How To Stop Your Smartphone From Overheating？

Your phone overheats. But is it happening all by itself, or do you have apps running in the background that you don’t know about? Perhaps you’re gaming too much, or the environmental conditions are too extreme… the fact is, it’s difficult to pinpoint just why your smartphone is overheating.

 Why do it heat up? 

If you want to find out why do the smartphone heat up, we need to look at various causes and try to work out just what is going on.

Leave in the sunlight too long

Sunlight, especially summer’s sunlight, will heat up your mobile phone if you put it under sun directly for a long time. Smartphones are overly sensitive to surrounding temperatures, and certain temperatures may cause a phone to overheat with its components melting, rendering the phone useless.

Using heavy apps

Many apps might be continuously running even if you’ve just recently closed them.However, these background apps & services take up CPU resources, thus putting a strain and heating the hardware.

Extremely long hours of gaming

One of the most demanding application for a smartphone is heavy duty games,using camera&VR for long durations. These applications tend to drain your battery in an instant when used at long hours because of the demand it needs from your smartphone’s system.

Using the phone while charging

Avoid playing high power consumption apps and functions while the phone is charging. Using high power consumption apps like playing games, watching videos, etc, can eat up a considerably amount of battery life and inflict a heavy toll on its processing speed while it’s charging.

Infected by virus

When your cell phone is infected by the virus or other types of malware, it will spread malicious content, send your data to the malware developer by using the phone’s resources. Thus, your phone gets heat suddenly.

 How to cool it down? 

Make sure to store your smartphone to places that are cool and shaded.

Avoid running too many apps in the background

If you want to turn the heat down on your device you might want to look into the number of apps you have running in the background and try and limit this in the future. Just make sure to exit the apps after you are done using it and restrict auto-start if your device allows such controls.

Avoid playing Games, using VR&Camera for long durations

Manage your playing time to prevent your smartphone from wheezing and from overheating.

Remove malware from your phone

Run the virus scan tool on your phone to find the malware source, then uninstall the app.

Charge your Android phone properly 

If the overheating problem is caused by phone battery, the back of your mobile phone will be obvious hot. Press and hold the power key to turn off the phone, then check your phone battery temperature.

Conclusion

Above are some common reasons and solutions for resolving a hot Android phone. However, the overheating problem can be caused by personal settings, which you can try disabling unneeded features and functions, and restart your phone (or factory reset) to fix the problem.

The solutions work on almost all Android phones. If the overheating problem cannot be fixed by trying all above methods, go to a local mobile phone repair shop or contact the seller to solve the problem.