Overheating is one of the craziest problems one can encounter on any Android device. Luckily, it’s also not that common, particularly for top tier device like your Galaxy S10. If your phone is getting too awkwardly warm most of the time, you will learn how you will be able to fix the overheating issue on your Galaxy S10 in this article.
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How to fix overheating problem on your Samsung Galaxy S10
If you have overheating problem on your Samsung Galaxy S10, then follow the possible fixes below to fix it.
1- Allow phone to cool off
If you are experiencing overheating problem on your Samsung Galaxy S10 and the phone has become too awkwardly warm to hold, the first thing you should think of is to allow it cool off. Overheating can have a lot of reasons, and at this stage, there’s no way to know what the main cause of it is. To stop the device from causing damages to itself or your hand, quickly switch it off and ensure to let it cool for about 20-30 minutes. This should allow the phone to lose heat that may have arisen inside the device. By default, your Samsung Galaxy S10 has been designed to switch off if internal temperature gets to a certain point to avert damaging some components in the phone. If your Samsung S10 has not switched off itself, you can actually do that yourself by shutting it down.
After the cooldown time, switch the device on again and see if it’s now working at a normal temperature.
2- Wipe cache partition
Well, when your system is corrupted, this can cause performance issues and May, at unusual moments, result to serious problems including the chance of getting overheated. To make sure that your phone has a fresh system cache, then follow the below steps:
- Switch off the phone.
- Click and hold the Volume Up button and the Bixby button, then hold and press the Power button.
- When the green Android logo shows up, leave all the buttons.
- Press the Volume down button numerous times to select ‘wipe cache partition’.
- Press Power key to highlight.
- Press the Volume down button until ‘yes’ is selected and click the Power key.
- When the wipe cache partition is done, “Reboot system now” is selected.
- Click the Power button to restart the phone.
3- Perform a soft reset
One of the uncomplicated yet helpful solutions for overheating is performing a soft reset. It’s mostly useful when the problem is a momentary bug that may be occurring from a coding bug that develops after the phone has been left running for too long. Soft reset replicates the effects of “battery pull” method. It wipes the entire system and the RAM so if the bug is from memory leak or incompetent coding, this may help out. Here’s how it’s done:
- Hold and press the Power + Volume Down keys for like 12 seconds or until the phone power cycles. Note- Allow some seconds for the repairs Boot Mode screen to show up.
- From the repairs Boot Mode screen, choose Normal Boot. Note- make use of the volume buttons to cycle through the options and the lower left keys (below the volume keys) to choose. Allow up to 90 seconds for the reset to be successfully done.
- If repairs Boot Mode screen won’t show up, then your phone does not have it. Just wait for the phone to power down totally.
