Has anyone else found the device gets really hot randomly without doing anything task intensive?
My latest battery temp went up to 45 degrees Celsius (113 fahrenheit).
Please shed any light on the matter!
After 15 mins of Dead Space, my SGS3 feels a little bit warmer than normal.
Also the same on HSPA+ and heavy browsing.
But 45 is way better than the 63 of HOX, maybe it's normal, maybe not.
Do some more testing, what app did you use to see the temperature?
I can test my phone and come back to this thread with results.
I have the Problem to but the temprature was up to 54 °C. I dont know why. The Phose is going hot only by surfing. The first days it be cold. After 5 Days it will be war/hot. The battery is going fast down too. The Benchmarks are bad too, antutu e.g. 3 to 5 thousand points. After Buying 12 thousand. Energy-Safemode is deactivated. The CPU Frequency is up to 800 Mhz not 1.4 Ghz.
And today....all is going fine. Its cold, the Benchmarks are high and the CPU ist 1.4 Ghz......
Very curious
and yes, my english is bad
What ROM are you on? Do you have any weird apps that run in the background?
Definitely sounds like overheating problems. Phone gets too hot, CPU scales down, standard procedure... Never happened to me.
Load the newest ROM for your area,do a full wipe, don't install many apps, check it for a day or two.
If the same happens, take it back for replacement.
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I have the Problem to but the temprature was up to 54 °C. I dont know why. The Phose is going hot only by surfing. The first days it be cold. After 5 Days it will be war/hot. The battery is going fast down too. The Benchmarks are bad too, antutu e.g. 3 to 5 thousand points. After Buying 12 thousand. Energy-Safemode is deactivated. The CPU Frequency is up to 800 Mhz not 1.4 Ghz.
And today....all is going fine. Its cold, the Benchmarks are high and the CPU ist 1.4 Ghz......
Very curious
and yes, my english is bad
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Thanks, i look the next days. if the phone going hot i make a full reset. The ROM is the original Rom from Samsung. Nothing changed.
On bad reception any sync app can cause overhit.
Dude we got 4 cores !
What do you expect
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Hi all,
Thanks for the the replies.
The ROM - is the the original I haven't rooted (I hope that's what you mean...I'm a noob at this)
I have got rid of that horrible touchwiz with apex launcher but that about the only thing that I've done (apart from install a few apps)
As the last guy said "we've got 4 cores dude" haha.
Just seems to get pretty hot had it up to 47 degree. Toasty! but haven't noticed anything drastically wrong with the battery life.
Piece out all. Thanks for all the help!
I don't seem to suffer from this but having said that I haven't used the phone to watch a movie yet or anything like that so o don't know.
Battery going down is only normal when its hot.
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Well, if it gets hot while on stand-by or out of the blue, take it back.
My phone idles at 27-33c with normal use. After 15mins of NOVA 3 gameplay it goes up to 45c and feels a bit warm.
If your phone gets hot with 3G and browsing or recording video and such, 47c is totally normal, especially if you consider 4 cores and no cooling whatsoever. 47c is nowhere near to toasty though
I hope I helped you.
pow001 said:
Hi all,
Thanks for the the replies.
The ROM - is the the original I haven't rooted (I hope that's what you mean...I'm a noob at this)
I have got rid of that horrible touchwiz with apex launcher but that about the only thing that I've done (apart from install a few apps)
As the last guy said "we've got 4 cores dude" haha.
Just seems to get pretty hot had it up to 47 degree. Toasty! but haven't noticed anything drastically wrong with the battery life.
Piece out all. Thanks for all the help!
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I was thinking of rooting my phone and installing bionix fusion after getting sick of dealing with the battery problems. However, I am concerned about two main things and I haven't seen the exact same thing asked, maybe because they are obvious though =
I read about passwords being stored in cleartext if it's rooted from androidcentral a while ago. I only really use gmail for e-mail, is this a nonissue for me then?
