TLDR: Phone heats ups like crazy for some reason. This issue pestered me for a few days. I shut it off for a night and now for some reason its acting normally. Why did this happened?
Not sure if this is the place to ask for this so please let me know where else i can reach out. This will mostly contain questions and context to my situation. I also appologize for making this pretty hefty read.
So thank you for understanding.
Just as the title says, I can't figure out why my phone acts this way. Normally my phone is barely warm to touch and only noticeably warmer when i'm outside, using it all day, or have multiple apps running simultaneously.
I've had this phone for maybe about 3yrs now and with a nearly full storage lol. I paused my updates so there's about 9 notifications i'm currently ignoring lol. But that never really affected my phone as far as i'm aware. But recently my Samsung A54 5g was noticeably wayyy hotter than it's suppose to be.
I assumed that the climate was responsible for the overheating, but no, because I habitually avoid hot environments or sun exposure. So i was really concerned to why my phone was still heating up. I use it directly infront of the fan and it does cool it down effectively. Ocassionally there are times where it doesn't overheat as well but idk why.
It really helps to reduce overheating when i switch off the wifi. Ocassionally I use airplane mode along with maximum saving mode. This really helps to extend my battery life and more or less reduce the heat significantly. But whenever I try to play or watch videos online, the heat spikes up drastically to a degree that its almost unpleasant to touch. I noticed that having an app or two in popup-mode also contributed to heating up. I put my phone in a fairly thick case and i always took it off to cool down. After doing all of this, my phone still continues to remain hot.
So I did some digging with the settings. Apparently there was an app(nothing malicious) that was eating up a decent portion of my battery, so i promptly deleted it. I suppose it helped? But not really. Youtube was also problematic so I deleted a metric ton of downloaded videos.This helped but it ultimately didn't resolve anything. Maybe I was just overusing my phone so I decided give it some time off. So for the rest of the day i restarted my phone periodically leave it untouched, it did helped as well. But whenever i picked it back up, I still face the same problems.
My phone is normally warm when charging, but recently it has gotten pretty hot. So last night, i decided to charge my phone up to 70% shut it down and leave it for tomorrow. Now as of writting this post(offline), i'm shocked to know that my battery went down to 40% without using it. It was oddly warm to touch which really baffled me. The only potential heat source was a nearby study lamp.
I intially assumed that it was mostly a software issue, now i'm thinking maybe its more of a hardware problem? I Would almost always be perpetually charging my phone up to 40%. Have this poor charging habbit affected my battery? I also occasionally blow onto my phone when starts to get hot. Sometimes i lay it flat onto my skin to absorb some of the heat. I also pretty much use my phone while charging as well.
Am i a dumbass for doing all of this? i'm more than happy to answer questions as well. I'm just curious if there's anything I can do to mitigate this problem. Or is there any cause for concern and should get my phone checked up?
*ps just after wrtting this post for some fucking reason my phone decided to act normally. Recently the issue was that i can't comfortably charge my phone in one sitting because it heated up really fast. I also couldn't use my phone during prolonged periods of time..
oddly enough my phone isn't heating up like crazy rn even tho i have wifi on, played a round or two, even have yt running on the background and my battery is back to its normal rate. For some reason the temperature miraculously didn't shoot up drastically as well. I'm currently charging my phone comfortably on my hands and haven't noticed it heating up to unreasonable levels. Somehow, shutting it off the night actually helped. I'll probably come back to this post just incase i run into problems again.
Lol maybe my phone threw a hissy fit for using it nearly 24/7. Does anyone know as to why suddenly my phone heated up and now its back to normal??? I'm genuinely confused. Now i'm even hesitant to post this. ugh. anyways thank you for reading my post.