nexus 6P overheating concern

[RoadTripEric]

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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I guess as long as it doesn't throttle below the 808 performance - I really don't care. If we get down into 801 territory that could be a problem. I have seen a couple benchmarks that suggest it throttles down right around the LG G4 - which I think would still satisfy me anyway and in the real world it would have a better performance because of the light footprint of the software.

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[jdot104]

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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This concern has been beaten to death over the past few months. The 810's heating issue has been fixed on every smartphone in the latter half of 2015 as far as I've seen. Every tech reviewer and every 810-phone owner (myself included) have all been saying the phone doesn't get hot during everyday tasks. I don't have any worries about the 6P at all. If it does overheat, that will come as a complete surprise.

 

[Premium1]

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..

I am just going by the tests showing the various phones and how the "all metal" m9 does the worst with heat dissipation.

 

[qnet]

It's been awhile but I do remember my M9 getting warm sometime when I watched videos. It didn't seem to affect performance, and it was toward the cooler side of warm, if that makes any since. More power to you guys/gals who are worried about this, but I don't think I could wait another year.

I'm subscribed to the guy who's video is posted. He's a hardcore PC builder (I really like his vids) and the test he's doing is really outside the norm of what anyone would do. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool test, but it's not enough to deter me from getting the 6P, at least not the way I will use the phone. If this phone will be your all-in-one device then I can understand the concern.

 

[vzwuser76]

I am just going by the tests showing the various phones and how the "all metal" m9 does the worst with heat dissipation.

Any heatsink is made of some kind of metal, usually aluminum, since it has the best heat dissipation for the money. We learned that early on when I took electronics.

 

[Premium1]

Any heatsink is made of some kind of metal, usually aluminum, since it has the best heat dissipation for the money. We learned that early on when I took electronics.

Yes i understand that, but like I said the all metal m9 did the worst in that regard...

 

[jerrod6]

I watched the vid. If I heard correctly he says that the 810 has great performance potential as long as some form of heat pipe or cooling is provided. Kinda adds to the mystery of what is going on in the raised top portion of the phone.

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[maverick7526]

I watched the vid. If I heard correctly he says that the 810 has great performance potential as long as some form of heat pipe or cooling is provided. Kinda adds to the mystery of what is going on in the raised top portion of the phone.

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That vid is with a phone from the early half of 2015. Plus it was tested under no where close to real world conditions. Who just sits there running benchmarks all day?!

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[co.ag.2005]

Who just sits there running benchmarks all day?!

Samsung fanboys

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[jerrod6]

Yeah I know these are benchmarks and real world folks don't care which is why i am not really too concerned about throttling or benchmarks and performance I am not likely to even notice.

 

[wunderbar]

I watched the vid. If I heard correctly he says that the 810 has great performance potential as long as some form of heat pipe or cooling is provided. Kinda adds to the mystery of what is going on in the raised top portion of the phone.

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You mean the part where it is where the all of the antennas and camera module go in an otherwise all metal phone? The Google folks have been pretty up front about that. Metal = bad for antennas. They were going to have a camera bump, so they took the opportunity to stick all of the antennas up there as well.

 

[gabbott]

You mean the part where it is where the all of the antennas and camera module go in an otherwise all metal phone? The Google folks have been pretty up front about that. Metal = bad for antennas. They were going to have a camera bump, so they took the opportunity to stick all of the antennas up there as well.

Yeah antennas are in both the top and bottom of the phone (the bottom portion of the back is plastic and that is where the main cellular antenna is located). WiFi, Bluetooth and such are in the top behind that glass.

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[jerrod6]

Yes I know the camera and stuff is up there, but that doesn't mean that space isn't providing some other function. Just speculation... That's all

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[vzwuser76]

Yes i understand that, but like I said the all metal m9 did the worst in that regard...

Without knowing what each OEM did in regard to heat dissipation, simply saying a metal case phone won't do well in terms of heat dissapation isn't using all the facts. There's nothing that says that HTC is even using the casing as a heatsink. Perhaps others that are using the 810 in a plastic body are using a better method of heat dissipation and the casing material has nothing to do with it. In the articles you referenced, when they are measuring heat, are they measuring the CPU chip itself or the casing? Because if they're measuring the casing, it should be hot, that means it's drawing heat away from the processor.

Without knowing what HTC did to dissipate heat on the CPU though you can't really say if it's the casing material or not that would be causing the issue.

 

[I Can Be Your Hero]

Every chip throttles performance, otherwise they'd just burn out.

810 is no different. It throttles when it needs to. If it affects the devices performance in a negative manner or I feel that it's causing the phone not to operate normally, I'll contact Google and say something is wrong with the phone.

 

[JamesThomas936]

Solution to overheating video: Dry ice

 

[So Cold]

I watched the vid. If I heard correctly he says that the 810 has great performance potential as long as some form of heat pipe or cooling is provided. Kinda adds to the mystery of what is going on in the raised top portion of the phone.

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What mystery?

There's no mystery. Run a CPU too fast it gets hot, the better the cooling the faster you can go. Keep in mind who made the video, Linus builds PCs. As someone else mentioned already he does some pretty fun videos and is a good one to subscribe to.

Early versions of the 810 ran at a higher clock speed and they got hot, they have since lowered the base clock speed and now don't produce the same heat.

People are just bored and anxious for their phones and that's why this thread exists, once everyone has their shiny new toy threads like this will die off.

 

[RoadTripEric]

What mystery?

There's no mystery. Run a CPU too fast it gets hot, the better the cooling the faster you can go. Keep in mind who made the video, Linus builds PCs. As someone else mentioned already he does some pretty fun videos and is a good one to subscribe to.

Early versions of the 810 ran at a higher clock speed and they got hot, they have since lowered the base clock speed and now don't produce the same heat.

People are just bored and anxious for their phones and that's why this thread exists, once everyone has their shiny new toy threads like this will die off.

I guess my standard would be that it would not be "uncomfortably hot" (which is a subjective standard). I remember, my HTC One bothering me a bit due to heat and my GS3 actually used to shut down due to heat - but I have never thought about heat through my recent phones (Note 4, LG G4, Lumia 1520, Lumia 930) but - now again - I don't "like" the heat from my Moto X Pure. I assume it will be fine.

As far as performance, I expect it to throttle - just give me at least the cold performance of the 808 and I'm good!

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[Ajay Kumar9]

Just received my nexus 6p 64gb. And the phone is cool, no overheating issues what do ever. But the phone does throttle. Like crazy throttle. I've run geekbench 3 and the results are disappointing. First I got a score of 40000, then 3583 and when I again ran after a couple of minutes to rest and a restart. There score was 3365(all the above score are multi core scores). Disappointment at its peaks.

 

[msnider23]

I've had no issues with it, it got warm during the initial setup with all the apps being installed but so did my s6 and note 4 before it.