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I have a sony xperia s , and when playing graphic hungry games the phone heats up .
now i understand that the game demands resources from the Gpu and cpu ..
but is it healthy to play a lot of games on the phone ?
what will become damaged ? ( if its not healty )
Thanks a lot any help is appreciated .
Devices will sometimes heat up in normal use but excessive heat for prolonged periods of time can be damaging. Depending on how warm it gets though, you are probably fine.
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Hi, I find the same problem sometimes. Heat is to be expected as there is no active cooling like for example on a desktop CPU or GPU. If you're worried about it just quit the app after playing for so long and let it cool down as I find the heat makes it hard to use the phone anyway. One suggestion that may help is switch off your WiFi and 3g when gaming. Honestly if your phone isnt over clocked I wouldn't worry as it should be able to cope with how Sony has configured it.
yeah mine isn't over clocked , i fear overclocking it .. i feel its like cooking your own cpu , logically it might damage it right ?
there's this one game called : "bombshells" the phone really heats up on it .
I didn't download it from the playstore because its not available for my device/country so i got the apk , could it be compatibility issues ? although im dead sure my device can handle it smoothly .
I used to notice significant heat from my HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S2 when gaming. I didn't overclock either but they both got really very hot to touch. My Samsung Galaxy S3 doesn't for some reason (even when overclocked) and my Nexus 7 does get very hot when gaming. I think there isn't anything to worry about. If you've not overclocked it surely can't affect your warranty either.
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heat can be a problem yes, there was an app i think that tells you the temp.
Obvious thing to do is to exit the app and shut the phone down till it cools down ,it is normal for any phone to become like that if games ,apps etc are cpu hungry etc
The first thing to break will be the battery, and that'll happen around 45 Celsius. Just stay below that and you'll be fine.
Keeping a low brightness and play without the protection case. I know that my AMOLED screen is the main cause of heat.. Heats up the battery, CPU and screen radiate heat too... phones are too small and too powerful for an optimal temperature. Brightness at minimum is a must I think.
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graemeakerby said:
I used to notice significant heat from my HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S2 when gaming. I didn't overclock either but they both got really very hot to touch. My Samsung Galaxy S3 doesn't for some reason (even when overclocked) and my Nexus 7 does get very hot when gaming. I think there isn't anything to worry about. If you've not overclocked it surely can't affect your warranty either.
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Some games require high end devices to run smoothly and not cause any problems.. In your case, SGS3 didn't cause any since its a Quad Core device and is capable of handling high graphics games..
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heat can be a problem yes, there was an app i think that tells you the temp.
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Kernel Tuner..
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Jay-kesrwani said:
I have a sony xperia s , and when playing graphic hungry games the phone heats up .
now i understand that the game demands resources from the Gpu and cpu ..
but is it healthy to play a lot of games on the phone ?
what will become damaged ? ( if its not healty )
Thanks a lot any help is appreciated .
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I have an SXS too.. But you will have to understand that our phone uses Snapdragon S3 processor which is normal to get hot since its the way it was built.. It gets hot soon and makes the phone slow.. U can google about it and read everything related to it.. And its alright to play games on your phone.. But on any Android phone, i suggest u play for around 15-30mins max when u r playing high end games with lots of graphics.. And then give a 30 min break and then continue to play.. Use kernel tuner and check your CPU and Battery temperature.. If they are above 45 degrees, let it cool down.. And i have to say, the latest .96 fw has no issue of heating.. I have played NFS MW and Asphalt 8.. Although Asphalt 8 causes some heat, other high end games never made my phone heat up.. U can try the ROM with a clean install..
devices normall heat up while running apps that use hardware acceleration.
if no app is running, the device ideally shouldnt heat
up.
Thanks for your reply. i got my Nexus 5 now,same thing about heat in games or while on HDMI - thats normal so
got xperia s too, custom rom, cpu overclocked to 1916mhz, play alot on it over longer periods of time too (2 hours) nothing bad happened to it for a year i got it so... working as intended?
Galaxy Note I717 here, heats up after around 5 songs on Cytus while playing in an air conditioned room. Prolonged use (i.e. 15 to 30 minutes non-stop) also causes it to heat up to around the same temperature. OEMs should really make it a point to put cooling systems on all their devices.
