Throttle brightness settings
Your Android smartphone has a built-in feature to throttle brightness settings that can be of great use. You can use low brightness settings during the night and increase as and when needed during the day. But to be honest, most people will keep the phone at full brightness round the clock which is one of the stimuli that keeps the battery juice in use all the time. This is also one of the reasons why smartphones overheat and that is why keeping the brightness settings to an optimum level can help withstand the adverse effect on the phone.
Is your phone suffocating?
Not many people understand how phone case or cover can contribute to the overheating problem. To simplify this, most of the covers are made up of plastics or some kind of plastic or other substances that work as an insulator for heat that keeps the heat inside and cold outside. Although the heat generated during subtle tasks is released through the available space the problem starts when the user works on high-performance apps that create a lot of heat. This clogs up the phone and it starts to warm up gradually causing an overheat. For a change, if your phone heats up quickly, try to remove the case and keep it in an airy place to cool down for few minutes.
The charger and the battery
A lot of use overlook most obvious reasons behind overheating which is the components that involve charging. First, you need to make sure that the charger and the cable you use is original and made specifically for your phone. If the voltage or amperage output of the adapter you use is different from the original provided by the manufacturer when you buy a phone, this can create an overheating problem. Also, since lithium ion batteries are known to deplete in performance as its life cycle progresses, this can create a shortage of the available power and increase in the apparent usage as there are hundreds of tasks that user can do with his/her phone. Have a look if the battery is faulty or damaged, if yes then get it replaced.
Close/turn off what’s not needed
The moment you feel that your phone is warming up, limit the number of features and apps you are using at the time. You can close all the apps and processes that you aren’t using as these apps are still using the resources required to keep it alive in the background. Simply close the unwanted apps from the ‘recent’ list and also, ‘Force Stop’ the apps that you don’t need for time being, go to ‘Settings >> Apps >> Running’ to check out the apps currently running. Further, uninstall apps that are dormant or least used because of the same reason – they still use resources to keep afloat when not in use.
Further, turn off the features like Bluetooth, wifi, location, etc which are one of the many high-performance features that consumes excess battery power. You can install a third-party app from the Google Play store to limit such apps and processes from accessing battery backup and other resources.
Update the OS
Keeping the phone updated with the latest firmware patches and the apps installed in the system can help avert many issues and bugs that can bring down your phone’s efficiency and introduce errors where overheating is included. It won’t take much time to check out if apps on your phone have received an update or not, simply open the Play Store and check out the Updates section in the ‘My apps and games’ section. On the other hand, check out the available firmware updates at ‘Settings >> About Phone >> Software update’.
Factory data reset
The last resort is to perform a factory data reset or hard reset that will erase all the data stored on the system and resolve all the bugs and issues that you have encountered. You can perform FDR in two ways where one of the methods requires you to follow ‘Settings >> Backup and Reset >> Reset the phone’ which is comparatively easy than the second available method for which, the steps are as followed.
- Power off the device firstly.
- Now, press the power button and volume down button together and hold it until the phone vibrates or shows an Android logo.
- Once you have entered the recovery mode, you need to scroll through the menu using volume up or down button for which, the
- instructions are mentioned on the top of the screen.
- You can select the option ‘wipe data/factory reset’ with the power button which doubles as the selection key.
- Next is to confirm the step by selecting the option ‘Yes – delete all user data’ when prompted on the next screen.
- Post-procedure, the phone will reboot in its original factory settings.
Seek a permanent fix
If you think that these methods aren’t helping, there are chances that your phone is actually suffering from a hardware-related issue which you can get resolved with the help of a technician unless you are experienced enough to dismantle the phone and make the necessary repair. For all others, report the Sony overheating problem to the nearest service center and if the phone is in warranty period, you can report it to an authorized service center to the problem fixed.
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