Xperia Z3 Overheating

[benriley]

Hi everyone,

Even though there are some flaws, I'm really strongly considering getting the sony xperia z3 - no phone is perfect. Some of the issues that I've read about don't really apply to how I will be using the phone. I've heard that the Z3 overheats when taking 4K video, which isn't a problem for me since I don't really intend on taking many videos. 

One thing that I do alot is video calling. I was wondering if anyone knew if the Z3 overheats when making prolonged video calls (with google hangouts, skype, etc). I do alot of video calling, often for 5+ hours at a time. 

This is the only thing that is making me think twice about getting the Z3. Otherwise I would've had one by now, because it looks like an absolutely gorgeous phone with a great UI.

[cmmunozn]

I am in the same boat, after saving money for a year i changed my Galaxy S3 for the Xperia Z3 and it has this problem. I am so sad because i take pictures of my son every day and can not affor now to change the phone.

[Clp]

From what I can tell a large number of xperia z3 phones are suffering overheating...and not just from using the camera for recording 4k or video chat. I bought my D6603 in January, and I also bought a 64GB micro SD XC U3 card to go with it, which records up to 90mb/s and writes 80mb/s. Pretty **bleep** fast! I was on Kit Kat until the middle of May when I finally got the update to 5.0.2 lollipop, and before the update I used my phone to do everything it was intended to do without any issues of lag, overheating, restarting on its own, battery draining quickly from minimal use, sound volume was fine and so on. Since updating to lollipop 5.0 and 5.1 that is when all the problems started happening..... Especially the intense overheating from barely doing anything like browsing the Web on wifi for like a minute or two, browsing through the phone would even cause the processor and battery temp to shoot right up. I have tried all kinds of things like repairing using pcc, factory resets. Have not rooted or unlocked bl though. But the problem is so bad that just taking a couple quick pictures on superior auto mode I would get an overheating warning message lol. I can't even shoot 4k anymore. And again I would just like to say this all happened the instant I installed lollipop on my phone. I blame it not on the phone itself but the updates.

I wish I could go back to when I was making the decision to get a note 4 and the z3 and tell the guy who sold me my phone to put the z3 back I have changed my mind I am going with the note 4 😞

[Mitzi]

It was my problem too. I am using hangout for videocall and the phone gets really hot that the camera would shut down.

[vs1]

xperia z3+ phones camera crashes very soon when we record high resolution video.....!