Does the fusion rom overclock the processor by default? I'd rather leave the processor at default speed.
you can dl fusion without overclock. or with overclock and just install set cpu and scale down to 1ghz
Great battery life is not just a matter of the rom you are using. You can be running the most battery friendly rom on the planet but if you are a heavy user, have twitter, facebook, email updates running all the time, and/or heaven forbid playing Angry Birds for hours at a time, you can kill the battery in a few hours.
This screenshot was taken tonight when I got down to 15% battery life. I use gmail, touchdown, handscent, and make phone calls.
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Running Bionix Fusion
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Great battery life is not just a matter of the rom you are using. You can be running the most battery friendly rom on the planet but if you are a heavy user, have twitter, facebook, email updates running all the time, and/or heaven forbid playing Angry Birds for hours at a time, you can kill the battery in a few hours.
This screenshot was taken tonight when I got down to 15% battery life. I use gmail, touchdown, handscent, and make phone calls.
Running Bionix Fusion
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Just out of curiosity hour foist you get your dislpay count so low
Times never wasted when your getting waisted
for me, I'm loosing my battery from...doing nothing! It's annoying the crap out of me. I've been obsessively closing apps with the task manager and services as well with mixed results. Most of the time I'm still loosing 4-5% per hour when the phone is idling. So, yes, switching should help me.
Anyone know about the security issue from the first post?
A factory reset might help just as much as another rom. You might also have a bad battery. If your phone is actually doing nothing, then its doing something that you dont know about. I was certainly doing much better than 5% per hour while it was idle.
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A factory reset might help just as much as another rom. You might also have a bad battery. If your phone is actually doing nothing, then its doing something that you dont know about. I was certainly doing much better than 5% per hour while it was idle.
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Yeah I'm running bionix final with core 1.2i was lucky enough to have a phone that can handle oc I've had a few roms on this device but my battery life sucks idk I think I'm gonna get a new battery and then see the life I expect thanks
Times never wasted when your getting waisted
The Google creds are safe, but others might be exploited via sqlite.
Here is the more detailed post from androidcentral
http://forum.androidcentral.com/hacking/35470-aware-clear-text-passwords-database-files.html
Thanks! exactly what I wanted to know.
It depends on what is draining your battery. Lately my battery life is hit and miss. Sometimes I am getting 40hrs a charge and sometimes I am getting 25hrs a charge.
For me most of my battery is getting drained on Cell Standby. The past 2 days i have been getting 3-4% battery drain on standby.
I have Fusion 1.1. GREAT rom, but there is something happening to my cell radio. Fusion has JI2 modem installed. I tried flashing the JI6 and battery life varied from 2-3 of 3-4% battery drain. I just flashed back the JI2 modem end of last week. And i have been getting 2-3, 3-4 or 4-5% drain. Right now pinning it down is pretty frustrating. But I will find out the best combo for my phone eventually.
when i used my phone to play cricket game within 5 minutes it got hot near the camera and i couldnt continue playing the game. I was totally puzzled. Also when i speak a long call for more than 20minutes of continuous the same heat is felt near the camera. Why is it happening. What is the remedy for this? I really feel bad when it happens
How hot did it get?
Why couldn't you keep playing?
Most likely the temperature isn't hot enough to cause problems but I'm surprised search couldn't help you.
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its is so hot that if u keep on playing you feel that u may burn your fingers placed over the camera region and the heat transfers to the whole unit as well.
might be an idea to underclock to 800mhz
I must say that playing PES2011 or Reckless Racing for ~15 minutes makes SGS2 really hot. Not hot enough to "burn your fingers", but it's still hot. Elixir says that battery temperature after play equals ~41 Centigrades, so the GPU is about ~60, 70 maybe? Can't check it, dunno how.
Does anyone else have that problem?
Same here, i played Order and chaos for about 6 min and it got extremly hot, so i quit and went to set cpu where i saw temperature was 51ºC...
However, i usually have it underclock to 800mhz and theres no heat(max. 31 i think), but i havent tried to play at 800mhz, i always overclock it to 1200 minimum for playing HD games and still do little stops sometimes while playing...
