Why does my S4 Overheats when I use the flashlight app?

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Feb 19, 2001
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My HTC One would go all flame on when I ran navigation and kept the screen on. Actually there were several scenarios where the One would be burning hot. Complete opposite experience with the Note 3 thus far, it's never gotten hot.

GPS does that. My Nexus 4 gets to be like that playing Ingress. I'm glad they optimized the code a lot because I don't see why a Nexus 4 can only run that thing at 20fps and on a GS2, it was a slideshow.

Good to hear the Note 3 doesn't melt with GPS on. My iPhone gets warm but never hot when using Waze.

Heh, Youtube made my old 11in Air inter a fryer. Ultrabooks that thin don't much the most robust cooling system, and Apple neglects cooling for sake of pretty design.

Flash player also runs like crap on OS X
 

Dari

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Are you guys sure the flash is OLED, and not plain LED? As to the heat issue, I noticed this once on my Nexus 4, after I apparently triggered the flashlight lockscreen widget while it was in my pocket. The phone got pretty toasty.

Oh, my bad. I thought since it was OLED part of the screen could light up if the flashlight app was made by Samsung.
 

Cappuccino

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LMFAO! :D

Bad advice though, wanking in the dark you can end up with stains where you don't expect them... :sneaky:
Oh dear! This thread is full of pedos and perverts seriously. I thought this forum full of mature users? I'll guess not. So many 13-15 year olds nowadays. :eek: