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How hot does your device gets?

I have been asking this in few threads lately and no one yet to answer. I installed system tuner to check the cpu temperatures and seems to be a little high compare to other devices that I owned. With regular use the temps seems to be around 45-50C and with heavy use and gaming it would go up to 60C. The device also feels a little warm around the camera area. I would appreciate if someone could check their temps. Thanks.
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I have not really noticed any heat just yet
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Those temperatures are very normal... The phone feels so hot because the back is glass.
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Vanhoud said:
I have not really noticed any heat just yet
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Could you check the temps with system tuner by chance? Curious to know what are your readings. Thanks
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Hottest mine got was 108°f(very hot in hand), I deleted some Google apps and it's been running great since... Better battery also
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No warmer to the touch than any other smartphone I've ever had.
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lonz358 said:
Hottest mine got was 108°f(very hot in hand), I deleted some Google apps and it's been running great since... Better battery also
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108F is about 42C, which is not hot at all. Mine gets over that while texting.
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No heat here at all.
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I'm at 46 right now
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Haven't measured, but mine gets SUPER hot sometimes. Usually when playing games, or like last night, I was on skype for ~4 hours. It get's hot, but I would expect it or any device to get hot when doing that type of stuff.

ceroglu said:
I have been asking this in few threads lately and no one yet to answer. I installed system tuner to check the cpu temperatures and seems to be a little high compare to other devices that I owned. With regular use the temps seems to be around 45-50C and with heavy use and gaming it would go up to 60C. The device also feels a little warm around the camera area. I would appreciate if someone could check their temps. Thanks.
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I don't own one but those temps are right in line with the average desktop pc. I think once temps hit about 65-70C under heavy load, then there is reason for concern.
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So far no hotter than my galaxy s got.
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Yeah...my Captivate gets just as warm to the touch (or warmer) with its aluminum back.
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Mine got up to something like 42 degrees C yesterday while browsing. Got the temperature readout using Cool Tool. Heat was mainly around the top / camera area where I assume the antenna is.

38° C max and that's when i m charging and using the phone.
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barondebxl said:
38° C max and that's when i m charging and using the phone.
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Are you sure that is not the battery temp? It just sounds very low!
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endlesstrail said:
Mine got up to something like 42 degrees C yesterday while browsing. Got the temperature readout using Cool Tool. Heat was mainly around the top / camera area where I assume the antenna is.
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42 is not hot. Its warm. To qualify as hit it has to reach at least 50.
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ceroglu said:
Are you sure that is not the battery temp? It just sounds very low!
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Yeah lol, it's the battery temp
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I'm starting to wonder if my N4 is defective since I haven't had any real heat issues. It gets a little warm but no more than my GNex did and nowhere near as hot as my Sensation was.

I had it in my pocket today and it was hot I felt the heat on my flesh I pulled it out it was hoooot idk why will get hot on idle
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Nexus 4 running hot

Hey guys i have a little problem here, i flashed a few roms over the months and now i flash pacman then my phone starts to run hot then later the same day i flash aokp and it still runs hot.
I don't even have to be doing anything heavy very litght stuff like listening to music or even having the screen on will make my phone run up to 40c or 105f, this has never happened in the past because in the past my phone mostly ran below 31c.
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JayMix said:
Hey guys i have a little problem here, i flashed a few roms over the months and now i flash pacman then my phone starts to run hot then later the same day i flash aokp and it still runs hot.
I don't even have to be doing anything heavy very litght stuff like listening to music or even having the screen on will make my phone run up to 40c or 105f, this has never happened in the past because in the past my phone mostly ran below 31c.
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thats not hot. human body temp is 37C, 98.6F. is it warmer around you now then it was before?

It may be caused by the weather. Summer is coming if you live in the northern hemisphere.

I have only experienced the Nexus getting extremely hot when playing certain games that try to establish a constant connection to facebook.
Other than that no heat issues.

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It may be caused by the weather. Summer is coming if you live in the northern hemisphere.
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I live in Illinois not to far from Chicago and it just hit 90 degrees F a few days ago so its a possibility. But still on these cool nights it gets hot just this morning my phone was at 26c and after sending this message its already past 32c.
Another question is what temps are yall getting after light use with your phones?
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If I browse on websites for too long on my N4, it gets hot in the upper left corner of the phone. I'm in Canada and it's not exactly hot here.

In in the UK. Sat outside with light usage and running at 28°C.
Indoors is normal for me to see 32-40° with screen on.
Unless gaming I wouldnt be concerned with battery temps below 45°
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K thx yall, thx for the feedback too. I guess this is kinda normal, well i hope its normal.
By the way which is the hottest any of you seen a nexus 4 get without shutting down or burning up?
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I knew it! With cm i got about 15 hours light use but with aokp im getting about 5 hours of life from my phone! XD plz help.
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JayMix said:
K thx yall, thx for the feedback too. I guess this is trtinormal, well i hope its normal.
By the way which is the hottest any of you seen a nexus 4 get without shutting down or burning up?
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without shutting down or burning up? 99C. with shutting down, 100C. but i was trying to see how hot i can get it.

Thats not hot, but if you want it cooler you can always UV.

