Hardware Thermal MOD

[jcfunk]

Came across this in the main G3 forum, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2845220

Going to try this, once I get some thermal paste.

Best 15 minute mod ever.

Here is another thread talking about this mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3130752

 

[jcfunk]

I just did this. Been running phone for hours.
Temp used to be 140F or higher. With lots of over heat shut downs. Now it's 96F with screen off, and highest I've seen so far 124F.
When I get on a computer, I will post picks of what I used.

This is the best 15 minute mod I've ever done.
I used Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound and 15mm x 15mm x 0.5mm Notebook Laptop GPU CPU Heatsink Copper Pad

 

[jcfunk]

Has anyone else done this mod? Please post, I would like to see if results are the same.

 

[TheHighlightGuy]

Has anyone else done this mod? Please post, I would like to see if results are the same.

Gonna try soon and report back

 

[cdxxdickie]

cool

thats pretty neato

 

[Snazarian]

I did the mod last week... i might be one of the lucky few, but the phone never used to shut down or overheat badly..but idle is now betweek 38-41C and on high load/benchmark is between 54-59C.
Very easy to do...i had thermal paste lying around, but had to buy .8mm copper shims from amazon

 

[jcfunk]

I did the mod last week... i might be one of the lucky few, but the phone never used to shut down or overheat badly..but idle is now betweek 38-41C and on high load/benchmark is between 54-59C.
Very easy to do...i had thermal paste lying around, but had to buy .8mm copper shims from amazon

What are your results?

 

[BigFatWetChoad]

Any luck with this?

Did anyone else give this a shot? If so was it worth the effort?

 

[auriculogenesis]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64305229&postcount=159

Use a thermal pad instead of paste and/or a shim. GPS issues have been reported, apparently.

EDIT: I decided to do it after giving it a good read. I had some thermal grease lying around, so I just applied it.

I'm not seeing any real improvement. I used a small amount of paste, enough to cover the whole SoC upon compression, I would have thought. I'm plugged into a 5 W power brick right now, running Fallout Shelter. I'm hovering at around 60 C. It doesn't feel any different compared to before. I didn't do a benchmark beforehand, so if you want to download the game and give me temp numbers, that would be nice.

Recording 4K video for more than 2 minutes spikes the temp to 80 C.

YouTube videos spike temps to 60 C. If I bought paste for this, I'd be kinda upset lol

 

[Kyusaku]

What size screwdriver is needed? The smallest I have is a 2.0 mm and it's proving to be impossible.

 

[auriculogenesis]

Single or double zero Philips head I think. Also, don't bother if you don't have thermal padding. Adding thermal paste only transmits heat from the SOC to the plastic housing behind the screen and now the screen gets absurdly hot during load. It's pretty stupid. Not sure how people are even seeing improvements with this "mod".

 

[Kyusaku]

Single or double zero Philips head I think. Also, don't bother if you don't have thermal padding. Adding thermal paste only transmits heat from the SOC to the plastic housing behind the screen and now the screen gets absurdly hot during load. It's pretty stupid. Not sure how people are even seeing improvements with this "mod".

Yeah had a pad. It needed 00, I ordered a set off amazon and worked like a charm. I think single 0 is 2.0mm and was almost stripping the screws. Temps much better now.

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[tiguy99]

Single or double zero Philips head I think. Also, don't bother if you don't have thermal padding. Adding thermal paste only transmits heat from the SOC to the plastic housing behind the screen and now the screen gets absurdly hot during load. It's pretty stupid. Not sure how people are even seeing improvements with this "mod".

Have you tried it?
If not try the "mod" with the Fujipoly Extreme thermal pad

Then post your before and after screen temp shots and let us know how it doesn't work

From experience I can say it does work