Phone cooler
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I can joke - I can not count the times I have had my phone in my pocket when doing outdoor work and it overheated just being there.
You sit down in the car. Set your low charged phone on the Mag charging pad. With in about 5min. There is a notification the phone is overheating and will go into safe mode.
Yes, it happens when it's not in direct sun or in direct sun. Often have to take it off and hold it upto an A/C vent.
Mine gets hot but has never shut down from that heat. I’ve had mine at tournaments where I’m running music for 3 hours in summer heat and it overheats. Wonder if phone case style adds to the problem?
It 100% does. I always had issues with overheating in hard plastic cases or otterbox, now days I buy soft thinner cases and haven’t had any overheat issues unless it was my Z flip but that was very phone specific
I'm just telling you that I have never had this happen with an iPhone after cooling the interior with the AC.
I have had my iPhone overheat sitting in direct sunlight outside many times (and shut down), and I'm sure I could make it happen inside a truck in direct sunlight, but I am never just sitting in a 95 degree truck charging my phone in direct sunlight - I'm running the AC.
I wonder if the charger is different on your Gen 1 because on my Gen 2 R1T if I leave my phone charging on the pad for even an hour long drive it gets really hot. Now, it doesn't get hot to the point where it shuts down or stops charging, but it gets quite warm and sometimes I will stick it in the slot and turn the ac vents on it to cool it down.
With that being said, I do think there is should be some purpose built cooling for the wireless charger in the Scout vehicles.
Some of this can be phone-specific, even in the same model, they're not all created equal and can experience different issues. That said I have an iPhone I carry for work and insurance tracking, I used to leave it in the cool back seat all day, and it would be at 10% at the end of the day and scorching hot. Now, I leave it on the charging pad, and it stays cool, part of that is the Bolt Vents over the pad, but still even if I have have the climate off it no longer gets as hot
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