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Recently I bought an HTC Desire overall I'm very happy with it. There seems to be one major flaw, it overheats quite easily causing it to reboot. I've run into this several times while driving using the navigation whilst recharging. Does anyone have any suggestions to workaround this problem? I've searched around but haven't found any helpful information.

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Using while charging is generally a bad idea. It'll be easier on your battery if it's off while charging, as well. I understand it's necessary sometimes though. – Matthew Read♦ Apr 27 '11 at 2:16
I also purchased HTC Desire recently and I found it was overheating while using Internet on 3G networks. When using Wi-Fi it doesn't heat-up much. Additionally it has some battery issues. Battery is getting low too quickly and charging takes so long. However we shouldn't forget it has won Phone of the year award in many contests. So I'll continue with it. Lets see what it will do in future. – user7742 Sep 3 '11 at 15:02

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[I also have a HTC Desire]

Your device overheats because its hardware is strained a lot during heavy use such as turn-by-turn navigation. This is compounded by the fact you probably have plugged it in the car charger as well, which is also known to generate some amount of heat (you probably have noticed this yourself when charging your phone normally).

There doesn't seem much that you can do to alleviate the problem, except turning off turn-by-turn navigation and only use the map to show you the route. You might also want to check whether there are other apps and services that strain unnecessary the device (frequent syncing could be an issue, as well as Bluetooth and mobile internet).

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I also have the same problem i bought my HTC desire 3 weeks ago and if i stay on the internet for around 5 minutes, the phone starts to become extremely hot and if i continue ton use it it will cut of and reboot. my solution was take of the back cover and expose the battery. Taking this measure it kept my phone a little cooler and did not have to reboot.

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I have an htc desire rooted. My phone overheats and then reboots. The solution was solved by moving some of my apps from Phone to SD. The phone is commonly good but the battery runs out very quick. I advise nobody to get a task killer application from the market as i have experienced that it kills the phone battery more. I tend to use 3g internet and that makes my phone to overheat and crashes - after i started using wifi then it has made a difference. Also this phone has problems in general with the battery the best advice would be to get a new battery of Amazon or Ebay and it last twice as long and the phone doesn't overheat at all.

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If you unplug it from the charger as soon as it reboots and look at the battery, is it nearly empty? If so the reboot could be just it running out of power. I don't use navigation a great deal (I don't yet have a phone charger in my car) but I never have problems with heat, so your problem is probably either due to a faulty device, or there's some design flaw which I've not heard about in the last 6 months or so of owning a Desire when you have loads of apps running.

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