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Help overheating and battery life

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gabriel76o

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Hi guys! i use a Allview A6 quad.About a month ago my phone started to overheat a lot like 80 C Cpu temp without even using it..!I try to send it to repair using the warranty (3 times) but they never fixed it..idk why.
Is there i can do to find out if it is harware or soft?If it is the soft can i change it?It runs on android 4.3 atm.
 
The only way software could do that would be if something was running the CPU hard continuously. Even then I'd expect the OS to throttle the cpu or shut down the system before it hit those temperatures! So use any system monitoring app you like to see whether there is an app running flat out when this happens.

You can eliminate user software as a possibility by doing a factory reset, but I'd definitely see whether you could spot an app that's misbehaving first.

But this is very strange behaviour.
 
Could be buggy firmware problem, something is hanging and making the CPU run flat out. Could be worth checking if there's any updates for it. I've never heard of this brand before now, guess it's Chinese.
 
So which CPU monitoring app? If you are seeing 75-90% usage solidly then something must be using it (seeing that in a burst when you open a cpu monitor isn't so unusual).

System Panel can show short-term cpu use and identify which apps are currently running.

GSam Battery Monitor can show you integrated use since the last full charge.

There are plenty of others, but those are the 2 I currently have installed myself.
 
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Probably your media server has lost its mind and is locked in a hard, endless loop.

Settings, Apps, All, Media Storage, clear data, cycle power on phone and leave it completely alone for a half hour.

If the problem doesn't go away then one of your media files is corrupted - typically for others with this problem, it's been an mp3 file, but sometimes a picture.

Is your media on a removable sd card?

If so, power on your phone with the card removed. Everything won't work - but just try for a half hour or hour.

If clearing media storage doesn't fix it but removing the sd card does, then it's definitely a corrupted file.

And that problem easily is immune to a factory data reset.
 
I powered on my phone without sd card and the cpu temp is aprox 40 celsius and its used less than 20%.I love u man thx.Is there anyway i can find and delete the coruped files id like to keep all my files, i got tons of music ??
 
OK, so what has worked for some people is this - plug the card into a pc using a card adapter (they're not expensive) and copy / paste the files from the card to the pc.

It seems that often, it will have trouble copying the bad file.
 
funkylogik said:
So, copy music to the pc, format the card and copy it back so you end up with only the good files?
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Yeah, format the card on the phone - or often just erasing the media files and copying them back is good enough.

You can probably use that scan tool built-in to Windows to find the bad ones (card plugged directly into pc).

I recall others saying that worked well too - but I haven't sat in front of Windows for months, so I can't advise on the steps.

I did a Google, this sounds like what I've done -

Open Computer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Computer.

Right-click the hard disk drive that you want to check, and then click Properties.

Click the Tools tab, and then, under Error-checking, click Check Now. ...

Click Start.
 
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