Had GPS/Wifi/4g/GPS at same time. Phone got hot and shut off

nikeairs23

Well-known member
Sep 18, 2011
74
1
0
Visit site
And it wouldn't come back on by pressing the power button. I thought maybe the battery needed charging. I thought that would be odd because the battery had to be over 60% when I was using the nav. Put it in my pocket and realized the phone was hot and I couldn't turn it on. Hooked a charger up to it, and nothing. Finally after a few mins, I held the volume buttons and power buttons together and that finally turned it on. WTF is this?
 

sfhub

Well-known member
Jan 15, 2011
2,384
741
0
Visit site
Many phones have a heat sensor that shuts things down if it gets too hot. Old TP wouldn't disable charging when the phone got too hot, which often happened when you used it as a GPS.
 

cboekhoven

Well-known member
Dec 7, 2010
70
2
0
Visit site
How did you have wifi and 4G on at the same time? my 4G turns off when I turn wifi on and won't turn on until wifi is off...

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk
 

nikeairs23

Well-known member
Sep 18, 2011
74
1
0
Visit site
I just tried it, and it does turn off automatically. So GPS/4g was on.


So these phones overheat and turn themselves off? Is this common?
 

Trending Posts

Forum statistics

Threads
943,107
Messages
6,917,313
Members
3,158,822
Latest member
dedehammac