lg g4 gets hot

[Scumperjumper]

My phone's gets hot alot and gets hot fast for not much reason im not using it heavily. What should I do.

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[jaydee5799]

have you tried adding an app to shut down some apps that keep running? I loaded Greenify and i managed to shut down 12 or 13 apps that drain the battery and keep the phone running hot.

 

[Scumperjumper]

Yeah I have but it still gets hot

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[ManiacJoe]

How hot are we talking about?
What apps are running when this happens?

 

[Mooncatt]

have you tried adding an app to shut down some apps that keep running? I loaded Greenify and i managed to shut down 12 or 13 apps that drain the battery and keep the phone running hot.

This can make things worse. I'm not familiar with Greenify specifically, but most apps that manage, kill, or otherwise inhibit other apps (usually claiming to free up memory), only cause Android to load up other apps because of how the OS is designed. In Android, it's actually good to have memory occupied.

I'm with Maniac Joe. Hot can be pretty subjective on a phone, so having the actual numbers is needed.

 

[Scumperjumper]

Hot when you touch it to your chin its hot hot

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[Mooncatt]

Electronics can actually handle temps we would consider warm or even hot to the touch. So real numbers would be best. Gsam is a popular battery tracking app and will show temps over time. Try downloading it and check it when your phone is hotter than you'd like. Then we can give you better advice from there.

 

[mikeytg1024]

When it is hot go to settings-battery-battery usage. Scroll down and see what app(s) are using the most power. If there is an app clearly using more than anything else try uninstalling it and see if that stops the heat...

 

[sswitzer]

Four letter answer: GSAM Try it out for a while, using its many tool to diagnose app/heat correlation.

 

[Scumperjumper]

I will do it post it soon

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[804hokie]

Four letter answer: GSAM Try it out for a while, using its many tool to diagnose app/heat correlation.

Not surprisingly, my web browser (Firefox) is the biggest power consuming app. I've seen my G4 battery get upwards of 114-degrees F. Firefox is by far my preferred browser for mobile devices, any suggestions for alleviating my phone's propensity to run hot?

 

[Mooncatt]

114° is warm, but I wouldn't consider it overly hot in a phone with a top end processor.

 

[sswitzer]

Not surprisingly, my web browser (Firefox) is the biggest power consuming app. I've seen my G4 battery get upwards of 114-degrees F. Firefox is by far my preferred browser for mobile devices, any suggestions for alleviating my phone's propensity to run hot?

Try out chrome beta or just plain old chrome - it never shows up as a top running app, but its probably "hidden" as android system.

 

[sswitzer]

114° is warm, but I wouldn't consider it overly hot in a phone with a top end processor.

Tis true - that's not too bad.

 

[SailingLion]

So I finally got around to testing my phone a bit when it comes to temperature. I installed an app called CpuTemp, my results:

Idle: between 20-30C°
Browsing the web, using FB app, checking Snapchat etc (all somewhat at the same time): between 30-40C°
Playing Pokemon Go on a hot day: goes up to around: between 40-55C°

The phone doesn't seem to get hotter than that, ofcourse there are probably more graphic, cpu intense games out there, that will probably drive up the temperature a bit more, but those are my results so far.

Cheers

 

[Mooncatt]

Pokemon Go uses the GPS, right? If that's the case, then I doubt you could find anything to push the phone much harder. Games and GPS can be intensive by themselves, and that game is doing both at the same time. So your temps are about what I'd expect to see. 55°C/131°F is definitely up there, but the phone should handle it.

If anything, it could cause the bootloop problem to surface if yours has that defect. In this case, I wouldn't say that's a bad thing if your phone is still under warranty. If it's going to happen, I think it's better to do so under warranty than to baby it only have it still happen after the warranty expires. Just make sure you keep good backups (which is a standard best practice anyway).

 

[Scumperjumper]

So I got up to 111 degrees Fahrenheit doing minimal stuff like using chrome. And the camera area is the area where It gets hot.

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