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Gs4 hot?

I just got a gs4 and am coming from the gs3. Does this phone run hot normally? Seemed warm on stock and hotter once I tried to install the freegs4 ROM. Even shut down twice.
Edit: flashed a different ROM and kernel and am all good.
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Yeah I noticed when flashing certain Roms and setting it up, it gets very hot that it shuts itself off.
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Always a kernel man not the rom
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bonebeatz1234 said:
Always a kernel man not the rom
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Not true on my part. I've flashed stock deodexed MF9 rom with Stock MF9, Agats, and Ktoonz kernel. All resulted in the phone heating up and shutting down on its own.
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daniel4653 said:
Not true on my part. I've flashed stock deodexed MF9 rom with Stock MF9, Agats, and Ktoonz kernel. All resulted in the phone heating up and shutting down on its own.
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You might want to take it to sprint in that case, only time it gets semi hot is when im using wifi hotspot and making a call at same time on my part
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So I have tried 4 different ROMs and 3 different kernels and the heat issue keeps happening. Right now I was using the latest Venum ROM and the ktoonz kernel and the phone shut off due to the heat. Stupid phone, I just got it on Sunday. Never had this issue on my epic or e4gt or gs3.
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dante32278 said:
So I have tried 4 different ROMs and 3 different kernels and the heat issue keeps happening. Right now I was using the latest Venum ROM and the ktoonz kernel and the phone shut off due to the heat. Stupid phone, I just got it on Sunday. Never had this issue on my epic or e4gt or gs3.
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are you overclocking or undervolting on ktoonz? when does it got hot? whats running in the background?

xxaddictedxx said:
are you overclocking or undervolting on ktoonz? when does it got hot? whats running in the background?
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The only kernel adjustments were to the governor and scheduler (using smartass and sio, no alterations to either). I just tried using the rescan media disabler apk to see if maybe my media was causing the phone to run hot. It seemed to be the only thing going in the background.
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dante32278 said:
The only kernel adjustments were to the governor and scheduler (using smartass and sio, no alterations to either). I just tried using the rescan media disabler apk to see if maybe my media was causing the phone to run hot. It seemed to be the only thing going in the background.
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is it heating up during usage,charging,sitting there......? have you actually physically looked at the battery to make sure its not cracked or swollen?

xxaddictedxx said:
is it heating up during usage,charging,sitting there......? have you actually physically looked at the battery to make sure its not cracked or swollen?
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Usually the heat starts when I am using the phone, which is usually browsing the internet or reading up on sports news. Screen off or charging I have been OK so far. As far as the battery, it appears to be in good physical condition. I also have 2 OEM batteries by Anker that experience the same issue. So far so good, though - been using the phone moderately since the last shut down earlier today and it seems ok at this moment.

dante32278 said:
Usually the heat starts when I am using the phone, which is usually browsing the internet or reading up on sports news. Screen off or charging I have been OK so far. As far as the battery, it appears to be in good physical condition. I also have 2 OEM batteries by Anker that experience the same issue. So far so good, though - been using the phone moderately since the last shut down earlier today and it seems ok at this moment.
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if it heats up really bad again try underclocking a step and see if that helps.....phone might be getting hot because your chip is poorly coated and the higher frequiencies are heating it up enough to shut the device down. you may have to underclock by one or 2 steps to ensure its not a consistent issue.....worth a shot anyways. unless you do high graphic gaming and multitask with 8 apps at once your really dont need the higher clock speeds anyways.

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if it heats up really bad again try underclocking a step and see if that helps.....phone might be getting hot because your chip is poorly coated and the higher frequiencies are heating it up enough to shut the device down. you may have to underclock by one or 2 steps to ensure its not a consistent issue.....worth a shot anyways. unless you do high graphic gaming and multitask with 8 apps at once your really dont need the higher clock speeds anyways.
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Good idea, hopefully I won't need to! Appreciate the feedback.

