Does the Moto X Pure Edition/Moto X Style have overheating issues?

[benjamminh]

Re: This phone is hot (literally)

Navigation plus quick charge at the same time will warm mine up.

 

[Westiemom]

Re: This phone is hot (literally)

Have not had heat problems with mine and I've had it a little over 2 weeks. Didn't even get more than barely warm when I transferred everything over from my Turbo and I remember the Turbo getting very hot when I first set it up, and also while charging.
My Pure gets warm while charging, but not hot like my Turbo did. I haven't tried navigation with it yet, but I expect it will get hot then. I've never had a phone that didn't get hot while navigating.
I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised so far that this phone has been so much smoother than my Turbo, which technically was a more "spec loaded" phone. Hope it continues!

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[Laura Knotek]

Re: This phone is hot (literally)

Mine has not gotten excessively warm so far. I've had it about 1½ months so far.

 

[Hendry775]

Re: This phone is hot (literally)

Install GSam Battery Monitor to measure what temperature does it exactly go to. Mine hovers around 85 to 91 F during moderate usage but goes up to 109 F when gaming.

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[parthbhatt]

No overheat issues on mine either.

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It depends on what do you consider as overheating. Have you tried playing a game for 20 minutes? Mine reaches 46°c with similar amount of game play or navigating while charging.

I ordered my moto x style around a month back and noticed overheating. So I returned it. I got a replacement device which has similar behaviour. So I guess this is an issue with all spec heavy phones. If you let it rest while being charged(it charges pretty quickly anyway) or not a heavy game player, i guess you will not notice the overheating.
If you want to monitor the temperature and battery usage, use gsam battery monitor app.

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[Westiemom]

Re: This phone is hot (literally)

Okay, dang it....I go and brag that I haven't had any overheating issues and then it happens today!

I like to read articles suggested by Google (you know, when you hit the home button and slide up or go through the "G" icon) and I linked to one today from Forbes magazine. As I was reading there was a sudden pop-up that said as the first owner of a Moto X Pure Edition to visit their site today I had won a prize. It had several items listed (iPad mini, etc.) and told me to pick one. Being the skeptic I am I immediately "Xed" out and when I did another pop-up came up that said "are you sure you want to leave this page?" I hit "yes" and clicked the box that said stop asking this and got out of it.

Well after that my phone was hot! My mind raced about what would cause that from this spam. I cleared out the link from my recent apps/pages and then cleared cache. Then I rebooted my phone. It's been fine since, but man that was unsettling. I don't think I'll be clicking any links to Forbes again!

Anybody else had something similar happen?

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[ffejjj]

Re: This phone is hot (literally)

It depends on what do you consider as overheating. Have you tried playing a game for 20 minutes? Mine reaches 46°c with similar amount of game play or navigating while charging.

I ordered my moto x style around a month back and noticed overheating. So I returned it. I got a replacement device which has similar behaviour. So I guess this is an issue with all spec heavy phones. If you let it rest while being charged(it charges pretty quickly anyway) or not a heavy game player, i guess you will not notice the overheating.
If you want to monitor the temperature and battery usage, use gsam battery monitor app.

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I charge my phone and use navigation everyday on my way home from work. Not because I don't know the way. I have at least an hr drive home from Detroit everyday with various accidents along the way. Maps helps me avoid them.

Never does my phone feel warm to the touch.

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[Shimon Mor]

Re: This phone is hot (literally)

pop-up that said as the first owner of a Moto X Pure Edition to visit their site today I had won a prize. It had several items listed (iPad mini, etc.) and told me to pick one.

If you would have picked one of the prizes it probably would have been awarded by a Nigerian prince. You missed your opportunity to hob-nob with royalty. Maybe next time.

 

[Westiemom]

Re: This phone is hot (literally)

If you would have picked one of the prizes it probably would have been awarded by a Nigerian prince. You missed your opportunity to hob-nob with royalty. Maybe next time.

And going by the temperature of my phone, that prince must have been hot! Lol!

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[thymeless]

Re: This phone is hot (literally)

My MPE idles a little warmer than my Note 3 did, but the Note got much hotter in use. Charging the MXPE seems to be a cooler experience than my Note 3 as well. Charging temps run around 105 on the battery, cooler on the exterior surfaces of the MPE. The Note often approached 120 on charge.

 

[bigbuc]

115+° normal and acceptable? it's pretty hot to hold.

 

[dyastrab]

Played Injustice on and MXPE and the Nexus 5X. It ran hot under the MXPE and barely hot under the 5X.

 

[Richard Harkness]

Just checking mine now whilst charging and it's 112F or 44C. Hot to touch. Don't enjoy having a phone that gets this hot.

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[parthbhatt]

Is there any side effect due to this regular overheating?
Mine reaches 43-45 C every time I use it while being charged or play games for around 15-20 minutes and it happens at least once a day

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[Richard Harkness]

Let's hope not...

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[bigbuc]

i don't play games. I'm just on the Web and it's getting hot. 110-115°

 

[Clocks]

I've been using Tapatalk, newsstand, and chrome for the last 45 min and my temp is 82 degrees.

 

[Stanley Kubrick]

Mine never gets "hot" but I do not use the rapid charger nor do I play games. Using it for everything else including navigation GPS and still just gets a little warm...just like all my other phones did.

 

[NancyZ Zeltvay]

I had never encountered problems with my phone getting hot until yesterday. I was at a luncheon and had used my phone and after use I placed it in the pocket of my purse. After I got home and I pulled it out the phone was still on and very hot. For some reason it never shut off when I quit using it. I had turned it off prior to placing in my purse but it either turned back on or never shut off. Once I shut it down it promptly cooled off and I have had no problems with it since then.

 

[Tom in Bristol]

Nancy, that may have been what is called a 'phantom re-boot'...sometimes these mini-computers of ours just decide to shut down and re-start themselves. You did the right thing to manually do a re-boot (or maybe you just turned the screen off? Either way, your'e probably ok.

I've watched this thread since the original post (way before getting 2 Pures for us) and get more info from the posts that include actual temperatures (thanx to all!) but don't recall noticing anyone say that they *know* that the auto temp protection designed into the device(s) actually shut the phone down for excess temp. I've trusted Moto through approx two dozen devices going back to 3 of the OG Droids and sometimes they've warmed up but never shut down.

Beueller? Anyone?