Temperature of Galaxy S3 - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

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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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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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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.

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Netflix = phone on fire?

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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Hot phone

Hi everybody. Well I'm running ics Zen 1.2 and my phone seems to get really hot. I have bat stats widget and I will wake the phone up and it will be in the 90 degree range without doing anything. So I checked CPU spy and its mostly in 100mhz most of the time. So my question is are all ics roms like this or am I doing something wrong? Thanks
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Hi everybody. Well I'm running ics Zen 1.2 and my phone seems to get really hot. I have bat stats widget and I will wake the phone up and it will be in the 90 degree range without doing anything. So I checked CPU spy and its mostly in 100mhz most of the time. So my question is are all ics roms like this or am I doing something wrong? Thanks
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I've flashed a lot of ics roms and have never experienced that. How old is the battery?
Edit: you said that the cpu is @100mhz most of the time. Is that while it's disconnected from the charger/usb?
The phone should go into deep sleep when it's not connected to usb and not being used. I wonder if something is keeping the phone awake. There are apps in the market that can show you wakelock info.
Its weird because in standby my phone will be at about 90 degrees and if I get on it to watch YouTube or get on the web it shoots up to about 100 degrees in no time and I know its killing my battery. I have the new1800 mah battery
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100 degrees is nominal when it comes to high heat being bad for the battery. My old phone (Motorola XT720) was notorius for running hot, so I did some research about it and found that you really need to get worried when it starts to hit 50c or 120f+/-. This is when it slowly start to degrade the interior.
I got my old motorola up to 132f one time playing a wicked game of **cough**scrabble. I just backed out, closed the app down and let the phone sit for a few minutes. No harm no foul.
Just for a frame of reference, I have the MLB At-Bat app to listen to baseball games when I am at work and something about that app makes it run hot. 3rd year in a row I've had it and each year it runs hot when I am listening to a game. I have a temp widget on my home screen it and when I listen to a game it hovers around 104f. Knowing that 50c/120f is the danger zone, I don't worry about it too much.
If I can find that old thread of mine, I will post a link for you. Bunch of info in it but I can't search for it now.
Scrabble. Nice
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Throw your phone in the water fixes all the temperature issues
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What if its hot water
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I guess its really no big deal but it runs about 10 degrees hotter than 2.3
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i am havin same problem....phone heats up near the camera lens and its surroundings when downloading any app via wifi and also when talking for more than 5 mins...i am using ic slim 3.2 wid glitch v 14 b kernel
Help wanted urgently
It still gets hot but will get really hot if u leave GPS on
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So u mean its ok ?
no cure for this heating problem ?

GS3 goes over 130°F

My Verizon GS3 got over 130°F this morning. What is the safe # for it to hit before damage?
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My Verizon GS3 got over 130°F this morning. What is the safe # for it to hit before damage?
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In the palm pre safe was 125 degrees F
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That would be killing ur battery. Personally I'd swap. Coming from rezound alloy had that issue. I don't know bout gs3 but , that seems awfully hot.
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how did you manage that? when my phone hits 100 it feels like its burning my hands
That's 54 degrees Celsius! I'm surprised your battery hasn't melted and your phone's components haven't been damaged yet.
I'm pretty sure after 40-something celsius it starts to become unsafe for the device.
I'm sure phone CPUs have failsafe measures to prevent from melting in your hand. That said, I've never hit over 105F, and that was hot. You probably have a defective device. What were you doing at the time, besides charging? Charging does increase the temperature quite a bit sometimes, but not that much.
I agree mines never got over 107 , but it dose at times get hotter than it feels.
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My Verizon GS3 got over 130°F this morning. What is the safe # for it to hit before damage?
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Mine got up close to that just today, I was streaming pandora over bluetooth in the heat with a case on. And browsing. Not really worried about, they should be able to survive temperatures far higher than that.
Mine gets to around 110°F when using the video camera after 15 mins. It went as high as 116°F the other day
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Mine gets to around 110°F when using the video camera after 15 mins. It went as high as 116°F the other day
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I don't know if internal memory has the same issue but when I'm writing lots of data to my sdcard the card itself can get incredibly hot.
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My Verizon GS3 got over 130°F this morning. What is the safe # for it to hit before damage?
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Its probably damaged already, if you want a safe # it would be 140° F but that's dangerously close.
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Lately my phone has started to get warm too. Just browsing and even screen off in my pocket at around 95f... Not sure what caused it.
Thinking of doing a factory wipe and flashing rom again.
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I figured out the issue... It was the faux 004 kernel that made my phone hot. Flashed to 002 and all is good.
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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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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!
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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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Do you have power saving on or off?
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I've tried both ON and OFF. Makes little difference.
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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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first of all, sorry for my bad english. i just recently bought a samsung s3 i747, from amazon. since i have the phone, it gets really hot... even when im not using it. the normal cpu temp is 43* celcius.. and when is charging it cant be at 55 degrees... i cant returen the prhone to the seller because im in Venezuela and is a problem to send it. anyone could help me? what should i do?
when my samsung s3 gt19300 heats up, the screen is nolonger sensitive what could the problem be

