stuck pixels disappeared but this time they are a lot....maybe I would put my device in freezer a night in order to recover my display ?_?
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i'm still with the original phone (bought about a month ago). didn't change a thing, even not rooted.
a few days ago, was a hot day (about 32 c), same thing happen to me.
the phone was in my pocket in a rubber guard.
i guess it gets really hot in this protector... i took it down and waited a few minutes, then everything was alright.
i think this model might have some problem with overheating, so what i do is try not to leave it in the sun and take the guard on a hot day.
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i think this model might have some problem with overheating, so what i do is try not to leave it in the sun and take the guard on a hot day.
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Thanks for your report, especially since it was stock - but I am sure it's not a regular "running hot" problem - because I have a very repetitive weekly routine and I've never had this burning hot problem before, never in a year.
Remember if they are in our pockets, the screen is off and typically programs are not running hard so the CPU should scale down to 300mhz, which should be very cool.
I installed this very basic and simple temperature monitor to put the temp in the status bar and so far I've never seen it go above 35c
http://www.appbrain.com/app/tempmonitor-lite/org.alldroid.apps.tempmonitorlite
It polls every 15 seconds which is all I need and no permissions.
Apparently the Defy only has a battery temp sensor and not a CPU temp sensor?
I'd like a better monitor with vibration alarm and a log but I am tired of all the overbearing apps with ads and "buy the pro version" nonsense and such.
Hi!
I used to have a CM7 with a chinese (really-really cheap) 1800mAh battery after the stock ROM (2.2 CEE); and I haven't experinced things like that. Mostly I measure the temp. with a widget (Elixir 2) and it was always below 35°C if I'm not wrong.
I know I'm not alone on this one, I have to constantly cool down, it's totally intermittent and it's scalding....I hope it will be fixed soon and not just a myth. the folks at ATT said it had something to do with being more green. I think if an app is spinning in the background, it should be told to stop....
Mine gets very warm very quickly, but hasn't (yet) gotten hot. Certainly not "uncomfortable to hold" hot, anyway.
yeahh, i just received the phone and there are a lot of downloads an updates, but the phone is really hot. with a normal charger i hane no charging at all. the drain is bigger than than the energy from the charger.
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I know I'm not alone on this one, I have to constantly cool down, it's totally intermittent and it's scalding....I hope it will be fixed soon and not just a myth. the folks at ATT said it had something to do with being more green. I think if an app is spinning in the background, it should be told to stop....
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I have been told by BlackBerry tech support the heat temperature flare ups could be caused by the encryption that is being done in the background.
Mine doesn't get to hot but it does get as warm as my note 5. I purchased egrip stickers from amazon to improve the grip and it has also helped with the comfort of the amount of heat you feel while holding the device in your hand and my pocket
I found a great app called "ShutApp" It let's you shut everything down that's running in the background. I have 117, It's running so much cooler now and the battery is lasting longer.
It's still not fixed got very hot in airplane mode plugged in at 100%, it dropped to 97 still plugged in So it must be something to do with charging.. It also just comes and goes as I'm working or watching a video...but sometimes under the same load it stays cool....
12/7 3rd party Camara apps are really cooking, and with short use maybe there should be a handwarmer app (lol)
12/11 I'm sad that this is electing my future non removable battery's life! ..at 100% I reboot in airplane with no apps running in background and plugged in it returned to 99% and started baking.. this is a power problem......
Yes my BlackBerry does get hot for no reason. All my apps are shut, last night i had it in my pocket and i felt it on my leg very warm. As I'm typing this right now i also feel it in the middle back of the phone. I really hope they fix this. As for battery life i am very disappointed, I thought it was supposed to be 22 hours and my lasts like 8 to 10 hours. I even got myself a Aukey portable battery charger and Aukey quick charger, it does charge fast like 1 hour and 30 minutes but it also drains quick. Apparently what drains it the most if being connected to WiFi. Really hoping they find a root for this or fix all these problems or I'm going back to Samsung.
the last update is solved this problem?
Serious hot spots have occurred in Airplane with minimal background while just working on a pic or document.. This is a serious problem and is leaning towards being a hardware issue.. Even though it helps to run an efficient system .. IT should be able to tell whatever when it is getting that hot to cool off....
I will hope to exchange it a third time But not until I know the replacement they give me isn't nt just another of the same....