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I must say that playing PES2011 or Reckless Racing for ~15 minutes makes SGS2 really hot. Not hot enough to "burn your fingers", but it's still hot. Elixir says that battery temperature after play equals ~41 Centigrades, so the GPU is about ~60, 70 maybe? Can't check it, dunno how.
Does anyone else have that problem?
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the same problem... but how do i under clock the device and how does that work for me to get out of my heat problem????
If you guys are playing at night time under low light conditions I suggest you get the App screen filter. It reduces the brightness below the lowest brightness settings that the phone can offer. I have noticed a big difference in gaming as my screen doesn't get hot anymore, only the back which is better than nothing.
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If you guys are playing at night time under low light conditions I suggest you get the App screen filter. It reduces the brightness below the lowest brightness settings that the phone can offer. I have noticed a big difference in gaming as my screen doesn't get hot anymore, only the back which is better than nothing.
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I read some threads and they say that it has to be flashed, upgraded, rooted... confused...
Same Problem
Same problem here. Phone gets really hot around the front and back cameras, while playing games like RF11 or Asphalt6. Should I return it or flash a custom rom/different firmware. I am on XWKF3.
Same here on gaming..
The maximum battery temperature I've seen was 55 C while charging the battery, a game (Gangasta on message that data was downloaded successfully via Wifi) got stuck in background consuming a lot of CPU (~50%+).
Sorry guys, this phone as a severe design issue and the temperature problem can't be solved. You only can keep the cpu clock down.
He guys,
It's not only with playing games. My phone was doing nothing and the temperature raised (don't now the temp. but very hot) and the phone shut down, and was completely dead. Could not start it up. Could not charge it, because I thought it was empty. After cooling down, I took off the back and replaced the battery and I could boot it again. I was using internet 10 min. before. I think the cpu's where max. and getting hot. This is a serious problem, and I don't want to root my phone to clock down cpu. I am not a gamer so thats not a problem for me. First time this hapened in 1 1/2 month.
I feel realy bad about this. Did it shutdown because of the heat? Is there a safety thing build in? Is it damaged?
I' m wondering how the guys with overclocked devices cope with the heat. I have my phone only 5 days and it already crashed few times while playing games. Once it was getting hotter and hotter and it wasn't responding. i was worried so I had to hold the power button 10 seconds to turn it off. Maybe you(Frank-HTC) had a similar situation but with an app that was working in background?
jjegan2111 said:
when i used my phone to play cricket game within 5 minutes it got hot near the camera and i couldnt continue playing the game. I was totally puzzled. Also when i speak a long call for more than 20minutes of continuous the same heat is felt near the camera. Why is it happening. What is the remedy for this? I really feel bad when it happens
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Update your ROM.
I flashed XXF2 and it does appear to be running comparatively cooler now.
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Had a similar issue - the phone used to get quite hot while playing games.
However, Samsung seems to have fixed this issue (at least for SGS2 India users)
I can confirm that updating the stock firmware (KF1) to stock KF3 has solved this. Intense gaming for 2 hours straight, with Wifi and lots of processes running, the phone is only mildly warm.
If you are experiencing this issues, please try backing up your data and updating your firmware via Kies.
My phone doesn't have this issues, I'm using a water-cooling system now.
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May this thread die in peace...
I would like to stress test and I don't really know anything about it.
I am using SetCPU and went into settings and selected Stress Test. Then I got a box saying: "Stress test running... Device maybe unresponsive. Press back to end."
Does this mean it's unresponsive to the stress test or that it's unresponsive to other actions? Because if I hit back right away it's like nothing happened, but when I waited a little bit and hit back I got a test result.
So if it is actually running the test, how long should I let it run? Does it stop on its own?
What app does anyone recommend for stress testing?