If you just got this phone Friday then I would return to stock, run triangle away and exchange it. What you describe isn't normal, why take a chance and get stuck with a bad phone when you are within the exchange window.
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Try the stock kernel and rom and if it still get hot take it back. Try stock kernel it works man the others just cause me trouble.
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Thanks all. I loaded up the latest Sac ROM and ktoonz kernwl, but disabled media scanner. No more hot issues. I guess it running like crazy in the background caused the battery to commit suicide.
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Seriously guys, your S4 doesn't heat up at all???
I'm back to 100% stock everything (kernel, rom) and running this for a couple weeks. I've completed several factory resets and whatnot as well through those weeks. I know my install was clean as could be.
Now, my phone gets hot at seemingly random times. sometimes playing games, for sure while navigating with GPS and sometimes when its just sitting there. I monitor things with Better Battery Stats and keep an eye on the CPU Spy. I'm achieving deep sleep most often. Some of this is caused by the god awful Sprint service here and the constant search for signal, but I was hoping that this wouldn't get as hot as the S3.
so, should I seek a refurb from Sprint? I have the insurance. I am just afraid that a refurb would do me no better.
My biggest gripes are heating up occasionally, WiFi disconnect issues. I hope 4.3 can help some of these.

Keyboard lag, home page and app draw lag anyone?

Anyone here suffer the occasional keyboard lag? How about pressing a single letter will cause you to type that letter multiple times?
How about when you're flipping through your home pages or app draw you get that transition lag?
I'm getting lag way too often with my phone I'm considering it taking it back and trying out another one see if it act the same. So far my experience with this phone has been rather disappointing considering the lag.
There's even a thread here about the Play Store lag when you choose an app then it takes a few seconds for the app to pop up. I'm even getting that lag.
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I have experienced the same issues on my Vzw version. Lots of weird issues popping up the last few days.
The play store is having some issues right now so I haven't compared that yet.

I have none of these issues and I'm on week 3 with the phone. AT&T.
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
I have none of these issues and I'm on week 3 with the phone. AT&T.
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I am on my 3rd week also, neener neener. Lol. Are you on CleanRom or stock?

leroybrute said:
I am on my 3rd week also, neener neener. Lol. Are you on CleanRom or stock?
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Lol. I'm just on stock rooted and removed bloat myself. No issues. :thumbup:
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
Lol. I'm just on stock rooted and removed bloat myself. No issues. :thumbup:
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I'm on CleanRom for the last 3 or 4 days. Just trying to narrow down these issues. First 2 weeks I didn't see these problems. I think I may go back to stock and see if that clears things up any.

leroybrute said:
I'm on CleanRom for the last 3 or 4 days. Just trying to narrow down these issues. First 2 weeks I didn't see these problems. I think I may go back to stock and see if that clears things up any.
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I just returned my phone and i'm currently on the new one. First thing I noticed different was the RAM consumption was extremely high on the first unit. I only had about 250 MB available with this new phone I'm up to 850 not sure that was the issue but we shall see.
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shook187 said:
I just returned my phone and i'm currently on the new one. First thing I noticed different was the RAM consumption was extremely high on the first unit. I only had about 250 MB available with this new phone I'm up to 850 not sure that was the issue but we shall see.
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I have noticed that once this device hits about 400mb of free ram it starts to lag very bad at 300 its un usable, mine sits at 780 after a reboot and around 550 after about an hour, also if you dont kill the sms after say 30-40 text the keyboard gets very slow, the ram optimization on this phone is absurd and absolutely ****, this is the only thing holding this phone back from being epic

DaT Franchise said:
I have noticed that once this device hits about 400mb of free ram it starts to lag very bad at 300 its un usable, mine sits at 780 after a reboot and around 550 after about an hour, also if you dont kill the sms after say 30-40 text the keyboard gets very slow, the ram optimization on this phone is absurd and absolutely ****, this is the only thing holding this phone back from being epic
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Have you disabled any bloat?

tiguy99 said:
Have you disabled any bloat?
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No.... But the word "bloat" is used so loosely here on Xda. Exactly what is bloat? Is bloat just an app that actually bogs down your phone or is it just an app that people don't use but the carriers force upon you?
Cause really I don't see how an app that's not running really slow down a phone with this kind of specs.
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The keyboard problem has nothing do to with "bloat" and more of a problem in the keyboard itself and its odd how the phone was a monster for 2-3 weeks and now is buggy even with a factory reset, about 3 weeks is what im seeing on here when some ppl are seeing problems come up, im on att btw.

