Nexus 10 frame drops in heavy games - Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, I'm having frame drops every 5-10 seconds in heavy games mostly NFS most wanted. Its also noticeable in dead trigger and nova 3 . After playing for a bit, the frames drop happens. It sort of goes slow motion and glitch for 1 sec long then back to normal. And repeats after 10 secs. This is very annoying, anyone else has this issue or fixed it or has any suggestions, please share... Do u think I have a faulty device?
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Something must be running in the background every 10 seconds.
Try using system panel or something to find out what app might be causing it.

Vertron said:
Something must be running in the background every 10 seconds.
Try using system panel or something to find out what app might be causing it.
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this happens sometimes inf NFS most wanted, mostly when im racing vs 3+ cars , this is the only game that i notice it on. idk if its the N10 or NFS

Gonna have to wait for more driver optimizations.. Its hard to drive such a hi-res screen

try Ktoonsez Kernel: its not a cure for every frame rate drop but it sure helps alot for such times http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015874

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[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

Nexus 7 Overheating and bugging

This night, I was playing Beach Buggy Blitz and suddently, I began to have graphics glitches. The screen turned kind of violet tinted and was teared apart at the bottom but the game was still playing fine without crashing. So I quit the game and the same problems were present in the Android home screens. Even a complete shutdown and reboot did not had any effect. I thought that my N7 was broken for good.
But, then the screen began flickering between the good and the bad states and finally settled with the normal colors. The N7 never froze while the display was corrupted.
When this occured, I was playing with my N7 inside a leather folio case and I could sense the heat through the case. I then changed the case for a hard shell one with a plastic back and the issue returned after playing a little longer than with the leather case. I finally tried without any case and the problem did not appear although I played for a little less longer.
I had the graphics settings in BBB maxed out and this being a Tegra 3 optimized game, I wonder if this isn't the worst case scenario for the N7 when inside a closed case with a game that sollicit heavily the graphics portion of the ARM chip.
Anyone had similar overheating issues? Should I (again) think about RMAing my tablet or is this just an issue that could affect all Nexus 7 when they are put in the same conditions?
You pretty much answered and solved your own problem.
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how long were you playing for man? my goodness, if you play for that long to overheat your device i think it's time you get a PSvita or PS3 lol... I know the tablet has a tegra 3 chip but still, I don't think it's totally meant for a 5 hr game session
MRsf27 said:
how long were you playing for man? my goodness, if you play for that long to overheat your device i think it's time you get a PSvita or PS3 lol... I know the tablet has a tegra 3 chip but still, I don't think it's totally meant for a 5 hr game session
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It's fine.. just the enclosed case was the issue.
My advice is to only use a case when doing light duties, or your battery will suffer for it.
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Mungulz said:
It's fine.. just the enclosed case was the issue.
My advice is to only use a case when doing light duties, or your battery will suffer for it.
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yeah, but still; how can you possibly play for that long on the nexus 7? I can't even see myself holding it for more then 1 hr playing games lol
MRsf27 said:
yeah, but still; how can you possibly play for that long on the nexus 7? I can't even see myself holding it for more then 1 hr playing games lol
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He would have only had to play for maybe 20-30 minutes to cook the nexus.
I just played for 15 minutes and it made my nexus the hottest I've ever seen...
You need to understand though, unless the device is insulated there is no difference in heat between 30 minutes gaming and 30 hours gaming. Phones/tablets/computers get up to temperature quickly.
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Mungulz said:
He would have only had to play for maybe 20-30 minutes to cook the nexus.
I just played for 15 minutes and it made my nexus the hottest I've ever seen...
