How to prevent overheating on your phone.

Does your phone gets warm, and sometimes even hot, when you're using it? That doesn't mean that your phone is ill and needs special attention, or broken or dangerous. Anytime a machine or even a person works hard it's going to give off heat. Most of the time you and your phone enjoy a comfortable temperature and in both cases being warmer than usual is generally not serious and is only temporary.

Now let's look at some of the reasons your phone might be warm. Firstly your phone might generate heat when charging and discharging, running applications like gaming, navigation, and streaming media which require more power as they use data and data use is power intensive. Anytime you draw power from the battery it's going to give up the heat and the more power you draw the more heat the battery will give off. Your phone may also get warm when it's working as a Wi-Fi hotspot. Also when you combine activities, for example, navigating and streaming music in the car while charging the phone then you can expect a pretty hot device especially if it's sitting in the sun. Again the good news is that a warm or a hot phone can be perfectly normal. Our phones are built to manage heat. However, unlike a computer, a phone does not have a cooling fan to help it, so it takes other routes to manage heat. All our phones have built-in safety features to shut them down before they get dangerously hot, this almost never happens, but if it happens you will first see a warning and then if the phone continues to heat it will so if you have never seen the warning you're just fine.

Newer phones also have other safeguards that allow you to keep using the phone when it gets excessively warm. These phones are designed to lower the heat by temporarily reducing the phone's capability, for example, your phone might slow down, the screen might dim and the charging might pause but you can still use it and when the phone cools sufficiently it will be fully functional again. But what if your phone get's hot when you're not using it or charging it? Sometimes a process might get stuck in the background, this is rare but it can happen. If it does, just turn the phone off and back on to kill whichever runaway process is causing your phone to heat up. There is also something you can do keep your phone keep cool, keep it outside from the hot sun. If the outside temperature is very high realize that this can impact performance accordingly. If you can give your phone a break when it gets warm, do so.

So if your phone gets warm or hot remember it probably doesn't need service or repair. It's just working hard on your behalf, it may get a little rest if it's warm just like and hard worker but there is no need to worry. Also remember to use an official charger for your mobile and don't tamper with the battery, charging port or other aspects of your phone software or hardware.