- Jul 13, 2016
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Hi,
When driving, especially during daytime hours, and especially in warmer months, my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone often overheats while it's working to navigate me and I'm hoping you, or others, might please have ideas of things I could get, or techniques I could try, to minimize/eliminate that.
I've been placing it in a mount and tried:
* attaching the mount to my windshield
* attaching the mount to the top of my dashboard
* attaching the mount to the front of a panel inside the car, in front of my gearshift
* opening windows
* opening the sunroof
* angling the vents (and mount) so as to try to maximize how much air is blowing directly on the phone to try and keep it cool(er)
...but, so far at least, nothing seems to be completely effective.
A brainstorm I had was to get some fabric and maybe some bendable plastic to put inside that fabric, and place that behind my phone in the mount so as to block the sun, but I wouldn't know where to get stuff like that, or even if it would do the job.
Do you have any ideas, please, about this?
Thanks,
Bram Weiser
P.S. Aside to Forum Moderators: While typing this question in Firefox on my PC, the browser window kept going dark continually (even though no other window would do this). Fortunately, I could at least refresh/reload the window and recover what I was typing, but it was VERY frustrating! Why was this happening, and can this please be fixed soon? Thanks!
When driving, especially during daytime hours, and especially in warmer months, my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone often overheats while it's working to navigate me and I'm hoping you, or others, might please have ideas of things I could get, or techniques I could try, to minimize/eliminate that.
I've been placing it in a mount and tried:
* attaching the mount to my windshield
* attaching the mount to the top of my dashboard
* attaching the mount to the front of a panel inside the car, in front of my gearshift
* opening windows
* opening the sunroof
* angling the vents (and mount) so as to try to maximize how much air is blowing directly on the phone to try and keep it cool(er)
...but, so far at least, nothing seems to be completely effective.
A brainstorm I had was to get some fabric and maybe some bendable plastic to put inside that fabric, and place that behind my phone in the mount so as to block the sun, but I wouldn't know where to get stuff like that, or even if it would do the job.
Do you have any ideas, please, about this?
Thanks,
Bram Weiser
P.S. Aside to Forum Moderators: While typing this question in Firefox on my PC, the browser window kept going dark continually (even though no other window would do this). Fortunately, I could at least refresh/reload the window and recover what I was typing, but it was VERY frustrating! Why was this happening, and can this please be fixed soon? Thanks!