Overheating iPhone 3G’s reported

Tuesday, Aug. 5 2008 | Author: Mel

A number of reports have been leaking in that the iPhone 3G is prone to overheating. One forum poster reported that he left his iPhone on his pocket when he fell asleep. He reportedly woke up with a burned leg. The guy reported that he quickly pulled out his phone and saw that a part of the plastic cover melted. The strange thing here is that the phone was not enabled to push emails and he also disabled the “blazing 3G speed” setting.

One comment I’ve read said that this is prone to happen if the auto-lock function of the phone is not activated. Whatever the reason for overheating though it is not a good sign.

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Category: Gadgets, General
Tags: Apple, iPhone 3G

12 Responses for "Overheating iPhone 3G’s reported"

To iPhone, or Not to iPhone - Brian Dusablon

August 23rd, 2008 at 10:29 am
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Smash

August 28th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
2

Not even about 20mins i picked up my Iphone 3G and it was burning up hot, I could feel the heat before i picked up the phone off of my bed, and dumb me, I put it to my ear and well lets just say, i wish i had gotten the instint (sprint).
I guess Steve Jobs needs to do a recall between the frequent dropped calls,over-heating phones, and 12 day waiting period, i had to go threw so far….i hate it.
Ash

October 28th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
3

I noticed my phone started to overheat ever since I put a screen protector on the screen. Has anyone observed this? Also, the phone doesn’t auto lock..so this is what causes it to overheat.

Comments
keyla

March 28th, 2009 at 12:42 am
4

my iphone started overheating when I bought a cover for it..now I have problems charging the battery..
sometimes I leave my iphone charging and when I check it..I find it turned off with no battery and really hot.. really strange :S its really frustrating.

has this happened to anyone?
jimmy

June 13th, 2009 at 7:07 am
5

it happened to me with my ipod touch when i left it on the charger overnight
Mike

June 22nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
6

My New 32 iPhone 3GS battery barely lasts a few hours and in standby mode! I have turned off push ect….. And Gets HotT. Could I have A Faulty?
Mark

July 5th, 2009 at 9:26 am
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It’s all hogwash…. Mine is running cool and fine since it’s release… it’s just a couple of faulty ones, from a batch of 5 million… BIG DEAL….
Bob the fixeruperer

July 14th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
8

These are faulty battery cells, so not all phones are effected.
Recall is iminent.
What The

July 16th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
9

This is not hogwash. There are a three units 3G models at my company reported and verified overheating with diminished battery life, including mine. It just started happening after updating to 3.0. The GPS is turned off. The “Time since last fully charged” shows the Usage and Standby as the exact same amount of time. WTF?
captain

July 19th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
10

mine just started over heating, if i go to att will i get a new one?
Jakes

July 29th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
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I have a 3G since Sep 08 and very recently started to experience very very (burning ear) hot temperatures. Since the launch of OS 3.0 many apps can be on push notification which means that the phone is multitasking all day! As much as this is definitely annoying as hell, I do actually think the phone is doing good for the big load of stress I put on it, which is my personal finding ofcourse.

What I would recommend is changing some apps to fetch and even considering getting rid of some of them(yeah I know its difficult to choose!)

AT&T would not just exchange your iphone very easily, unless you can really prove that you got the one in 5 million, like Mark hinted.

I hope this serves as some helpful information to someone.
Eric

August 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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I’ve been reading all of the recent blogs, and articles about the overheating issues in warm climates, overheating with 3.0 updates, or no autolock setting, and a variety of other potential causes. Now, I’m not trying to be one of those ‘rub it in your face’ kind of people, because I’m actually concerned that I may hit the right combination of variables and mine will start doing the same thing, but, as of today;

I’ve been working in Southwest Saudi Arabia for the entire summer. I carry and use my iPhone 3G all day long with average daytime temperatures over 120f. I’m working both indoors and out. Inside the buildings which house multiple kilns the temperatures exceed 140f in places (between kilns etc). And in some locations that I am required to go I’ve seen temps in excess of 155f, all the while my iPhone is in my pocket, turned on, with OS 3.0, NUMEROUS applications running including “BackGrounder” which really makes the phone work hard. I use a Skype application on my phone to talk to the US and regularly have conversations that last an hour or more. I use my iPhone as a wireless HardDrive with a program called Discover, and I use Remote Desktop to monitor and control PC’s around the facility when I’m too lazy to go there in person. I use it in Direct Sunlight ALL THE TIME, and believe me when I say Saudi Arabia Knows Direct Sunlight. I’ve had my iPhone for over a year, and I live in Arkansas HOT and Humid summers, with temps near or over 100f routinely. My wife and I both have iPhones and neither of us have ever seen the Overheating screen or had heat related problems. Mind you I don’t leave it laying on the dashboard in a hot locked car while charging and running GPS applications. But, I work my phone pretty hard, and I’m just not seeing these issues. Maybe it was just a bad batch of phones?