{"id":8869,"date":"2017-03-16T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=8869"},"modified":"2017-03-16T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:07:04","slug":"google-pixel-smartphone-overheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/google-pixel-smartphone-overheating\/","title":{"rendered":"The Google Pixel Smartphone Has Been Overheating"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Google Pixel has a lot of power and impressive features. It has a 5-inch display, a screen resolution that rivals many laptops, a 1.6GHz processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage space, a 12.3-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a powerful battery, among other features. It\u2019s Daydream-ready, which means that you can use the Pixel with Google Daydream to experience high quality virtual reality. With this capability, however, comes reports of the phone overheating, particularly when accessing VR apps or other high-power apps.<\/span><\/p>\n

This issue of overheating doesn\u2019t solely plague the Google Pixel \u2014 it is an issue that affects most smartphones. Whenever your device is overheating, use DFNDR\u2019s CPU Cooler to cool your device down to an optimal temperature. This will help to speed up your device overall, and help prevent crashing, lagging, and freezing. For Google Pixel users, this feature will help to eliminate unwanted background tasks so that your phone can focus on extending and improving your VR experience. Click here to cool your device and improve your phone\u2019s performance:<\/p>\n

\"Deeplink_cool_device_down\"<\/a><\/center>Smartphones often overheat because they are trying to perform too many tasks at once. That\u2019s why it\u2019s important to not only cool your device as soon as it begins to overheat, but to also prevent it from overheating. If you neglect your phone whenever it overheats, you\u2019re allowing the heat to damage your battery and performance of your device. This means that your phone won\u2019t last as long as it\u2019s supposed to \u2014 you\u2019ll have to replace it sooner than expected.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why has the Google Pixel been overheating?<\/b><\/p>\n

Many Google Pixel users have reported that their phone begins to overheat whenever they open a VR app on their device. Even though Google Pixel is an impressive phone, it\u2019s still not able to handle the demands of the VR world. It is still a smartphone, after all, and it is trying to perform an incredibly complex task. Google is looking into this issue, however.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other users have reported that the Google Pixel overheats after a few hours of use, even without using VR technology. In this case, it would be best to use the CPU Cooler in addition to restarting your device. You should also determine which apps are causing your device to overheat. The easiest way to do this is to consult the list of apps that the CPU Cooler gathers. It will also disable those apps, so that you have a better experience with your phone. However, if you continue to have the same issues with the same apps, you may want to consider whether or not you can do without those apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no doubt that the Google Pixel smartphone is an impressive device. Unfortunately, perhaps because of that, the phone has been reported to overheat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3618,3752,231],"class_list":["post-8869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","tag-android-smartphone","tag-google-pixel","tag-overheating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}