I have a phone holder on my bike so I can use Google maps and Strava. However it starts getting really hot after only like ten minutes. Even if the screen is off and only running Strava not Google maps as well it still gets hot. When the phone is in my backpack it'll be warm at the end of my ride but not burning. Is there some sort of cool pad I can put behind the phone in the holder to absorb some of the heat? The holder is kind of useless if I can only use it for ten minutes. I don't need a bargain, just any sort of product at any (reasonable) cost that does the job.
Something to stop phone getting hot
Quantumcat on 20/01/2018 - 11:23
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If I'm going somewhere new I like to have directions. But I haven't tried just Google maps and no Strava, so maybe I'll try that in case it is just Strava
What phone is it? You could add your own heat sinking?
iPhone 6
I can only suggest turning off anything that isn't required at the time, like other apps and wifi
However it starts getting really hot after only like ten minutes.
Keep it covered from the sun.
How? I can't really hold an umbrella while riding and covering over the holder defeats the purpose and I might as well keep it in my backpack.
direct sun light and sensitive electronics don't mix.
something similar may work.
https://goo.gl/images/XJeQhDWouldn't that make it hotter (heat can't get through the bag and therefore escape away from the phone)? And if the phone is placed inside you can't see the screen? Unless you mean just placed behind it
direct sun light will heat the iphone faster and hotter than the heat produced by the iphone itself.
@whooah1979: the problem is I want to be able to see the screen. Otherwise I would just put it in my backpack.
I used to ride 30 minutes to/from work in the rain holding an umbrella in one hand and controlling the bicycle with the other. You can do iiiiiit
Ice pack
Get a frozen gel pack from aldi with their back to school sale
In regards to the cold solutions I'm not sure that would work well, I dropped a phone in a tiny bit of liquid once and it worked but heated up alarmingly fast, so I put it in the fridge, and that killed it (according to a shopping mall phone repair girl, she said she could have replaced something and fixed it if I hadn't put it in the fridge).
Could be wrong though of course.
Temperature differences in the interior of the phone and the outside causes condensation.
If you've ever pulled a bottle of cold drink out of the fridge, you'll notice it starts to sweat. The cold surfaces of the bottle draws in humidity (water vapour) from the air: This happens because cold air holds much less moisture than warm air, and as the air's temperature is lowered the excess moisture ends up in liquid form that comes out from the air and sticks to the surface — so you'll have a wet bottle.
Now imagine instead of a bottle it was a phone or a laptop. That condensation would damage electronics and the mainboard.
Ah that's no good. Is that what finally killed my old phone? Would a cold pack work if I put some paper towel in between to absorb condensation?
I doubt paper towels would do much to help.
Whenever u go for a ride grab a six pack from the fridge and rubber band ur phone to the front, then rest the six pack on ur handlebars
lots of water
That's clever, maybe I can cut the handles off and fit it inside the case :p
It's a known problem. Use a different device/app.
I would pair it with a fitbit or similar device.