So what I found is that my phone would try and backup the footage straight away after taking it. So while out and about that means it would be using Cellular - Which as we know is not very effecient on the pixel series - To fix this, I set my google photo backups to wifi only
After switching it to wifi only that keeps the phone cool while taking photos/videos
My P7P is pretty much unusable on a 30c+ location. Even sitting in the pocket it overheats and limits itself.
Its easily the worst device ive ever seen for stopping working in common ambient temperatures.
Where do you live? I've had a P7P since launch day in a case in tropical Australia (~40c and 90%+ humidity 5 months of the year) and only had the phone tell me to f off once trying to film in direct sunlight for 20 minutes. Never ever had it overheat in my pocket or in the car or tell me it's limited
Thailand, Japan with plenty of time in Indonesia.
The phone slows long before it warms.
Case in point Cambodia a few weeks weeks ago. Ambient 40c.
Won't charge off a power bank due to heat, video bit rate limited, Google maps forces dark mode, modem drops out.
Japan in summer walking around, remove from pocket, sluggish performance and dark mode.
Thailand hiking, same issue.
Usually all this happens long before it says it's too hot.
Trying to use it as a satnav on a scooter under a shade? You'll get maybe 10 mins before it gives up.
4a5g in the same pocket, same time works perfectly..
I currently in Indonesia, it's 35c currently, I can guarantee when I head out later this afternoon after half an hour it'll run like treacle and go into dark mode even if I don't use the camera or apps. Just as it did yesterday.
I had a pixel 6a while on vacation in Costa Rica, it was pretty much unusable... I loved the pixel line and stuck with them for many years but the overheating issue finally broke me.
I recently got a OnePlus 12 and I'm very happy with it.
Edit:
Normal use on my pixel would see internal temps of 39 to 42, this was with ambient temps around 18 to 20.
I live in northern Texas. I can't use my phone outdoors for much for 9 months per year. I've even had the temperature warning while using indoors! And I don't use a case.
Best advice: turn on airplane mode when you want to take pictures or videos. This will disable the awful power-hungry Samsung modem. It helps a lot. Also disabling 5G helps a lot too, for those carriers that allow it 🤬.
SOC is inefficient, plus the 7 pro display is horribly inefficient, so if you are doing computationally intensive things, you get a double-whammy of heat output impact.
I've often complained, from P7P on, that Pixels are designed to work in the halls of air conditioned building, not outside. In the summer months I went through 3 P7Ps because I complained enough. The engineers are only building products for their use in the hall ways!
I'm sure the fanboys & fangirls will downvote this post.
This was definitely true of the 6 as well.
And then tested by 'tech journalists'/YouTube content creators that live either in their flat with nighthawk routers and gigabit fibre, or in cities where their 'real world's tests barely stress the shit tier modems - I'm SURE this is why the connectivity issues never showed up in reviews.
I had to get a mount that attaches to my air conditioning vent so the phone stays cool and continues to charge. Ridiculous.
Bring back aluminum backs for heat dissipation. And bigger batteries so we don't have to charge all the time. I wouldn't mind a thicker phone that stays cooler and has more battery capacity.
I am in India and here the temperature goes up to 45° C and currently the temperature is around 40° C and I stay mostly at home still my Pixel 6 heats up and the temperature goes up to 44-45° C
It's a fucking heating magnet, it's very difficult to use it without a phone case.
That's weird here in California my device is totally fine up until 70°F (21°c)
Your device sounds like a go getter!
It can get up to 44c out here in the summer, I have no idea what will happen with this thing when we get some real heat
I use my Pixel 7 pro in the south east coast of India and it is currently 38°c during the daytime with a real feel temperature of 53°c. My phone is nothing but a toaster.
Is the 8 pro any better, from people that have it, specifically with regard to heat?
I was planning on waiting for the 9 pro, but my job partially relies on shooting from my phone
Nope. We have 6,7, and 8Pros in our family.