shook187 said:
No.... But the word "bloat" is used so loosely here on Xda. Exactly what is bloat? Is bloat just an app that actually bogs down your phone or is it just an app that people don't use but the carriers force upon you?
Cause really I don't see how an app that's not running really slow down a phone with this kind of specs.
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I agree. Bloat is more of the second scenario you mentioned above. It shouldn't slow the phone down at all but unfortunately carriers tend to ruin these phones more than help them out with their software doing all kinds of stuff in the background
This is why the note 3 and S4 are suffering from lag issues even though technically they shouldn't be considering what's under the hood spec wise as well

shook187 said:
I just returned my phone and i'm currently on the new one. First thing I noticed different was the RAM consumption was extremely high on the first unit. I only had about 250 MB available with this new phone I'm up to 850 not sure that was the issue but we shall see.
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Wow. I think something might be wrong. I have 1.2gb free ram. No lag

tiguy99 said:
I agree. Bloat is more of the second scenario you mentioned above. It shouldn't slow the phone down at all but unfortunately carriers tend to ruin these phones more than help them out with their software doing all kinds of stuff in the background
This is why the note 3 and S4 are suffering from lag issues even though technically they shouldn't be considering what's under the hood spec wise as well
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It's not carrier related either. Because my Vzw version is doing the same things the at&t version.
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Evilmonstertruck said:
Wow. I think something might be wrong. I have 1.2gb free ram. No lag
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I didn't have 1.2 GB free out of the box!

Yea same here, I'm on stock Rom here,no lag
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Note3 and s4 lag cuz of touch wiz has nothing to do with the amount of apps.

Here's a bit of an update:
Well I returned the original phone this morning because of all the issues I was having in the original post.
So far so good with the new phone, been playing with it for hours since I got it and everything appears silky smooth there's definitely a night and day difference even while the available RAM still seems kind of low.
I might have actually got a detective phone.... I'm recommending anyone who has any of these issues and are still return within your return policy, to just get another phone while you can.
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Note3 and s4 lag cuz of touch wiz has nothing to do with the amount of apps.
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This is exactly correct. The S4 and Note 3 lag has absolutely very little to do with bloat. It's because Touchwiz isn't even optimized for Jelly Bean yet. It's trash.
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I experience little lag. Nothing major, maybe because of Nova launcher that the I use and the SwiftKey keyboard rather than stock.
Lately I have been experiencing weird issues with playstore freezing up. I read somewhere Google is experiencing problem with their service so it is probably not the phone.
-LG G2

weird.. had mine since launch day, rooted now, removed all bloat and i never have lag. using swiftkey though so idk about keyboard lag, but that stock keyboard seemed pretty sweet
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I9505 heating problems

Hello guys, i have an i9505 and before lollipop i did not have heating problems, but after updating the modem and boot loader and going to lollipop, my cpu does not go under 60-65 celsius. I've updated again the modem and bl and the problems is not that big but it is still heating like crazy, can you help me guys?? I'll give a smoothie
Btw i tried all kernels and all roms on xda
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chossen said:
Hello guys, i have an i9505 and before lollipop i did not have heating problems, but after updating the modem and boot loader and going to lollipop, my cpu does not go under 60-65 celsius. I've updated again the modem and bl and the problems is not that big but it is still heating like crazy, can you help me guys?? I'll give a smoothie
Btw i tried all kernels and all roms on xda
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Try to change your battery and see whether it's still overheats.

I wanted to do that really, but i wanted someone else to tell me so i would not be a wierdo, you really think that would work?
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chossen said:
I wanted to do that really, but i wanted someone else to tell me so i would not be a wierdo, you really think that would work?
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I have 2 batteries. One gave me overheats, even though the battery itself is not bulged.
One totally no issues at all.
Same phone, same ROM, same setup, same etc.
You can give it a try. But then again, I might be wrong.
Technical issues can arises from a lot of factors anyway.

I will try, thank you so much for your reply
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Try the old modem, the one you didn't have any issues. Otherwise it's samsung's crappy update.

Can i go back to that modem?? No risk?? I changed the csc, changed the sim, changed the carrier, changed 3 batteries... still blowing fire, 80c om the cpu... many times when i use my data plan
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The only risk is signal issues.

So because of the modem i have the heating problems??
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It may also the update.

What?
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I may also be related to the lollipop update. Since you did mention that it didn't happen on kitkat. It only started happening since moving to lollipop. So it may also be the update. Go back to kitkat or change to a custom rom and see if it helps.

