make it work like a chestnut

I go out, I take the phone to answer some messages while consulting an address on Google Maps. It doesn’t take even five minutes in burn. I spend my life by analyzing mobiles, and I begin to analyze the possible reasons why this is happening (taking into account the little detail that I live in Andalusia and jump from the bed with more than 30 degrees in the street). They all have something in common: My phone is too good.

The power. One of the factors that most influence the thermal performance of a telephone is its processor. At the moment, Power has gone out of hand with which high -end phones. Although The architecture of the new chips Divide the chip into groups according to use (large nuclei and tragons for complex functions, small and efficient nuclei for simple functions, not to complicate much), not even enough. In the most powerful mobiles, the smallest nuclei are equivalent to the largest nuclei of cheaper mobiles.

One way to save this headache on the mobile is to go against the countercurrent and save it, stay with the fair power. The “gross” mode to do so is to activate directly Energy saving modein which processes in the background are capan and the power of the processor is reduced. The most appropriate shape depends largely on the customization layer we use. In phones like Samsung’s we can even Adjust the performance profile What do we want.

The screen. The war for the nits of the screen It has an inevitable consequence: that mobile phones burn in summer. Illuminating a panel is one of the most expensive processes at the energy level for any type of device: it requires many efforts not only to illuminate, but to maintain shine. This is the reason why, surely, you have appreciated that In summer your mobile screen shines less.

There is not a single mobile that can maintain its brightness peak in moments of heat, so getting used to a lower brightness in summer will prevent the mobile from hot. This is something completely incompatible with Automatic brightness functionsince this will always try to make the screen shine to the maximum outdoors (although not late than a few minutes to drastically lower when the mobile detects that it is burning).

The camera. Summer and camera are practically synonyms, but I have bad news again: it is another functions that makes the mobile hot. Reasons?

• The camera activates your phone resources, since it needs to be fast.
• Memory works quickly, needs to save large amounts of data in seconds.
• Made the photo or video, someone has to process it. And that someone is your mobile with those resources that are already beginning to be exhausted.

Solutions? Avoid high resolution shooting modes, Rawrecord in resolutions like 1080 for not too many minutes, not use apps that squeeze the camera to the maximum and, ultimately use the camera to capture fast memories without going too high.

The connection. In summer we travel, we move. And moving has a consequence in which we almost never repaired: Changes in coverage. In areas with bad connection (beaches, mountains, remote places), The internal modem You have to work much more to try to stay constantly connected to any network you find.

This translates not only in heat, but in much higher energy consumption. Advice? If you do not have coverage, put the phone in plane mode, and force the 4G connection from the settings if you are in an area where the 5G connection is quite unstable.

Use. This last section is one of the most important, since it is easy to think that “an intensive use” only refers to recording 4k 60 fps and playing the heaviest game for our mobile.

• Connect car to Android Auto / Carplay during travel hours.
• Use Instagram on the street, with the mobile in full sun and brightness to the fullest
• Video calls through any app
• Have Google Maps / Waze / Apple Maps in the background to obtain indications while we use other apps

The most daily use can be the most intensive, and there is a basic standard to prevent the phone from hot in summer: how much less processes at the same time, the better.

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