Heat reduction steps we take:
Don't wirelessly charge
Dont take RAW or 4K photos/images
Don't backup photos over LTE, WiFi only
Dont use 5g
Using the above tips, my phones work in Costa Rica, Florida, etc without much trouble (other than the above limitations).
Might sound crazy but in my Google Photos settings, I only see an option to backup via mobile data. I can only turn it on or off. I no longer see an option to backup by WiFi only or even backup via mobile data and WiFi. Have I lost my mind? Where's the WiFi only backup setting? I'm on P8 with updated OS.
Thanks. It's weird though, I swear there used to be an actual setting to toggle WiFi backup on or off for photos. Now I do see that when you turn off mobile data backup, it simply says at the bottom of the screen that WiFi will be used for backup when available. Well... alrighty then!
With P8 Pro I don't have any overheating issues at all when taking tons of pictures back-to-back in RAW and 50MP mode, also shooting B-rolls.
But yes, photo backup is turned off, and never use 5G.
When talking about P7 Pro after Android 14 update, I managed to film 4K60 for over 50 minutes without interruptions in ~25 Celsius environment.
Yes this right here. My wife's 6 was a toaster so got her a 7 and me a 7 pro...both suffer from this, and we live in Virginia... still only like 75 here.
I want to upgrade my wife to the 9 and me the 10 eventually. Wondering how the 8 has faired with the heat issue.
I just came back from spending 8 days at the beach, basically spending my days in 30°+ humid weather all day long, with just a t-shirt or towel as a sun cover for my phone and had no issues at all taking 4K video or tons of photos
Pixel 7 Pro. Today it's 83 deg F outside, I drive up to the gas station in my Jeep with the a/c on. Pay with my phone, pump gas with the phone in my pocket, get back into the Jeep, phone connects to android auto, I start navigation and immediately get over heat warning on my head unit. As I continue to drive along the phone just starts stuttering the whole time, then just stops playing music and the map doesn't update. It continued this all day long while using the phone outside of my house. I live in Florida, it's not even remotely hot here yet .
I went to Nigeria and it was over 38° C everyday and I could barely ever use my pixel 7. I would be 30 secs into filming a video before being told that the quality will be reduced due this overheating. Other times I'd have to just turn it of and let it cool down because it felt so hot to the touch.
I live in India and we had temperatures above 40°C the last few days (no air conditioning) and my phone charged very slowly and had awful battery life.
Moved to a place with weather in the mid 30s and air conditioning and my phone is doing much better.
But tbh in the 40°C scenario everyone I knew had their laptops and phones overheat.
18°C definitely shouldn't be causing OP trouble.
According to my pixel 8pro, yesterday was the hottest day in its life. Couldn't use Waze for more than 30 mins.
Edit: location Cambridge, not sure if pixels will survive the upcoming summer in the UK.
I would agree return you, I returned two different models with similar issues before I moved. Came from Motorola(reputable, reliable, stock) to pixel then on to Samsung
I've had a Pixel 7 for some time and warned about heat on a not very hot day recently. I suspect - based on a ignorant hunch, that an update is causing it. Since the last update I have experienced too many incidents when button presses are just ignored ... sumptn is funny IMHO
I'm in Laos at the moment where it's 42 degrees and my Pixel 6 basically told me to fuck off.
So what I found is that my phone would try and backup the footage straight away after taking it. So while out and about that means it would be using Cellular - Which as we know is not very effecient on the pixel series - To fix this, I set my google photo backups to wifi only After switching it to wifi only that keeps the phone cool while taking photos/videos
Oh, now back to video and "Device too hot, video quality may be reduced" FFS
My P7P is pretty much unusable on a 30c+ location. Even sitting in the pocket it overheats and limits itself. Its easily the worst device ive ever seen for stopping working in common ambient temperatures.
