Cooling Question

[Chris Mathias]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to figure out a way to keep my S3 cool while using resource-intensive apps. There appears to be a rather large amount of throttling when the temperature climbs above 100 degrees fahrenheit. So far, I've come up with a few ideas, but I'd like to run them by the community before I commit.

First off, I'm using the factory battery and case.

Given the space between the battery and the back case, do you think a 1mm thick thermal pad could fit in there? In case you don't know what I'm referring to, here's a link.

The factory back cover is plastic. From a heat sink point of view, an aluminum cover would be considerably better at spreading the heat, right?

Do you think this would make a notable difference? Or do you have any other suggestions?

Thank you!

 

[GSDer]

Hello and welcome to the forums!

I don't think that would really help reduce the heat burden without something to sink the heat to. That stuff is intended to go between an IC and a heatsink, not to be the radiating surface.

And unless the phone chassis was originally designed to have a metal back (ex. HTC One M8) I think you'd have more problems with signal quality & excessive power drain due to interference with the radios if you went with a metal back. Just my $0.02.

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[Chris Mathias]

Thank you very much for the reply. Ok, I'll skip all of that stuff. Is there anything you can think of that would be able to reduce the temperature?

 

[GSDer]

Avoid the combination of a bright screen, GPS, Mobile data, charging and CPU/graphics intensive apps - the fewer of those things you have going on at the same time the better.

Unfortunately I'm not aware of a solution to your issue.

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