# Need an Android smartphone that won't overheat for once **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009 "2018-04-24T01:44:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/1 "2018-04-24T01:44:28Z")
I’ve used three different Android smartphones over the past five years (HTC One X, LG G3, LG Tribute) and they all had overheating problems. With the last one, I’m not sure it can even last 2-3 more days without something thermodynamically bad happening. Doing some online research on Samsung Galaxys, LG K20s, etc. seems to indicate overheating for them as well. Anyone know an Android that is compatible with Sprint and won’t start cooking off for once? ---
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/2 "2018-04-24T02:15:11Z")
The Galaxy S8 might get a little warm when charging, but I’ve never had it get hot. The S9 is almost identical ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/3 "2018-04-24T08:48:30Z")
I’ve had many android phones personally and in the family and never an overheating problem. Motorola, ZTE, LG, Samsung. I’m not being snarky but might the problem be with the only constant factor…i.e. you? perhaps how and when you charge, what with, what apps you run and how or how you use the phone? ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/4 "2018-04-24T14:40:13Z")
I’ve had several Samsungs (currently an S7 edge which I really like). They don’t overheat unless they’re left in direct sunlight on a hot day. I did have a problem once where I left the phone playing white noise at night. It got covered with a pillow and shut itself off due to heat. Are you encasing your phones in some sort of heat-trapping case? ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/5 "2018-04-24T15:43:01Z")
Many years (and phones) ago, my cell phones used to overheat when I was running an app that constantly queried the phone’s GPS chip (Google Maps or my GPS-enabled golf app), but that hasn’t happened to me in a long time. Now they don’t even get warm. My current cell phone is a Google Pixel, but I don’t use Sprint and don’t know whether or not it is compatible with that service. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/6 "2018-04-24T16:02:24Z")
I, too, wonder if it might be an app as I had a problem with Facebook Messenger. Once I uninstalled it, no problem. I’d never had an overheating issue prior to that POS. ---
**Author:** ![rbell2915](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rbell2915](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbell2915)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/7 "2018-04-24T18:19:59Z")
I use my Essential Phone pretty heavily throughout the day and it doesn’t heat up. For the specs it’s an incredibly cheap and well built phone as well. Highly recommend it. I believe Sprint is the only carrier that sells it as well. Sent from my PH-1 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/8 "2018-04-24T20:08:58Z")
I have a Samsung Galaxy J7 and I can shoot the shit with my mom for two plus hours straight and it doesn’t even warm up. I can also use it with Google maps or Waze with the GPS going flat out in the boonies and it’s fine. I don’t have a case on it, though, so maybe that helps. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/9 "2018-04-24T20:44:33Z")
Samsung Note 7 😃 Where do you live, the sun? I had a G3 and it only overheated once when I left it in the car. Do you put cases on your phone? What kind? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/10 "2018-04-25T19:38:45Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I’ve had many android phones personally and in the family and never an overheating problem. Motorola, ZTE, LG, Samsung. > > I’m not being snarky but might the problem be with the only constant factor…i.e. you? perhaps how and when you charge, what with, what apps you run and how or how you use the phone? I thought I was the common denominator (and I am,) but I don’t game or watch videos or much of that at all on my phones - only used them for texting, calling, surfing, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/11 "2018-04-25T19:40:03Z")
My phone is not enclosed by a case, either. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/12 "2018-04-25T20:26:15Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I thought I was the common denominator (and I am,) but I don’t game or watch videos or much of that at all on my phones - only used them for texting, calling, surfing, etc. Well, for all of that, I’ve also had several Android devices and none have ever had an overheating problem until their batteries were entirely end-of-life, at which point they’d heat up when charging. (And by end-of-life, 3-4 years, and I don’t take particularly good care of batteries.) I don’t know if we can recommend a solution for a problem we don’t experience, and have never seen as a class (“Android phones that overheat for no reason”). You say you only make relatively light use of the phone; is it possible something’s running in the background that’s keeping the CPU from throttling down, and consequently overwhelming the thermal management capacity of the phones? Stuff like bitcoin mining malware would be a recent example of that. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/13 "2018-04-25T20:39:26Z")
I’ve got the LG V-30. Thing runs cool as a clam all day long. I’ve had every other phone get HOT in my pocket at one time or another, but not this one. So far, so good. It’s a great phone btw. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/14 "2018-04-25T21:57:00Z")
No problems at all with my [HTC U11](https://www.sprint.com/en/shop/cell-phones/htc-u11.html?credit=A2&ensembleId=HTC2PZC5BLU&contractName=0-yr-lb-18months&deviceQuantity=1&plan=pln10790001prd). ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-android-smartphone-that-wont-overheat-for-once/813009/15 "2018-04-27T18:45:05Z")
Is the overheating during navigation? That’s the only time my Galaxy S4 overheats, and then if I take the case of it usually gets better. iPhones in cases overheat during navigation too, I have a friend with an iPhone 8 and they had to take the phone out of the case while navigating on a road trip.