You need to understand though, unless the device is insulated there is no difference in heat between 30 minutes gaming and 30 hours gaming. Phones/tablets/computers get up to temperature quickly.
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If he has his device rooted and ovrclocked that could be he reason why its overheating.. when I play with my device it doesn't get very hot
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I played for about 25 minutes when it first happened. The second time, with the hard back case, I played for 10 minutes. My Nexus 7 is rooted but not overclocked, original ROM and kernel. I reverted to a good backup and the problem was still there.
Since it happened, my N7 seems to be more problematic than before. For example, after being charged in the hard back case, I experienced the problem only 2 minutes after I started playing with it. It's as if something has been damaged by the first overheating and now it overheats pretty easily even with less demanding games.
If I can't use a case with my N7 then I must consider it defective. So, I emailed Google for a replacement this morning. Just as I started to enjoy my tablet after a first replacement (screen lift), this happens...
MRsf27 said:
If he has his device rooted and ovrclocked that could be he reason why its overheating.. when I play with my device it doesn't get very hot
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External temperatures can affect overall device temps as well (as in, if your sitting in a meat freezer, your Nexus 7 is very unlikely to overheat, whereas if your sitting outside in 100F weather...)
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External temperatures can affect overall device temps as well (as in, if your sitting in a meat freezer, your Nexus 7 is very unlikely to overheat, whereas if your sitting outside in 100F weather...)
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Yep.
Although OPs nexus seems to be defective if its overheating now in 2 minutes.
Since reaidng this thread a few days ago I decided to try Beach Buggy Blitz and now im hooked on it, my Nexus can handle hours of gameplay in 25c ambient.. wouldn't wana try on a really hot day because it feels really warm already.
I seem to notice more framerate slowdown as the N7 gets hotter, maybe thermal throttling.
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I'm not a gamer by any stretch of the imagination. However, I experienced random reboots while I was writing a long email using Swype with my Nexus 7 in the Poetic case. When I looked, the temperature was VERY high as reported by System Tuner. I removed the case, cooled the back of the Nexus, and everything went back to normal. I WAS overclocked, so I went back to a kernel locked to stock speeds. I haven't seen any serious issues since. But it's pretty clear that if you're using a case, the Nexus can't shed heat quickly enough the way it was designed to.
I keep a closer eye on it now.
What models/build, gig and first 3-4 characters of your serial number, do you have?
I had a 16 gig (not sure) that was stayed cool. I exchanged it for a 32 gig (CAOK) and that would gets hot at random times of just usual use. It would get hot on the bottom left quarter of the back. The screen would take a huge percentage of the battery also.
I picked up another 32 gig (C9OK) and this one stays cool under normal usage.
Maybe we can isolate this to a certain model/build.
It was a C7O. I don't remember more than that, sorry. I've posted a video of the problem on Youtube and send that link to Google when asking for an RMA on their site. 90 minutes later, I had a response with all the needed info to return the tablet. On this one, I have to give Google a very positive note:good:.
I received another C7O and this one seems to be defect free. After 3 N7s, I finally started to enjoy my tablet...
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same issue here.
i was playing Final Fantasy (so awesome that SquareENix ported this to Android and iOS... i remember the original version from my NES and it was a hoot. the only FF game i ever played) for about 2 hours or so and toward the end my Nexus 7 tablet got very hot, particularly on the "lower" portion of the device (side with the USB charging/tether port) ... of course, this is held in landscape mode for this game so it was my right hand that was hot.
anyway, just before starting one last awesome boss battle (right up at the Kraken with awesomely-decked out party, damn!) the game hung and the whole tablet froze. no home button functionality, no power button to even turn the screen off or on again.
had to hold power for 10 seconds, full reboot. even when the tablet came back up it was still wonky.
powered off, left it off for a while. it came back up just fine afterward, but the game didn't get to save so i'm back many levels before where i had been. no looking forward to that re-work. ah well, live and learn.

