I think that the heating up issue has been adressed already, so I was just wondering if anyone can recommend
a temperature app that I can use to measure the heating up of the phone.
Also, which temperature is considered "OK", and from where are we talking about "danger zone",
and what can become damaged if the phone gets into the danger zone often?
I found a great game (might and magic clash of heroes), but with the phone heating up,
I find myself cutting gaming short to let the phone cool down a little.
When I say cuting gaming short, I mean 15 minutes tops, anything beyond that and I can make omlets on the screen.
I also found the game stops being responsive (i.e. I'm unable to enter commands properly),
as if the hot screen is somehow preventing accurate control. Maybe it's just the game, maybe it's the phone.
gnjuss said:
I think that the heating up issue has been adressed already, so I was just wondering if anyone can recommend
a temperature app that I can use to measure the heating up of the phone.
Also, which temperature is considered "OK", and from where are we talking about "danger zone",
and what can become damaged if the phone gets into the danger zone often?
I found a great game (might and magic clash of heroes), but with the phone heating up,
I find myself cutting gaming short to let the phone cool down a little.
When I say cuting gaming short, I mean 15 minutes tops, anything beyond that and I can make omlets on the screen.
I also found the game stops being responsive (i.e. I'm unable to enter commands properly),
as if the hot screen is somehow preventing accurate control. Maybe it's just the game, maybe it's the phone.
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for the app u asked > u can search play store easily
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=src.schimi.temperatureguardfree
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.bmw&hl=en
and almost of time thr s no danger for phone with its heat
but if u think u have problem with battery discharging and heat or ... then try to flash another stock rom
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I've been having a few issues with a couple of games freezing and have also had the phone get quite hot, particularly around the camera end. The two games I've had freeze up a lot are Fruit Slice and Pinball Classic, neither are spectacular graphics wise. Basically the games just freeze up and either I'm ejected to the home screen or I have to power off/restart. Occasionally I do get the "Force Close" box, but not very often, this contrary to what I would expect if it were just a normal bug related issue. sometimes it crashes after 5 mins or so, other times straight away. What makes me think it might be overheating is that once it does freeze up, it will do so again almost instantly if I relaunch. The rest of the phone seems okay in operation, I've run a few benchmarks and stress tests, all run okay so far. However (and it is a BIG however), once the phone has got warm, if I go to adjust my screen brightness I am limited to how high I can raise it and receive the following message: "To avoid overheating, maximum brightness has been reduced" (I've attached a screen print below).
Does anybody else get these issues or that message?
Got that "To avoid overheating..." message too while using Navigon Mobile Navigator inside my car (attached to charger).
In some other post I also read about a message like "To avoid overheating, the charging process has been paused", but this depends on the temperature of the battery only (I think).
Regarding the crashing games, that might be a problem of the game. But I had some crashing games, too, but I could not find a relation to the temperature of the phone.
Anyway, it could still be a heat problem.
In my opinion it would had be better for samsung to make the phone some mm thicker to better deal with heat and including a more powerful battery than just claiming to have the thinnest superphone.
Anyway, its still a great device.
Useful to hear it happens on other handsets, in fact I've now found a few threads talking about the issue happening on other models of samsung phone, such as the Infuse.
On the crashing games front, would you mind trying out Fruit Slice for a bit, to see if it hangs on you? If it dosen't crash after 10 mins or so I would think you're okay.
about overheating
i did experience it
when i left the phone in the car it became very hot and i get the same message
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On the crashing games front, would you mind trying out Fruit Slice for a bit, to see if it hangs on you? If it dosen't crash after 10 mins or so I would think you're okay.
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I'll try that as soon as I have it back (and if I remember to test), its currently at the repair facility because of a faulty camera.
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I'll try that as soon as I have it back (and if I remember to test), its currently at the repair facility because of a faulty camera.
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Cheers, really appreiated. Just to update, I played it again just now, managed 3 games before it froze and kicked me out to the home screen; again no crash dialoge asking force close/wait?! I also checked my temp immediatly after it crashed, using Stability Test V1.5, it reported 31c, which dosen't sound too hot from what I've heard...who knows, cheers agian though!
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I'll try that as soon as I have it back (and if I remember to test), its currently at the repair facility because of a faulty camera.
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Cheers, really appreiated. Just to update, I played it again just now, managed 3 games before it froze and kicked me out to the home screen; again no crash dialoge asking force close/wait?! I also checked my temp immediatly after it crashed, using Stability Test V1.5, it reported 31c, which dosen't sound too hot from what I've heard...who knows, cheers agian though!
sorry about the double post
Okay, I've been playing now about 15+ minutes without any problem. The phone doesnt get even hot, just a little bit warm. Using Navigon Navigator it gets a LOT more hotter.
