Just got my new iPad. I'm loving the screen and speed but there's something weird about it. It gets rather warm/hot after 30minutes of usage. It has never happened on my iPad 2.
Do you think it's harmless or .... ?
iPad (3rd generation) Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1
The best measure to determine whether the iPad is hot or not doesn't require rocket science. Not much of personal sense of feel. Instead, it's how the battery reacts to the device's heat.
(In my course of landing with the current 3rd iPad, I was told by an AppleCare consultant that iPads that operate over 34.6°, they qualify for exchanges. no second word)
Hi there, my iPad 3 is extremely hot down the LEFT HAND SIDE and the remainder of the backing is warm. Is there a fix ?? I have only used it for close to 30 minutes for surfing the web
Regards
Mine is pretty warm too, after playing Asphalt 6 for a few minutes, I would not say hot, but very warm. Probably not a problem? 64gb wifi lte verizon.
Chamar,
Is your Snugg 2 cover wake/sleep working with your new iPad?
How can we have 10 pages of comments but no response from apple ?
Engadget and CNN and others are noticing so maybe well hear something soon
Barring a better fix, here's an idea, from thermapak, called icepad-- http://thermapak.com/products.html/
Hi guy, i seriuosly suggest everyone to drain the battery and do a full charge, my heating issue fixed with this!
Yes. This really made a difference. Nothing more than a mild warmth now.
I totally agree. Drain the battery. I have recharged 3 or 4 times once drained and there's no issue now.
Sorry, didn't know how else to get this in this forum and I just saw that my post is in the discussions, sorry again for posting this here but it does answer some questions in this stream
I also have an overheating issue with the New Ipad. If I leave it out of the case, it gets "uncomfortably warm" with brightness set to 90-100% and just using Safari. It gets HOT when I play games. If I put it in the case while playing games or using Safari, it gets MUCH hotter. In fact, the entire device eventually gets very warm with the lower left side (front and back) being too hot to touch for more than a few seconds. Per suggestions on the forums, I drained the battery to zero percent (automatic shutdown) and fully recharged. I didn't notice any improvement. This is a real problem. I have the original ipad (skipped the Ipad2) and it is always cool cool cool. This is not good. It's hot enough that it is distracting to me. Sigh...
My new iPad is shutting down due to overheating also. I'm returning mine to the store tomorrow and sticking with my iPad 1. Apple has jumped the shark on this one.
New iPad specs: 16 gb wifi
Here are my stats:
32GB WIFI only, black
case 1: Uncomfortably warm within 30 minutes while browsing at ~90% brightness.
case 2: Very uncomfortable to hold after running a 3d game for 30 minutes on full brightness (no overheating error message though).
Case 3: Could cook an egg on it if I run a 3d game for 30 minutes and it is inside a leather folio case. Still no overheating error though. I did this only as a test for a short time before I removed it because I was certain it would get damaged being that hot.
Could it have been static electricity?
New iPad overheating?
