"bthiem333" wrote: Maybe put your whole head into an ice cold bowl of water? As a side benefit you'd achieve total immersion!! Haha sorry no actual solutions 😞
Ha, Ha!
I had to hold off for a while so I could be more civil.
Samsung is aware of this and there will b no solutions available for awhile......some games will run CPU at 80 to 90%......no escaping the sahara experience. I have a s6 edge and with most games i can play for 45 minutes. Lands End about 30 min
In another thread on over heating someone posted the suggestion of using a small gel ice pack sandwiched between the back of the phone and the plastic cover of the gear vr.
I have had lots of over heating problems (doesn't help that it is around 38 Deg C in Australia at the moment) and tried this suggestion yesterday.
It worked better than expected. Dirt cheap and improved the experience a lot. Although I was expecting it to stop the constant overheating warnings, what I wasn't expecting was how much it improved games. The extra cooling allows the phones CPU's to run flat out and playing Lands End the game was noticeable faster, smoother and more detail. I hadn't realised how much the phone was throttling before.
what i have done and suggest is, everyone knows about those silicone phone pads for the dash of your car to keep your phone stationary, well i take one for those the thicker the better, i take one of those with a smooth side and place it in ice water and them dab it dry and place it on the back of my phone and let it go like that while playing games it makes a great heat sink but its only a stop gap measure as you do have to take it off and dip it again to cool it off. cut it to size and leave an opening for the camera to pass through with an exact-o knife
Ive been looking at trying to get either a server fan and possibly get another face plate cover for the gear and seeing if i can attach it with a USB battery to allow air cooling but without the secondary cover i don't want to do it as to keep the original intact.
the idea is to use a quiet but efficient fan on a adjustable dial or switch to allow full function of the air cooling and then the silicone mat to help disperse the heat and maintain the fact of possible mic use and gaming/social app/overall use.
