6 tips to prevent smartphones from overheating
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6 tips to prevent smartphones from overheating
With
smartphones increasingly adding processing power and packing large
batteries with fast-charging technology, users often face situations
when their smartphones over heat during certain tasks. This may be
during charging, playing/recording 4K content or while using heavy apps.
Though in most cases overheating is a hardware issue, there are also some tips that you can follow to ensure that your smartphone does not overheat.
Though in most cases overheating is a hardware issue, there are also some tips that you can follow to ensure that your smartphone does not overheat.
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Remove case
Keeping
the smartphone in a cover case traps the heat emitted out of the
handset and so removing it can help reduce overheating to some extent.
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Keep it on a hard surface while charging
While
charging your smartphone, keep it on a hard surface instead of on a bed
or a sofa which absorb heat. As during charging, the heat emitted gets
trapped inside and warms up the smartphone even more.
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Charging smartphones overnight
Many
of us leave our smartphones for charging overnight. Keeping the
smartphone on charge overnight not only affects the efficiency of your
battery in the long run, but also heats up the device. There have been
cases where smartphone batteries have exploded due to overcharging.
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Kill those apps
There
are some apps which are a drain on both processing power as well as
graphics, such apps too heat up the device. These apps play in the
background and add to the processing power's drainout. This excess of
processing power results in overheating of the device.
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Avoid direct sunlight
Users
can also prevent handsets, especially ones featuring plastic back
panel, from heating up by not keeping them under direct sunlight. The
heat coming from the sunlight along with all the processing power
running in the background are bound to heat-up your smartphone.
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Third-party chargers and batteries
Some
third-party chargers and batteries too are responsible for heating up
of smartphones. Not only batteries, but chargers with different wattage
too heat up the smartphones to some extent.
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