Why Does Your Smartphone Overheats? Top Tips to Fix Overheating in Android Phones

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2023-01-02
Ajay Kumar

While smartphones these days come with many advanced features, they have got more compact, and slimmer with each passing year. The components in these modern-day gadgets jostle with each other, leaving less room for air circulation. Besides, smartphone usage has increased enormously. All this often leads to a device facing a common, yet irritating problem: overheating. Quite often, you may observe that your smartphone gets warmer than usual. If you keep using it, the heating may reach a degree that it’s hard to overlook.

If you too have been facing overheating problems in your smartphone, you’ve landed at the right place. Here, we’ve compiled the best solutions for the overheating problem in Android smartphones.

We’ll discuss in detail why overheating happens, and how to prevent it. We’ll also share the tips/actions which you must deploy to avoid further damage if your smartphone overheats.

Why Does A Smartphone Overheat?

Your smartphone can overheat for an array of reasons. Some common ones include:
1. Placing your phone near a flame or at a burning object makes it prone to overheating. Placing it near the burner in your kitchen or heater often creates such circumstances.
2. Keeping your phone in a place where air circulation is not sufficient. For example, keeping it under the pillow or in a locked car for a long time.
3. Playing heavy/high-graphic games ceaselessly for hours.
4. A corrupt software or app.
5. A damaged battery leads to inefficient thermal management.
6. The heating problem could also arise if you are not using the original charger for your phone. A counterfeit adaptor may cause an unstable flow of current in your charging port, leading to an overheating issue.
7. The problem could also arise when some heavy software/app update is running in the background and consuming a lot of processing power.

Now Top Tips to Prevent Abnormal Heating in your Android Phone

1. Avoid Direct Exposure to Sun and High temperature: You probably don’t put it there on purpose, but placing your phone in direct sunlight or in warm temperature cause heat to accumulate that your phone fails to dissipate. Therefore, it is advised to avoid it. Keep your phone in a place where airflow is proper. Also, don’t place it near the fire or heater.

2. Close the background running apps: A bad habit most of us have is keeping the apps open even when they are not in use. What’s the point of keeping those tabs featuring YouTube, Instagram, Safari, Facebook, Google Map, and more running simultaneously in the background, especially when this does hamper your battery life, and may even cause overheating?

Remember that every open app running in the background sucks in your phone’s battery, affects your phone’s processor, and taps in your phone’s memory. So make sure to close the apps as soon as you’re done with their usage. It hardly takes a second or two to do it, mate.

3. Run a Malware Scan: Bugs, viruses and older software may cause your device to take in more energy to run smoothly. This extra pressure sometimes ends up causing overheating issues. So you better scan your phone to clean the malicious apps and the software eating away at the processing power. Phone Master in your TECNO, itel and Infinix phone is the best way to do it.

4. Avoid using Heavy Games, HD Videos for too long: If your phone has lower RAM (less than 4GB), it is recommended not to use heavy games for hours. Also avoid streaming movies for long periods as they affect your phone’s CPU.

5. Reduce the Brightness of the Screen or enable auto-brightness. Let your phone be in chilling mode. Why put extra burden when you can enjoy your surfing equally on Low-power mode? Plus, it will be easy on your eyes.

6. Don't Use Your Phone When Charging it: Using your phone during charging increases its operating power consumption, which eventually results in generating more heat. This can also damage the battery’s performance in the long run. So avoid it.

7. Don’t run multiple apps for an extended period of time. Also, don't use processor-intensive apps for gaming, streaming, and GPS tracking

8. Always Use an Original Charger: A duplicate, incompatible, defective, or non-branded charger not just hampers your phone’s charging, but it can also cause an overheating problem. So always use a branded, company-authorized charger, and USB cable to charge up your device. For your TECNO, itel, and Infinix phone, you can buy an original charger for your nearest Carlcare service center. You can also book the appointment online in advance.

What to Do When Your Phone Starts Overheating

A) Take off your phone’s case/cover. Let it breathe easy.

B) Close all the apps and connectivity features like Wifi or Bluetooth. It’s better to put the phone on Airplane Mode for a few minutes/ until the phone cools down.

C) Close down everything non-essential, even the camera app, and give your phone a much-needed break.

D) Run a malware scan; Scan your phone and find out if there’s any malicious software eating away at the processing power.

E) NEVER put an overheating phone in the refrigerator or freezer. Because of this high variation in temperature and the exposure to moisture, you may end up damaging your phone beyond repair.

If you face overheating issue in your TECNO, itel or Infinix Phone, and if the issue persists even after taking the above-mentioned measures, bring your device to our phone experts at Carlcare Service center. Find your nearest service center and make an online repair reservation in advance through our website. As unique after-sales service of TECNO/Infinix/itel, Carlcare is your firm support forever.