Summer is the season that our phones hate the most. If we are careless, we can make a big dent in the health of its battery, and degrade faster than necessary the basic components that ensure performance is preserved for years. There are no magic solutions, and even less so in areas like where your humble servant lives: Andalusia.
However, there are small habits that we can implement to try to reduce the temperature of the phone by a few extra degrees and prevent it from overheating.
In summer, without coverYes, I am the first to panic about dropping my phone and damaging it, but it is usually enough to take extreme precautions for a couple of months. Cases, no matter how thick they are, are a natural enemy of the dissipation of our phones.
The higher quality ones are usually quite thick, and in the summer they can make our phone’s temperature rise. Removing it will not make the phone completely cold, but it is an important protective factor when using the device.
Minimize your use in the sunUsing your mobile phone in direct sunlight is something that we often do without even realising it. Travelling with your mobile phone in the GPS holder. Using your mobile phone on the beach. Going on a trip and taking photos or videos for a long time under direct sunlight… Summer encourages using your phone during the hottest times of the day, but this combination is terrible.
In fact, there are combinations such as car + GPS support + mobile phone charging that we should avoid at all costs, as they maximize the possibility of the phone reaching temperatures above 45 degrees. Based on these figures, there is a certain unanimity that both the battery and the internal components begin to suffer more than expected.
Using the camera is another of the big problems with mobile phones in summer. Although it may seem shocking, it is easier for your mobile to heat up from using the camera for a while than from playing for a few hours (depending on the game, of course).
By opening the camera in full sunlight we are forcing the panel to reach its peak nits. The internal memory works at full speed when we are recording video, and all the processing that is done in each of the photos and videos you take, involves a significant amount of work for the CPU.
It’s summer and we’re going to use the camera no matter what. But it’s a good idea to keep these factors in mind so that, as far as possible, we can avoid going out to take photos at times when the temperature is at its worst.
Avoid taking the brightness to the maximumIt’s often tricky, but peak brightness is more important than ever on phones. With the current nit war we’re experiencing, phones shoot up their power consumption in an absurd way when they’re at their brightest.
In fact, they are not comfortable with such high-power demands, and you may have experienced a common problem if you have a high-end phone: the brightness was at maximum and suddenly it drops. This is the phone’s way of protecting itself against significant increases in temperature. So, if you can keep your phone at a brightness of around 70 or 80% instead of 100%, all the better.
Another good practice is to avoid using the Always on Display mode. Some phones rely on the light sensor to set the AOD brightness. And in summer this can cause both battery drain and extra heat.
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