I'm assuming you're testing an overclock? If so, it's pretty much the same if you were to run say prime95 on your computer. Set cpu will probably be running your cpu at max load. If it is unstable your phone will lock up or reboot, if one of those occur your overclock is unstable. Also what clock speed are you using?
I haven't actually OCd this kernel yet, it's at 384/1512 On Demand. I've been trying to figure out settings for better battery life but that hasn't happened so now I thought I'd try out OC and see how it works on my set up. Was just checking out the test to see how it works.
If you're still on GB a lot of people have random reboots once a day or so if you do 1.8 ghz. Seems our chipset can't handle anything over at 1.7 atm, this could be incorrect though. Could just be some software issue that hopefully be resolved once kernel source is released for ICS. Honestly if you're having issues with battery life just go for the extended. I'm on ICS and run 1.7 all day and have pretty heavy usage. I used my phone quite a bit in this 24 hour period as well.
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Is it plausible to get the Rezound OC'd to 2.0ghz you think?
I remember on my OG Droid almost everyone could OC'd to 1.0ghz, but once you got past that it was hit or miss. Some people could do 1.25ghz, other people couldn't do above 1.0ghz so they'd get random rebooting issues. I can't remember what determined this, but it was some hardware that was in the phone that was slightly different amongst each other.
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Is it plausible to get the Rezound OC'd to 2.0ghz you think?
I remember on my OG Droid almost everyone could OC'd to 1.0ghz, but once you got past that it was hit or miss. Some people could do 1.25ghz, other people couldn't do above 1.0ghz so they'd get random rebooting issues. I can't remember what determined this, but it was some hardware that was in the phone that was slightly different amongst each other.
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They say the max you can clock this chipset is 1.99 ghz. But a lot of people are having issues w/ 1.8ghz on GB roms, random daily reboots. Could just be hardware limitation, or the kernel code. Most are stable at 1.7 ish.
So how long are you supposed to run the stress test? Does it stop on its own? Is there a better app to use for it?
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So how long are you supposed to run the stress test? Does it stop on its own? Is there a better app to use for it?
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StabilityTest by Intostudios is also a pretty decent app. I've ran it for as much as 2-3 hours, I'm sure there have been some that have run it as much as 24. I know I like to run Prime95 on my home PC for 24 hours to ensure any OC is stable. Few hours, 24 hours.. The choice is yours. I'm pretty sure any unstable oc or underclocking will cause a random reboot within 10-15 minutes w/ that app.
Wha the **** is up with that? I'm actually raging right now.
I play any game for 5 minutes or so, and when I quit it the phone has it's performance basically halved. It goes like this: Run Quadrant Standard -> get 3300 points -> play 3D game for 5 minutes -> game slows down noticeably -> close game ->run quadrant again -> get a score of 1600.
What's up with this crap? It's so insanely aggravating. I restored my phone from PCC and it still happens. The only way to get it running decently again after it starts crawling is to reboot it.
Seriously, I've had it with this piece of crap of a phone. I think this **** crossed the line, I'm selling it.
Hrm i think it's when ur phone get hot and decrease it max cpu frequency to about 800mhz! So try some custom rom or kernels might fix the problem!
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I've experienced the same issue! U once it's laggy try to check out ur cpu frequency!
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I don't have that visible underclocking under CPU Master. Mine always says 1500 as max frequency. It looks like you set it to 800 manually.
But anyway, I think it's related to overheating because I noticed that if I let it sit for a while after running a game performance goes up again.
Anyway, I don't give a crap about what's causing it. A phone should NOT overheat from normal use. Ok, it's summer and it's hot, but seriously, I've had it with this phone.
I can't deal with this. I'll just sell it and go back to my trusty ol' Xperia Ray on Gingerbread.
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I don't have that visible underclocking under CPU Master. Mine always says 1500 as max frequency. It looks like you set it to 800 manually.
But anyway, I think it's related to overheating because I noticed that if I let it sit for a while after running a game performance goes up again.
Anyway, I don't give a crap about what's causing it. A phone should NOT overheat from normal use. Ok, it's summer and it's hot, but seriously, I've had it with this phone.
