BTW here's the "heat" writeup
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Perception of "Heat"Modern high performance mobile SoCs tend to generate heat. This is an unavoidable result of more transistors, higher frequencies and more features. This is also why your desktop/notebook CPU needs a heatsink and fan.
There are quite a few posts about "my phone feels very hot." This is a QUALITATIVE statement with no numbers.
Please provide QUANTITATIVE statements like "my phone reached XX degrees when I was doing YY"
A recommended app is System Tuner by 3C
here or Android Tuner also by 3C
here. These apps provide
CPU Temperature which is the correct reading and NOT the Battery temperature which is the only reading most monitoring apps provide.
The reported range of CPU temperature is from about 30 degrees Centigrade on idle or IM/light activity to about 60, perhaps 63 degrees Centigrade while browsing and/or playing games. Some users report a high of only about 45 degrees for their Note 3's regardless of activity.
So DO NOT BE ALARMED if your Note 3 reaches 60 degrees. This temperature is uncomfortable to touch for more than 1 minute (or less for some) but Samsung seems to have catered, for this by placing the SoC at the topmost part of the device beside the camera module so that in portrait mode you don't actually feel it.
So please provide
QUANTITATIVE descriptions when posting about heat.