127 degrees Fahrenheit!

[Patrick Williams13]

We are in the midst of a heat wave over here in Ireland and my phone was plugged into the official car dock today and the phone hit 53 degrees Celsius (127 F) surely that is not far from spontaneous combustion! It was way too hot to touch. Anyone else hit these scorching temps?

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[nickgalaxys4]

We are in the midst of a heat wave over here in Ireland and my phone was plugged into the official car dock today and it hit 53 degrees Celsius (127 F) surely that is not far from spontaneous combustion! It was way too hot to touch. Anyone else hit these scorching temps?

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Hi there... I was left my phone in the car (iPhone), right in the sun light I waited for it to cool down and it worked fine after. Just try not to make it a everyday thing.

 

[lou61166]

I hit 152 on my DNA only once and in the basement of my house not charging I feel it was an app that hung the CPU

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[-Scienide-]

We are in the midst of a heat wave over here in Ireland and my phone was plugged into the official car dock today and the phone hit 53 degrees Celsius (127 F) surely that is not far from spontaneous combustion! It was way too hot to touch. Anyone else hit these scorching temps?

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We're having the same heatwave across the pond in England. My phone gets way too hot when my lad plays games on it. Freaked me out. In the car I have my phone mounted in a cradle that's in front of an air vent. Stick the aircon on and the phone becomes ice cold to touch. Its awesome lol

 

[Strider2112]

53 degrees Celsius is too hot. Electronic components start to drift at around 42-43 degrees Celsius, this is the gold in the microprocessors starts to expand more than what is allowed by the specs of the casing.

Normally you have heatsink to prevent that, but this doesn't work up to really high temperature and may even inhibit it.

So at around 42 C the gold expands and the electronic signals take slightly more time to transfer (it may help to understand that electricity does not travel at the speed of light. It is actually quite very slow). At temperatures of mid 50s the metal may have expanded to the point of not being able to contract back to normal (stretch). At temperatures of above 60 C, the gold contacts may break, causing what is commonly referred to as burnout.

The moral of the story is cooling it down may return it to normal if it wasn't past the manufacturers specifications, but there is a point of no return and you would always see a degradation in performance.

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[TarekElsakka]

It's usually like that over here in Egypt, or at least it was about three weeks ago, now it's getting better and remains at 35 in the morning.

 

[whoahbro]

Sometimes when I am working I have to drive while talking on my phone via hands free headset, run the GPS, and charge it. The last 3 or so smart phones I have had got pretty hot when doing this. It sounds crazy but what I do is sit the phone up against the AC vent in my car, or even sort of wedge it in there. (Its usually hot where I live anyhow). This really cools it on down where I can keep going.

 

[grgiwoyna]

Hi there... I was left my phone in the car (iPhone), right in the sun light I waited for it to cool down and it worked fine after. Just try not to make it a everyday thing.

I think you misunderstood the OP's point. I believe he's saying that it was quite warm where he is and that his device became exceptionally warm while it was placed in the car dock, not that he left it in the car in direct sunlight..

 

[gvndeb60]

We're having the same heatwave across the pond in England. My phone gets way too hot when my lad plays games on it. Freaked me out. In the car I have my phone mounted in a cradle that's in front of an air vent. Stick the aircon on and the phone becomes ice cold to touch. Its awesome lol

Is it bad that I read this and in my head it was a british accent?

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[-Scienide-]

Is it bad that I read this and in my head it was a british accent?

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Only if you pictured me in a top hat, with a monacle sipping on a cup of tea

 

[Noremacam]

Only if you pictured me in a top hat, with a monacle sipping on a cup of tea

Doesn't everyone there? If so, why not? I think it'd be fun to traverse a society with endless tophats and monacles...

 

[-Scienide-]

Doesn't everyone there? If so, why not? I think it'd be fun to traverse a society with endless tophats and monacles...

Of course we not! I hate it when people get this wrong. We actually wear Bowler hats, hold umbrellas and pints of beer, all while standing in the rain lol

 

[Gator352]

Of course we not! I hate it when people get this wrong. We actually wear Bowler hats, hold umbrellas and pints of beer, all while standing in the rain lol

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images...27336607596/Europa-Brit-seen-by-Frenc-001.jpg

He needs to shave.....