I can't deal with this. I'll just sell it and go back to my trusty ol' Xperia Ray on Gingerbread.
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All high power phones have problems with overheating and becoming slow. Install a custom kernel and undervolt it, that should help. Also using a custom rom and kernel has reduced my heat problem a lot.
Of course your xperia ray doesn't have issues because it is slow. A dual core in a phone is going to heat up.
I have played shadowgun for 30 minutes without any slowdown.
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I don't have that visible underclocking under CPU Master. Mine always says 1500 as max frequency. It looks like you set it to 800 manually.
But anyway, I think it's related to overheating because I noticed that if I let it sit for a while after running a game performance goes up again.
Anyway, I don't give a crap about what's causing it. A phone should NOT overheat from normal use. Ok, it's summer and it's hot, but seriously, I've had it with this phone.
I can't deal with this. I'll just sell it and go back to my trusty ol' Xperia Ray on Gingerbread.
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No i didn't i even overclocked! I'm not that noob to decreased the cpu frquency! It's decreased automatically! I'm looking for the cause of this too!
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Now i realised that the decreased of maximum cpu frequency is only happen when i play temple run brave! What's wrong with the app or the phone!
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This is unfortunate, it is not even hot so I don't know what's up.
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There is the temp as says setCPU
Whats your max. level?
My one going only till 63%
Oh there a screenshoot attached.
Anyway its far higher than the 63% at 39C
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Whats your max. level?
My one going only till 63%
Oh there a screenshoot attached.
Anyway its far higher than the 63% at 39C
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I am unsure if this is just over caution on their part of if this is something we need to be worried about... honesty even yours at 39c is not that hot 102 F which for a computer is whatever... but I thought this chip was supposed to run cooler and everything being the new architecture.
I have been doing a lot of CPU testing and noticed a couple of things:
First of all the issue with the screen not turning brighter is simple: the heat within the device reached a certain limit that could potentially damage it.
the CPU, RAM and the screen light are the main culprit. Especially the CPU and RAM, try CPU stats and after heavy use you will notice the phone gets warm/hot and the freq gets capped out at 1.1 GHz by the kernel. This is mainly to reduce the heat obviously....I guess keeping the phone running at 1.5 GHz with all 4 cores and the screen cranked up to max will definitely turn the phone into a Coleman stove in no time.
So i guess this powerful CPU doesn't do any better than any dual core running constantly and stable for the same amount of time to crunch performance levels. Sigh...I guess until they wont figure out to make things run cooler powerful CPU's wont get far-only on paper
Just my 2 cents
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I have been doing a lot of CPU testing and noticed a couple of things:
First of all the issue with the screen not turning brighter is simple: the heat within the device reached a certain limit that could potentially damage it.
the CPU, RAM and the screen light are the main culprit. Especially the CPU and RAM, try CPU stats and after heavy use you will notice the phone gets warm/hot and the freq gets capped out at 1.1 GHz by the kernel. This is mainly to reduce the heat obviously....I guess keeping the phone running at 1.5 GHz with all 4 cores and the screen cranked up to max will definitely turn the phone into a Coleman stove in no time.
So i guess this powerful CPU doesn't do any better than any dual core running constantly and stable for the same amount of time to crunch performance levels. Sigh...I guess until they wont figure out to make things run cooler powerful CPU's wont get far-only on paper
Just my 2 cents
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You are right on point. I have seen it drop (I believe to 1180) when running a bunch of benchmarks. The manufacturer sets the heat threshold at a very safe level. Kernel devs are usually able to safely bump that up another 10 to 15 degrees. I am one of the lucky ones that got the variant 3 of the international One X. Variant 3 was the strongest version and I ran all 4 cores at 1600 with 51 minimum. Faux usually figures out how to uncap and raise the throttle temperature... but he's on a N4. I am going to keep an eye on the kernel threads there and see how far they push things. Chainfire's "PerfMod" app is perfect to watch this while running different apps
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