I have a 16g black one from Google Play. and luckily it has no light bleed, minimal give on the back but the thing just get HOT even when I am using tasks like watching video or reading Chrome like now. I monitor the Cpu temp and it is around 40 > 50C when watching video surfing the web etc. However, when I am playing 3D games and stuff it get to about 60 > 75C. I dont know if it is normal or not and is this just a software or hardware issue because it get really hot on the top near the camera and both the screen and the metal rim get hot and burn my hands. I am considering RMA it if is cant be fix through a software update though. So is can it be fix through further update or rooting and new custom rom help ? And is a case gonna help reducing the heat to my hands ?
Also if I wait for the next batch can I wait and exchange for a better one then ?
kingstyle1990 said:
I have a 16g black one from Google Play. and luckily it has no light bleed, minimal give on the back but the thing just get HOT even when I am using tasks like watching video or reading Chrome like now. I monitor the Cpu temp and it is around 40 > 50C when watching video surfing the web etc. However, when I am playing 3D games and stuff it get to about 60 > 75C. I dont know if it is normal or not and is this just a software or hardware issue because it get really hot on the top near the camera and both the screen and the metal rim get hot and burn my hands. I am considering RMA it if is cant be fix through a software update though. So is can it be fix through further update or rooting and new custom rom help ? And is a case gonna help reducing the heat to my hands ?
Also if I wait for the next batch can I wait and exchange for a better one then ?
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You must be the lucky one the got the special unannounced option !
Only a select few have the New HTC "Hand warmer" edition made just for cooler climates like Antarctica.
Guys, can anyone help ?
This is normal. Any processor heats up with heavy gaming. The nexus 5 (snapdragon 800) can break the 70C mark in some cases. The nexus 7 (2012 with tegra) heats to 60C before throttling. The nexus 9 does try to dissepate the heat as quick as possible (lots of copper) and feels warmer.
Samsung devices are even worse, as they start throtteling even later.
The tegra k1 is a beast of a mobile processor (gpu and cpu).
spicyalan said:
This is normal. Any processor heats up with heavy gaming. The nexus 5 (snapdragon 800) can break the 70C mark in some cases. The nexus 7 (2012 with tegra) heats to 60C before throttling. The nexus 9 does try to dissepate the heat as quick as possible (lots of copper) and feels warmer.
Samsung devices are even worse, as they start throtteling even later.
The tegra k1 is a beast of a mobile processor (gpu and cpu).
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Basically, this.
Hell, my N5 actually reboots during antutu due to thermal heat and heats up a lot during gaming.
Also, the reason it heats up when watching a video, do not forget a video has to be decoded to be displayed on the screen. Hardware decoding is less intensive but some still rely on software decoding wich will heat up and cpu in a matter of minutes. So even something as simple as watching a video can be CPU intensive depending on the decoder.
As for chrome, haven't had my N9 heat up during chrome sessions. Weird
Actually, the Nexus 9 manages as only Android device in my collection to stay completely cool in netflix HD streaming. 10% battery usage after 90 minutes. Compared to the other devices that use up at least 40% of battery during the same time.
One drawback is the 4:3 screen, which still makes my Note 10.1 beter for netflix (or movie viewing in general)... But the Nexus 9 is the only tablet I even consider using in portrait.
Same problem here, especially with Chrome. I've rooted my device, I don't know if that could have something to do with the heating...
Chrome Beta seems to have really helped with the heat issue on mine. I still get a lot of heat with gaming but that seems to be it.
The n9 was the first device I've ever had that heated up on me while browsing in chrome. This is NOT normal. I RMA'd it and picked up a shield instead... I don't know how these devices passed QA with all the issues they're having.
My personal opinion, is lollipop isn't quite ready and many apps aren't either. I'm waiting for all to be updated. The heating problem will, I'm sure, be taken care of.
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My personal opinion, is lollipop isn't quite ready and many apps aren't either. I'm waiting for all to be updated. The heating problem will, I'm sure, be taken care of.
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Hopefully before black friday . The Sheild went up last year and I'm expecting it to do the same this year, not sure if I should go ahead and buy it or wait for the Nexus 9 to be fixed.