So maybe you should try a factory reset? Or its a faulty phone...
By the way, I had display brightness set to Auto and I'm on german KE7 firmware.
Hello guys, hope I can get an idea here to solve a problem, i'm at the end of my hopes.
So, I got an unlocked EU HD2, been using it with Android mainly. Some months ago the touchscreen broke, I got it changed under warranty.
Since it came back the phone freezes under heavy load the image is stuck on screen, hardware keys don't react if I press them and if there was any audio playing at the moment of the freeze i hear a buzzing sound (possibly the last of the audio buffer playing back constantly).
By "heavy load" I mean flash, Youtube streaming, games (jelly defense) sometimes offline video playback, google maps specially when caching areas for offline use, when GPS locking. It's not CPU load it seams but high current drain load possibly (CPU stress test runs for long times without issues).
I mentioned possible heat related cause because if the phone freezes and I reboot right away it freezes again quite shortly but if i let it cool down and then boot up it takes longer for it to freeze.
This appears in multiple android builds, it is more frequent on ICS builds (or it seems under high GPU use), appears in WM6 also but less frequent.
I got the phone back to stock state and sent it back to service with the information above (minus anything android related) and they sent it back saying the problem did not manifest. Indeed in WM6 with stock software it seems that there is not much that can stress it enough.
The phone itself does not get noticeably hotter than before touchscreen replacement but the screen itself seems to heat up less, it might be that it used ti dissipate some of the heat before.
So anyone got a clue if there is something I could do ? I'm willing to take the phone apart to solve the problem but not without a clear plan in mind.
It is an already well-known problem with CPU heating failure probably because of BGA balls between motherboard and CPU.
The only long-lasting solution is replacement of motherboard, unfortunately...
Thanks for the info.
Alas, no good news, was hoping it may be a heat dissipation problem. I wonder then how this may have appeared after touch screen replacement.
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Thanks for the info.
Alas, no good news, was hoping it may be a heat dissipation problem. I wonder then how this may have appeared after touch screen replacement.
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Maybe a coincidence, maybe not...
There is a thread with some methods of heat dissipation improvement posted by facdemol, maybe it'll help you...
For reference it's this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982454
I'll check the methods there and i'll be back with update.
EDIT:
Issue pointed out is much too similar to mine, no need to keep another thread open, will get my answers there.
Admins can close this thread.
I have had a Galaxy Note , and i was thinking not to get the 7.7 because of the same reason, it allways overheated and switched to powersaving mode, and everything slowed down, menu, page loading ect (it became hopelessly slow, embarrising!!). . .
I am a heavy internet browser, and this kills this tab, and this processor sadly I think ICS wont help either(thow in theory it should).
When scrolling on a browser (in Desktop mode)the cpu utilization is nearly always maximum, see with: Cooltool, also check it lock down to 800mhz when overheated, now its summer and this crap overheats after 5minutes, Cant believe none of you have complained!
Im going to sell this tab , soon as there will be an alternative! damm this overheating peice of . . .
I would really like to know what you do to make it overheat. I surf the web alot too but I never noticed any significant heat change. My Tab only gets really hot when I use photoshop touch or play ressource heavy games.
Could you explain what you exactly do when this happens? IE very much tabs open? Or sites with much flash content?
Maybe you have some ressource heavy app running in the background, I had a bunch of apps in the past that drained battery like mad even if I never started them, that led to very hot device too. But I never hat a shutdown because of that.
By the way if you are using your tab in an extremely hot environment, maybe set lower frequency for your cpu (needs root).
boelze said:
I would really like to know what you do to make it overheat. I surf the web alot too but I never noticed any significant heat change. My Tab only gets really hot when I use photoshop touch or play ressource heavy games.
Could you explain what you exactly do when this happens? IE very much tabs open? Or sites with much flash content?
Maybe you have some ressource heavy app running in the background, I had a bunch of apps in the past that drained battery like mad even if I never started them, that led to very hot device too. But I never hat a shutdown because of that.
By the way if you are using your tab in an extremely hot environment, maybe set lower frequency for your cpu (needs root).
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Yes flash heavy sites such as engadget, even not scrolling generates 60-70% cpu in 800mhz, and if i scroll for about 5 pages, you can see and feel the device has overheated. You can test this by setting setcpu onto performance mode and 1400mhz, and use : Cooltool from the market to monitor OSD your current CPU clock, and you'll notice it jumps down to 800mhz, despite setting it to performance! Maybe the next 7.7 will have a cooler cpu, better with architechure less nanometer .
i get that a lot!
no flash enable!
i'm forced to press Power for 5 sec and reboot
FernandoMiguel said:
i get that a lot!
no flash enable!
i'm forced to press Power for 5 sec and reboot
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My device never freezes never shuts down only locks down the mhz to 800. But if you exit the browser and wait for it to cool down it goes up to 1400again when needed.
