nexus 6P overheating concern

[fabian bonifacio]

Is anyone else concerned that the new 810 v.2.1 chip is gonna have an overheating issue, like the original? That might be a massive deal breaker .

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[maverick7526]

Is anyone else concerned that the new 810 v.2.1 chip is gonna have an overheating issue, like the original? That might be a massive deal breaker .

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Not really, the issue has been resolved basically with the newer version of this chip. Should be a good phone.

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[fabian bonifacio]

That's pretty much the main reason why I didn't switch to the 6 but my nexus 5 has lived a long time lol, I wouldn't want anything other than a nexus

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[zorak950]

http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=589452

 

[wunderbar]

no one can tell you 100% for certain that it won't have any issues.

But it wont' have any issues. They wouldn't put the chip in a device if it was overheating to the point of damaging the device.

As an aside: a phone getting warm is not a bad thing, it is by design. The heat the SoC generates has to go somewhere. I can make my Nexus 5 get almost too hot to touch if I try, that doesn't mean it is defective.

 

[Sam1224]

As an aside: a phone getting warm is not a bad thing, it is by design. The heat the SoC generates has to go somewhere. I can make my Nexus 5 get almost too hot to touch if I try, that doesn't mean it is defective.

Agreed, when I play games on my 6 it gets very warm. When I have it in my car mount using it as a GPS it gets blasted by the heat of the sun through the windshield as well as generating the heat it does working as my GPS and it gets very hot at the end of a 40 minute commute.

I was worried the first couple times it happened, but it was a daily occurrence through this long hot southern summer. So far I have never seen any issues, (graphical, performance wise or any other) from the phone getting that hot. Not to say there might not be some long term effect, but nothing that I have seen to this point.

 

[jerrod6]

I am getting the 6P and that issue occurred to me, but I don't play games so decided to give it a try. I figure I will get it,keep it until something better than the 820 is released.

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[Kaido]

I wasn't until I saw this today (Skip to 4:10)

 

[Premium1]

Not really, the issue has been resolved basically with the newer version of this chip. Should be a good phone.

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Eh it is still having issues. V2.1 is the same one used in pretty much every device with the 810. I had preordered a 6p, but going to wait. The 810 really held back an entire generation of phones. Hopefully the 820 does not have these issues this year. Not to mention, being an all metal phone, they aren't the best with dissipating heat. I am going to wait a little while, see reviews and if the overheating pops up, most likely will once again sit this nexus generation out. Maybe next year lol. I would love a samsung nexus, running exynos chip with their super fast ram. They have top of the line cameras, would love google to give them another shot to make another nexus.

 

[anon(5506951)]

I wasn't until I saw this today (Skip to 4:10)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igoW7FFhJG8

Not a good sign. Ugh, can I wait another whole year for the 820?

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[anon(596177)]

Let's get the Indian that's been putting the 6p videos on YouTube to do this air cooled benchmark

But in all seriousness, while it would suck if the 6p suffers from throttling that bad as long as it performs well in real life situations that's not enough to make me reconsider. I'll let the first two weeks determine that.

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[RHChan84]

Eh it is still having issues. V2.1 is the same one used in pretty much every device with the 810. I had preordered a 6p, but going to wait. The 810 really held back an entire generation of phones. Hopefully the 820 does not have these issues this year. Not to mention, being an all metal phone, they aren't the best with dissipating heat. I am going to wait a little while, see reviews and if the overheating pops up, most likely will once again sit this nexus generation out. Maybe next year lol. I would love a samsung nexus, running exynos chip with their super fast ram. They have top of the line cameras, would love google to give them another shot to make another nexus.

Metal does better with transferring heat then plastic. The body could potentially be a heatsink for the 810. If will get warm but it's most likely built that way. Warm is fine but when it gets too hot to touch then it will suck.

 

[karmamule]

I'm not too worried, because I'll just keep an eye on things the first week or two and if I see any concerning behavior I'll just return it.

But, I'm cautiously optimistic because Google certainly knew about the history with this chip and I'd imagine they would have made resolving that issue a priority before committing to using it in their latest flagships.

 

[wunderbar]

Not to mention, being an all metal phone, they aren't the best with dissipating heat. I

Ok I have to stop you right there because factually metal is a better conductor of heat than any kind of plastic. feeling that the phone is warm doesn't mean it is a bad conductor of heat, it means it is better..

 

[RoadTripEric]

I'm a little surprised that Google has not addressed the issue of throttle and overheating directly. You would think they would have specifically stated that the heat concerns are not an issue - if - they were not an issue. That concerns me a little. I know the new Windows Phones have now employed liquid cooling with the same processor, which also seems to suggest to me that heating issues still exist.

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[wunderbar]

if it were an issue that would have significantly affected a phone in a measurable way, Google would not have released the product.

 

[LeoRex]

It's a matter of wait and see... the M9 was released way back in the early spring, and, to be honest, HTC has been suffering from a severe case of cranial-rectal inversion lately, so I wouldn't use them as the gold standard. And ZTE... who knows.

I would have preferred he had used a Z5 in these tests... something recent. Thermal handling is all kernel management and heat dissipation and they should have learned a lot over the past 8 months.

 

[So Cold]

Isn't the general consensus on the 810 that it's an overkill processor and to get the best balance between performance and temperature it throttles?

All the video shows is that the chip throttles which in and of itself means nothing but just gets people excited.

Take a step back, a deep breath and really think about what matters. Just because your car can go 125 mph doesn't mean you drive it 125 all the time.

The 2 things that really matter will be

-Is the phone throttling to the point that it's noticeable to the user under realistic loads
-Is the phone ridiculously hot?

We'll have to wait for real world tests to confirm but I don't see this being any bigger of a real world issue than apple's chipgate.

 

[wunderbar]

My Snapdragon 800 throttles when I push it with a benchmarking tool. It does so by design. It doesn't do it to the point where performance noticeably stutters.

Does the snapgradon 810 throttle the speed more aggressively than previous snapdragon flagships, yes, it does appear to, at least on some phones released earlier in the year. Does that affect performance in any real world way that the vast majority of users are going to notice: not really.

 

[maverick7526]

Isn't the general consensus on the 810 that it's an overkill processor and to get the best balance between performance and temperature it throttles?

All the video shows is that the chip throttles which in and of itself means nothing but just gets people excited.

Take a step back, a deep breath and really think about what matters. Just because your car can go 125 mph doesn't mean you drive it 125 all the time.

The 2 things that really matter will be

-Is the phone throttling to the point that it's noticeable to the user under realistic loads
-Is the phone ridiculously hot?

We'll have to wait for real world tests to confirm but I don't see this being any bigger of a real world issue than apple's chipgate.

Exactly! Do you really just sit there all day, and run benchmark tests?! I think it'll be fine. No one will notice under real world conditions.

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