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kingstyle1990 said:
I have a 16g black one from Google Play. and luckily it has no light bleed, minimal give on the back but the thing just get HOT even when I am using tasks like watching video or reading Chrome like now. I monitor the Cpu temp and it is around 40 > 50C when watching video surfing the web etc. However, when I am playing 3D games and stuff it get to about 60 > 75C. I dont know if it is normal or not and is this just a software or hardware issue because it get really hot on the top near the camera and both the screen and the metal rim get hot and burn my hands. I am considering RMA it if is cant be fix through a software update though. So is can it be fix through further update or rooting and new custom rom help ? And is a case gonna help reducing the heat to my hands ?
Also if I wait for the next batch can I wait and exchange for a better one then ?
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I noticed the other night a considerable warming by the camera area and all I was doing was browsing the Internet. So as I was using Chrome I stopped, and browsed with FireFox, the tablet cooled completely down. Even watching YouTube it was barely warm.
I think something is wrong with Chrome and it's causing a loop somewhere in the code ramping up the CPU causing it to use a lot of power and that equals waste heat.
Playing games also has the same effect, it ramps up the CPU. The CPU is probably rated to continue working up to quite a high temperature before it needs to slow itself down to allow to cool, but when that heat causes the case to become very hot, it should back off the speed and so keep itself cool a long time before it reaches any of it's own temperature maximums, the trouble is keeping the case cool means the CPU can't maintain high performance for very long, so what's the point of a fast CPU.
Really tablets are not the best designed devices for 3D type game playing, or anything really that needs to use a lot of CPU power over and above the occasional burst.
I wouldn't be surprised once all the benchmarks have been done and published, if a software updated doesn't fix the heat problem by throttling the CPU quicker, and running it with realistic performance characteristics that being sandwiched in a very thing plastic case with no vents or active cooling requires.
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I second the chrome beta helping. I disabled regular chrome in app manager and installed the chrome beta and have had a significant boost in battery life and decrease in heat while browsing.
Mine only gets warm with heavy games
cd419 said:
I second the chrome beta helping. I disabled regular chrome in app manager and installed the chrome beta and have had a significant boost in battery life and decrease in heat while browsing.
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Your welcome
cd419 said:
I second the chrome beta helping. I disabled regular chrome in app manager and installed the chrome beta and have had a significant boost in battery life and decrease in heat while browsing.
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Do you still notice any warmth using Chrome Beta? Or is it relatively cool? I have tried both Chrome Beta and Dolphin, and I am still noticing a good amount of heat. It's actually cooler watching Netflix than it is doing any sort of browsing whatsoever.
bailyc said:
Do you still notice any warmth using Chrome Beta? Or is it relatively cool? I have tried both Chrome Beta and Dolphin, and I am still noticing a good amount of heat. It's actually cooler watching Netflix than it is doing any sort of browsing whatsoever.
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Saturday when I switched to the Chrome beta for the first time the heat was the same as before. Yesterday and today it has been noticeably cooler. I'd say the tablet gets just warm enough to notice a difference from it's ambient temperature when using chrome beta. I've gotten slightly better battery life but i'm still only hitting 4 hours screen on time when I hit 15% battery which is about a 1 hour increase from before using chrome beta.
I think chrome is still in need of major optimization because as you said when I use youtube or netflix I get much better thermal and battery performance. I did notice today that chrome seems to be performing extremely well on page loads and interactivity with javascript elements etc. I threw as many complicated sites as I could at it and made sure to go to sites I that hadn't been cached before on the tablet and it was super fast. It actually impressed me with it's performance which I wasn't expecting. Now it just needs to get more battery efficient and it will be perfect.
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Saturday when I switched to the Chrome beta for the first time the heat was the same as before. Yesterday and today it has been noticeably cooler. I'd say the tablet gets just warm enough to notice a difference from it's ambient temperature when using chrome beta. I've gotten slightly better battery life but i'm still only hitting 4 hours screen on time when I hit 15% battery which is about a 1 hour increase from before using chrome beta.
I think chrome is still in need of major optimization because as you said when I use youtube or netflix I get much better thermal and battery performance. I did notice today that chrome seems to be performing extremely well on page loads and interactivity with javascript elements etc. I threw as many complicated sites as I could at it and made sure to go to sites I that hadn't been cached before on the tablet and it was super fast. It actually impressed me with it's performance which I wasn't expecting. Now it just needs to get more battery efficient and it will be perfect.
