Ever wondered why your phone is always warm or hot and saying to yourself it could explode anytime? Well, much as these phones are designed to operate even during hot temperatures, your phone could heat up at anytime and it has nothing to do with your battery or for how long you have held the device.
Quite often your smartphone’s temperature could be determined by your environment and at extreme over heating you could experience issues like sluggishness, battery drainage and with more sophisticated phones you could get a notice which will require you to either temporarily shutdown your phone or close certain applications.
Over heating has been identified in most of the Sony mobile phones and Samsung. Samsung eventually fixed this issue in their Samsung Galaxy7 and Edge
Here are some of the reasons why your phone is over heating.
1.Exposure to heat or sunlight
We all have our favorite spots for phone storage but in some cases your phone could be exposed to direct sunlight and in turn your phone will store the heat over a given period of time.Avoiding direct sunlight could be the best option to prevent your phone from overheating.
2.Data and Network Usage
As your phone tries to search for a network or when switching from the different network connections like 3G to 4G chances are high your phone will get hot in the process and moving to an area or location with a better network connection resolves this issue.
Furthermore during the process of streaming videos via YouTube or other social media networks the data usage will cause your phone to heat up.
3.Background running Apps
Background running apps are not only data and battery draining but they also cause your phone to heat up, since its a common vice among people not to properly shutdown their mobile phones. Properly shutting down your apps when not in use will definitely solve the heating up issues.
4. Gaming
For people who enjoy mobile games, this must be a popular issue because some games require a certain amount of resources inform of processing power, RAM, therefore if your phone doesn’t meet the game’s required minimum specifications you are most likely to get lags as well as the temperature of the phone to rise.
5. Outdated Apps and Operating System
Most app updates come with bug fixes which could be fixing app efficiency issues, though some people still run outdated apps. Even for people running updated apps on outdated mobile operating systems are most likely to have the heating up problem.
Much of the possibilities shared above are not so device threatening or could do no permanent damage to your phone proper usage of your phone is highly recommended and to some extent just taking off your phone cover could provide a temporarily remedy to an overheating phone.
