xxx_xxx Nice test. But would something like video call plus navigation plus running multiple apps stress it out too? I would consider those are normal use case as well
It is hard to say. Since ambient temperature plays a significant role in flagship level devices cooling, I suppose it depends on what the ambient temp of your vehicle is. Unless you meant navigation on foot and taking a video call while walking or something. Then it is just outdoor temperature where you can’t control for ambient temperature anyway. If it does get hot though, like any flagship would in those conditions, it will shutdown the offending app and your phone will be fine as soon as it cools.
Also, you can control background tasks yourself and block apps from running in the back ground from the app’s “App Info” page. I keep a very short list of thing I let run in the background on my device so my CPU isn’t working hard on anything I’m not actively using my device for. If you’re concerned though test it performing the and if it overheats then when you have time tell me:
-What apps you were running
- What the temps were
- Battery percentage
And I’ll test mine under similar conditions.
Stereobasic Thank you, very interesting ! Received phone 3 yesterday and from now i have not expérienced heating at all, but i have not played demanding game.
There was a video where some people seemed surprised in the comments at how the heat sink paste was applied. Could this be a line of thought?
iFixit posted a recent teardown of the Phone 3 (Link here: you can see a drastically larger amount of thermal paste under that motherboard. So I don’t know why Zach’s from Jerryrigeverything had that weird zig-zag pattern.
CMF1_hacker I did this test personally here pre-release here:
This is awesome, sorry I missed your write up on this. Thanks for doing testing across updates!
MuskyMelon That the samsung is throttling is a good thing. It allows me to continue using the apps I need just with less performance. Killing apps and making the phone heat up to a point of discomfort is a bad used experience.
Not everyone has good airconditioning and only wants to use it for more intense tasks when the temperature is ideal
I get that, which is why I said ‘if you are lucky enough to be able to control your thermostat’. Here’s my simple line of thinking: Samsung is one of the most expensive flagship companies of all time. They buy the best silicon available from Qualcomm (it is now literally called Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 for Galaxy) and put it in almost every Galaxy phone they release. This not only makes them potentially the most efficient phones, but they also have the most headroom to overclock themselves. Which is why they often top benchmark scores. But then they throttle it to under 50C when you could theoretically hit much higher performance levels if that temperature threshold was lifted even a little bit. I’d back off my rant if the customer could choose to enable this feature and run it wide open the way these other gaming phones do (hide it in the settings menu and make them acknowledge that it will generate more heat when they turn it on) then you’d at least be getting all the performance they leave on the table. But to my knowledge no such capability exists. You could do it through rooting or custom ROMs, but Samsung puts a Knox lock on their bootloader to know if the user attempted to modify the device and to my knowledge cannot be rolled back by any means. Don’t even get me started on how open source ROMs have issue with voice calls on Samsung because they use a proprietary version of VoLTE on their devices so if you make calls it has to fall back to a lower network technology.
If you want your phone manufacturer to set artificial limits on your behalf and keep your phone cool because you don’t have a way to prevent overheating otherwise, then you made a good choice. But your case isn’t universal and some of us want to have full control over our devices, bootloader and chip voltages. I’m not likely to own a Samsung for this reason until literally all developer friendly phones (Pixel, Moto, Nothing, etc) are off the market.