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Thanks for the details. It's a shame that browsing is so poorly optimized. That's my main purpose for a tablet. I've just been on Dolphin the last hour and yep, heat is still pretty strong and my battery has gone down quite a bit. But before that, I was running Netflix for several hours just to test, and was up to about 5 hrs SOT. But I typically don't watch much Netflix, so that doesn't reflect real-world usage for me at all.
Yeah it's a little disappointing but the improvement I saw from chrome release and chrome beta is promising. My browsing experience today aside from heat and battery issues really made me like this device. The performance really blew me away. It felt more responsive than my i7 desktop.
kdkinc said:
You must be the lucky one the got the special unannounced option !
Only a select few have the New HTC "Hand warmer" edition made just for cooler climates like Antarctica.
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Haha thats awesome
cd419 said:
Yeah it's a little disappointing but the improvement I saw from chrome release and chrome beta is promising. My browsing experience today aside from heat and battery issues really made me like this device. The performance really blew me away. It felt more responsive than my i7 desktop.
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I too find myself getting attached, despite these issues. It's a really smooth tablet experience :good:
Very tempted to get a P9000 but worried the phone overheats when gaming as it has a Mediatek based CPU. My Lenovo K3 Note starts to overheat after just 10 minutes gaming and the FPS in games drops significantly.
elrasho said:
Very tempted to get a P9000 but worried the phone overheats when gaming as it has a Mediatek based CPU. My Lenovo K3 Note starts to overheat after just 10 minutes gaming and the FPS in games drops significantly.
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I am playing Nintendo DS emulator, PSP emulator und sometimes some games like GTA. It will be warm, of course it will because of CPU, but it never overheated for me, and i do heavy task
Really tempted to get this package: http://shop.gizchina.com/elephone/elephone-p9000-4gb-ram-32gb-rom-smartphone-660.html
Comes with everything I would need. Is this a big upgrade from the Lenovo K3 Note?
yes it really overheat while playing games even though I play it for almost 10 mins. and the heat came from the back and also the screen,,
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yes it really overheat while playing games even though I play it for almost 10 mins. and the heat came from the back and also the screen,,
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What do you understand with overheat? Becoming warm isnt overheating.
I've ran some pretty long and extensive performance benchmarks and done some playing.
The phone does get rather hot when playing for extended periods but has never shut down for me.
(mine is in the Elephone black flip-case (got it with the phone straight from Elephone)) so I suspect that keeps it even warmer.
Hello everyone, the S9 Plus that I bought a few months ago feels like a burning pan when I'm gaming and its temperature can reach 40°C-42°C when I'm just browsing Facebook/Instagram, it's a bit cooler when I'm using a browser however. I'm not quite sure whether my phone overheats or not since I'm living in Southeast Asia where the temperature is high above 30°C in the afternoon. Today when I'm playing a FPS which is not that graphics intensive compared to PUBG mobile for example, its temperature reached 51°C and it's too hot to be touched, it feels like a burning pan. I called Samsung Customer Support regarding this issue and they say it's quite normal for it to be that high, especially when gaming. So, I was wondering, to those who are a Samsung S9 Plus user, do y'all face such issue and is this normal? I don't know whether it's the fact that I'm using data for gaming or whatnots but it doesn't by all means seem normal to me.
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Hello everyone, the S9 Plus that I bought a few months ago feels like a burning pan when I'm gaming and its temperature can reach 40°C-42°C when I'm just browsing Facebook/Instagram, it's a bit cooler when I'm using a browser however. I'm not quite sure whether my phone overheats or not since I'm living in Southeast Asia where the temperature is high above 30°C in the afternoon. Today when I'm playing a FPS which is not that graphics intensive compared to PUBG mobile for example, its temperature reached 51°C and it's too hot to be touched, it feels like a burning pan. I called Samsung Customer Support regarding this issue and they say it's quite normal for it to be that high, especially when gaming. So, I was wondering, to those who are a Samsung S9 Plus user, do y'all face such issue and is this normal? I don't know whether it's the fact that I'm using data for gaming or whatnots but it doesn't by all means seem normal to me.
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50C° celsius for a cpu is normal, mine last summer get hot too when play games.(30° ambiental temerature).
You can feel so hot maybe due to the material(glass) of the phone, have you tryied to use a cover to workaround the issue?
