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What can I do to stop flash player from overheating my MBP w/retina. I have sent it to apple 4 times now and it has been rebuilt from ground up but flash still eats up way too much CPU energy to cause it to over heat to the touch and shuts down. Please help
It would be helpful if you indicated the EXACT model/year MBP that you have.
What temperatures are being created in your MBP? Install temperature monitoring software such as iStat menus:
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
When the MBP gets hot, open Activity Monitor to ALL PROCESSES and set CPU to display values from high to low.
Post images of both for review.
Ciao.
It would be helpful if you indicated the EXACT model/year MBP that you have.
What temperatures are being created in your MBP? Install temperature monitoring software such as iStat menus:
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
When the MBP gets hot, open Activity Monitor to ALL PROCESSES and set CPU to display values from high to low.
Post images of both for review.
Ciao.
I have a late 2013 MBP W/ Retina. I uninstalled Flash because it makes my CPU run very hot. I put a heat gun to it before and read temps as high as 147 degrees at top of the keyboard near where the exhaust fans are. My screen keeps pixelating because of it and shuts down. Apple has taken it in 4 times now to try and repair the issue, and we have come to the agreement that its the flash player using too much of the CPU memory or energy to run. I have gotten nowhere with adobe to find a fix. I will reinstall flash to give you an idea at idle and when it is in use.
Here is a screen shot at idle and in use. Keep in mind this was just 1 minute of use no longer. I downloaded it and played candy crush because it uses flash and this is the activity just getting on. I use Nascar race buddy a lot and it does the same thing but race buddy is only available on raceday.
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Adobe Flash Player has always been an energy hog, as your Activity Monitor confirms. Click the Energy tab in Activity Monitor for additional justification.
There is no reason to expect Adobe has the knowledge or motivation to change anything about that fact. Flash is quite old and pretty much a dead-end product.
Are you absolutely certain you need it? Many websites will function perfectly fine without it. The easiest way to find out is to uninstall it: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html. If you decide you really need it, download and install it again: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/, and live with its shortcomings.
To ensure you are obtaining legitimate software, don't download it from anyplace other than those two sites.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled. The few sites I do use say flash is needed. But the heat is too much for my MBP to handle. Is there an alternative for flash out there? Or should I run a different browser that can handle it?
Without knowing what the internal temperature are, a valid judgement cannot be made regarding the magnitude of the problem.
Ciao.
Is there an alternative for flash out there?
Sure, HTML5 for instance, but whatever site hosting the content has to make it available. It's not something you can do on your own, other than to refuse to patronize the sites that are too lazy to update their content.
It's like this: Adobe Flash Player doesn't run on iOS. If a website or content provider doesn't care enough to make their content available to the hundreds of millions of iPads and iPhones out there, they're not serious about distributing their content.
Your MBP can handle a lot of heat, more than would be comfortable for you to hold, which causes understandable concern. Thermal protection consisting of hardware and firmware independent of the MBP's operating system will shut it down if required.
Bought the istats 5.03. It is monitoring everything, and when looking at some of the stats, some of the readings are in the red. Sensor has gone as high as 196 and fans are set to high on both battery and on both settings. Always on. Highest fan speed has been 2100rpm
Those fans can run as high as 4000 If under high temp. They don't go higher that 2100 that is a problem. Do an SMC reset and try again. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295 Mine runs at 1900 with no heat problem.
RunApple Diagnostics to verify the fans are working properly.
Ran a diagnostics, it only said I have a charging issue with the battery. I contacted support on that but they are referring the whole issue to engineering again. After the diagnostics, I turned on Candy crush and snapshotted Istat on startup up of the game, and I snap shotted after playing just 1 man on the game. Heres what they looked like.
Sorry says image is too big for insert. Tried to compress it but that didn't work either
The highest temperatures that the display shows are not lethal to the MBP and may well be\'normal' for the stress placed on the CPU/GPU. However the fan speeds are suspiciously slow. Note that the Apple Hardware if error free is not to be relied on.
The best option is an appointment at an Apple store genius bar for a FREE evaluation.
Ciao.
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