Hi, For past couple of days I'm experiencing intense heating issues, all I've been using is social media apps barring youtube. Not sure what can be the trigger. Be it on Wi-fi or network service provider. (Jio) TIA.
That's kind of odd....
I just received my G5 Plus and after setting it up last night and literally spending quite a few hours on it setting it up, I never experienced any heating issues...
I'm wondering if maybe you have a bad phone?
Do you have your brightness set really high or anything? I know on my LG phones I've had if I end up using the brightness quite high the screen gets really hot... And then of course just destroys battery life... But that was for my LG G3 and LG V10...
The phone does heat. I noticed the back part warming mostly when using Google+, the app kept crashing and the phone heated quite a bit. It also heat up when charging but i assume that's due to the turbo charging going on. Other than that my unit kept the temperature satisfactory. My experience may change along time but that's what i noticed with two+ weeks of use.
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Dear Friends and Community,
I recently acquired the S4 with moderate excitement. I already had a S3 and I was very happy with it but I had the option to get an S4 after extending one of our contracts so I went for it and gave my S3 to my wife - she's very happy with it now But i am not very happy with my S4 for 2 reasons:
- Extensive heat generation (36-47C) while surfing, watching videos, natigating calling etc.
- The heat seems to originate from the top portion of the phone on the back as well as the front side around the camera. it is uncomfortable to hold it against my hear on call
- My S3 did not heat up this much or this often. I also did not have any battery charge cliffs or jumps with my S3.
- As the device heats up, the battery drains INSANELY fast. Also I've noticed a disruptive and sudden battery discharge. As I charged my device for the frist time to 100% moments later the battery level jumped from for example 95% to 82% in one second. Is this due to battery calibration issues (because the device is new and the battery has not been charged many times yet) or is this something that can be considered a hardware flaw of the battery or device? I could be watching a video at medium brightness and my battery would go down by 1% each 2 minutes.
Sometimes during use and especially when it heats up some percentages are skipped while discharging (95%, 93%, 89% without sequencing down one by one but rather as 'chunks' of battery loss. ) did you exhibit similar behavior on your phone? Are these battery 'jumps' tied to the heat development?
And now the main questions: Should I return the device and exchange it against a new one or should I wait until Rom development or a patch tackles the problem ? I've already installed a recent OTA from Samsung and hoped the problem would vanish but no luck.
I'd be thrilled to hear your Opinions.
Best,
Thomas
Ive also noticed heating up and fast battery discharge, not one full day of normal usage, my s3 lasted at least 2 times longer. i hope it will pass as i finish 3 times battery charge discharge. for now im excited with camera quality and benchmarks scores i love this phone already, its still plastic but i dont care, with every phone i use silicon or other cases, for s4 i bought original samsung case with plastic back rounded by rubber.
In few days if overheating and fast discharge will not pass on its own i will flash firmware again with kies (repeir mode) and reset all settings.
I also experienced the same issue, its getting hot not warm while doing normal tasks... Dear Thomas u have see temp. in between 37 to 47 but my phone heats upto 55c while gaming... now my phone is with samsung service center, but i am not sure they will replace it with new one as their policy allows replacement only within seven days from the date of purchase and i bought it 27th April itself, just next day of launch. Now i am thinking that why the hell i rushed to buy it. i should have waited for user reviews...
And BTW flashing original firmware doesn't help. Because people at service center had done that and given my cell back to me, but that issue was still there so submitted it again to the service center.....
Are you guys getting these temperature readings using e.g. Battery temperature reading of Cool Tool?
My battery temperature as reported by cool tool never got above 40C but it felt quite hot to the touch already And I am not using any case on it...
I have a case arround it. I will play some games later to see where the temp peaks. but I think it will also be around 50 because it already gets pretty warm doing basic stuff like watching videos or using viber to call.
It feels like this is a problem for all S4's out there.
Check out this video at min 3:25 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUx40kXZF5s (Steep drops in battery)
I really don't want to send in my device for no reason because I will most probably get a refurb or even a device with more problems.
I just want to know if other people have experienced similar issue.
You can check with the app called BatteryGraph and see if sometimes a few percent are skipped down the graph.
It would be great if someone did this for me
Same here with the heat. I undervolted -37,5mV and underclocked 300MHz, now everything is fine
Benchmarkscores are a little worse, but tbh, I really don't care. No current app or game is gonna use it anyway. Seems like a waste of battery life to keep the 1,9GHz clock speed.