Edit: after i've seen the screenshot i assume you was talking about the battery temperature. My battery now with 10 C° ambiental temperature, in idle work with 34C°, so your temperature is good.
I've read some really mixed opinions, some say that it doesn't throttle at all (but gets quite hot during use, and I consider that a good thing, heat gets distributed from the chipset quickly).
And some say that performance falls significantly after like 10 minutes of load and games start having lag spikes after that time.
It's a hot phone. I've updated from Huawei p30 pro and I found this Xperia 1 iii runs super hot and it's basically unusable without a case, and I needed to put it against an AC vent in my car from time to time to cool it off . Never had that issue with my Huawei.
Well I already found some great tests on Tech Nick channel. It's the chipset to blame for the heat.
But compared to other phones with same chipset, Sony is one of the best performers. It even beat Asus ROG phone in terms how quickly it launchesss apps, etc. (but not in some scores, probably some throttling to blame in long-term performance, but we are comparing it to a phone that is designed specifically for gaming.)
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Well I already found some great tests on Tech Nick channel. It's the chipset to blame for the heat.
But compared to other phones with same chipset, Sony is one of the best performers. It even beat Asus ROG phone in terms how quickly it launchesss apps, etc. (but not in some scores, probably some throttling to blame in long-term performance, but we are comparing it to a phone that has a freaking fan.)
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That I agree. It's fast. And it's beautifully designed overall.
Only thing now is none of the apps refresh in background. Like my gmail. Can't for the life of me figure what's wrong. Checked every box turned on all the background refresh settings in app or in phone settings. But still no luck.
Maybe I'll wait the US version ROM and flash the phone and see if it fixes the issue.
Other then that, great phone. I just wish it chargers quicker LOL. Only 30W
They should definitely fix the refresh thing, it's a major bug. Never experienced anything like this on olders Xperias with EU rom, probably CN one to blame.
Also, does the phone get really hot when charging like previous ones? And how much does HS power control help with this if I'm using a cpu-intensive app?
(It's in the Game Enhancer that can actually be used on any other app)
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Well I already found some great tests on Tech Nick channel. It's the chipset to blame for the heat.
But compared to other phones with same chipset, Sony is one of the best performers. It even beat Asus ROG phone in terms how quickly it launchesss apps, etc. (but not in some scores, probably some throttling to blame in long-term performance, but we are comparing it to a phone that is designed specifically for gaming.)
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Does tech nick test performance by processing video or testing fps while playing games or is he strictly one if those laughable channels that does app opening contests?
the phone gets hot, it's true.
one thing it tells us about is its heat dissipating efficiency.
as soon as it gets hot it starts getting rid of heat.
While it's not pleasant to hold a hot phone, it also means the phone is actively cooling down.
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Does tech nick test performance by processing video or testing fps while playing games or is he strictly one if those laughable channels that does app opening contests?
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He did a video encoding test and Xperia won there. But no fps tests sadly. But I was not looking for them, because I do game eery mich on a phone, but I need to do heavy processing sometimes.
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He did a video encoding test and Xperia won there. But no fps tests sadly. But I was not looking for them, because I do game eery mich on a phone, but I need to do heavy processing sometimes.
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Oh, I forgot. He did FPS test on some popular games in his rewiew but no comparison. He got 60 in those games that were capped to that or solid 114 to 120 in uncapped ones.
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Oh, I forgot. He did FPS test on some popular games in his rewiew but no comparison. He got 60 in those games that were capped to that or solid 114 to 120 in uncapped ones.
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I saw someone do fps with gendhin impact. It was hard to watch. It dropped down to 20 fps. Luckily with the game i play hours a day (call of duty) it rocked 120 fps consistently.
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I saw someone do fps with gendhin impact. It was hard to watch. It dropped down to 20 fps. Luckily with the game i play hours a day (call of duty) it rocked 120 fps consistently.
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Maybe early firmware or it was really hot outside
I watched a video that uses specialized app to test for throttling - performance never dropped below 50% of max.
Very hot phone! When you doing nothing, it`s ok, it`s warm, but when the phone is loaded with tasks it gets seriously hot.
Think twice before buying!
I have never had any problems with heat at all. Record a lot of movies and use it often. Sure it gets warm but not more than any other device