Overheat

I can't hold it its too hot srsly last version was better now it worse 39.0°
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Typo? 39 degrees is only just above body temp?

meangreenie said:
Typo? 39 degrees is only just above body temp?
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Well now its 41° , the touch screen is hot
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d3one said:
Well now its 41° , the touch screen is hot
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? Dude you have problems lol my battery gets to be around 45c and CPU much higher.
Not even hot. Get a case.
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You must be looking at the battery temperature.
Use system tuner or something to check the actual CPU temp.
If it's hot when phone is supposed to be idling or doing simple tasks you must have a run away app or something causing it.
Also check you haven't left the governor set to performance or anything like that.

Nexus 4 4.3 not charging when overheated

As the title says. It stops charging.
If I press *#*#4636#*#* it shows ac connected but not charging.
This started on 4.3. Never saw this on 4.2.2
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It's probably a safety net feature. To avoid complete meltdown. Charging heats up the phone too.
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Misledz said:
It's probably a safety net feature. To avoid complete meltdown. Charging heats up the phone too.
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Yes it might be but it is really weird cause when it stops charging, it doesn't resume once the phone has cooled down. You have to unplug and replug.
Which isn't very helpful.
Btw totally stock.
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mariosraptor said:
Yes it might be but it is really weird cause when it stops charging, it doesn't resume once the phone has cooled down. You have to unplug and replug.
Which isn't very helpful.
Btw totally stock.
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That's happened to me when play in summer and just use the fan. Checking the cpu temp shouldn't clock past 50 degrees or it gets pretty bad. I usually just place it in the fan, then on the air conditioner for a minute or two and usually keep the cpu status app open to watch the drop in temperature. Atleast Nexus keeps this safety throttle, S4 would probably give you a nice bacon house.
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Misledz said:
That's happened to me when play in summer and just use the fan. Checking the cpu temp shouldn't clock past 50 degrees or it gets pretty bad. I usually just place it in the fan, then on the air conditioner for a minute or two and usually keep the cpu status app open to watch the drop in temperature. Atleast Nexus keeps this safety throttle, S4 would probably give you a nice bacon house.
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I think is not CUP related but battery related. I am trying to upload 2 pics but for some reason upload is not working.
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Well if the cpu heats up so will the battery both are working hand in hand. It's like your engine is hot and so will your spark plug be. For the safety of the parts and since lithium ion batteries are dangerous when overheated, it's a safety net.
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Misledz said:
Well if the cpu heats up so will the battery both are working hand in hand. It's like your engine is hot and so will your spark plug be. For the safety of the parts and since lithium ion batteries are dangerous when overheated, it's a safety net.
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I guess you're right, but it's pretty annoying imo.
Finally the pics
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mariosraptor said:
I guess you're right, but it's pretty annoying imo.
Finally the pics
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For someone who's Russian. Your English is impressive I couldn't understand much from the screenshot but I am curious, people say the guru app is useless since it's placebo effect
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Misledz said:
For someone who's Russian. Your English is impressive I couldn't understand much from the screenshot but I am curious, people say the guru app is useless since it's placebo effect
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Haha. Thanks I am Greek not Russian
The two screenshots just show how the one in the higher temp is still charging and a few minutes later it stopped and the other one with the low temp says that battery is overheated, AC connected but not charging.
The guru app I think it helps a bit as about 5%, but no more than that.
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Misledz said:
For someone who's Russian. Your English is impressive I couldn't understand much from the screenshot but I am curious, people say the guru app is useless since it's placebo effect
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Thats greek i guess ... Im from México so my only different char from english is the ñ
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Phone died when really cold

Found an odd issue. The phone just completely died on me today twice when I walked to and from work. It was like there was no power whatsoever. Couldn't turn it on. Now this never happened before and I'm wondering if it was because it was really cold today or something. (-48C at one point) Once I got indoors and the phone warmed up for about 5 minutes it powered on no problem. Once it powered on this afternoon I found the battery had dropped about 25% from when it was on, and it just stayed at that percentage for about two hours with an hour screen time.
This is first time this happened although it's never been this cold before. The CPU wasn't registering a temperature and the battery wasn't either while I was walking.
Back when I had a Galaxy nexus this never happened. Anyone else ever come across this?
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Some info about the phone would help. are you using custom kernel / custom rom or stock? Jellybean or Kitkat?

Nexus 4 obviously consisting in nexus 4 forum.
Slimkat latest build. Stock ROM kernel.
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-48c !! I can't even imagine.

M3drvr said:
Nexus 4 obviously consisting in nexus 4 forum.
Slimkat latest build. Stock ROM kernel
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Do a lot if winter walking in Scotland and cold affected both my GPS and phone on some occasions resulting in it not operating ,as the battery temp drops it can and does struggle and the temp was no where near as low as -48 °c "that's coooold"
Where do you live the ARCTIC.
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Calgary, Canada. It's warmed up today though. Only -36. I'll see of it happens again. But good to know!
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bladebuddy said:
Do a lot if winter walking in Scotland and cold affected both my GPS and phone on some occasions resulting in it not operating ,as the battery temp drops it can and does struggle and the temp was no where near as low as -48 °c "that's coooold"
Where do you live the ARCTIC.
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Happens to me all the time when I'm outside.. Battery gets destroyed by the cold.. One time I was just looking at the battery and it dropped from around 50% to around 10% in less than 30 minutes with little use.
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