Battery/Phone Getting Very Hot

stepinmyworld · Apr 24, 2013

Hey everyone -

Not sure if you've experienced this but I have the At&t HTC One 32GB model and I noticed that it heats up when watching videos or even downloading something. It gets over 100F as I have a battery monitor which informs me and I feel how uncomfortable it is. anyone else expericing this and maybe we'll need to root and Use Set CPU to add a profile which underclocks the CPU when it goes over 90 or something like that

I could just have a faulty device but i've read a few articles where people mentioned this but it doesn't get much attention -probably because people don't wanna bad mouth the phone so to speak. who knows

Maybe a Kernel and software update will help along with battery drain.

Nyxagamemnon · Apr 24, 2013

stepinmyworld said:
Hey everyone -

Not sure if you've experienced this but I have the At&t HTC One 32GB model and I noticed that it heats up when watching videos or even downloading something. It gets over 100F as I have a battery monitor which informs me and I feel how uncomfortable it is. anyone else expericing this and maybe we'll need to root and Use Set CPU to add a profile which underclocks the CPU when it goes over 90 or something like that

I could just have a faulty device but i've read a few articles where people mentioned this but it doesn't get much attention -probably because people don't wanna bad mouth the phone so to speak. who knows

Maybe a Kernel and software update will help along with battery drain.

Your not alone I experience the same thing.

ratykat · Apr 24, 2013

I have the same issue, I just use the phone in the official flip case and that stops it hurting haha

iraqgsm · Apr 24, 2013

i guess its not common one i got 2 from letstalk 64gb dev and they are great, maybe try to get replacement oh and both were made around 04/15 according to the serail info thread

darkgoon3r96 · Apr 24, 2013

iraqgsm said:
i guess its not common one i got 2 from letstalk 64gb dev and they are great, maybe try to get replacement oh and both were made around 04/15 according to the serail info thread

Yes according to some posts I read the April phone batches fixed the heating issue.

stepinmyworld · Apr 24, 2013

iraqgsm said:
i guess its not common one i got 2 from letstalk 64gb dev and they are great, maybe try to get replacement oh and both were made around 04/15 according to the serail info thread

well that's awesome.. hopefully other's who are having the issue can get a fix. not good

godofwar424 · Apr 24, 2013

The heat is normal, you will find that the SoC can safely go up to 60 degrees Celsius and possibly more. The reason you feel it is due to aluminium being very good at dissipating the heat and as your hands are touching the metal, they conduct that heat

Its really just a case of either getting a case/cover. OR hold the device with two hands with the bottom of your palm (wrist end) pressed into the two sides of the phone (landscape) This way you get minimal heat to your hands and the device can cool itself as more air will get to the back

stepinmyworld · Apr 24, 2013

godofwar424 said:
The heat is normal, you will find that the SoC can safely go up to 60 degrees Celsius and possibly more. The reason you feel it is due to aluminium being very good at dissipating the heat and as your hands are touching the metal, they conduct that heat

Its really just a case of either getting a case/cover. OR hold the device with two hands with the bottom of your palm (wrist end) pressed into the two sides of the phone (landscape) This way you get minimal heat to your hands and the device can cool itself as more air will get to the back

sounds great but it even heats up when the case is on it.. all phones heat up but this is pretty hot. i bet if they did that melting butter experiment with this chip, it will melt with absolutely no problem lol. this may sound strange but sometimes when im holding it and its hot, i use my mind and it cools down off and on.. goodness knows i be trynna make that work because i know how everything is really connected but yeah

hope they address this somehow

thank you for your response and others

godofwar424 · Apr 24, 2013

stepinmyworld said:
sounds great but it even heats up when the case is on it.. all phones heat up but this is pretty hot. i bet if they did that melting butter experiment with this chip, it will melt with absolutely no problem lol. this may sound strange but sometimes when im holding it and its hot, i use my mind and it cools down off and on.. goodness knows i be trynna make that work because i know how everything is really connected but yeah

hope they address this somehow

thank you for your response and others

Yeah its just due to the metal honestly. In plastic phones the area where the SoC is gets extremely hot and just as unbearable to touch. BUT as this is an aluminium unibody the heat spreads all over. The reason I said to hold the top and bottom of the device where the speakers are is because there is a plastic strip separating the middle piece of metal from the two sides, meaning these sides are cooler to hold.

h.han · Apr 24, 2013

Yes, mine one can get quite hot especially when I play game. However one the other hand, I find it cooling down extremely fast comparing to my GS3 which does take time to warm up also to go back to comfortable temperature.

Must due to the aluminum back which transfers the heat faster than plastic.

Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app

Silellak · Apr 24, 2013

In my experience, gets One XL got noticeably hotter than the One when performing the same tasks.

expertzero1 · Apr 24, 2013

Everyones heat tolerance is different. Phone gets WARM when im watching video. Couple minutes later it's not hot. So it's definateky not a issue.

Plastic insulates the heat, aluminum dissipates heat. No brainer here

Sent from my HTC One using xda premium

darkgoon3r96 · Apr 24, 2013

expertzero1 said:
Everyones heat tolerance is different. Phone gets WARM when im watching video. Couple minutes later it's not hot. So it's definateky not a issue.

Plastic insulates the heat, aluminum dissipates heat. No brainer here

Sent from my HTC One using xda premium

How is the heat when using the browser for extended amounts of time?

expertzero1 · Apr 24, 2013

darkgoon3r96 said:
How is the heat when using the browser for extended amounts of time?

Im usually on my pc when browsing .

Only times my phone was warm is when im downloading a huge file , music streaming and web surfing at the same time, and YouTube videos. To the point of where omg it's hot af, nope. Havnt had the chance to play games yet, damn them midterms

Sent from my HTC One using xda premium

kin05 · Apr 24, 2013

Metal conducts the heat but can also conducts the cold.
Let my phone in my cold bedroom during the night and took it in the morning it was like the phone was left outdoor

iraqgsm · Apr 24, 2013

darkgoon3r96 said:
yes according to some posts i read the april phone batches fixed the heating issue.

ht34gw build

---------- Post added at 11:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:39 PM ----------

even the battery charge dont take as long as some people mentioned here

Apoxx · Apr 25, 2013

I found mine to get really hot as well, just by surfing on wifi.
I thought it was normal, and still do, but if anyone here has One's that don't get hot at all, please tell, cause then I'm gonna get a bit concerned.

darkgoon3r96 · Apr 25, 2013

Apoxx said:
I found mine to get really hot as well, just by surfing on wifi.
I thought it was normal, and still do, but if anyone here has One's that don't get hot at all, please tell, cause then I'm gonna get a bit concerned.

hot as in too hot to touch?

Apoxx · Apr 25, 2013

darkgoon3r96 said:
hot as in too hot to touch?

Nope, but hot as in making my palms really sweaty after just a few minutes use.

Dacp283 · Apr 25, 2013

Apoxx said:
Nope, but hot as in making my palms really sweaty after just a few minutes use.

Previous posters hit it right on the head. The aluminium body acts just like a heat sink sucking moving heat from inside out and then your hands act like an insulator keeping the heat there. The OG Droid did the same thing. It's just part of having this design. Keep in mind though it does an excellent job of stopping your phone from hitting critical internal tempetures.

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