Netflix = phone on fire? - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

Just recently started watching netflix a little bit, and after about 10 minutes the phone gets ridiculously hot. It got to the point where I think the phone overheated and froze.
I tried limiting the CPU to 800mhz and set it to conservative, but it is still getting very hot.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Running ICScrewed v1.5.2 (I think that's the version, whatever the latest on it).

Netflix must be running the CPU/GPU at full bore most of the time while streaming content. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about it - it's the nature of the beast. This device tends to get really hot in extreme processing.
I'm starting to be concerned about the longevity of it. I know it's built around the 32nm mfg process so it's quite efficient but the heat is outrageous for a phone...

My phone got really hot only top left of the phone when I played blood and glory. Pretty weird. When I exit the game it cools back down like nothing ever happened. =\ I'm thinking I just got the phone at the wrong time/place.
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My phone gets really hot from some games but never Netflix, that's odd
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clor01 said:
My phone got really hot only top left of the phone when I played blood and glory. Pretty weird. When I exit the game it cools back down like nothing ever happened. =\ I'm thinking I just got the phone at the wrong time/place.
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Lol no its called welcome to the laws of physics. Electricity generates heat...
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Lol no its called welcome to the laws of physics. Electricity generates heat...
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Nothing is perfectly efficient, and a product of inefficiency is heat! The more power you use the more heat that's generated. Just like on a computer, the more CPU/GPU intensive things you do the more your computer will warm up.
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Thought maybe it was the phone itself.
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When I watch Netflix, I would say it gets a little warm - but I would certainly not call it hot.

Possibly another program(s) running in the background consuming additional resources?
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The only time Netflix has heated up my phone was when playing on my TV over a MHL adapter, while charging, and pulling the video over data. Normally when I just watch on the phone, using wifi it doesn't heat up.
But as others said, that's a lot of power, and I expected some heat. Even at that set up, it wasn't hot enough to worry me.
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When Playing Order&Chaos with WiFi trick,Do your phone get ridiculously hot

So when im playing O&C on 3G this phone get so hot that I can feel the heat even with the otter box case on,the heat is around the top part of the phone,and the temperature reading is 115'-120'F is that because wifi is constantly scanning?..or is it because of the game constantly drain data?
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I have this exact same problem I think the reason is because both WiFi and 3g is on running at the same time I think thats why it gets hot
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Hopefully thats all it is cause I was goin to return it.& the 3D ac charger push a lot of power into the phone really fast(sorry I don't know the technical terms) and get over 115'F really quick
...I'm now using the iPhone charger,it charge very slow for this phone but it keeps the temperature under 110'F while playing Order&Chaos
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I'm having the same issue with my 3vo. I'm hoping this amount of heat will not cause any long term damage to our phones over time.
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JoeTrailer said:
I'm having the same issue with my 3vo. I'm hoping this amount of heat will not cause any long term damage to our phones over time.
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Yeah,that's why I got insurance just incase the problem decide to show it self after 30days
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Ive had this problem when playing games with airplane mode on so I am assuming the processor is the culprit. Just played zombieland usa and my 3vo got up to 110.
Those kinds of temperatures aren't going to hurt anything, i think the auto safety is at 50c or 122f. One of the problems with high temperatures is weakening solder joints. I would say 140+ is the point where things might start getting a little too hot. But the phone will shut down before it gets that hot.
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I had the same problem while playing. And also I noticed my phone would get extremely hot while plugged in as well. I checked out a few threads here and figured it wouldnt be a problem. This morning I woke up to a dead evo. My guess is that extended periods at that temp will cause damage. It may have just been my evo as my friend's does not get hot.
I've played on 3g/WiFi for hours on end and my phone has never gotten very hot. Maybe a tad bit,but nothing like what you guys are describing. Idk.
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I9100 screen gets warm

I noticed that when i put my hand on the screen it really warm i was wondering if thats normal?
barondebxl said:
I noticed that when i put my hand on the screen it really warm i was wondering if thats normal?
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Normal.. PERIOD.. Enjoy your HOT device
My SGII always get warm
When i play Modern Combat 3 and my phone is charging it gets around 51°C
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hammief said:
My SGII always get warm
When i play Modern Combat 3 and my phone is charging it gets around 51°C
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Normal especially with charge heat too not forgetting you have a portable PC with even less cooling efficiency .....
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Phone getting real hot

Anyone's EVO get super hot after a little web browsing? I mean literally after about 5 minutes this thing is on fire. I'm rooted running viper's 1.2.1.
I haven't noticed it getting hot when browsing but definitely catches fire if using the camera for more than a few minutes.
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dsEVOlve said:
I haven't noticed it getting hot when browsing but definitely catches fire if using the camera for more than a few minutes.
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I haven't used the camera that much yet. I didn't realize there was another thread that addressed this issue, and when reading some of the comments, I guess we do need to consider that this is a device running a dual core 1.5Ghz processor, so it's gonna generate heat. I'm using an app to monitor the phone temp. I guess I'll wait and see.
experience this on my gnex... was quite abnormal coming from a my epic... where there as no heat generated unless i Overclocked. Its just how these dual cores work especially at such a high frequency. You could try changing governors though. What is is your gov anyways? I switched from interactive to Ondemand and the heat instantly vanished. Can even use while on the charger and it barely gets warm.
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Temperature of Galaxy S3

