Some readers said that I am pro Samsung devices and hate HTC devices. Well, I am not in favour to any brand (FYI, I love my legendary HTC HD2, no smartphone can beat it). Neither Samsung nor HTC pay me to write. No free goodies from them too. I am just telling the truth and nothing but the truth. Yes, my Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 overheats. Luckily, not as hot as HTC One X (HTC One X auto shutdown when battery temp reaches 70 °C. Yes, it can overheat up to 70 °C). But still consider hot instead of warm especially on top part of the phone where all the heavy duty chips are located there.
AP = Application Processor which is Exynos 5 Octa (1.6 quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 and 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7) with PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU for I9500 model. No idea what is PAM yet. BATT is battery of course. As you can see from the screenshot above, Galaxy S4 can heat up to 56 °C while playing intensive 3D games. 3D performance is a lot better than Galaxy S3 but hotter too. Maybe that’s the price you need to pay. But no worry about battery explodes issue as it stays below 40 °C even on heavy usage.
Does your Samsung Galaxy S4 (no matter I9500 or I9505) overheats?
Dear Jaycee,
Is that consider hardware issue or is a norm ?
Regards,
Chuan
Normal to me. In Malaysia weather without air conditioner, smartphone tends to overheat easily. Just how warm it is.
Overheat and then restart ???
Nope, just overheat and continue to perform normally.
how is the battery life
Still monitoring it. Will post the result in next few days.
PAM graphics format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAM_graphics_format)
Huh? What does this have to do with Galaxy S4?
I think he posted that because you said:” No idea was PAM is yet” 🙂
From what I tested, I9505 easily overheated when running some benchmarks, running Epic Citadel (and also its benchmark, too) and Asphalt 7. When heated, it would drop from about 57 fps to about 51-52 in Epic Citadel, so there is something going on..
Same here. In Epic Citadel it would drop from 57-58 to 51-52. Never get lower.
But for me it’s definitely Throttling.
Some one can try starting 3 times antutu or Epic Citadel?
If you run antutu several times, you will have differents resul based on phone temperature.
25000 then 23000 then 21000 then 19000.
S4 is throttling?
Maybe or Aututu Benchmark itself has issue. I tend to get different scores on my other Android devices too.
Thanx for the reply. Are you sure that 90′ isn’t the shut down temperature and not the throttling?
Huh? What 90?
Ops, would reply to LK…
if you call that overheating, i don’t know how you ever gonna use a nexus 4…
which is frustrating for me actually.
kernel source says it starts throttling at 90’C
not sure why Luigi’s Antutu slows down.
HI
Same problem with me ..
I am using this phone in india..
When browsing on 3g ..it gets heated up at the top corner of the phone…
but when i charge this phone..(while charinging ) its get too hot that i can’t even touch my phone …
Tested with antutu stability test and cpu spy.
Temperature grow from 35 celsius to 40 celsius.
The cpu frequency chanced
1900 Mhz 20% of the test
1674 Mhz 40% of the test
1350 Mhz 22% of the test
Cpu throttle exactly like Nexus 4
i think samsung was already aware of exynos overheating. read this article from a website 22nd march 2013
http://itersnews.com/?p=26964
What does count stand for?
Time spent?
Yes. it updates every few seconds.
my s4 exynos 5410 overheats upto 90c while playing gta san is that ok ?
90°C??
Yes 90c and it become really hot any help ?
Wow… It is not okay for me. Hands will get burned at 90°C. Please consult Samsung Support for help.
I can’t I’m out of warranty and my hands not burned it just become really hot I checked with CPU temp 92 c max while browsing 70 c max
Try your luck to take a video of this overheat issue and put into YouTube. Then ask Samsung to change a new one for you.
Try your luck to take a video of this overheat issue and put into YouTube. Then ask Samsung to change a new one for you.
Why video ? Why not go to customer care direct
Out of warranty. Samsung won’t entertain you unless you pay to fix it, right?