Summer is a time of fun and leisure, although the high temperatures make everything more difficult every time. And if the elderly and children are the most vulnerable to heat, our mobile device also suffers from high temperatures. Excess heat affects performance, with the direct consequence that the battery lasts much less. You will have verified that during the summer you have to go to charge your device more frequently. It doesn’t hurt to take a look at our tips to extend your phone’s battery. Preventing your mobile phone from getting heatstroke is as simple as being very careful. But, in addition, we provide you with some tips that you may not know and that will greatly prevent your phone from overheating.
Why does a phone get hot?
Any device that is turned on, even when it is idle, gives off heat. A mobile phone or tablet has a battery that is exchanging electrons. On the other hand, our phones are already small computers with very powerful processors that get hot when we put them through many tasks at the same time. Another part of the phone that gives off a lot of heat is the screen. When you have been watching YouTube videos or your favorite Netflix series for a long time, you will appreciate that the panel has become very hot.
Mobile devices can also become hot from other causes, mainly from direct exposure to the sun. It happens regularly, we leave our device on the dashboard of our car in the sun. It only takes five minutes for it to overheat, knocking it out for several minutes.
When this happens, it is the device itself that displays an alert on the screen that it has overheated. To prevent the temperature from rising further, it remains practically like a paperweight. You cannot use it for anything, and until it returns to normal temperature values it will stay that way. Do not be alarmed, immediately turn off the phone , remove it from the sun and remove the case. When it is not so hot to the touch, you can turn it on again and check that it works normally.
Another cause that influences that a mobile phone is also very hot is having it charging with the case on. If it is thick, the heat generated by the device is not dissipated and can adversely affect performance. On the other hand, the use of a charger and a very poor quality cable will greatly influence both the charging speed and the heating of the phone. Numerous cases have been documented, some of them in Spain, in which the device has started to burn due to using both a charger and a very poor quality cable.
How to prevent your mobile phone from getting hot
Caution and continually monitoring it are the best measures to prevent your device from getting too hot. But, in addition, these tips will help your device avoid a heat stroke that could affect its operation.
- If you are outside, try to always have it in the shade. If you go to the beach with your phone, turn it off when you are not using it and keep it wrapped in a towel. You will also be protecting it from sand and saltpeter.
- If you take it inside the car, even if the air conditioning is on, exposure to the sun will cause it to heat up very quickly. Therefore, if you use the phone as a GPS navigator, change its position if the sun begins to shine directly.
- Always use original or good quality accessories. It is not a good idea to try to save and buy them in bazaars that do not give any type of guarantee. The risk of accident increases exponentially with this material, since it probably does not have the European certifications.
- When you put it to charge, it is always highly recommended to remove the cover. This causes the device to take more temperature. In addition, during the summer it is a good idea to use a thinner cover , so that not so much heat is stored around the device.
- During the summer season we should not make such intensive use of the device, that is, shorten your Internet browsing sessions and take longer breaks. Not only to avoid taking too much temperature, but to distract you in another way that is not in front of a screen.
- A device with a bad battery will not provide adequate performance and will heat up more easily. The change of this piece is a fairly simple operation that is carried out in many specialized stores and does not have a high cost. You can check the health of your mobile phone’s battery in Settings, or by installing an application such as AccuBattery or MaxBattery
- If you notice that your device has become very hot and it is not getting the sun, it is interesting that you close all the applications that you are not using. But it will be much better if you rest a few minutes on your mobile phone.
These tips will help you to have control over the temperature of your device. In extreme cases, heatstroke can be fatal to the phone, causing it to stop working forever.