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I know I'm not alone on this one, I have to constantly cool down, it's totally intermittent and it's scalding....I hope it will be fixed soon and not just a myth. the folks at ATT said it had something to do with being more green. I think if an app is spinning in the background, it should be told to stop....
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The priv is the very first of its kind but here are some things you can do to cool it down
1: Turn The Brightness Down- most phones tend to heat up because the battry is pushing alot of power to the screen to make it brighter
2:Android: The Priv is the first blackberry not running the original OS; It's now running on Android Marshmallow which has a lot of animations and alot mor functionality so this could also cause it.
3: Replace The Battery: Yes I know it's the battery that came with the phone. I have 3 friends with the priv and when 2 of them went from stock battery to generic there phone did not turn into a brick out of the oven!
I hope this helped!
~ Jake The Steak
i had this issue for the first 2-3 days of getting the phone. disabled a few of the 'neat' settings ( wake on pick up, bb keyboard predictions, using swiftkey instead of bb keyboard, maybe a few others ) and since then it doesnt even get warm, like at all.. had it on for 20 minutes playing a youtube video and the phone was still cool...
Bought mine 2 weeks ago, it does get pretty hot (to the point of not touching it sometimes).
Only when I play games or snapchat, browsing internet doesn't heat it too much.
Especially when charging, so I try not to use it as much.
But the battery drops the same so it doesn't matter much, I just let it cool down and continue
Are you on any marshmallow rom ?
I haven't had any problems while using marshmallow.
I guess Santa gave me a lump of coal this Xmas... I finally treated myself to an upgrade from my trusty One M7 and got an used S-offed HTC 10 from Swappa. Yeah I know... as a poor grad student, funding is pretty damn tight.
The phone is in good physical shape - no obvious signs of abuse. However, in the first week of use, I experienced a couple random reboots, and the phone itself was getting hot (>40 degrees C) while just texting and on wifi, with airplane mode on. Battery life with that usage pattern and load was maybe 1.5 hours screen on time. Deep down I knew something felt off, as that's WORSE battery life than my 4+ year old One M7. But I thought hey, it's a used phone. I was planning to flash TWRP and custom roms on there, maybe the debloated roms will help.
When I finally was able to flash TWRP and Santod's debloated stock rom, it was okay. Still some random reboots, but I loved the new phone so much, I was okay with it.
Until it got worse and worse. To the point where unlocking the phone will make it freeze, then reboot. At first, it was when the battery was low, like 40%. Then gradually it started freezing and rebooting at higher %, until it started doing it with a full battery.
Fast forward to just before Xmas - the phone is unusable. It will reboot show the white HTC boot screen, then black out, and start again. Bootloop forever. All while plugged in. I noticed the charge light isn't on even when plugged in, I guess during the initial seconds of booting up, it relies on battery power alone? Such a bad design if true
I've had to leave it overnight. I would wake up to a seemingly dead phone. I'll plug it in, and it would show the charge screen. If I turn it on then, it would go into bootloop. It won't even make it into recovery, stock or TWRP when I had it. If I let it charge until the charge light is green, it MIGHT boot into the welcome screen. It'll freeze up after a few taps, then back to bootloop.
My best guess is the previous owner abused the battery so bad that the cell is completely ****ed. I regret that I forgot to ask about the battery life before I made the purchase - I was just too excited about getting an upgrade from my M7 As of now, I am back to my trusty M7, which although slow and janky, it's 100% stable and still has usable battery life.
I paid $200 for the HTC 10, which might not be a lot of money to some, but it is to a struggling grad student like me. The phone is nothing but an expensive paper weight right now. And I never got to enjoy it Has anyone experienced similar problems with their 10? I am so angry and sad...
Roughly the same thing happened to a friend, we got our 10's at right around launch. We had similar battery usage, we both played a lot of Pokemon Go which is hard on the battery. Mine has been running custom ROM's as far back as when Sunshine was still mail in, his is purely stock S-on. His started doing the same thing as what you are describing a couple months ago, we even tried a RUU and while that helped for awhile he traded it in asap for a Pixel 2. There are a few reports of this going around, not sure if it had to do with a recent update from Verizon that borked something or if it's a hardware flaw, either way you are probably better off trying to get your money back or trading it in to HTC of Verizon for something newer