I dont know about the shut downs you guys are talking about.
I have found that most of the sites generate alot of cpu useage just sitting on them. I too have flash set to on demand and never start them unless it is a video i want to see . And also intalled Adfree too!
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My device never freezes never shuts down only locks down the mhz to 800. But if you exit the browser and wait for it to cool down it goes up to 1400again when needed.
I dont know about the shut downs you guys are talking about.
I have found that most of the sites generate alot of cpu useage just sitting on them. I too have flash set to on demand and never start them unless it is a video i want to see . And also intalled Adfree too!
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I haven't noticed something that bad with my TAB however indeed the few times I'm browsing the device indeed seems warmer... So I checked with telegraaph news site in the Netherland as an example; the page is quite big and there are couple non static object in page.
Using cool tool and monitoring CPU usage
Strock browser siting there having the view on a place where all is static yields about 95 # CPU usage...real bad indeed...
I also use OPERA and here the things are better at around #50-56% cpu usage...
I used to have CM9 on TAB 7.7 but it is currently not usable...So I try on TAB 8.9 with GALAXIAN SOUP ROM and Chrome beta... and got about 75# cpu uage on a page having only static object and where the pages is less static (moving objects etc) there it goes at #90 to 95%. So it seems Chrome vs Stock HC browser attempts some optimization here?
So ICS might help a bit but not that much indeed...
I'm really surprised about this high CPU usage on stock browser and Goolge stuff, not sure necessarily the HW is the culpit here, but rather software and optimization. I have IPAD 1 far less powerful and curious to see how it does there .....
So yea it is sad to see that... was not aware of it until now but I bet this is known in the Android community?
Same overheating problem here on my Tab 7.7's left middle side, and worse, battery drains so fast than usual.
This is my 3rd tab 7.7. My 2nd one had a faulty charging IC rendering my unit as useless, Service center said it needs board replacement!
Quo vadis, Samsung?
SO this is weird what im about to tell u is trick and a BUG so how is that possible here is how ::
When i open a game on my hd2 especially a hard on the graphics one like lets say { into the dead or beach buggy ]
u see when ever i start these gaames they freeze so how do i make them start and unfreeze the system .
JUST PUSH THE POWER BUTTON FOR SEC just like ur turrning the screen off not force shutdown the device or any thing
and click it again it will open the lock screen so open that and u will find the game working and actually very playable .
Its weird and the only workaround for it is by installing chainfire 3d but the problem is that most roms aren't compatible with it and if u install it on any ROM and reboot it may not boot again unless u reflash that ROM ...
So devs any easy fixes for this bug ""?>:":?>
Interesting solution, thanks for the info. One thing I have to point out though is that people will have to be careful doing this if they underclock their CPU when the screen is off as they may need to battery pull and restart. I tried listening to music with a 128MHz underclock on my HD2 once and the screen just wouldn't turn back on.
Does underclocking increase battery uptime? Cause as far as I know, the Voltage on 460-128MHz does not differ (atleast as for my kernel (example)). Therefore it won't change the draining of the batter - am I right?
If there is any difference, its very miniscule. I think leaving the CPU profiles as they are is probably the best solution.
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Currently on Stock and there are various instances where my device will either freeze or overheat and turn off. The temperature is about 96 degrees right now where I live and let's say I'm outside for like 15minutes my device will have turned off and refused to turn on unless I cool it down. Is my device a bust? Should I consider changing it?
Sounds extreme, but even in 65F weather my device will overheat and shut down if I'm fast charging + watching video or otherwise moderately using it.
I have temperatures over 30°C here, the phone wouldn't even notice... I played intensive stuff while it was charging (RR3)
Did you unlock the bootloader?/did you do anything to the system?
I realized it was something related to the stock rom. Something was constantly running cause the device to overheat and freeze
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I realized it was something related to the stock rom. Something was constantly running cause the device to overheat and freeze
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I don't have this issue, other than, occasional hiccups but with chrome. When this starts, I wipe cache because my phone tells me it's stored around 500MB of cache in chrome alone at that point. I usually have to do this every few days... It is very annoying...
In your case I would try that first, if it doesn't work, FDR it. It does indeed sound software related. I know saying FDR is really a cookie cutter solution, but it really could solve this issue.