Phone runs hot while playing games

I noticed while playing games such as Plague Inc. for more than 20 mins at a time, my Xperia Z gets quite hot.
Maybe it's because the case is glass that it feels more hotter than normal but sometimes it gets too hot that it's uncomfortable to hold in my hands so I have to exit the game and let it cool down for 5 minutes.
Anybody else have this happen to them?
ssj_jaypee said:
I noticed while playing games such as Plague Inc. for more than 20 mins at a time, my Xperia Z gets quite hot.
Maybe it's because the case is glass that it feels more hotter than normal but sometimes it gets too hot that it's uncomfortable to hold in my hands so I have to exit the game and let it cool down for 5 minutes.
Anybody else have this happen to them?
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OK, so what phone doesn't get hot after playing games? All phones get hot and tablets also don't worry about it unless the phone is sleeping and its hot.
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Noticed mine got damn hot just watching 50mins of video.
Does it suffer from temperature thortling (frames drop down, and overall perfomance down) while hot?
All sony phones had it, im just curious.
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There is throttling but it's barely noticeable. The only game that is sometimes affected by it is Rayman Jungle Run, out of all the games I tried.
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I was watching a 720p 1.4gig episode of Spartacus last night.
Device got really hot & noticed some frame issues towards the end.
Was playing via MX player & SW encoding due to audio so Bravia wasn't running.
If you use MX Player you should enable the HW+ decoder in settings, it'll allow you to play nearly all video with HW and the audio with SW. Software video decoder is never a good idea.
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That i dont like, i am heavy user, and i know xperia s have many problems, but only this one i found bad for me.
:/
If you have unlocked your bootloader, you should try DooMkernel. It lets you undervolt. It did make a difference, albeit a minor one. But then again, mine never gets very hot. The only time it does get hot is when it's charging and I try to run a heavy application. That is definitely normal. Also, the Snapdragon S4 Pro is notorious for high temperatures(as evident from the Nexus 4).
IF the phone gets over 48°C on the back side it start Trotthling!
Throw it in the freezer while you're doing your benchmarks, you'll squeeze a bit more out of it, or go get a job for a supermarket and do all your gaming in the walk-in freezer
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ssj_jaypee said:
I noticed while playing games such as Plague Inc. for more than 20 mins at a time, my Xperia Z gets quite hot.
Maybe it's because the case is glass that it feels more hotter than normal but sometimes it gets too hot that it's uncomfortable to hold in my hands so I have to exit the game and let it cool down for 5 minutes.
Anybody else have this happen to them?
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AW: Phone runs hot while playing games
As stated, the SoC (Snapdragon S4 Pro) is known to become very hot under load. It has to be considered as normal.
Sony devices are well protected against overheating so dont worry.
I returned my XZ today after 5 hours of use yesterday.
The phone i had got extremely hot while just browsing the menus. I started the phone out of the box(battery was at 62%), ran trough the setup, added gmail, facebook & exchange. The phone was to hot to have next to the ear. Had some problems with exchange so the whole process tok about 30 minutes and the battery ended up at 23%.
schaggo said:
As stated, the SoC (Snapdragon S4 Pro) is known to become very hot under load. It has to be considered as normal.
Sony devices are well protected against overheating so dont worry.
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Thats true, but it's due to the ****ty qualcomm mpdecision. On the Nexus 4 the overheating issue was fixed after turning it off.
Now that we can root, this should be doable on a personal basis.
That of course is not a fix by the components supplier nor by the manufacturer, but a fix none the less.
mine gets really hot when playing games i mean really hot
Sigh... This is getting frustrating
schaggo said:
As stated, the SoC (Snapdragon S4 Pro) is known to become very hot under load. It has to be considered as normal.
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Tablet Over heating