My phone seems to always be running pretty hot even when it is in power saver. I was just testing and on xda app, but my temperature was at 90 F on power saver. Is that running hot or is that just how the quad core runs?
Just by typing that message it got up to 95 and im on stock rooted Rom and stock kernel.
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Mine runs very warm when its been on data traffic for a while particularly near the bottom third of the phone. I had the blue s3 before this one (now have a white s3) that ran even warmer - I would say hot
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Yeah definitely that bottom third runs the hottest and I have the blue without a case so I'm scared that when I get a case it'll run too hot.
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What app do you use??
To read the temperature I use Battery Solo Widget
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crashck said:
My phone seems to always be running pretty hot even when it is in power saver. I was just testing and on xda app, but my temperature was at 90 F on power saver. Is that running hot or is that just how the quad core runs?
Just by typing that message it got up to 95 and im on stock rooted Rom and stock kernel.
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crashck,
If that's Fahrenheit 90-95 your talking about (30-35 Celsius) your OK depending on ambient temperature. Mostly everyone quotes Celsius, thats why I ask. Ninety degrees Celsius you're in trouble that's way to high.
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ImgBurn said:
crashck,
If that's Fahrenheit 90-95 your talking about (30-35 Celsius) your OK depending on ambient temperature. Mostly everyone quotes Celsius, thats why I ask. Ninety degrees Celsius you're in trouble that's way to high.
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My Droid 3 used to run at over 100 degrees fahrenheit... topped out at 114 once. I had to replace it... too hot in my pocket, lol.
I just turned off power saver and was doing browsing and such and I got to 40 Celcius is that something I should worry about?
Yeah I can't get it passed 40 in my house which is pretty cool but still I live in very hot climate so in scared if I take this thing outside where the air is about 39 C and with a big case on it, that it will overheat.
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crashck said:
I just turned off power saver and was doing browsing and such and I got to 40 Celcius is that something I should worry about?
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OK at the moment I am in an air conditioned room. Droid X2 26 °C (78.8 °F) ,Droid Bionic 21 °C (69.8 °F), the Droid X2 has a case cover both have data off ,Droid Bionic is bare naked hence the difference in temp's.
Both are sitting relatively idle. Now say I turn on data start surfing the net, downloading, playing a game etc. temps don't go much above 40 °C (104°F). If ambient temperature is higher such as living in hotter climate, no air conditioning, or outside YMMV.
These phone's will turn themselves off if temps get to high. I believe your temps sound normal.
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If I do heavy tasks it heats to 41 °C... My ambient temperature is about 26 °C, which is quite high. I think 40 °C under load is normal.
Over 9000...
Phenomenal kernel helped my temps out quite a bit during heavy gaming. Battery is much improved as well, doesn't hurt to give it a try!
cmd512 said:
Phenomenal kernel helped my temps out quite a bit during heavy gaming. Battery is much improved as well, doesn't hurt to give it a try!
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Alright I'll give it a try. Btw thanks for all the help guys this forum is the best
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Mine rarely gets warm and when it does it rarely gets warmer than breathing upt through my nose on the back of my hand.
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hefonthefjords said:
Mine rarely gets warm and when it does it rarely gets warmer than breathing upt through my nose on the back of my hand.
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Are you on stock kernel and ROM?....and mine for some reason isn't getting hot as easy now. Maybe something was running in background? Hope so
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yup im on stock.. 39 degree C.. whats the temp on ur s3 ?
Try a different kernel or even under volting. Be careful though.
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Some phones do run hotter than others.
Had a blue 16gb for a while and not once did I feel it get warm in my hand. Not long ago sold the 16gb one and got a 32gb and instantly noticed it got warm in my hands. Not hot but enough to take notice. In the 40's. And it's winter here.
Still, I don't worry about it too much. My S2 also got pretty warm and at some stages got over 50 degrees celcius. Still, it never let me down.
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I've noticed my T999 rooted stock seems a little hot recently even though it wasn't doing much. I don't want it to be warm because it's distracting. It feels warm in my pocket, and when I grab it it feels warm (the bottom third). Each time it bothers me, because I know that heat is wasted battery.
If I was playing a 3D game or watching a streaming HD video, then OK if it gets a little warm but not if it's just sitting idle. It's going to drive me nuts if I can't make it stop.
I wish there was a Widget that could simply instantly force the phone into a "deep sleep" state where it could still receive a phone call, but not actively do anything else.
The bottom third of my phone heats up a lot when playing games, doesn't matter what game, could be a game of cards, and it would heat up the same as say... Nova 3... or Asphalt 7...
Not sure why it does it, but it does do it sometimes when multi tasking, I am running Omega v30. But always happened since I changed it from original firmware.

