My iPhone 4S is heating up for light use like texting and browsing. It'll heat up in 5 min. The right side of the phone near sim slot heats up. My question is that is it normal? Has it ever happened to anyone? I'm kinda worried about it. It doesn't warm that much to burn my hand. It just heats up that I can feel it. I would have an iPhone 4 and it wouldn't heat up like my 4S. Is it something because it has a dual core processor? I'm not using 3G. I'm just using wifi and use it mostly for texting and browsing. What should I do?
Thank You
Actually my 4s (i'm on Verizon fwiw) does this every time that an iMessage is attempting to be sent in an area with low 3G coverage or low signal in general. What happens is iMessage just sits there trying and trying to send ONE simple text and it just won't go through, but the text only option only kicks in after it's already heated up! So it has some overly long time-out margin where the OS thinks it has JUST enough signal to send the little sucker through... sometimes it will go through, and other times it will not, and later finally makes it through the network as text only, as opposed to 3G data (iMessage). This has happened multiple times in the same exact area where I usually have spotty 3G coverage, although I can still easy make and receive calls.... It happened a couple times sending photos (don't even try it) before I found out what in the heck was going on, and I had no choice but to turn the phone off since it was ridiculously hot at that point.
As far as using data on wifi, it will get a little warm, but only after a fair amount of use, maybe nonstop 15-20 minutes of browsing and lots of page loading here and there. But it won't really warm up streaming youtube... not sure why this is though. Loading lots of webpages in an extended period of time is more work, especially on 3G, as opposed to wifi of course. But 5 minutes only is not normal.. (unless it's a signal issue as stated above) I've had to be on my phone browsing around for much longer than that to notice any decent buildup of heat/warmth near the charging connector.
Have you tried closing all apps and then rebooting?
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Check your cell signal strength when this is happening. If you're on the borderline of getting reception, your phone may be doing a lot of power-consuming signal searching.
Regards,
Tom
Agreed! see my post below.....