I tried all, just all custom roms with lolli
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MM battery life

I keep hearing people say that their battery life heavily improved on MM. Mine sucks. And I have a new anker battery so it's not the battery. Battery is terrific on CM13 and decent on one of the 5.1.1 roms. However CM13 has too many bugs and the camera on stock MM seems way better than on the LP rom I was using. Anybody else have this crappy battery on stock MM? What gives?
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I keep hearing people say that their battery life heavily improved on MM. Mine sucks. And I have a new anker battery so it's not the battery. Battery is terrific on CM13 and decent on one of the 5.1.1 roms. However CM13 has too many bugs and the camera on stock MM seems way better than on the LP rom I was using. Anybody else have this crappy battery on stock MM? What gives?
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My battery life is actually very good , I guess... It's around 5 -5.30 hours OST but I've rooted my phone and I've disabled some apps , so maybe the root will help you too. Btw I am using N910C STOCK XEO 6.0.1.

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My battery life is actually very good , I guess... It's around 5 -5.30 hours OST but I've rooted my phone and I've disabled some apps , so maybe the root will help you too. Btw I am using N910C STOCK XEO 6.0.1.
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I'm always rooted lol, for sure. I disabled all the bloarware but haven't much disabled system apps. What did you disable?
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I'm always rooted lol, for sure. I disabled all the bloarware but haven't much disabled system apps. What did you disable?
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Every single Knox related nonsens and all the Google apps.I also don't use any of the motions. Shealth and Svoice are also in the trash.

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Every single Knox related nonsens and all the Google apps.I also don't use any of the motions. Shealth and Svoice are also in the trash.
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Alright I've deleted a ton of stuff with Root Explorer. We'll see how it goes. One thing that does happen is I'm constantly getting the refreshing sim message on the stock radio. I use a cricket sim card and if I flash the ANK5 Kitkat modem as someone suggested around here in another post then the message doesn't show up nearly as often or at all. I'm wondering.....is the Kitkat radio just better? Is the LP and MM eating battery when it's displaying that message?
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Over heat issue

Hi guys, I bought the phone from someone with this issue. It gets hot very fast when I use it, also when in charge, so much that sometimes I can't touch it. The battery also drains very fast when it's in use. I tried every solution on Google I could find but no luck. It also won't power on without the charger being in even when battery is fully charged. I rooted it now and want to know if I install cyanogenmod Wil maybe resolve this issue? Thanks.
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Have you tried upgrading the firmware to the latest version and performing a hard factory reset afterwards?

Yes I did.
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Yes I did.
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Have you tried a different battery?

Yes I have 2
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That is strange as the only time my N910C uses allot of power is when I play 3D intensive games on it or use to work on heavy tasks.

Could this be the motherboard that's faulty or something?
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Could this be the motherboard that's faulty or something?
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I also got my phone second hand from a guy and my phone also gets hot when making intensive tasks. I don't usually play games. But it gets hot when using location(Tinder). Is this related to ROM. I don't think it has to do with the motherboard although you should go and see a service!! Let me know what were your results. Thanks

Yeah, I'd take it to a Samsung Service Center and let them check it out. It could be the battery cable is loose.

So a custom rom won't fix?
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So a custom rom won't fix?
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I also had the same issue when i first bought my phone 4 month ago but after the latest update the over heat problem is gone. Try to flash the stock rom through odin. Battery problem your facing it could be from the battery calibration try to drain out the battery let drain fully if your phone switched off by itself try to power it on again for many times as possible then charge your phone while it's switched off for 2 hrs power on your phone and charge it again for 30 min hopefully this will resolve the battery calibration issue.
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Try Custom Rom
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So a custom rom won't fix?
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You should try it out. When i a got my SM-N910F, it was a real hot headed one (on Stock 5.0.1).
After flashing a custom rom, the tempratures dropped significantly.
Currently iam running a custom kernel and undervoltet slightly. The Phone is running cool and stable.

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So a custom rom won't fix?
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Depends. Only in case your problem is software related. In case of an hardware defect, a custom rom won't change anything. You should monitor your GPU and CPU usage of your device. You can use apps like cpu z to measure it. When the clock speed of you CPU is constantly high even with the simplest tasks, you can consider rooting your device, flashing a custom rom/kernel and try to reduce the clock speed. This may help keeping the temperature in check but won't do anything about defective hardware.
But, as you said, this problem persists even with stock firmware (maybe the guy you bought it from flashed the wrong firmware.....) this could only have 3 reasons: 1. defective hardware, 2. defective software/wrong firmware, 3. Some of your apps in the background is going crazy (try to use better battery stats or wakelock detector for that).
Good luck.

Tried to install cyanogenmod but I get error dm vertify verification failed with reboot. I Google it and tried everything but doesn't looked like there's a fix for this. Anyone had similar issue or have a solution for this pls? Thanks.
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Try a new battery