Hey Guys I'm just wondering is anyone else has encounter this issue, I play Call of Duty Zombies and Batman The Dark Night Rises and after maybe an hour or so My tablet really gets hot.. is this normal? I'm currently using PA with Trinity Kernel. but I had the same issue with other AOSP Roms...Carbon, and CM.... any info is appreciated!!
Mr_Jay_jay said:
Hey Guys I'm just wondering is anyone else has encounter this issue, I play Call of Duty Zombies and Batman The Dark Night Rises and after maybe an hour or so My tablet really gets hot.. is this normal? I'm currently using PA with Trinity Kernel. but I had the same issue with other AOSP Roms...Carbon, and CM.... any info is appreciated!!
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It is normal. My tablet gets hot only by browsing online.. All nexus 10 are getting easily warm. The problem is if the tablet reboots often for that reason. So, don't worry it is normal.
c1oud said:
It is normal. My tablet gets hot only by browsing online.. All nexus 10 are getting easily warm. The problem is if the tablet reboots often for that reason. So, don't worry it is normal.
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May be I should've said Real Hot... I mean. I don't get any reboots from it but it does feel Way above just warm.... Maybe I'll Download a CPU app to watch the temperature and the post a screen shot..
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May be I should've said Real Hot... I mean. I don't get any reboots from it but it does feel Way above just warm.... Maybe I'll Download a CPU app to watch the temperature and the post a screen shot..
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My tablet gets hot enough when browsing the internet.. I think that if i try a game, the tablet may explode .. So i think it is normal. But to be sure check the temperatures..
Mr_Jay_jay said:
May be I should've said Real Hot... I mean. I don't get any reboots from it but it does feel Way above just warm.... Maybe I'll Download a CPU app to watch the temperature and the post a screen shot..
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Try to stay in one of the other million threads on heat issues: it's not "overheating" unless the device goes beyond operating parameters and shuts down/reboots anyway. "Warm" is pretty subjective, but the hard limits that the CPU has built in definitely aren't.
My tablet gets hot while playing games or browsing but never a reboot so I think it's normal.
It gets hot mainly at the top-left for me, which I'm assuming where the SoC is located. Not too bad if you're holding it normally.
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mr_jay_jay said:
hey guys i'm just wondering is anyone else has encounter this issue, i play call of duty zombies and batman the dark night rises and after maybe an hour or so my tablet really gets hot.. Is this normal? I'm currently using pa with trinity kernel. But i had the same issue with other aosp roms...carbon, and cm.... Any info is appreciated!!
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dont play strong games with max brightness
Mine gets hot only when watching Vimeo videos, I'm not a gamer.
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[Q] Lots of heat when playing NOVA3

Hello.
So I got my Note 3 less than a month ago and so far I love it.
But whenever I play NOVA3 for more than 10 minutes, the place near camera gets so hot to the point where that point on the screen gets hot that I can't put my finger on the screen for more than 10 seconds (need left side of screen to move the character).
Has anyone else experienced this?
You are stressing the device with a graphic intensive game and you want to know why it gets hot?
No different than running your engine at idle versus 60 MPH. Which do you think creates more heat and why?
weedahoe said:
You are stressing the device with a graphic intensive game and you want to know why it gets hot?
No different than running your engine at idle versus 60 MPH. Which do you think creates more heat and why?
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Well my main concern was it getting so hot that I couldn't even touch it for more than few sec on the "move" part of the screen.
so, i get this even when playing PvZ 2 and to my knowledge that's not a graphics intensive game.
chhappy7 said:
Well my main concern was it getting so hot that I couldn't even touch it for more than few sec on the "move" part of the screen.
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if your screen is getting as hot as you are describing then you are already doing damage to your device... (if you are exaggerating or have unusually low tolerance for pain then maybe not)
This phone should have more than enough power to run graphics intensive games without burning up... it will get warm... that's normal... more so if you have it plugged in and charging the whole time.... but "can't touch it" type heat will damage something before too long.
vexx109 said:
so, i get this even when playing PvZ 2 and to my knowledge that's not a graphics intensive game.
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you have a 2.3 ghz quad core CPU along with several radios and other chips all in a little and very thin box with no vents holes in it. It is going to generate and radiate heat.
Your computers at home and work have fans in them to keep cool. The devices to not
b00mb00mchuck said:
if your screen is getting as hot as you are describing then you are already doing damage to your device... (if you are exaggerating or have unusually low tolerance for pain then maybe not)
This phone should have more than enough power to run graphics intensive games without burning up... it will get warm... that's normal... more so if you have it plugged in and charging the whole time.... but "can't touch it" type heat will damage something before too long.
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Turns out there was some kind of background process that kept running and when NOVA was added onto it, it just got too much I guess.
Fixed itself after a factory reset.

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