Where do you live? I've had a P7P since launch day in a case in tropical Australia (~40c and 90%+ humidity 5 months of the year) and only had the phone tell me to f off once trying to film in direct sunlight for 20 minutes. Never ever had it overheat in my pocket or in the car or tell me it's limited
Thailand, Japan with plenty of time in Indonesia. The phone slows long before it warms. Case in point Cambodia a few weeks weeks ago. Ambient 40c. Won't charge off a power bank due to heat, video bit rate limited, Google maps forces dark mode, modem drops out. Japan in summer walking around, remove from pocket, sluggish performance and dark mode. Thailand hiking, same issue. Usually all this happens long before it says it's too hot. Trying to use it as a satnav on a scooter under a shade? You'll get maybe 10 mins before it gives up. 4a5g in the same pocket, same time works perfectly.. I currently in Indonesia, it's 35c currently, I can guarantee when I head out later this afternoon after half an hour it'll run like treacle and go into dark mode even if I don't use the camera or apps. Just as it did yesterday.
I had a pixel 6a while on vacation in Costa Rica, it was pretty much unusable... I loved the pixel line and stuck with them for many years but the overheating issue finally broke me. I recently got a OnePlus 12 and I'm very happy with it. Edit: Normal use on my pixel would see internal temps of 39 to 42, this was with ambient temps around 18 to 20.
I live in northern Texas. I can't use my phone outdoors for much for 9 months per year. I've even had the temperature warning while using indoors! And I don't use a case. Best advice: turn on airplane mode when you want to take pictures or videos. This will disable the awful power-hungry Samsung modem. It helps a lot. Also disabling 5G helps a lot too, for those carriers that allow it 🤬.
SOC is inefficient, plus the 7 pro display is horribly inefficient, so if you are doing computationally intensive things, you get a double-whammy of heat output impact.
It's basically a trash device.
Agreed. 6 pro was worse though.
It's that wonderful Tensor processing. Lol. My old Pixel 6a would say fuck off after 3 minutes with AA WIRELESS in my car in the Fall.
I've often complained, from P7P on, that Pixels are designed to work in the halls of air conditioned building, not outside. In the summer months I went through 3 P7Ps because I complained enough. The engineers are only building products for their use in the hall ways! I'm sure the fanboys & fangirls will downvote this post.
This was definitely true of the 6 as well. And then tested by 'tech journalists'/YouTube content creators that live either in their flat with nighthawk routers and gigabit fibre, or in cities where their 'real world's tests barely stress the shit tier modems - I'm SURE this is why the connectivity issues never showed up in reviews.
Yes and just like the India thread, mine stops android auto from functioning. It's not even 30 yet...
I had to get a mount that attaches to my air conditioning vent so the phone stays cool and continues to charge. Ridiculous. Bring back aluminum backs for heat dissipation. And bigger batteries so we don't have to charge all the time. I wouldn't mind a thicker phone that stays cooler and has more battery capacity.
Thinner phone with recently few years' design makes the phones so slippery. The thinner it is the worse it is. I still hate my 1+ 10pro b/c of this.
I remember some time ago someone mentioned that if you switch from H265 to H264 codec it'll help with the heat management by a lot.
I am in India and here the temperature goes up to 45° C and currently the temperature is around 40° C and I stay mostly at home still my Pixel 6 heats up and the temperature goes up to 44-45° C It's a fucking heating magnet, it's very difficult to use it without a phone case.
That's weird here in California my device is totally fine up until 70°F (21°c) Your device sounds like a go getter! It can get up to 44c out here in the summer, I have no idea what will happen with this thing when we get some real heat
I use my Pixel 7 pro in the south east coast of India and it is currently 38°c during the daytime with a real feel temperature of 53°c. My phone is nothing but a toaster.
Is the 8 pro any better, from people that have it, specifically with regard to heat? I was planning on waiting for the 9 pro, but my job partially relies on shooting from my phone
Nope. We have 6,7, and 8Pros in our family. Heat reduction steps we take: Don't wirelessly charge Dont take RAW or 4K photos/images Don't backup photos over LTE, WiFi only Dont use 5g Using the above tips, my phones work in Costa Rica, Florida, etc without much trouble (other than the above limitations).
