Question Any overheating issues with your new Pixel 6/6 Pro?

[ah0y]

Mine overheating with 15 min of TikTok watching.

 

[chaosking121]

Wow, I thought I was going crazy - TikTok heats up my phone a ton too. Really reassured to see everyone else say the same.

 

[mkhcb]

Solution to this issue. I have https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.franco.kernel

... And created an app profile that turns off the 2 heavy cores when TikTok is used. So TikTok cannot drive my device into the realms of hell. Also by making it only happen with TikTok, I see no real performance issues. TikTok also works well with 6 cores, rather than all 8.

 

[96carboard]

Isn't tiktok a product of the PRC? Its probably mining for bitcoins with the big cores any time its running.

 

[Kontex]

I've temperature issues (50°C warning message) during Wi-Fi tethering with one guest PC that makes heavy use of P2P-Services (10Mbit Up/Down simultaneously and ~500 connections). I could reduce the load significantly (25°C) by using USB-Tethering instead. I'm using a rooted phone with AFWall. Any idea what keeps the phone so busy on Wi-Fi?

 

[MrBaer]

Pixel 6. Only overheats while on Qi wireless charger. Last night it overheated to the point of interrupting the charge, and slowed functions on the phone. 3XL was awesome. Never any problems until it updated to Android 12. Now Google won't give us the bug fixes.

 

[96carboard]

Pixel 6. Only overheats while on Qi wireless charger. Last night it overheated to the point of interrupting the charge, and slowed functions on the phone. 3XL was awesome. Never any problems until it updated to Android 12. Now Google won't give us the bug fixes.

Really? Mine (P6P) is ice cold while charging on Qi. Its the only way I charge it.

 

[WibblyW]

Pixel 6. Only overheats while on Qi wireless charger. Last night it overheated to the point of interrupting the charge, and slowed functions on the phone. 3XL was awesome. Never any problems until it updated to Android 12. Now Google won't give us the bug fixes.

I bought a Chargie. I can stop charging when the battery reaches a certain temperature, and resume charging when the phone cools down. I wireless charge in thecar for convenience. But overheating is bad to start off with.

 

[SilverLynx]

The two times i had a problem with overheating was:

1) When setting up, downloading, installing all my apps, it became pretty warm.

2) Due to the lack of the 3.5 mm jack, I tried using a USB-C to 3.5 mm jack dongle. Within a minute of playing a video, the audio began to stutter, the system became sluggish, and the phone got really hot very quickly. The dongle was very cheap, and search of the forums shows the Pixel 6 has USB Audio issues.

Other than those two times, I haven't had any problems

 

[andrewhahalee]

Mine does. But only sometimes. Not sure what causes it.

Just casual scrolling on social media. Left side of the screen gets hot. Only the left side - where my thumb conveniently rests while swiping.

Weird. Other parts of the phone are cool. Even the back is cool. Maybe someone can enlightened me what is under the left side of the screen?

I'm indoors and it's 25°C. Brightness at 40%. I'm not charging, batt at 67%. I have good cellular and WiFi signals.

 

[velqn]

Not so much and so often - after the December update I was even able to record 20:43 min of 4k video 60 FPS - this is kind of the most intensive thing I found besides maxing it out on synthetics or using intense games like the Genshin

I did a video on this you can check it it`s in the how to`s.

 

[homeedition88]

Mine does. But only sometimes. Not sure what causes it.

Just casual scrolling on social media. Left side of the screen gets hot. Only the left side - where my thumb conveniently rests while swiping.

Weird. Other parts of the phone are cool. Even the back is cool. Maybe someone can enlightened me what is under the left side of the screen?

I'm indoors and it's 25°C. Brightness at 40%. I'm not charging, batt at 67%. I have good cellular and WiFi signals.

I bought one and it uses March update but I have exactly the same problem. First left side then all back side. Watching Instagram reels or YouTube shorts triggered I guess. How is your doing did you find any solution for this.

 

[Waibashi]

I bought one and it uses March update but I have exactly the same problem. First left side then all back side. Watching Instagram reels or YouTube shorts triggered I guess. How is your doing did you find any solution for this.

Just got my 4th RMA. This time I've got a brand new Pixel 6 Pro manufactured in March 2022. This one seems to be heating up really fast. I don't know if it's the fact I have many things optimizing in the background. But phone keeps draining running warm. Currently at 37.2c which feels normal...but I saw spikes at 42c

Also the fact that everything happened at the same time.... New phone. March update. I'm gonna wait and see if the April update gets released this week and use android Flash Tool to bring it back to clean slate.

Usually overhearing issues are problems with software ... Not hardware

 

[vandyman]

Usually overhearing issues are problems with software ... Not hardware

Using social media apps and watching videos all day. Will kill the battery and heat the cell up.

 

[robuser007]

Is this problem fixed with new software from google ? I'm thing of buying the pixel 6.

 

[WibblyW]

Just so everyone understands.
The P6 back cover plate is a heat sink.
The back plate is lined with copper to pull heat away from the electronics.
So with this in mind, the back plate can get hot while charging or heavy use.

MUCH better than it being an insulator, being cool to the touch & everyone thinking everything is fine, with the battery and other components frying inside .

All you can really do (as some are doing here) is compare one phone to another based on an app that exposes sensor temperatures - not the feel of the phone.

 

[ascsa]

Developed an app to show the battery temperature in the notifications/ quicksettings area, so you can keep an eye on this issue ... early release (beta) today ... have a look if you want ...let me know if this could help and dm me if you want a promo code ...

link to forum post:

[App] [Android 7+] [Android 13] [Battery Temperature] [Release] QuickBatteryTile

Hi guys, it´s an hot summer ☀️☀️😅☀️☀️.... Using your phone in the heat is not good for your device! Therefore the newer Android devices try to throttle down and ultimately shut down before your device get´s too hot and potentially damaged. Ever...

forum.xda-developers.com

 

[squidbutt]

Ive had mine notify me that it was too hot and that "some functions would be disabled" before,on android 12,while door dashing. Its only happened 2 or 3 times. Other than that it can get warm to the touch. It scares me. I have never had a phone get warm to the touch

 

[apatrahil]

Hi, I am experiencing same issue with P6, on stable A13. I did already reset the phone to zero once, but it keeps happening. In short - when streaming online radio - InTune or similar, on LTE, with screen off on bluetooth - phone heats up to 40 degrees C and battery drains at about 15% per hour. Is this normal, I've been using InMusic for more than 5y and never had this issue... What should I do? This ruins my otherwise excellent experience i have with the brand new phone. Please help

 

[WibblyW]

Hi, I am experiencing same issue with P6, on stable A13. I did already reset the phone to zero once, but it keeps happening. In short - when streaming online radio - InTune or similar, on LTE, with screen off on bluetooth - phone heats up to 40 degrees C and battery drains at about 15% per hour. Is this normal, I've been using InMusic for more than 5y and never had this issue... What should I do? This ruins my otherwise excellent experience i have with the brand new phone. Please help

I would say normal, and would be a lot worse if you are in a poor signal area. 15%/hr would be over 6 1/2hrs SOT streaming over LTE...