Your phone may become pretty toasting, especially when you play hardware-intensive games, take photos or videos continuously. The article below will show you the causes of overheating and solutions to keep your handset appropriate temperature easily.
It is Natural for Phones
to Warm Up
Unlike laptops lowering temperature via built-in fan, smartphones could only dissipate heat, generated by central processing unit, memory and battery, through its body. That is why your phone is easy to become overheat.
Heavy Usage May Cause
Phones to Overheat
These activities, such as long sessions of gaming, continuous use of a top-quality camera app and upgrading the system, require a lot of power from your phones. This high-power consumption could easily lead to overheating.
In fact, overheating is a natural response to the way you use or overuse phones. It is common for phones to overheat when the surrounding temperature is high or power-consuming APPs are used for a long time.
So, if your HONOR phone feels warm, especially after you have been using it, there is no need to worry. However, you are still suggested to try the methods below to cool down your HONOR phones when necessary.
*Although the methods below could reduce overheating, they may also affect your user experience. Please adjust relevant settings based on your own needs.
One-Touch
Optimization
Click System Manager > OPTIMIZE, then your HONOR phone will automatically analyze the battery usage and provide optimizing options. You are also able to select the options you prefer manually.
Power Saving mode
Select Settings > Battery and enable Power Saving mode. This function could reduce the power consumption, recovering your HONOR phone from overheating.
Apart from enabling functions above, you are recommended to take care of following aspects on daily to prevent overheating problem.
Suggestion for
Daily Use
  • Try not to place the phone on the quilt or blanket or anywhere else with poor heat dissipation.
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  • Clean up unneeded background APPs timely.
  • Keep your phone out of the heat. Try your best to avoid leaving it under direct sunlight.
  • Avoid using your phone while it is charging.
If your phone still overheats after above attempts, please restart it. If the problem still exists after restart, please backup your data and apply for Postal Repair Service via HONOR official website or Customer Service hotline You can also seek for assistance in HONOR Customer Service Center.
Don’t panic with overheating problem. When you encounter it next time, give the methods above a go.