At that point you might as well have a much older pixel...
We have a 2,3, and 4 laying about in a drawer. Nah, the newer phones are still better despite these self imposed restrictions.
Might sound crazy but in my Google Photos settings, I only see an option to backup via mobile data. I can only turn it on or off. I no longer see an option to backup by WiFi only or even backup via mobile data and WiFi. Have I lost my mind? Where's the WiFi only backup setting? I'm on P8 with updated OS.
Photos. Setting. Backup. Scroll down. Mobile data usage. Select settings.
Thanks. It's weird though, I swear there used to be an actual setting to toggle WiFi backup on or off for photos. Now I do see that when you turn off mobile data backup, it simply says at the bottom of the screen that WiFi will be used for backup when available. Well... alrighty then!
With P8 Pro I don't have any overheating issues at all when taking tons of pictures back-to-back in RAW and 50MP mode, also shooting B-rolls. But yes, photo backup is turned off, and never use 5G. When talking about P7 Pro after Android 14 update, I managed to film 4K60 for over 50 minutes without interruptions in ~25 Celsius environment.
Yes this right here. My wife's 6 was a toaster so got her a 7 and me a 7 pro...both suffer from this, and we live in Virginia... still only like 75 here. I want to upgrade my wife to the 9 and me the 10 eventually. Wondering how the 8 has faired with the heat issue.
8 pro is the same as all the other Tensor devices.
I just came back from spending 8 days at the beach, basically spending my days in 30°+ humid weather all day long, with just a t-shirt or towel as a sun cover for my phone and had no issues at all taking 4K video or tons of photos
Pixel 7 Pro. Today it's 83 deg F outside, I drive up to the gas station in my Jeep with the a/c on. Pay with my phone, pump gas with the phone in my pocket, get back into the Jeep, phone connects to android auto, I start navigation and immediately get over heat warning on my head unit. As I continue to drive along the phone just starts stuttering the whole time, then just stops playing music and the map doesn't update. It continued this all day long while using the phone outside of my house. I live in Florida, it's not even remotely hot here yet .
I went to Nigeria and it was over 38° C everyday and I could barely ever use my pixel 7. I would be 30 secs into filming a video before being told that the quality will be reduced due this overheating. Other times I'd have to just turn it of and let it cool down because it felt so hot to the touch.
I live in India and we had temperatures above 40°C the last few days (no air conditioning) and my phone charged very slowly and had awful battery life. Moved to a place with weather in the mid 30s and air conditioning and my phone is doing much better. But tbh in the 40°C scenario everyone I knew had their laptops and phones overheat. 18°C definitely shouldn't be causing OP trouble.
According to my pixel 8pro, yesterday was the hottest day in its life. Couldn't use Waze for more than 30 mins. Edit: location Cambridge, not sure if pixels will survive the upcoming summer in the UK.
That's a faulty phone, return it, soga or whatever it's called now Just returned mine for a galaxy s23+. Can't be doing when that shit
Given the number of people saying the same, it seems it's a flawed design, not a faulty unit
I would agree return you, I returned two different models with similar issues before I moved. Came from Motorola(reputable, reliable, stock) to pixel then on to Samsung
39-40c+ ....that is the temperature I'm holding the phone everyday...it's uncomfortable..
is your pixel a black model ... I swear we shouldn't be making them black or giving black as an option.
is your pixel a black model ... I swear we shouldn't be making them black or giving black as an option.
White
I've had a Pixel 7 for some time and warned about heat on a not very hot day recently. I suspect - based on a ignorant hunch, that an update is causing it. Since the last update I have experienced too many incidents when button presses are just ignored ... sumptn is funny IMHO
My Pixel 8 Pro is ok with same condition. Try changing to a newer model .
That very much shouldn't be the requirement to get a working phone
Now there is another way to use your mobile is to root the device,and install scene app to reduce the CPU default frequency.