Did the same with the Galaxy S2 I owned, which became quite hot too. Samsung has a tendency to overclock their chips just to outperform every other phone on the market, but the truth is, there is virtually no benefit in keeping the maxed clock speed in everyday use, other than doing benchmarks all the time ...
I got a Note 4 from my father who was using it since a year. He had occasionally complained of the phone heating quickly but was never that of a great problem. He never cared to replace/fix the issue.
So now I have it. This phone heats toooooooooo much with simple usage! Just a few minutes of Chrome browsing is enough to not being able to use the phone for calls. It's actually the display that heats too much, the back side doesn't go that much (battery isn't the culprit By the way, since it doesn't heat at all).
This is what I got after playing Mini Militia for an hour continuously. I had a few friends play with me on their phone and none of their phone was even close to the neatness this phone generated. The battery went down from 100 to 0 in 2 hours of gameplay. Even though I stopped playing at 10-12%, that remaining charge went off in 5-10 (lesser I believe) minutes while I was checking the gallery.
Whatever ROM I try it's the same case. But sometimes the phone won't heat, that is 1-2 in 10 times.
I think it's obvious that I have a defective phone. Now that it is out of warranty, would it make sense to go and repair the phone? What will have to be changed in order to fix this?
I would flash the stock Samsung rom back onto your device and see if that helps with the heating issue. I have heard that the Snapdragon 805 does heat quite a bit very quickly when doing anything, but not to the point where the device becomes uncomfortable to hold.
No, this is not normal. My note 4 with a snapdragon 805 rarely or never heats up during normal usage (web browsing across multiple apps). Cpu temps are usually below 60c.
I'm also using the s-view case which is slightly thicker than the stock backcover.
So I have the Snapdragon S7 Edge (AT&T) and I use hangouts probably 80% of the time I'm on my phone. Now when I do, the phone heats up significantly and performance and battery are very effected. Even if I'm just playing a game for 20 minutes or even a phone call, it heats up pretty bad. And I only get about 3hr of SOT. So do I have a defective device or is this normal??
Can't tell for sure, but from what I've read of the snapdragon variant, if anything, it just gets slightly warmer than the exynos, which even gets just slightly warm at heavy games, so I'd say you have a faulty device :/
Especially hangouts shouldn't have any effect on heat as long as you're not making long full quality video calls.
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Mine is getting hot too without hardly doing anything. I'd heard that it was going to heat up when charging but this thing gets hot if it's on just browsing the Internet. It also really overheats when taking photos. I really don't want to have to get it replaced since I'm not sure what that will do to the already long wait for the gear vr.
How long have you had your device for? Mine only heated up the first couple of days but now it's almost always cool to the touch. The only time it gets warm is if I'm using the Gear VR.
So a quick backstory on my S7 edge experience. This is my second go around with the S7 edge as the first was plagued with bad battery life and sluggish if not defective overall experience. Two days ago I decided to jump my S6 edge + (great phone) for a S7 edge ....again. Wanted to see if something was different as all the rave reviews could not be wrong and maybe I just got a lemon. Well low and behold I again started to experience strange issues with the S7 edge such as:
⏺Bad battery life ( less than half a day with moderate use)
⏺Strange notification bar message (call forwarding for video calls active)
⏺Sluggish performance
What was causing this Strange behavior?.....
Turns out it was most likely caused by a bad car charger which overheated the charging circuit or some aspect of the phone. Must have happened the first time and never realized but the second time I put two and two together. Lesson learned her is if you are not seeing any increase in battery percentage while rapid charging and the phone is getting hot ...you may have damaged the phone and have a bad charger. Currently this is the 3rd S7edge and it is rapid charging cool to the touch.
Hope this helps.
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Sir , Did your android system appear on top of your battery usage as well?
I had the same 3 symptoms but I solved my issue with doing a factory reset and starting my phone from fresh, now my battery is back to lasting more than enough for a day, 5+ hrs of SOT average since I did that.
Is this normal? The ambient temperature in my place is at least 32°c. After using the phone for extensive amount of time (browsing fb,9gag,chrome and watching YouTube). My battery will heat up at least 39°c - 40°c and my screen will heat up also. Even with case i can still feel its warmth. My brightness is at almost 10-20% all of the time. Im on always airplane mode and only using wifi so bad reception is not the issue why the phone is heating up. My battery is actually degraded (1180mah capacity) and waiting to be exchange. Even though its overheating i dont feel its throttling down what so ever (this phone is a beast!). Thanks, hope someone can shed some light with my concern.