CPU, GPU heat up when playing modern combat 4 [SOLVED]

I bought the game. Btw
When I play the game, my device heats up and just wondering if there is a app for showing the CPU temp. And what is the safe zone for the CPU? But I really need that app its not only mc4 but that my main question. I played for 2 hours straight, ended up with 12% battery and the phone felt very hot.
EDIT: for anyone wishing to find out their CPU temp, buy SET CPU and place the widget on your homescreen.
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These games are really GPU intensive so my bet is you slow down your gaming. I mean take breaks from time to time. App, I don't know any but you may find it and it may need root. Plus do you have a case on? If yes then it is one of the reasons why your phone is heating up so much. Can you also specify the position where the Phone feels the hottest.
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These games are really GPU intensive so my bet is you slow down your gaming. I mean take breaks from time to time. App, I don't know any but you may find it and it may need root. Plus do you have a case on? If yes then it is one of the reasons why your phone is heating up so much. Can you also specify the position where the Phone feels the hottest.
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mine heats up from bottom
Taimur Akmal said:
These games are really GPU intensive so my bet is you slow down your gaming. I mean take breaks from time to time. App, I don't know any but you may find it and it may need root. Plus do you have a case on? If yes then it is one of the reasons why your phone is heating up so much. Can you also specify the position where the Phone feels the hottest.
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my phone heats up in the bottom right. I don't use a case, i am fully rooted and have a custom rom. i don't have any way to read what temperature my phone is heating up to but at a guess, i would say around 50 C or something i don't know My old s1 actually plays the game smoother than my s3!!!! i think the heat is throttling it. i haven't overclocked my phone.
The processor is at the bottom so it will definitely heat up there.
The best thing you can do is to take a break when playing for a long time. Don't charge when playing, turn power saving off when playing (works for me).
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The processor is at the bottom so it will definitely heat up there.
The best thing you can do is to take a break when playing for a long time. Don't charge when playing, turn power saving off when playing (works for me).
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never have power saving on! and never charge my phone while playing.
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never have power saving on! and never charge my phone while playing.
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Knowing gameloft, the game is probably not optimized.
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I'm having no trouble playing MC4 for many hours.. Charging just makes a little warmer than it normally would be. Something happened one time when it went really hot, but cooling it down and reboot, and nothing happened ever since. I'm pretty sure there's a monitoring widget app on play store, but there's a menu in SetCPU that shows current battery level and temperature.
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Knowing gameloft, the game is probably not optimized.
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No sh!t, gayloft basically hate android Nova 3 has better graphics then mc4 and that runs buttery smooth and doesn't make me heat up. Gayloft are simply apple fanboys. Even though android has more downloads a hour for mc4
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xcly said:
I'm having no trouble playing MC4 for many hours.. Charging just makes a little warmer than it normally would be. Something happened one time when it went really hot, but cooling it down and reboot, and nothing happened ever since. I'm pretty sure there's a monitoring widget app on play store, but there's a menu in SetCPU that shows current battery level and temperature.
Omega v34 with Siyah 1.8 kernel. CPU OC 1.6GHz and UV around 100~150mv for each frequency. GPU OC to 600MHz no UV.
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Hope this shows. I used setcpu to set this. Stweaks to oc gpu up to 600mhz
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Hope this shows. I used setcpu to set this. Stweaks to oc gpu up to 600mhz
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thanks! i just got set CPU and i set them in and BAM! phone won't get hot! also the widget has cpu temp! YAY! thanks mate!
Glad everything's sorted
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Glad everything's sorted
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yep will do, just a few last things, i modified the UV a bit. My phone started to crash alot so i changed them a bit. for 3 hours of gaming my CPU went up to 50C still kinda warm but hey, it quadcore. to keep it at 30C or 24C idle you would need a water cooler. LOL
Ah yeah. My settings are a bit low.. Stable enough but hey every device is different. Rarely felt my battery warm to the extent I go oh it's hot. Good luck with mc4.
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Is it possible that force gpu rendering,in developers settings, may heat up a device faster while playing, rather than keeping it disabled?

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