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Root Processor temperature seems high...

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nofxdan

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Yesterday I rooted and installed the new Bugless Beast. While using the wifi tether app today, I noticed my processor getting fairly warm. Concerned, I downloaded TempMonitor. Without any overclocking at all, my processor was consistently running at around 44*C/111*F. The battery temperature hovers around 27-38*C.
Why does my phone run so hot? Should I be worried? Some people have said the processor in the droid can handle temps approaching 100*C (!!!), is this correct?
 
Your processor is fine. While it says in the TI papers that it can handle 100C, I think the highest people have seen is around 65C (Tas saw that at 1.35GHz).

Just don't let your battery get near 60C.
 
44 is high-ish but not really dangerous, personally i'd start to worry if I saw anything over 50, but I'm a worry-wart like that heh.
 
Still, this is a passively cooled device, so temps higher than 50ish will probably feel a tad uncomfortable....
 
Honestly, when i initially rooted and o/c'd, I was running similar temperatures to you and perhaps a little higher based on workload. It concerned me as everyone else seemed to be running significantly cooler. Well, I decided to do a complete wipe and reinstall of a rooted rom (BBeast) and I am now running temperatures similar to everyone else. Even overclocked at 1100Mhz, I have to work pretty hard to hit 110+ whereas I felt like I lived there prior (when at 800), even without significant workload. If your concerned, which you shouldn't be too concerned, you could always do a clean wipe and install. It's not a bad idea when installing a new rom anyways (as opposed to installing a new version of the same rom).
 
Now I have a new issue -- My battery temperature is showing up as 36*C, and my processor temp is listing as -1*C. I find this highly unlikely haha
 
nofxdan said:
Now I have a new issue -- My battery temperature is showing up as 36*C, and my processor temp is listing as -1*C. I find this highly unlikely haha
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You're running Beast 0.7.6? Uncheck CPU temp. It's not supported with that kernel.
 
nofxdan said:
I'm running whatever build was new this morning. It was working fine until about 10 minutes ago.
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Huh, well it's behaving the way it's supposed to now. Pete's kernel doesn't have Tas' CPU temp code in it (even though I think it says in the release notes that it supports it). If you look in the release thread, everyone is getting the -1F temp reading.
 
my phone is running cold at 1ghz! not bad! i mean i am not messing with it a lot right now, but i am impressed! pete is sweet
 
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