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My iphone almost melted

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franzmueller

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Dec 1, 2007
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Spain
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Here´s the story ....

Drove to my local beach to see if I could kite a bit , sunny day and hot here in South of Spain , no wind ... so grab my phone to check out the wind forecast and found my iphone really hot ( on the upper half of the unit ) I first thought it had to do with the fact that it was attached to the front window mount ? and the sun hit it quite a bit so I left the phone for about 15 min in a shade ? shadow area but when I got it in my hands the unit was still really hot , suddenly from 50% charges it appears the warning that I only have 20% charge and started looking for a web page when the warning appears again that I only have 10% charge , the phone in the mean time was getting hotter and hotter so I decided to turn it off , left it near the air-con until I arrived home and restored it .

This happened 3 weeks ago and since the restore the iphone is working as always but today I was reading an article about an exploded iphone in France and started thinking that probably my phone was on the best way to melt that day ?

Software problem ? I have no idea what happened but got me really scared .

Anyone else with a similar situation ? should I send a report t Apple about what happened ?

Saludos

Franz
 
Yes look at the stats here for the optimum operating temp

* Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F
(0° to 35° C)
* Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F
(-20° to 45° C)
* Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
* Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)


Outside of that you risk your iphone being ruined.

I live in AZ and in the summer it's at LEAST 105 F if not more (we get 115 or higher easily) I make sure that my iPhone is NEVER in direct sunlight because of this.

I suggest next time you probably do the same.
 
Don´t think so ..... drive quite a bit using the iphone as navi , taking calls etc and it does get warm but NEVER hot that you can´t touch it .( own the iphone since almost one year ....)

Keeping the unit in an air conditioned car for 1/2 hour without use and the f*** phone never cooled down .

As said .... turned it off , waited an hour , restored and all was fine afterwards .

Not even when charging and playing games at the same time it gets so hot .

Anyway ... hope it never happens again

Saludos


Franz
 
I guess some of you didn't see the part where he had it in the shade for a while and it was still hot. www.hookedonphonics.com give it a shot.

My 3gs gets hot sometimes with charging which isn't cool. It does have a few cracks in the housing so in a few months I will swap it out so I guess it's not a huge deal.
 
First of all, update to 3.0 already and you won't get that pesky 10% battery alert, haha ... Man, I truly miss that alert.

I think you should bring it in, I have heard of problems with overheating, and Apple is working on this problem with 3.1 ... Hopefully this is legit.
How long have your had your iPhone 3G?
 
xbuddycorex said:
First of all, update to 3.0 already and you won't get that pesky 10% battery alert, haha ... Man, I truly miss that alert.

I think you should bring it in, I have heard of problems with overheating, and Apple is working on this problem with 3.1 ... Hopefully this is legit.
How long have your had your iPhone 3G?
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...I still get it...
 
army91c said:
.... I guess some of you didn't see the part where he had it in the shade for a while and it was still hot. www.hookedonphonics.com give it a shot....
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Erm... Perhaps a whopping 15 minutes is not enough for the phone to cool down after being heated to a high temperature by the sun. Perhaps you should try your own advice. :p

In any case it does seem to be a pattern that observations of overheating seem to come from hot, sunny climates. Perhaps the heat triggers some sort of exothermic chemical reaction in the phone.
 
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