How hot is too hot for a smartphone?

[steezemageeze]

My Droid Turbo gets really hot when it's charging, GSam battery monitor is saying that it's 130°F right now, which is hotter than my Athlon at load. I can barely hold the damn thing. Is this a problem? 

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If you can barely hold it, yes that's a problem, regardless of whether or not the components can take that heat

[Techicolors]

i don't know if the droid turbo has quick charging but usually quick charge heats up the phone a bit, more-so when the battery's nearly dead. but it shouldn't be extremely hot. did you check out the charger itself? 

[Hman1250]

When you can actually notice the huge increase of temperature. I base it off room temperature. If my phone feels way hotter than room temperature, then I know somethings up.

[Tornation]

7 minutes ago, steezemageeze said:

My Droid Turbo gets really hot when it's charging, GSam battery monitor is saying that it's 130°F right now, which is hotter than my Athlon at load. I can barely hold the damn thing. Is this a problem? 

What is the amperage of your charger? 

[steezemageeze]

2 minutes ago, Technicolors said:

i don't know if the droid turbo has quick charging but usually quick charge heats up the phone a bit, more-so when the battery's nearly dead. but it shouldn't be extremely hot. did you check out the charger itself? 

It does have quick charging, but it never used to get this hot. I'll try using a Samsung charger I have lying around and see if it overheats

[iamdarkyoshi]

I have had my tablet at 75 degrees before

[tcolecruz]

6 minutes ago, steezemageeze said:

My Droid Turbo gets really hot when it's charging, GSam battery monitor is saying that it's 130°F right now, which is hotter than my Athlon at load. I can barely hold the damn thing. Is this a problem? 

That sounds like possibly an issue with the device. It's too bad that Motorola's service sucks. on the topic of insane heat, my old iMac would practically burn my hand if I touched it after some... light, uhh... gaming 

[steezemageeze]

6 minutes ago, Tornation said:

What is the amperage of your charger? 

Not sure... It's the Motorola brick that came with it and an AmazoncBasics cable. I think it says 1.6A but the text is faded

[Tornation]

Just now, steezemageeze said:

Not sure... It's the Motorola brick that came with it and an AmazoncBasics cable. I think it says 1.6A but the text is faded

Odd... That should be well within reasonable limits especially since I assume it came with the device. This might point to a flaw within the phone itself. But honestly idk.

[Aniallation]

16 minutes ago, steezemageeze said:

Not sure... It's the Motorola brick that came with it and an AmazoncBasics cable. I think it says 1.6A but the text is faded

 

14 minutes ago, Tornation said:

Odd... That should be well within reasonable limits especially since I assume it came with the device. This might point to a flaw within the phone itself. But honestly idk.

 

The Motorola Turbo Charger is 1.2A, but remember that that's at 12V and not the normal 5V. It's almost 20 watts of power which is twice as much as standard 5V/2A chargers. Quick Charge 2.0 makes a lot more heat than regular charging, but it shouldn't be to the point where you can barely hold it. My S6 Edge under quick charge does get hot to the point where it feels strange because you're not used to a device getting so warm when charging (even though it's normal), but it's definitely not to the point of being uncomfortable and/or worrying.

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39 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I have had my tablet at 75 degrees before

Same - I've got the CPU on my shield tablet (overclocked to 2.5 GHz) up to 70s or low 80s before, but even then the battery was never as high as 50C.  I think those two parts a very different in what they can handle

[iamdarkyoshi]

13 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Same - I've got the CPU on my shield tablet (overclocked to 2.5 GHz) up to 70s or low 80s before, but even then the battery was never as high as 50C.  I think those two parts a very different in what they can handle

Mine was doing 1080p60 youtube playback and running on a wireless charger with the screen brightness up. My nexus 7 charges faster over wireless, I think its stupid it only draws half of what its stock charger is rated at over a wired connection

[iamdarkyoshi]

6 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Same - I've got the CPU on my shield tablet (overclocked to 2.5 GHz) up to 70s or low 80s before, but even then the battery was never as high as 50C.  I think those two parts a very different in what they can handle

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Mine was doing 1080p60 youtube playback and running on a wireless charger with the screen brightness up. My nexus 7 charges faster over wireless, I think its stupid it only draws half of what its stock charger is rated at over a wired connection...

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10 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

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Mine was doing 1080p60 youtube playback and running on a wireless charger with the screen brightness up. My nexus 7 charges faster over wireless, I think its stupid it only draws half of what its stock charger is rated at over a wired connection...

I see your overheating tablet and raise you another

(Actually idk what was going on here - the sensors were confused I think since the device was around 15 to 20 c)

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6 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

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