Bricked by overheating?

[Bridget Booth]

I've had my TMo S7 for a couple of weeks. I was lucky enough to get it when the first wave of them shipped out. I got my Gear VR set today. I figured I'd check it out. I connected it and followed all the instructions. I created an Oculus account and let it download everything it needed, including a software update to the Oculus app. I left the phone on my desk to go take care of some stuff. I come back a few minutes later and my phone is rocket hot and 100% dead. It responds to no commands, no chargers, or being connected to my PC. It's an ex-phone.

TMo is replacing it with zero issues and I have a back-up phone, so I'm not terribly upset. I am curious, though, to see if anyone has seen a problem with either the phone dying after using the Gear VR or getting so insanely hot. FWIW, I did have download booster enabled, which I know tended to get my S5 a little warm. I'd love tips to avoid this in the future. I also gotta say, I'm a little caught off-guard. I've had a few issues with Samsung devices before (a certain washing machine comes to mind), but I've never had a piece of hardware from them just absolutely stop working.

 

[ThrottleJohnny]

This is what I've been worried about with my VR on the way. : /

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[Bridget Booth]

I'm really thinking it's just me. The spouse's Gear VR should be here tomorrow. It will be promptly going on Craigslist. Now, I don't think it's the headset, because one of my classmates is happily using the same VR set with his S6 with zero problems. YMMV and I hope it's considerably better.

 

[bchain996]

I use my vr for a couple hours and have zero issues

 

[Bridget Booth]

Get this, I got in from class and wanted to get one last chance with it. I plugged it into my PC and Phone Companion came right up and offered to transfer files. I think it's just the screen.

 

[kgilbertsen]

My phone gets warm while using VR - not sure how warm though.
My S5 overheated while navigating using Google Maps, while charging. Within a day, it was dead.
So I now worry about the phone getting too hot. I'm just not sure how hot it can be before things get 'dangerous'...

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[dpham00]

Wow that sucks. It was probably defective as it should be able to handle this