Thermal shut down!

[Rich215]

I was out fishing yesterday and had a problem with my phone. It was hot...about 88 and clear sun. I left my phone in a position I never leave it in while on my boat. It was left with back side up exposed to the direct sun. After about an hour or so I finally noticed I had left it there and grabbed it. Wow it was hot hot hot to the touch....... I have a clear case on it with the gray plastic color back. (good thing it was not a black leather back).

The phone was off and I had about half battery left when this happened. It went through a thermal shutdown and left a message about it when the phone finally turned back on later when I got home to deal with it. Basically the pop up info about the error was telling me there was a thermal shutdown from heat and maybe caused by gaming or blah blah blah.......

I was worried this might of kicked in the boot loop from such excessive heat for a fairly sustained time. But everything seems to be fine now a day later.

Has anyone ever had a thermal shutdown which then caused a boot loop shortly there after?

 

[B. Diddy]

It wouldn't seem unusual to me for a phone in that situation to heat up significantly just by virtue of being in direct sunlight in those ambient temperatures for that long. The case may have also prevented the phone from dissipating heat efficiently. I can't comment on the bootloop question, but I don't think we'd necessarilyt have to invoke that to explain the thermal shutdown.

 

[shadavis08]

There is another thread just started yesterday about the thermal overhear issue causing the phone to go into bootloop .

 

[trashford]

There is another thread just started yesterday about the thermal overhear issue causing the phone to go into bootloop .

I was the one that started that thread. Took it in to Verizon this AM and they are sending me a replacement tomorrow.

 

[Rich215]

Very odd....... after this all happened, I am still running on a charge (1amp slow direct connect) from that day. I think it did the opposite of a boot loop...haaaa (knocking on lots of wood now)





This will probably all go away after
the next charge this evening I bet.....

 

[JGLdn]

Yes, this is normal and nothing to worry about. It's happened to me a couple of times when using my phone as a sat nav in the car on a hot day. It's the phone protecting itself from overheating and nothing to do with the boot loop issue.

 

[gardengal4]

I noticed the display went dim and a "going into cool down mode" message recently when it was sitting on the passenger seat while I was driving home. Now I keep it in my purse while driving. Can't hear the GPS as well that way, but this phone definitely does not like direct sun. I usually keep it face up.

 

[Rich215]

Yes, this is normal and nothing to worry about. It's happened to me a couple of times when using my phone as a sat nav in the car on a hot day. It's the phone protecting itself from overheating and nothing to do with the boot loop issue.

Yes, I realize the two are not related, I was actually wondering if anyone got a boot loop after having a thermal shutdown.

 

[Joshua Luther2]

Yes. I recently had this happen to me while doing a 20 minute live video on Facebook. It was hot in my garage where I was shooting the video. The first sign that I saw was the video started getting very choppy a couple even disconnected twice from the live video. It then said it was going into cool down mode. I ignored it and it shut itself down. I then popped in my spare battery and continued the live video.