Heat Problem for Galaxy S3 i9300

Since the 4.1.1 update on my s3 i have been having problems with playing and just simply using my s3 while playing games it usually geta really hot at the back bottom and kinda worries me so i stop playing and kill tasks etc clear ram and eventually it helps, the thing is before the update im sure this didnt happen.
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wazzzat said:
Since the 4.1.1 update on my s3 i have been having problems with playing and just simply using my s3 while playing games it usually geta really hot at the back bottom and kinda worries me so i stop playing and kill tasks etc clear ram and eventually it helps, the thing is before the update im sure this didnt happen.
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It's normal since the glass and back are really thin (its usually at the bottom of phone), mine does the same if you use it a lot and have the screen kept on
Nothing to worry about.
I would check your battety stats though and look for something called media, this scans your media making your s3 bit hot.
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Hi i would like to share my exp. Before . After flashing jb for europe and poland my phone have unusual heat at the back.and the camera becomes fluffy.. I was worried i tot it was the jb for my s3 made in france... After i saw jb region: france ... I flash it was the right jb for my phone....
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You're right. When looking at tje screen its the bottom right in the back of the phone. I would assume it to be due to project butter amd a forced constant fps
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Now i can only feel a warm when playing games... When surfing no warm
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ditzboy said:
Hi i would like to share my exp. Before . After flashing jb for europe and poland my phone have unusual heat at the back.and the camera becomes fluffy.. I was worried i tot it was the jb for my s3 made in france... After i saw jb region: france ... I flash it was the right jb for my phone....
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That has practically nothing to do with it...
Placebo, they call it.
THANKS GUYS!! was just worried really lol
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It's the CPU that's heating up, that's near the bottom of the phone, unless the temp is in the 70s (celcius) there is nothing to worry about. The CPU will automatically throttle itself if it gets too hot (can't remember the exact value on the Exynos 4400, someone will though)
If you overclock it will heat up more, demanding activities like playing games etc will heat it up more.
If you are really concerned you can download System Tuner, then in there go to settings, and choose notification packages, then you can download the temperature package, and enable it, this will show live updates showing the temperature of the CPU in the notification bar. System Tuner can be used as root to overclock etc, but to show information like frequency and temperature it does not require root.
If. Downgraded the phone and stopped it what would be the disadvantages performance wise?
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Normal.
Just be glad it isn't an iPhone 4 or iPad 2, otherwise it would have self-combusted in your hands.
My S III gets REALLY hot when playing Asphalt 7, to the point of getting artifacts in the screen and eventually crashing the device.
I really don't care much about it. It is under warranty, so if I get any damage from that I'll harass Samsung so much they'll have to give me a new one.
When my phone was on ICS i never felt it getting warm while browsing the web, checking emails and changing system settings. Since upgraded to JB, I've noticed the phone was getting warm at the bottom (near the charging connector) 10 minutes after performing the above activities. The heat was definitely generated by the CPU, not the battery.
I used an app called Temp+CPU V2 from the Play Store to check CPU temperature. When the phone is on idle it hovers at around 25 degrees; after 10 minutes of use it goes up to around 35-38 degrees. By this point i can feel the bottom part of the phone was getting quite warm.
Can you guys test this and confirm whether your phones are behaving similar to mine?
Thanks!
Dark5tar said:
When my phone was on ICS i never felt it getting warm while browsing the web, checking emails and changing system settings. Since upgraded to JB, I've noticed the phone was getting warm at the bottom (near the charging connector) 10 minutes after performing the above activities. The heat was definitely generated by the CPU, not the battery.
I used an app called Temp+CPU V2 from the Play Store to check CPU temperature. When the phone is on idle it hovers at around 25 degrees; after 10 minutes of use it goes up to around 35-38 degrees. By this point i can feel the bottom part of the phone was getting quite warm.
Can you guys test this and confirm whether your phones are behaving similar to mine?
Thanks!
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Do you have power saving on or off?
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Samsungnooby said:
Do you have power saving on or off?
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I've tried both ON and OFF. Makes little difference.
Dark5tar said:
I've tried both ON and OFF. Makes little difference.
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Does for me, having it on uses less cpu making my s3 less hot but having it off can notice a big difference especially playing games and using internet.
My s3 just suffers from warmness now.
Up to you though
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I was thinking ****ing it just downgrade it in the interest of the phones safety etc lol and wait till they release an update for project butter or jb etc etc... to finally sort this dam problem it it's probably nothing big but it does cause worries I always ha've mine on power save but it stays the same heat with games etc
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You got a quadcore device in your hands. And it has no cooling whatsoever. So there's no wonder it gets hot when used. Especially playing games or similar stuff.
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